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   Dallas Hinton to Dan Cross   
   Semaphore   
   18 Jan 21 08:34:24   
   
   MSGID: 1:153/7715.0 005b8de0   
   REPLY: 3:770/100 e00ae4eb   
   CHRS: IBMPC 2   
   Hi, Dan -- on Jan 19 2021 at 03:11, you wrote:   
      
   DC> A couple of things, but the biggest one I can think of is fragility   
   DC> in the face of system crashes.  In particular, who's responsible for   
   DC> cleaning this file up?  Should `binkd` delete it as part of gracefully   
      
   FWIW, I have a batch file that runs on startup and deletes all semaphore flags.   
   They're all in the same directory so it's easy.   
      
   If I have to close iRex, that startup batch also deletes the semaphores.   
      
      
   Cheers... Dallas   
      
   --- timEd/NT 1.30+   
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