• qwk 25 char subj line limit

    From August Abolins@2:221/1.59 to Dale Shipp on Wed Jan 13 12:19:06 2021
    Hello Dale!

    On 4/26/2019, Dale Shipp wrote to August Abolins:

    I am using the same desktop I have had for years and read my QWK
    packets using BlueWave in a virtual XP window. Don't intend to change.

    Noted.

    Have you heard of this:
    DURQWK14.ZIP 1172K 09-09-1998
    DURANGOMAIL ver1.4 Build 204 - Updated 9/9/98
    ---------------------------------------------
    QWKE Offline mail reader for Win 95/98/NT/2K

    I have not heard of it.
    No real advantage to me. I'll stick with my Bluewave that I know
    well.

    Noted.

    But QWK's 25 char limit in the subject s cutting off my beautifully thought out subjects! LOL

    And yours seems to even cut them down further to about 20 chars. :(

    Your subject line for something like:
    FidoGazette Vol 13 no 17 Page: 7
    FidoGazette Vol 13 no 17 Page: 6
    FidoGazette Vol 13 no 17 Page: 5

    ..would look all the same in your lists:
    FidoGazette Vol 13 no 17

    I dunno how you can accept that! :/

    The "future" of longer subject line awaits you!

    .. I had a little trouble
    getting the setup.exe to cooperate. "not a wn32 program" error. Bad
    archive? Maybe the archive is listed somewhere else to try?

    More likely, it is a 16 bit program. It would need WINXP or so to
    install.

    Indeed. I was attempting to try in on my XP. No go. :( No "future" for 16bit.


    ../|ug

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