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   Hello, August Abolins.   
   On 11/1/20 9:19 PM you wrote:   
      
    CP>> You can do perl in DOS.  I think there might be a couple of    
    CP>> restritions there, but it's do able.   
      
    AA> Thanks for that. I just learned something!  :)  i really enjoyed    
    AA> using the unix-for-dos utils (a library of *nix equivalent    
    AA> executables for the DOS command line) .. in the 90's. Depending on    
    AA> the functions that the tg2fido perl uses: --[begin citation]--    
    AA> Perl under DOS lacks some features of perl under UNIX because of    
    AA> deficiencies in the UNIX-emulation, most notably: [o]    fork()    
    AA> and pipe() [o]    some features of the UNIX filesystem regarding    
    AA> link count and file dates [o]    in-place operation is a little    
    AA> bit broken with short filenames sockets --[end citation]-- ..it    
    AA> may or may not be possible in DOS.   
      
   I did say that I thought there were some restrictions.   
   I'm thinking even if the particular functions that aren't available are used   
   in Stas's bot, there could be a work around for them.   
       
      
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