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<h1 class="page-title">QWK Support</h1>
<h2 id="qwk-and-qwk-net-style-networks">QWK and QWK-Net Style Networks</h2>
<p>As like all other networks such as FidoNet-Style (FTN) networks, ENiGMA½ considers QWK external to the system but can import and export the format.</p>
<h3 id="supported-standards">Supported Standards</h3>
<p>QWK must be considered a semi-standard as there are many implementations. What follows is a short &amp; incomplete list of such standards ENiGMA½ supports:</p>
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<li>The basic <a href="http://fileformats.archiveteam.org/wiki/QWK">QWK packet format</a>.</li>
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<a href="https://github.com/wwivbbs/wwiv/blob/master/specs/qwk/qwke.txt">QWKE extensions</a>.</li>
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<a href="http://wiki.synchro.net/ref:qwk">Synchronet BBS style extensions</a> such as <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">HEADERS.DAT</code>, <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">@</code> kludges, and UTF-8 handling.</li>
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<h3 id="configuration">Configuration</h3>
<p>QWK configuration occurs in the <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">messageNetworks.qwk</code> config block of <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">config.hjson</code>. As QWK wants to deal with conference numbers and ENiGMA½ uses area tags (conferences and conference tags are only used for logical grouping), a mapping can be made.</p>
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<p><img class="emoji" title=":information_source:" alt=":information_source:" src="https://github.githubassets.com/images/icons/emoji/unicode/2139.png" height="20" width="20"> During a regular, non QWK-Net exports, conference numbers can be auto-generated. Note that for QWK-Net style networks, you will need to create mappings however.</p>
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<p>Example:</p>
<pre><code class="language-hjson">{
messageNetworks: {
qwk: {
areas: {
general: { // local ENiGMA½ area tag
conference: 1 // conference number to map to
}
}
}
}
}
</code></pre>
<h3 id="oputil">oputil</h3>
<p>The <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">oputil.js</code> utility can export packet files, dump the messages of a packet to stdout, etc. See <a href="/enigma-bbs/admin/oputil.html">the oputil documentation</a> for more information.</p>
<h3 id="offline-readers">Offline Readers</h3>
<p>A few of the offline readers that have been tested with QWK packet files produced by ENiGMA½:</p>
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<th>Status</th>
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<td>MultiMail/Win v0.52</td>
<td>Supported</td>
<td>Private mail seems to break even with bundles from other systems</td>
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<td>SkyReader/W32 v1.00</td>
<td>Supported</td>
<td>Works well. No QWKE or HEADERS.DAT support. Gets confused with low conference numbers.</td>
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<p>There are also <a href="https://www.softwolves.pp.se/old/2000/faq/bwprod">many other readers</a> for various systems.</p>
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