Current QWK Related Products Utilities Edition by Jim Hanoian July 5, 1994 This compilation was Copyright 1992-1993 by Patrick Y. Lee, and is now maintained, published, and Copyright 1994 by James A. Hanoian. 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. Permission is granted to use and distribute small portions of this file without credit, though you may want to exercise common courtesy when using larger portions. 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: RIME: ->NOFRILLS (#1299) in the OFFLINE MAIL, Mail Doors, Software Reviews and Shareware conferences. Internet: jim.hanoian@ibmii.ids.net Without the help of many people (most of whom I have listed in the file CREDIT.TXT), this list will be useless. Please help keep this as up-to- date as possible! Thank you. The entire file is updated monthly and is available as QWKPyymm.ZIP. -=-=-=-=-=-=-<>-=-=-=-=-=-=- Utilities to manipulate QWK-format Mail Packets Add Those QWK 1.0 (ADDQWK10.ZIP) by Steve McGrath Program to merge multiple QWK packets into one. Add Those REP 1.0 (ADDREP10.ZIP) by Steve McGrath Program to merge multiple REP packets into one. Apex v4.0 by Brandon Staggs Apex is written to right some of the wrongs within Silly Little Mail Reader, Offline Express v2.x and Qmodem Pro (Offline Express v3.x). SLMR and OLX both lack header construction, quote boxes, static taglines and nice tagline managers. Apex takes care of these oversights. FREEWARE. 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 Access, Telegard (2.5 and 2.7) and SuperBBS (1.16 and up) systems A port to TAG is on the list, with PCBoard, Wildcat!, Spitfire and TriBBS under consideration. BlueQWK 1.51 (BLUEQ151.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. DETAG 1.23 (DETAG123.ZIP) by Rd Thomas Removes taglines & subject prefixes from QWK archives. handles FIDO & RIME tags, has read-only mode for tagline stealing, does wildcards, processes .REP files, can back up QWKs before processing, more. EZ-Utility 1.03 (EZUTL103.ZIP) by Eric Cockrell 900219 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 1.0a 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 2.00 (MNET200.ZIP) by Makai Software 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 911214 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 911223 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 920524 QwkMan is a QWK packet manager and 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 1.12 (QPRN112.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; remove up to 10 other user-defined prefixes from subject lines; repair some non-standard message headers; 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. QWKSLICE 1.02 by Chad Wagner QWKSLICE is a QWK packet slicer, it will split QWK packets up by size, messages per packet, and/or messages per conference. All of these can be configured to certain limits. Supports a maximum of 10,000 conferences. QWKSTR14.ZIP by ? Takes QWK packets and strips all the excess Internet header stuff (routing, etc) from messages and moves the real message text up to where it can be read in a mail reader's first screen. QWKTXT46.ZIP by Jeffery Foy QWKTXT46 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 6.0 (REPUTIL6.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. TXT2SAV (TX2SV110.ARJ) by Jack Hudgions Utility which takes the output of QWK Dump and converts in into an OLX (3.x, 1.5x and QMPro 1.xx) folder file. Public domain. 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 1.8 (uqwk.1.8.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.