Thanks to all who have already downloaded SMAPIweb/webgate, the new website posting url package, and provided me with feeback.  I didn't expect such a fast and helpful response!  Thank you..  As promised to some, in return, I'd like to present what I know about QUARK.  QUARK is the package I used to put WEBGATE on-line and I had a lot of questions about its use or reuse.

Basically, QUARK is a pkzip-like program for HP 3000 computers that works on most all files, including IPC files and Image databases.  QUARK is actually a piece of software sold by Quest.  However a freeware version of QUARK called QUARK9 floats about.  It's already on a lot of machines; and it's also in the CSL contribution of HP 3000 software from Interex.  QUARK9 is slower than QUARK (using 9 bits for compression rather than 13 and hence its name), but it's free.  With a little bit of ingenuity you can get the freeware version of Quark, Quark9, to do what the other QUARK will do with a lot more ease.  But you have to pay as much as the webgate product right now to buy this version of QUARK; circa $1500, so the free quark9 is the way to go, and still seems to work, as well.  You can still make your install jobs flexible enough to install into any account with QUARK9, as you can with QUARK.  If you need more info, please let me know off-line, and I'll send you copies of the install jobs using QUARK9.  Note!  There may be a freeware version of QUARK, as well, but I haven't been able to ascertain this for certain (whether it's actually free or not), so stick with QUARK9 to be safe.  Maybe somebody out there knows the story on the shareware 13 bit version of QUARK.

Regards,
Chris Flynn
Chromium Communications
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