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    From Al@VERT/TRMB to Digital Man on Sat Jun 9 01:31:17 2018
    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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  • From Digital Man@VERT to Al on Sat Jun 9 11:19:40 2018
    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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