Bob, at 16:00 on Thu, Oct 06 1994, you wrote to Bill Grimsley ...

BG> This may come as a great disappointment to you Bob, but it's not Rod 
BG> who vanishes, just his mail, and then only from your packets.

BL> Oh shit! *NOW* you tell me. 

Sorry to have pissed in your cornflakes Bob, but you would have found out
sooner or later, and I wanted to be the one to ruin your day.  |-)

BG> See, you should have stuck with OS/2, then you could have written a 
BG> simple Rexx utility, instead of having to stuff about with bloody C 
BG> compilers, or VB.

BL> Yair - I had a bit of a loook at that REXX thing when I was trying to 
BL> make OS/24Win work. It's a sort-of super batch file language.

In its most basic form, sure, but it's actually considerably more powerful
than most people realise, and although I've only had a fairly cursory look
at it (I'm no programmer, as you know), it seems to be at least as powerful
as BASIC in some areas, and possibly moreso in others.

BL> I tell you what - the pkt halves in size when Rod disappears.

BG> How do they halve? I thought you were overwriting, not
BG> deleting? |-)

BL> Bloody pedant :-) 

Why thank you!  |-)

BL> The QWK packet out of PKT2QWK is compressed, and it squashes all 
BL> those spaces very well (I suppose).

Does it make you feel like Ba'al, trashing where Rod was, then overwriting
and compressing what used to be his work?  |-)

BL> Anyway, on Paul's advice I'm just moving them up now, but for 
BL> some reason the PKT is still the same length. Christ knows how. 
BL> Why is it that these programs don't do what you want them to do?

Perhaps it's just as well that they don't.  Isn't there some sort of CRC
checking done, which would trash the PKT if you reduced its size?

Regards, Bill

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