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From: elg@killer.UUCP (Eric Green)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
Subject: Re: Q-link
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Date: Sun, 3-May-87 00:49:36 EDT
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Posted: Sun May  3 00:49:36 1987
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in article <5091@ut-ngp.UUCP>, cc.rob@ut-ngp.UUCP (Xavier Jones) says:
> Anyway, I would like some feedback about Q-link (good, bad, and
> indifferent). 

Indifferent. I still have my Q-LINK subscription (under the name "Bayou Rat").
But there isn't much programming discussion on the sub-boards. There ARE some
decent downloads (whenever a new version of Arc or Lynx or whatever comes out,
it gets uploaded to QL pretty quickly). Which is about the only reason I still
pay the $9.95/month (actually, end up spending about $30/month on it, from
participating in the BBS sysops sub-board and downloading pretty much stuff).

Two things you really want to download:

The Punter Protocol source & its associated documentation, and

append2.pal and its associated documentation (this is a very well designed
Xmodem protocol module, that I've been using quite awhile with no glitches).
arc230, also (does crunching & such, just like "real" Arc on real computers
does, and has an option to allow one-pass compression if you just want
quick-and-dirty archiving).

To be fair, you can probably find these things on a BBS somewhere, if you look
hard enough. But it's so hard to find a BBS with downloads that has more than
games on it....
--
Eric Green   elg%usl.CSNET     CS student, University of SW Louisiana
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