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   
   --- timEd 1.10.y2k+   
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