I am trying to get wcQWK to work... but NO GO.

I have the latest version of wcat... and its not working.

I I downloaded the file *.qwk and run wcqwk and nothing... Subdirectories are all in place. The qwk file does not get unarchived... I go to said subdirectory and manually un-archive the file and it does so...

with this new archiver that comes with the new version of wcat is suppose to spawn a window correct?? It doesn't do that.

Ideas??

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I am trying to get wcQWK to work... but NO GO.

I have the latest version of wcat... and its not working.

I I downloaded the file *.qwk and run wcqwk and nothing... Subdirectories ar all in place. The qwk file does not get unarchived... I go to said subdirectory and manually un-archive the file and it does so...

with this new archiver that comes with the new version of wcat is suppose to spawn a window correct?? It doesn't do that.

Ideas??

Do you have wc7z*.* in your wildcat home directory and do you have your environment variables set right?

try setting wildcatserver= to the hostname your WINS setup is on.
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On 28 May 2026, Robert Wolfe said the following...

Do you have wc7z*.* in your wildcat home directory and do you have your environment variables set right?

I have to jump to an other computer... I'll check and I'll change the environment/path to include \wcat directory.

try setting wildcatserver= to the hostname your WINS setup is on.

can you add a few more words here so that I may look that up??!!

thanx

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On May 31, 2026 03:50pm, IB Joe wrote to Robert Wolfe:

On 30 May 2026, Robert Wolfe said the following...

you can set that as a global system environment

variable or

as a per user one. I hae a .cmd file i run thsat sets

this

on a per cmd.exe session.

This is the first time I have ever done this...

I went to the environmental variables section and added

a new veritable

wildcatserver = \wcat

Can you expand where I would do this in the WIldcat

setup??

it's an environment variable and your example is incorrect

C:\wcat>type setvar.cmd
set wildcatserver=WINS10

is miny batch file i use before starting wins modules from a
command prompt

WINS10 is the hostname of the system wcserver is running on.

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On 31 May 2026, Robert Wolfe said the following...

C:\wcat>type setvar.cmd
set wildcatserver=WINS10

I'll give it a shot

Thanx

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On 31 May 2026, Robert Wolfe said the following...

C:\wcat>type setvar.cmd
set wildcatserver=WINS10

This worked

Thanx

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On Jun 02, 2026 08:38am, IB Joe wrote to Robert Wolfe:

On 31 May 2026, Robert Wolfe said the following...

C:\wcat>type setvar.cmd
set wildcatserver=WINS10

I'll give it a shot

just be sure to use your own host name which can be retrieved by
typing hostname and pressing enter at the command prompt.

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On Jun 02, 2026 09:18am, IB Joe wrote to Robert Wolfe:

On 31 May 2026, Robert Wolfe said the following...

C:\wcat>type setvar.cmd
set wildcatserver=WINS10

This worked

Thanx

most excellent. Welcome anytime.

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On 02 Jun 2026, Robert Wolfe said the following...

just be sure to use your own host name which can be retrieved by
typing hostname and pressing enter at the command prompt.

Yes... and I passed it in the batch file I use to get my qwk mail.

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On Jun 03, 2026 01:47pm, IB Joe wrote to Robert Wolfe:

On 02 Jun 2026, Robert Wolfe said the following...

just be sure to use your own host name which can be retrieved

by

typing hostname and pressing enter at the command prompt.

Yes... and I passed it in the batch file I use to get my qwk

mail.

excellent. I did the same.

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