I have Wildcat Navigator and Netscape on my computer and want to know how to use them to get a QWK packet.

When you call into Wildcat and access the Message Client, the screen that pops up shows you the general categories into which messages are organized.

Double clicking on a folder will display the conferences in that category. The first thing you will want to do is choose the conferences that will appear when you double click on Selected Conferences. To do this, select All Conferences. Once the complete list of conferences is showing, you add the ones you want by right-clicking on the conference name, then, from the pop-up menu, click to place a tick mark next to Add to selected conferences. This has to be done for each conference you want to add.

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Hint: It is possible to add conferences a group at a time if you prefer. Then, if want to change out of it, you click on the downward pointing arrow just under the word, Help.

We are now ready to download the QWK packet. As with many things on Wildcat, there are several ways to do this. Previously, you had to go into the terminal client and do everything in text mode, but thanks to a lot of work by the members of the Wildcat team, it is now possible to do it all in graphical mode. You click on the browser client and it will start up either Netscape Navigator or Internet Explorer.

From the main web page, there is a link for QWKMail in the frame on the left. Clicking on it gives you a chance to download a QWK packet or upload your reply packet. Note: if you aren't sure what this off-line mail stuff really means there is a link that will help explain it.

When you click on the link to download your QWK packet, the terminal clent will start up, you will have to answer a couple of questions, and then the QWK packet will be transferred to your machine. On my system, the transfer client minimizes itself to the task bar, so if I want to monitor the transfer I have to click it to make it visible. You will in fact need to make it visible to get to tools-options to set the download directory where you want the QWK packet to go. When you select the option to upload a reply packet, a typical Windows box pops up and you can navigate to the directory holding your REP packet.