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Article #1053Re: Windis file formats?
From: Alistair Bell
Date: Mon, 15 Apr 1996 00:00
Date: Mon, 15 Apr 1996 00:00
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Malcolm Muir wrote: > > G.A.Rixon (GAR@waerloga.demon.co.uk) wrote: > > Can anyone help a beginner in this field by pointing me to the > > location of any files describing the format of the files used by > > windis news transfer functions? > [snip]> The format of data transfered between the server any your machine (I > presume this is what you really mean) is as described in the RFC's. > The format of data held on your disks is probably proprietary to > windis. Windis uses the standard (KA9Q) file formats (certainly for news, also for mail except for the mail policy file which is a proprietary synthesis of ALIAS, REWRITE and one or two others; and its POP server is proprietary); ISTR someone has written a document describing them -- Alistair Bell, Brown's Operating System Services, London. Disclaimers as usual. alistair@browns.co.uk (home: alistair@ichthya.demon.co.uk) #include <random.quote>
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