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In <930109.231539.0Y6.rusnews.w164w@alpha3.ersys.edmonton.ab.ca> russell@alpha3.ersys.edmonton.ab.ca (Russell Schulz) writes:
>I know that Rhys' packet format will include QWK as a subset - so even if
>wafline doesn't make it this year, hopefully an at-least-as-functional
>package should.

I'll just correct this little mistake.  The Helldiver Packet Format _can_
support QWK message files (or any kind of message really), but it hasn't
been officially defined yet.  Probably in verison 1.1 of the spec.

>those who are writing generators - are you including mail-only QWK for
>cases like this in the first batch?  Rhys - will the first reader you put
>out handle it?  anyone else already writing readers for it?

My first reader won't handle QWK, but I am tempted to put it in for a
future version.  For now I want to test out the viability of a USENET-only
packet format and allow people to get implementation experience with it.
Since the generators for the format are primarily intended to execute
on USENET systems, I don't see why anyone would want to convert a USENET
message into a QWK message. :-)

I'm working on a library of Helldiver Packet routines which should make
things a lot easier for programmers using the format.  It is entirely
possible that routines for handling QWK packets as well can be grafted into
the same library, but I'm not worried about that yet.  A door for Waffle
(and Unix systems in general) will be coming out with this library.

Cheers,

Rhys.

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