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 30, 2026 03:15pm, IB Joe wrote to Robert Wolfe:

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??!!

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.

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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??

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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