Hello Digital Man,

I am helping Marisag with a new QWK/FTN network and have a couple questions about QWK networking.

Looking at the QWK: -> Change Packet Configuration menu for a QWK node I see the questions...

1. Include VOTING.DAT File

Is that a new feature that requires Synchronet 3.17+?

2. Include HEADERS.DAT File

What is that option for, and does it require a specific version of Synchronet?

Thanks for any info.

Ttyl :-),
Al


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Re: QWK networking
By: Al to Digital Man on Sat Jun 09 2018 01:31 am

Hello Digital Man,

I am helping Marisag with a new QWK/FTN network and have a couple questions about QWK networking.

Looking at the QWK: -> Change Packet Configuration menu for a QWK node I see the questions...

1. Include VOTING.DAT File

Is that a new feature that requires Synchronet 3.17+?

Yes. Earlier versions of Synchronet will just ignore that file (well, actually, it'll get imported into a data/qnet/*.in directory).

2. Include HEADERS.DAT File

What is that option for

HEADERS.DAT is how Synchronet gets around all the QWK limitations (e.g. 25-char message subjects).

, and does it require a specific version of
Synchronet?

It'll be ignored (treated like any other extra file in a QWK packet) by versions of Synchronet older than 3.15b (10 years old now).

digital man

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