Ian Smith wrote in a message to All:

 IS> Some of the longer term residents of this echo might get a smile of
 IS> warmth and recognition from seeing some of the snippets below,
 IS> especially perhaps some examples from the late, great Trevor
 IS> Carlsen, and useful bits by other people, some still around, some
 IS> not - including Ron Lyth, who's about to leave us :( 

i thank you for your kind words. i haven't left yet and, in fact, i MAY
still act as a point receiving a couple of echoes of which one will
DEFINITELY be z3_pascal. i only met teecee once but i had a LOT of contact
via modem with him and the professional contacts i have made via this
conference have been very valuable and have resulted in my having a few
mates i didn't have before. my main reason for disconnecting dr blaze from
fidonet is that i can no longer justify the cost of a dedicated line and
modem for what is a diminishing thing and i guess i have just gotten bored.
recently i put my hand up for a couple of positions in rg50 and suddenly i
realised it wasn't because i wanted to do them but rather i hoped getting a
net job might get me interested again. when i realised that i also realised
it was time to quit.

btw i haven't looked too closely at this prune code put up here recently,
but i still have the code for a prune i wrote some time ago which was
originally going to be loaded for public domain use. i got frightened when
i thought of what it might do if loaded in the autoexec.bat cos what the
program did was clean EVERYTHING - hidden, system, read-only, dirs, even
volume labels went by the board. verily it is true that ' on a clear disk
you can seek forever!!! '. 

i might add it was neater and cleaner than the posted code.

ciaou 4 niaou

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