Re: OLR programs (.QWK format)

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From: Christopher Browne
Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 04:50

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I would be HIGHLY interested in seeing these readers hit
atari.archive.umich.edu.  The local Atari User Group is in the process
of upgrading the BBS, and now does the QWK thing.

I've been using MicroTalk 1.06, and having some difficulties because
of spaces in the CONTROL.DAT file in the wrong spot.  (I've hacked at
the binaries/RSC file a bit, and found out where & why.)  Perhaps the
newer version works a little better.

Are there sources available to any of these?  There's several people
here in Ottawa that would be quite happy to help make one of the GEM
readers work better, and contribute the changes to the world at large.

I suspect that the ideal is to take some GEM-based reader like
MicroTalk, and give it a case of creeping-featuritis.  Or perhaps farm
out some of the features to external programs (for instance, text
editing).

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