On (29 Sep 96) Paul Edwards wrote to Roy McNeill...



 PE> I sent you a message telling you you had issued the wrong command.

 PE> Didn't

 PE> you get that message?



 RM> I've looked back, and I can't find anything about a wrong command.

 RM> What is the right command?



 PE> I referred you to the AREAFIX.TXT document.  If you

 PE> want the message where I referred to areafix.txt, I'll resend it.



 RM> Got that one,



 PE> Make up your mind.  You either got the message, or you didn't.  It was the

 PE> SAME MESSAGE.  I said you used the wrong command,



 Not quite. You said I'd used the equivalent of Query,

instead of List. According to the Areafix docs I have, that should

have done the job. Why does it not? Why does it seem to give only a

partial list?



 PE>  freq areafix.txt to get

 PE> the right command.  %LIST is what you need.



Assorted file requests and experimental areafix msgs coming with

this packet. Apologies if they cause stuffups. On second thoughts,

tough.



 RM> but I was being an obdurate bastard and trying to get

 RM> you to acknowledge that the documented -q switch to areafix was

 RM> giving me an apparently incomplete list. You win, I give up, I'll

 RM> req the txt now.



 PE> I can't be bothered looking up "obdurate".  BFN.  Paul.



Shouldn't that be "I'm too obdurate to look up obdurate"?



Cheers



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