>>   I still use batchfiles under VA...still remembering a document I got
>> from a fellow Sysop when my BBS first went up 20 years ago. Entitled
>> "So You Want To Be A Sysop", it actually had 4 separate bulletins.
>> the applicable part for this echo was "you must construct batchfiles
>> for events, etc., or be prepared to live at your computer". 
>>
>>   That file is still a bulletin in my textfiles area.

 TC> Amen to that Daryl 

 Batch files are your friends.

 I still use QBasic on my XP. Both batch and QBasic work just
 fine. I could upgrade, but I'm too lazy to learn another
 language.

 Ok, maybe Farsi.

BOB KLAHN bob.klahn@sev.org   http://home.toltbbs.com/bobklahn

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