Current QWK Related Products by Patrick Y. Lee August 31, 1993 This compilation is Copyright 1992-1993 by Patrick Y. Lee. Permission is hereby given to use and redistribute this file in any form (electronically, paper, etc.). If distributing the entire file, this copyright notice must be preserved. However, permission is granted to use and distribute por- tions of this file without credit, though you may want to exercise common courtesy in this situation. The QWK-format is Copyright 1987 by Sparkware. Other names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders. The author provides this compilation as-is without warranty of any kind, either expressed or implied. You are using the information in this file at your own discretion. The author assumes no responsibilities for damages, either physically or financially, from the use or misuse of this informa- tion. Please send corrections and additions to me rather than distributing a modified version of the list, so that all may benefit from your contribu- tion. You can reach me in any of the following mail networks: CompuServe: >INTERNET:patlee@panix.com FidoNet: Off-line echo ILink: Off-line conference Intelec: Off-line conference Internet: patlee@panix.com PlanoNet: Reviews conference RIME: ->RUNNINGB, Off-line, Net Admin., and Session Manager conferenc- es Without the help of many people (most of whom I have listed in the file CREDIT.TXT), this list will be useless. So please help keep this as up-to- date as possible! Thank you. This file is updated monthly and is available as QWKPyymm.ZIP by: anonymous ftp wsmr-simtel20.army.mil (192.88.110.20) in directory oak.oakland.edu (141.210.10.117) in pub/msdos/offlinemail It should also appear on other sites that mirror the SIMTEL MS-DOS archive. modem Aardvark BBS, New York, NY (212) 496-8324 USR HST DS v.32bis The Lunatic Fringe, Plano, TX (214) 235-5288 USR HST DS v.32bis The file is available for first time download. Fido file request 1:124/2113 USR HST DS v.32bis (Magic name: QWKP) 1:300/204 USR HST DS 16.8 v.32bis (Magic name: QWKP) email I offer to email uuencoded copy to anyone who cannot get the file in the above means. Please send me email and make sure 1) the From /Reply-To line contains the correct return address and 2) your mailer can handle a message of 32 Kb in size. gopher gopher to gopher.panix.com - it is an item listed on the top level menu. -=-=-=-=-=-=-<>-=-=-=-=-=-=- Note: Deal to the limitation of US-ASCII 7-bit character set, the alpha version symbol is displayed with next the the program's name. Similar- ly, a program in beta is indicated by . -=-=-=-=-=-=-<>-=-=-=-=-=-=- QWK-format Mail Doors BBS Software Door & version Author ------------------- --------------------------- ------------------------ Auntie QWiKer 0.68 Cody Gibson CANAL VIP VIPQWK Paulo Breim Celerity COMNET DCI DCIQWK Nordevalde Software Dialog Pro DLGQWK EzyCom EzyQWK Peter Davies FoReM/Turbo MaxiDoor (Atari ST) Shawn T. Smith GAP built-in for 6.0 & up The MainMail System 2.1 Tony Summy GT Power BGQWK B.J. Guillot LoraBBS MajorBBS Major QWK-mail Add-on Galacticomm Maximus Scott Dudley Silver Xpress 4.01G01 Santronics Software OmegaBBS Omail 1.0 David C. Higley Opus O_QWKer 1.0 Bernardo Cardoso & Fausto Carvalho Silver Xpress 4.01G01 Santronics Software WINK 1.1.0 Keith E. Ford PCBoard Cam-Mail 1.30 Cam DeBuck Complete Mail Derek Backus DJMail 1.17 Derrick Burgess KMail 2.94 Ken Krueger MarkMail 1.58 Gary Smith Qmail 2.34 Mark Herring RoseMail 1.72 Vic Kass Silver Xpress 4.01G01 Santronics Software PowerBBS PowerMail 1.0 Russell Frey Powerboard BBS Scott Brown ProBoard Silver Xpress 4.01G01 Santronics Software QuickBBS GrayQWK GraySoft Development Group Silver Xpress 4.01G01 Santronics Software QuickBBS ST PhidoQWK RBBS Jimmer 1.5 Jim Goodenough Mail Manager 1.36 Doug Wilson Mail