Hi! Wilfred,   
      
   On 04 Sep 16 08:50, I wrote to you:   
      
    PQ> Thank you, kindly.  I'll ponder more deeply over it after I get out of   
    PQ> bed, later...   
      
   It works!  No sparks or smoke on the first execution at a DOS prompt.  And I   
   got a nice 'how to use' help line I had forgotten about, since I didn't   
   provide any command-line arguments.  :)   
      
   Oh, and I like your simplification of the ^Via line scanning.  It speaks for   
   your experience with the language.   
      
   So, with that I then caused a remote PING... which also succeeded!  Yay!    
   Thank you muchly.   
      
   Cheers,   
   Paul.   
      
   ... If it is it is, then it's it's.  If it isn't, then it's its.   
   --- Paul's Win98SE VirtualBox   
    * Origin: Quinn's Post - Maryborough, Queensland, OZ (3:640/384)