>>   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.   
      
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