Manager +Plus+ 3.10 Doug Wilson Silver Xpress 4.01G01 Santronics Software TQM 1.12 Tom Collins Remote Access JC-QWK Johan Corstjens MKQwk 1.02 Mark May RAMail 3.2 Randy Blackmond Silver Xpress 4.01G01 Santronics Software Renegade Cott Lang RoboBBS Silver Xpress 4.01G01 Santronics Software RyBBS Greg Ryan SearchLight SLBlue 1.0 SLQWiK 1.02.d Jack Ridgeway Valence 1.04 William McBrine Simplex BBS Spitfire JetMail 1.14 D. J. Chuang SFMail Qwk 3.0 Bob Zimmerman SuperBBS MKQwk 1.02 Mark May PTQwk 1.00 Pasi Talliniemi Silver Xpress 4.01G01 Santronics Software TAG DCQWK 1.1 Daniel Corbeau Silver Xpress 4.01G01 Santronics Software TBBS QSO 1.0 eSoft The Common Link Ulf Hedlund TriBBS TriMail 7.02 Mark D. Goodwin UltraBBS built-in 2.0 John Chwatal Virtual BBS Waffle WafLineMail 1.0 Kristopher Nelson Wildcat! Tomcat! 3.9 Mustang Software, Inc. WWIV QWKmod Barry Watson WWIVMail 4.51 Michael Leib WOMR-QWK Will Hobday XenoLink XQwk Mail Door 0.95f -=-=-=-=-=-=-<>-=-=-=-=-=-=- QWK-format Mail Readers Amiga ----- Bill Sidhipong Amiga-Mail 0.30 Joao Carvalho Amiga-Mail Elite 1.07 Patrick Evans Amiga-Reader 2.0 Todd Sieland-Peterson & Matt Perry AmiQWK 1.1.1 Jim Dawson AQuick 2.1 Andrew Westacott MailMan 2.3 Allen White Message-View 1.13 Robert Gibbs Q-Blue 0.7 Paul Kienitz Quip 1.02 Oliver Knorr Apple ----- 2qwk 0.97e and 0.97g Tom Larson GSQWK 1.2 WindSong Software (This program only converts QWK messages to text files.) Atari ----- CQWK 1.1 MaxiMiser*ST 2.09B Shawn T. Smith MicroTalk 1.08 Wolfgang Zweygart PabQwk 1.1 <8-bit> Pab Sungenis QWKsilver 0.2 <8-bit> Bobby Clark STQwk C64/C128 -------- Gary Brinton QWKIE64 Arthur Moore QWK Read/Reply 128 3.1 Rod Gasson CoCo/OS9 -------- ADQWK 3.2 Antoine Delle Donne Scribe 3.1 CP/M ---- CRR 1.60 Paul Martin Macintosh --------- Alice 2.21 Michael Keller Freddie 1.2.5 Kem Tekinay QWK 1.3 Bob Blaylock Yet Another Mail Reader Scott Kelley MS-DOS ------ 1stReader 1.11 Mark Herring ATP 1.4 Thomas McWilliams Azerty 1.0 Rene Cougnenc BasMAIL Darryl Basner Blue Wave 2.12 George Hatchew Chips 1.0S MicroArt Ltd. EZ-Reader 1.39 Eric Cockrell JABBER 1.2 Marcos Della, Shad Muegge KingQWK 1.05 Mike King Kwak Pascal Van Den Berg LHL 1A (French language only) Jean Gravel MegaReader 2.10 Kip Compton MikeMayl 1.0 Mike May NFX 1.20 Nick Onoufriou OFFLINE 1.56 Harvey Parisien OffLine eXpress 3.10 Mustang Software, Inc. Opus Message Kit 2.01 Roland Brown PC-Mail Elite 1.0 Chris Lautenbach Personal Mail Database Manager 1.7 Les Gyurky Power-QWK 2.15b Gale Green Qmail DeLuxe2 1.25 Mark Herring Qmodem Pro 1.50 Mustang Software Inc. QWKBasic 1.08 Manual Godinez QWK'n'Dirty 1.1A Anthony W. Hursh QWK 3.8 Thunus F. RoboMail 1.1 Dan Parsons RoseReader Platinum 1.70 Vic Kass Session Manager 1.06 Patrick W. Hart Silly Little Mail Reader 2.1a Mustang Software, Inc. Silver Xpress Off-line Mail System 3.02 Santronics Software SPEED READ 1.30 Jim Smith TNT XL 8.20 Int'l TeleCommunications eXpress Response System 5.10 Mike Ratledge (Via 3rd party utility XCS 1.10 by R.J. Kusters) Zord 1.03 Chris Sturgess OS/2 (text) ----------- MR/2 1.51 Nick Knight OS/2 (PM) --------- KWQ/2 1.2 Kurt Westerfeld MR/2 PM 0.99b Nick Knight PMQWK 1.00 Oberon Software UNIX ---- ATP 1.4 (LINUX, Esix, 386bsd, SysVR4) Thomas McWilliams QWIX 2.2 Dave MacRae Windows ------- MailPro 2.0 Michael Nelson Orator 1.14 Nick Dyer VB Reader 1.5 Daniel Page WinQwk 2.00b Doug Crocker WinRead 2.2 Ollivier Civiol UniQWK 1A Windows NT ---------- MailPro 2.0 Michael Nelson ??? --- Beta Mail P. Silva -=-=-=-=-=-=-<>-=-=-=-=-=-=- QWK-format Based Network Softwares Software BBS Software Author ------------------------ ------------------- --------------------------- BgNet GT-Power B. J. Guillot CNet 1.0 Maximus, Remote Rollin White Access, UltraBBS GAPnet GAP JNet 1.05 Spitfire D. J. Chuang M/A/X 2.0 Remote Access James Berry