Hi Paul,

On Tue 2039-Apr-05 10:01, Paul Quinn (3:640/384) wrote to Richard Webb:

PQ> About the only thing you're missing is _not_ running MS-DOS
PQ> 7.x-something.  :)  You really need to pick up an old copy of Win95
PQ> or Win98; I'm sure if you then just delete or rename Win.Com then
PQ> the GUI just cannot start.  You'd probably get the side-benefit of
PQ> having a NetBIOS client with access to a network (I used to do
PQ> similar but using a different method, years ago).  In any case, DOS
PQ> 7.xx even allows for line-by-line evaluation of batch statements
PQ> including percent variables at a command-line; you'd be limited
PQ> somewhat by not having the GUI to cut & paste from however.

Have heard of that, and iirc seen it with 98.  Iirc in
io.sys doing a bootgui=0 will give one much the same.

I went with a horst deal too, eventually uses nset, but we
wanted to make sure that .tic processor did its sends first, then our big
batch from hades that looks at all semaphores
sees a semaphore indicating that it should merge the
nodediff, process it.

I used your method iirc for deleting the oldest of a group
of .txt files in a directory osme time back iirc.  That
works rather nice too.

SO even before we get there, we dearchive nodediff arc file
and capture raw file name of its contents, use horst's
listmod to separate the actual extension, stow that within
the semaphore file that is going to be used to trigger
nodediff processing.

Now we've got just what we need, stowed as an environment
variable and available, and usable to create temporary
batches on the fly.

See my msg to Ben written right before I received this one.
"IF you can't go through, go around."

AS I noted to Ben, I sure use Timo Salmi's basename.exe
though.  THat's the little gem that helps me capture subject lines for arrl
bulletins I post in another echo .

IF HOrst charged money for this stuff I'd sure have to pay
up, cause I find myself using his stuff for so many jobs!
Especially listmod and nset.

Regards,
           Richard
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