Hi! Richard,

Oh man, your ears must have been burning as I recently started browsing some
nodelist search software (but haven't tried any yet).

On Sat, 19 Mar 11, you wrote to me:

 RW> I know these days you're using your tic file processor written
 RW> in batch.  I still have other links though, and coordinate a small
 RW> fdn so I'm still using a full blown tic processor.

It looks like you're keeping tabs on my batch file website doo-hickey.  :) 
Yeah, I had to rewvert to using my Tic2Dir batch file when the old TICK 2.10
dropped dead, after I cloned the whole Fido PC to a VirtualBox 'appliance'. 
(TICK didn't like the new CPU driving the host Ubuntu system.)  I don't have
any downlinks and only have a handful of file areas to worry about in any
case, so Tic2Dir seemed ideal.

I'm also half-heartedly hunting down a replacement for Qnode as it dropped
dead following the cloning.  It's not an absolute requirement as I no longer
run BinkleyTerm but I do like to keep things 'as they were'... because.

 RW> My latest project is some msg area analysis stuff.  I'll
 RW> drop in in a couple weeks if you're interested and give you
 RW> a look see at some of it. Hmmm, for that matter might be back with 
 RW> some questions for the gurus around here.

Okay.  So long as it's simple stuff I might be able to help but I'm always on
the lookout for a guru too, as I really really prefer to lurk.

 RW> Btw did you ever get that routine you were working on for
 RW> busting email digests to post as fido msgs working the way
 RW> you wanted?

Ermm, I shelved the whole idea.  My head hurt too much trying to fathom the
problem.  The traffic is like about 1-2 messages per night and most of those
are solved by hitting [Next] anyhow.  Really 'must read' newsgroup garbage.

Cheers,
Paul.

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