MainMail 2.1 GAP Tony Summy MKNet 1.00 Remote Access, Mark May QuickBBS, SuperBBS, MK QWiKerNet 0.69 Auntie Cody Gibson QNet 2.04 PCBoard Mark Herring RNet 1.09 PCBoard Robert Vostreys RyNet 1.4 RyBBS TNet 3.5 Wildcat! Mustang Software Inc. TriNet 6.0 TriBBS Mark D. Goodwin The following mail doors include the network support. Cam-Mail 1.30 PCBoard Cam DeBuck Mail Manager +Plus+ 3.00 RBBS Chip Morrow & Doug Wilson MKQwk 1.02 Remote Access Mark May RAMail 3.2 Remote Access Randy Blackmond RoseMail 1.72 PCBoard Vic Kass TriMail 7.01 TriBBS Mark D. Goodwin -=-=-=-=-=-=-<>-=-=-=-=-=-=- Utilities to manipulate QWK-format Mail Packets BugMail 1.05 by Mark Lussier Program to read specific text files and create REP packets. Original- ly written and designed for supporting commercial software by reading a specific file filter (*.*, etc.) like error reports for uploading to a support BBS. Designed for the developer by allowing him to config- ure the filter and conference information and disallowing changes by the users. BW2QWK22.ZIP by Ronald E. Raikes Blue Wave 2.2 <-> QWK convertor program - Converts BlueWave mail pack- ets so they are readable by QWK mail readers and convert REP replies back to Blue Wave format. BlueWave door by George Hatchew currently run on Maximus (1.0 and 2.0), Opus, QuickBBS (2.75 and up), Remote Ac- cess, and Telegard (2.5 and 2.7) systems with a port in progress for SuperBBS. A port to TAG is on the list, with PCBoard, Wildcat!, Spitfire and TriBBS under consideration. BlueQWK 1.20 (BLUEQ120.ZIP) by Geoffrey Sy BlueQWK lets you read/reply to Blue Wave mail packets with your favorite QWK reader. It includes everything needed to integrate seamlessly into the 1stReader environment; but it works with all other QWK reader programs as well. Best of all, it's free. CatQWK 2.20 (CATQWK22.ZIP) by Patrick Lee Utility to combine one or more QWK files into one. This program is entirely command line driven and supports the use of wildcard file- names. It supports whichever archive program the user chooses to use. It will create the PERSONAL.NDX file if told to do so. It can be set up in under a minute and best of all, is free! CISqwk 2.0b by Mark Lussier Bidirectional tosser between TapCis/OzCis and QWK mail readers. It supports binary email, fax, and Internet routing. It can toss mail, forums, and files. CNAME2 (CNAME25.ZIP) by Hans Otten Program to rename QWK packets so the date of the file is included in the filename too. CNAME2 offers user specified file specification; wildcards; up to six templates for placing the date in the filename; copy or move file after rename; log file; and guarantee unique file- name. EZ-Utility 1.03 (EZUTL103.ZIP) by Eric Cockrell EZ-Utility will convert a mail packet in ProDoor ZipM format into QWK readable format. It will perform the inverse -- from REP into text file that can be uploaded using the ASCII protocol. It's freeware. FidoQWK 1.18 (FIDOQ118.ZIP) by Geoffrey Sy This program is an echomail processor for FidoNet systems to transfer mail with QWK systems. It does the same function as Q/R/TNet for QWK networks. It allows any FidoNet compatible BBS systems to transfer mail with any QWK host systems. FidoQWK generates *.MSG files which can be used for tossing by any Fido compatible boards. Filter 1.62 (FILT162.ZIP) by Patrick Lee Utility program to re-create the index files so that they skip messag- es from a list of users. This will let the user read the mail, and never seeing messages from those who the user does not want. It is very fast and can filter up to 50 names. It's freeware. GEnie QWK 1.1 (GENIEQ11.ZIP) by David Goodenough Scripts and programs to allow a QWK interface to the GEnie on-line service. Kill QWK Dupes (KQDUP110.ZIP) by Cody Gibson Program to quickly removes duplicate messages from QWK and REP pack- ets, even across