Hello Jorj,
 \|/  Subject:  trialities
 /|\  On Tuesday April 21 1998 at 16:38, 
      you wrote to Gerald Miller saying:
 GM>> I am a Robert A. Heinlein fan and choose that name to
 JS>  I wouldn't think the latter.  For a touch typist it's all on the
 JS>  weak fingers.
Good for building the muscles and coordination of those fingers.
 JS>  For a non-, it's separate ends of the alphakeys. And are you thinking
 JS>  of _Stranger in a Strange Land_, because that's "grok".
Damn.  My electronic dictionary is broken.  Seriously, yes, I was thinking of 
_Stranger in ..... and I know the spelling is "Grok" and I can't believe we 
are having this discussion over a trivial name given to a temporary 
directory... !!!  E.O.D.!
 GM>> I see I neglected to specify that the command separator on my system
 GM>> is the tilde (~) character.
 JS>  A better choice than the caret, if one hasn't redefined.
[ ... Snip ... ]
 JS>  keys easier still than top-row ones.
 GM>> COMMAND.COM doesn't like the command separator character
 JS>  No, since it will see it as a nonspecial character, so that
 JS>  "k^cdd D:\Msg\^w" produces "Bad command or file name" as it
 JS>  tries to see that as a five-character command name followed
 JS>  by a nine-character argument.  Do you really have to cater to
 JS>  COMMAND too often?  I can't remember the last time I used it.
I do a modest amount of creating, debugging, testing batch files for my boss 
sysop and he operates in pure DOS.  As you might expect, I have to reboot to 
change command processors to ensure that what I'm working on, will work with 
COMMAND.COM and that I have not tried to sneak a 4DOS command into the batch 
file.
I also like to have certain batch files that will serve dual duty -- work, no 
matter what the command processor is and that can become complex at certain 
times.  Other than those two specifics, I run 4DOS about seventy percent of 
the time...
              G'Day ... Gerald
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