BL> I have actually *written* one, and the sense of power is
 BL> enormous. Rod vanishes! I can see why people take up magic.

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

  Oh shit! *NOW* you tell me. 

 BG> BG> I took up magic once too, but after three years, my ex-wife
 BG> hadn't disappeared, so I eventually gave up. I particularly
 BG> wanted to try sawing her in half, but for some obscure reason,
 BG> she wouldn't let me. What a bitch

   Why is life so unfair?

 BG> See, you should have stuck with OS/2, then you could have
 BG> written a simple Rexx utility, instead of having to stuff about
 BG> with bloody C compilers, or VB (is it a Windows app BTW?). |-)

  Yair - I had a bit of a loook at that REXX thing when I was trying
to make OS/24Win work. It's a sort-of super batch file language. There
are a lot of these things now: WordBasic, QuickBasic, two Visual
Basics, Power Basic... it goes on and on. I used VB for DOS (it's
nearly the same as QuickBasic).

  I was just going to tack the twitter EXE it onto the end of
Brenton's TinyPoint. VB is a delight to use, Bill. The DOS compiler is
just about perfect, and the Windows one is even better. The language
itself is not really basic any more; it's more like Pascal, but the
compiler makes it very easy. When I go back to C, it's not the
language that gives me the shits so much as the awful Borland
compiler. With VB you just *do* it and it comes out the way you
expect. The Borland thing is all arse-up and awkward. It was written
by a programmer .

 BL> The thing I was using to identify the messages turned out to be
 BL> his node number (ROFL). 

 BG> Yeah, I noticed Paul mentioning that to you, and I cracked up
 BG> when imagining your Rod-Twitter  trashing your entire TML
 BG> packets (and anything else posted from his board).

  No... it wasn't quite that bad. If it hadn't found the node number
it would have let Rod escape untwitted - although that would be bad
enough! The shock might have killed me if I changed to another board,
believing that I had made Rod vanish, and he came back!

 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? |-)

  Bloody pedant :-) The QWK packet out of PKT2QWK is compressed, and
it squashes all those spaces very well (I suppose).

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

Regards,
Bob

 
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