multiple packets. Kill QWK Dupes is compatible for multi-BBS, multi-door and multi-node operations; can be used by users, netmail Sysops and Sysops with QWK compatible mail doors. It main- tains its own CRC file which is smaller than most other dupe checking mail doors. And of course, it is very flexible and configurable. LocalQWK 1.0 Utility for Remote Access boards that can create QWK packets from the command line. This allows Sysops to create mail packet for users immediately after mail polling. This is similar to the feature Pre- scanning available on some doors. Log2Qwk by Michael Schaefer Utility to take a capture log of WWIV messages and turn it into a QWK packet. Then take the resulting REP file and generate Procomm script for uploading. MailDB 2.02 by Carlos Goncalves Batista QWK message database that works as an add-on to a conventional QWK- format mail readers. It tosses QWK packets into database as specified by conference, according to search text, with exclusions according to a twit filter, etc. All major archivers are supported. It also does TXT-to-REP conversion. MessageFilter 2.00 (MF200.ZIP) by Robert Hoffmann Program to delete or separate messages from people whose messages you don't want to see. MMIMP1.ZIP by Michael May Converts QWK packet into REP packet. MNet 1.01 (MNET101.ZIP) by Doug Wilson and Chip Morrow MNET is a utility which allows any BBS with QWK/REP handling facili- ties the ability to participate in QWK-based conference sharing with other boards. Instead of working directly upon the node bbs' message base, MNET converts the incoming net status QWK packet from the host bbs into a REP packet which may be uploaded into the QWK-mail facili- ties of the node bbs. Likewise, it converts an outgoing QWK packet from the node into a REP which can be uploaded to the host. NOTAG 2.20 (NOTAG-22.ZIP) by Thom Little Utility for Qmail Deluxe2 to strip tag-lines from reply messages. It allows the user to either add his own tag-line or leave the message without a tag-line. pdQWK for Builder 1.0b by Mark Lussier Function library and tutorial for manipulating QWK packets in the Builder language from HyperKinetix. It does not support MKS$ numbers due to integer limitation in Builder. This is freeware. pdQWK for Clipper 1.02 by Mark Lussier Function library for Clipper programmers to manipulate and use QWK packets. Comes as function library or class(y)/oClip library. It even supports MKS$ real numbers. This is freeware. QWacK 0.96 (QWACK096.ZIP) Program to convert QWK packets to Blue Wave and Blue Wave *.NEW files to REP. This allows Blue Wave reader to read QWK mail packets. Note that Blue Wave version 2.10 and above has internal support for QWK mail packets. QWacK is not needed if you are using Blue Wave 2.10 and up. QWKDump 1.00 (QWKDMP10.ZIP) by Geoffrey Sy Dumps any conference or all messages from your QWK mail packet into text files similar to PCBoard message capture. QWK IDX (QWK_IDX.ZIP) by Geoffrey Sy Utility to make or replace missing or munged index files for QWK pack- ets. Qwkit 1.0b by Lyman Epp Qwkit will enhance your off-line mail reader with a tag-line manager, message filters, message signatures, strip Re: and (R) and more. It supports OLX, SLMR, MegaRead, and others. QwkMan 1.0 (QWKMAN10.ZIP) by Keith Brown QwkMan is a QWK packet merger. QWKMerge 1.05 (QWKM105.ZIP) by Mike King QWKMerge is a utility which allows the user to combine several QWK packets from any one BBS into a single master QWK packet. The result- ing QWK packet can be read by any QWK reader. QWKMerge can automati- cally delete duplicate messages and purge messages which have been flagged by the KingQWK reader to be killed. QWKMerge "untrashes" QWK files altered by other off-line readers. It is entirely user configurable by BBS and by conference, and comes complete with a scripting