Current QWK Related Products by Patrick Y. Lee October 31, 1992 This compilation is Copyright 1992 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 portions of this file without credit, though you may want to exercise common cour- tesy 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:lee18@green.cooper.edu FidoNet: Off-line echo ILink: Off-line, Shareware conferences Intelec: Off-line conference Internet: lee18@green.cooper.edu PlanoNet: Reviews conference RIME: ->RUNNINGB, Off-line, Common, Net Admin., Shareware, New Users, and Session Manager conferences 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. Updates to this file will be posted once a month in the Off-line conferenc- es on ILink, Intelec, and RIME. The latest version of this file can always be found on Aardvark BBS at (212) 496-8324 with a 2400 bps MNP modem or on The Lunatic Fringe BBS at (214) 422-2936 with an USR HST DS v.32 modem. First time caller has access to this file on both boards. -=-=-=-=-=-=-<>-=-=-=-=-=-=- QWK-format Mail Doors BBS Software Door & version Author ------------------- --------------------------- ------------------------ Auntie QWiKer 0.68 Cody Gibson Celerity built-in for 1.39 & up FoReM/Turbo MaxiDoor (Atari ST) Shawn T. Smith GAP built-in for 6.0 & up KingMail/GAP (alpha) Mike King The MainMail System 2.1 Tony Summy GT Power BGQWK B.J. Guillot LoraBBS (built-in) MajorBBS MjrMail 1.3 Galacticomm Maximus built-in 2.0 & up Scott Dudley OmegaBBS Omail 1.0 (no released yet) David C. Higley Opus O_QWKer (á) Bernardo Cardoso PCBoard Cam-Mail 1.10 Cam DeBuck Complete Mail Derek Backus DJMail 1.17 Derrick Burgess KMail 2.92 Ken Krueger MarkMail 1.58 (2.0á) Cliff Watkins Qmail 2.34 (4.0á) Mark Herring RoseMail 1.70 Vic Kass PowerBBS PowerMail 1.0 Russell Frey Powerboard BBS (built-in) Scott Brown QuickBBS GrayQWK GraySoft Development Group TurboMail 1.2 Randy Blackmond (ceased development) RBBS Jimmer 1.5 Jim Goodenough Mail Manager 1.35 Chip Morrow & Doug Wilson Mail Manager +Plus+ 2.04 Chip Morrow & Doug Wilson TQM 1.12 Tom Collins Remote Access MKQwk 1.02 Mark May RAMail 3.2 Randy Blackmond RyBBS door in reg. version SearchLight SLQWiK 1.02.d Jack Ridgeway Simplex BBS built in 1.05.02 & up Spitfire JetMail 1.12 D. J. Chuang SFMail Qwk 3.0 Bob Zimmerman SuperBBS built-in MKQwk 1.02 Mark May TAG DCQWK 1.1 Daniel Corbeau TBBS QSO (à) eSoft TriBBS TriMail 6.0 Mark D. Goodwin UltraBBS built-in 2.0 John Chwatal Virtual BBS built-in 5.40 Waffle WafLineMail 1.0 (2.0á) Kristopher Nelson Wildcat! Tomcat! 3.5 Mustang Software, Inc. WWIV QWKmod Barry Watson WWIVMail 4.0 Michael Leib WOMR-QWK (á) Will Hobday -=-=-=-=-=-=-<>-=-=-=-=-=-=- QWK-format Mail Readers Reader name Author ------------------------------------------- ---------------------------- 1stReader 1.01 Mark Herring Alice 2.1 (Mac) Michael Keller Amiga - No name yet Bill Sidhipong Amiga-Mail 0.30 Joao Carvalho Amiga-Mail Elite 1.07 Patrick Evans Amiga-Reader 2.0 Todd Sieland-Peterson & Matt Perry AQuick 2.1 Andrew Westacott ASX 2.0 (Amiga Silver Xpress) (N/A yet) Santronics Software ATP 1.3 (UNIX with C source and Linux EXE) Thomas McWilliams Azerty 1.0 (comes with C source) Ren‚ Cougnenc BasMAIL - Begin written Darryl Basner Blue Wave 2.10 George Hatchew C64 reader Gary Brinton CoCo/OS9 systems - SCRIBE31.AR CQWK 1.1 (Atari ST) CRR 1.40 (for CP/M based systems) Paul Martin EZ-Reader 1.39 Eric Cockrell Freddie 1.2 (Mac) Kem Tekinay JABBER 1.2 Marcos Della, Shad Muegge KingQWK 1.05 Mike King Kwak (á) Pascal Van Den Berg KWQ/2 1.0 (OS/2) Kurt Westerfeld LHL 1.0 Mac - No name yet - (á) Stan Witkowski MaxiMiser 1.60 (Atari ST) Shawn T. Smith MegaReader 2.10 Kip Compton Message-View 1.13 (Amiga) Robert Gibbs MikeMayl 1.0à Mike May Mirage (á) (Windows) Michael Nelson MR/2 1.32 (OS/2) Nick Knight OFFLINE 1.42 Harvey Parisien OffLine eXpress 2.2 Mustang Software, Inc. OMK 2.01 (Opus Message Kit) Roland Brown Orator 1.10 (Windows) Nick Dyer PabQwk 1.0 (8-bit Atari) Pab Sungenis PC-Mail Elite 1.0 Chris Lautenbach Personal Mail Database Manager 1.7 Les Gyurky PMQWK (á) (OS/2) Power-QWK 2.15b Gale Green Q-Blue 0.7 (Amiga) Paul Kienitz Qmail DeLuxeý 1.25 Mark Herring Quip 1.02 (Amiga) Oliver Schorr QWIX (UNIX) Dave MacRae QWKRR128 2.1 (C128) Rod Gasson QWK_V38.ZIP Thunus F. RoboMail (á) Dan Parsons RoseReader Gold/Platinum 1.70 Vic Kass Session Manager 1.06 Patrick W. Hart Silly Little Mail Reader 2.1a Greg Hewgill Silver Xpress Off-line Mail System 3.00 Santronics Software SPEED READ 1.20 Jim Smith The Mail Reader (á) Jason Hills TNT XL 8.20 Int'l TeleCommunications WinQwk 2.00a (Windows) Doug Crocker WinRead 2.2 (Windows) Ollivier Civiol XRS (eXpress Response System) 5.01 Mike Ratledge (Via 3rd party utility XCS 1.10 by R.J. Kusters) Yet Another Mail Reader (à) (Mac) Scott Kelley Zord 1.03 Chris Sturgess -=-=-=-=-=-=-<>-=-=-=-=-=-=- QWK-format Based Network Softwares Software BBS Software Author ------------------------ -------------- --------------------------- BgNet (á) GT-Power B. J. Guillot CNet 1.0 UltraBBS, Rollin White Remote Access FireNet Spitfire Bob Zimmerman JNet (á) Spitfire D. J. Chuang M/A/X 1.1 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 (3.00á) PCBoard Mark Herring RNet 1.08 PCBoard Robert Vostreys TNet 3.5 Wildcat! Mustang Software Inc. The following mail doors include the network support. Cam-Mail 1.10 PCBoard Cam DeBuck RoseMail 1.70 PCBoard Vic Kass -=-=-=-=-=-=-<>-=-=-=-=-=-=- Utilities to manipulate QWK-format Mail Packets 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. 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! 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 1.08 (FIDOQ108.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. 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. MessageFilter 2.00 (MF200.ZIP) by Robert Hoffmann Program to delete or separate messages from people whose messages you don't want to see. 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. 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 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. QWKPRUNE 0.04á (QPRN004B.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 up to 10 search strings. It is completely 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 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. 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!