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  • Re: qwk 25 char subj line

    From Mauro Veiga@4:801/194 to AUGUST ABOLINS on Fri Jan 15 10:54:00 2021
    Quoting August Abolins to Dale Shipp <=-

    But QWK's 25 char limit in the subject s cutting off my beautifully thought out subjects! LOL

    And yours seems to even cut them down further to about 20 chars. :(

    Your subject line for something like:
    FidoGazette Vol 13 no 17 Page: 7
    FidoGazette Vol 13 no 17 Page: 6
    FidoGazette Vol 13 no 17 Page: 5

    ..would look all the same in your lists:
    FidoGazette Vol 13 no 17

    I dunno how you can accept that! :/

    The "future" of longer subject line awaits you!

    The Bluewave standard accepts long titles and much more useful
    information than QWK and QWKE. It is a pity that the developers
    insist on poor QWK or a little better QWKE instead of adopting a
    much higher standard like Bluewave.


    .. I had a little trouble
    getting the setup.exe to cooperate. "not a wn32 program" error. Bad
    archive? Maybe the archive is listed somewhere else to try?

    More likely, it is a 16 bit program. It would need WINXP or so to install.

    Indeed. I was attempting to try in on my XP. No go. :( No
    "future" for 16bit.

    With the advancement of emulators, 16bits will never die. :-)



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  • From Rob Swindell@1:103/705 to Mauro Veiga on Sat Jan 16 13:06:23 2021
    Re: Re: qwk 25 char subj line
    By: Mauro Veiga to AUGUST ABOLINS on Fri Jan 15 2021 10:54 am

    The Bluewave standard accepts long titles and much more useful
    information than QWK and QWKE. It is a pity that the developers
    insist on poor QWK or a little better QWKE instead of adopting a
    much higher standard like Bluewave.

    I've looked at the Bluewave format several times over the years for consideration in supporting in Synchronet, and ever time I conclude that it's hardly any better than QWK or QWKE and my extensions to QWK/QWKE (namely, the HEADERS.DAT file) blow Bluewave away. http://wiki.synchro.net/ref:qwk

    I would say the "much higher standard" is actually Synchronet-extended QWK. :-) And I agree, more developers should adopt it.
    --
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