GM> I am a Robert A. Heinlein fan and choose that name to
  > commemorate the author (and it's easy for me to type)...
 I wouldn't think the latter.  For a touch typist it's all on the
 weak fingers.  For a non-, it's separate ends of the alphakeys.
 And are you thinking of _Stranger in a Strange Land_, because
 that's "grok".
GM> I see I neglected to specify that the command
  > separator on my system is the tilde (~) character.
 A better choice than the caret, if one hasn't redefined.
 I have, in both my editor and in DOS (and some programs that
 internally use ANSI redefs defined externally, like my reader).
 So instead of the awkward  (to use my editor's
 notation) to get "^", I can almost always use .  And "*"
 is beside it, .  And beside that is "*.*" or .
 While  is easier than , I find bottom-row
 keys easier still than top-row ones.
GM> COMMAND.COM doesn't like the command separator character
 No, since it will see it as a nonspecial character, so that
 "k^cdd D:\Msg\^w" produces "Bad command or file name" as it
 tries to see that as a five-character command name followed
 by a nine-character argument.  Do you really have to cater to
 COMMAND too often?  I can't remember the last time I used it.
... A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial
--- SR 2.00 #1019  -!-  appearance of being right. * Thomas Paine
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