language for unattended operation. QWKNet (QWKNET00.ZIP) by Steve Hughes QWKNet takes a QWK packet and tosses the MESSAGES.DAT file into Squish-compatible message bases. QWKNet will then read the Squish message bases and export messages into a BBS_ID.MSG file which then gets compressed into a *.REP packet. Messages are then imported into Maximus message base. QWKNet (QWKNET12.ZIP) by Keith Yox Basic non-system specific QWK networking package. QWKPRUNE 1.02 (QPRN102.ZIP) by David Harden Utility to remove unwanted messages from QWK-format mail packets based on message headers. It can also tag messages for processing by KingQWK and QWKMerge; remove (R) and Re: prefixes from subject lines; and repair QWK packets damaged by EZ-Reader. QWKSCAN 3.0 (BBQWK30.ZIP) by Elliott W. Jackson QWKSCAN allows you to search for text inside QWK message packets or REP reply files using AND/OR logic operations. It can filter out messages and remembers previously entered search strings. It is com- pletely menu driven but can be run from the command line as well. It provides you with means to save found messages to file or send to the printer. QWKTXT45.ZIP by Jeffery Foy QWKTXT45 takes a QWK mail archive downloaded from a BBS & converts the messages into an ASCII text file. The file containing the messages will be named MESSAGES.TXT. Public domain with C source. It is use- ful for archival purposes and supports more than 6,000 conferences. REPLY UTILITIES 4.0 (REPUTIL4.ZIP) by Frank Y. Yates REPLY UTILITIES is a program to convert a batch of text messages into a REP packet for uploading into the mail door of a PCBoard BBS. It can also convert a REP packet back into text. Freeware. RPost 1.01 by Robert Vostreys RPost is a pre- and post-processor for QWK and REP packets. It can delete duplicate messages and spy/copy on messages. STRIPQWK.ZIP (23 Dec 91) by Ron Janorkar Program to replace strings anywhere in a message (including tag- lines). The user can delete tag-lines entirely or replace selected portions of tag-lines. STRIPRE (STRIPRE.ZIP) by Patrick Lee Program to strip Re: and (R) from the beginning of subject lines. These Re: and (R) make sorting messages a pain for many off-line read- ers. This program is in the public domain and is distributed with Turbo Pascal source code. It runs very fast and is a snap to use. TAG3 (TAG3.ZIP) Program to remove non-Fido-type tag-lines from QWK-format message packets. It also sorts tag-lines and remove duplicates. TextMail 1.12 by Mark Lussier Command line driven utility to process ASCII files into REP packets for uploading. Automatically splits files into multiple messages at user defined number of lines and supports any packer and both QWK and Fido -style tag-lines. TextMail will also append to existing REP file. This is freeware. TWIT 2.10 (TWIT210.ZIP) by Matthew Briggs Program to twits messages by name or subject with wildcard characters. It works with MegaMail DL packets as well as QWK packets. It can be made to run automatically when importing a mail packet into MegaMail Reader too. This is a freeware. Version 2.10 can now keep a log file showing all the changes TWIT has done to a message base. TXT2REP (TX2REP11.ZIP) by Geoffrey Sy TXT2REP 1.10 [19-Mar-92] - Utility to convert text file into REP mail packets that can be uploaded to QWK-format mail doors. It operates from the command line, and will automatically create multiple messages if text file is too long. This is freeware! Uqwk 1.5 (uqwk.1.5.tar.Z) by Steve Belczyk Program to collect unread Internet email or USENET news and formats it into QWK packet, which is then downloaded. It also accepts reply packets which can be mailed (if mailer understands "mail -s"), or posted (if B-news type of inews that understands -n and -t is in use). Available as C source and compiles with ANSI C compilers.