21 Mar 12 10:35, Michiel van der Vlist wrote to Roy Witt:   
      
    MvdV>>> My main Fido system hads been running the latest official   
    MvdV>>> release which is 2.29. That version is over a decade old.   
      
    RW>> Yes, and that was the version that crashed here.   
      
    MvdV> I have a beta running on my point system. Haven't  seen that one   
    MvdV> crash, but then again it is not used for incoming calls.   
      
   2.31? I'm still using 2.29...   
      
    MvdV>>> It still occasionally crashes on this side. I use the following   
      
    MvdV>>> :loop   
    MvdV>>> del \sema\*.0   
    MvdV>>> rexw -daemon   
    MvdV>>> choice /C:yn /T:n,5 Quit Rex   
    MvdV>>> if errorlevel 2 goto loop   
      
    RW>> That's probably a nice workaround for you. However, 'Choice' isn't   
    RW>> recognized by W2k as an internal or external command or operable   
    RW>> program.   
      
    MvdV> Same for XT, so I will have to find an alternative if end when I   
    MvdV> make the plunge..   
      
   Well, I did find choice.com in the MSDOS7 folder, so I played with it for   
   a while, entering the full path to choice. And it works.   
      
   @ECHO OFF   
   rem --- CHOICE.BAT   
   rem 3-20-2012   
      
   :LOOP   
   ECHO DO YOU WANNA DANCE?   
   c:\msdos7\choice.com /C:yn /Tn,05    My, my you're cute   
   @echo off   
   if errorlevel 2 goto LOOP   
      
   Echo Whisper in my ear, Darling.   
   echo-off   
   echo Thank you for the dance   
   goto END   
      
      
   :END   
   exit   
      
    MvdV>>> I have also created a work around for that, but it is less of   
    MvdV>>> an annoyance, as I do not enter new nodes in the node manager   
      
    MvdV>                                      ^^many^   
      
    MvdV>>> any more. Actually, removing a node that left FidoNet happens   
    MvdV>>> more often...   
      
    RW>> Starting with the August event of 2011, I began to add new nodes to   
    RW>> Rex node-manager as they came online here. I'm also attempting to   
    RW>> get Fidonet back to San Antonio and have added a new node to net387   
    RW>> just a few weeks ago. There's an older node in San Marcos, just 14   
    RW>> miles up the road from here that is listed in the Austin network,   
    RW>> but he lives closer to me.   
      
    MvdV> Good.   
      
    MvdV>>> With the next major system upgrade I will switch to binkd I   
    MvdV>>> think.   
      
    RW>> The same here...maybe D'B if it can quote properly by the time I get   
    RW>> to use it.   
      
    MvdV> D'Bridge seems to be doing fine these days, but I am not found of   
    MvdV> these "all in one" solutions.   
      
   Other than it has the quoting problem discussed elsewhere and it may or   
   may not run in a Windows Tray rather than the Desktop, I might be able to   
   overlook that quoting issue.   
      
      
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