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Assunto: Re: C Origins
De: Digital Man
Data: Mon, 25 May 2026 14:30:32 -0700
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bBynb: hcpoindexter FORTRAN bto cDigital Man bon cMon May 25 2026 08:05 amn
> -=> Digital Man wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-
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> > I did not know that! I liked the BW format more than QWK, wish more
> > boards supported it.
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> DM> I looked into BlueWave kind of recently and I can tell you: it's file
> DM> format actually kind of sucks - I would have added support otherwise.
> DM> QWK with the Synchronet extensions (mainly HEADERS.DAT file) are way
> DM> better than BW. --
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> Truth be told, it's been years since I compared the two, and it was
> vanilla QWK versus BlueWave on Maximus. The truncated subject lines
> were my biggest gripe with QWK.
Right, and both QWKE and the Synchronet HEADERS.DAT address that (and many other) limitations in QWK.
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