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echo: locsysop
to: Paul Edwards
from: Bob Lawrence
date: 1996-10-24 07:52:08
subject: Special Requests

BL> Does DELETE THIS FILE have to be in capitals? 
 PE> Yes.

  Okay.

 BL> Why not just use the zero-length as the key?
 PE> Tell me which line to change...

 PE> c:
 PE> cd\specialr
 PE> delzero *.*
 PE> cd\downsort
 PE> downsort
 PE> ren down_all.a~s F711X934.TXT

  add this...   nullzero F711X934.TXT

 PE> zip -9km f711x934 f711x934.txt
 PE> copy f711x934.zip c:\minpoint
 PE> del f711x934.zip
 PE> cd filesbbs
 PE> grep -v "DELETE THIS FILE" files.20 >temp.txt
 PE> copy temp.txt \specialr\files.bbs
 PE> cd ..
 PE> echo y | del filesbbs

  Seeing you're such a lousy programmer, I've written you a little 
Pascal utility to remove the lines with "-- archived --" from your 
FILES list. Just put nullzero.exe in the same directory as 
f711x934.txt and add the extra line to your BAT file.

  Failing that, I'd be inclined to replace the line with "DELETE THIS
FILE" with...

  grep -v "-- archived --" files.20 >temp.txt         
  
  It seems that whatever you use to generate your FILES list puts this
"-- archived --" marker in the line anyway.

  In the meantime I've modified my TMLTIC utility to add the magic words 
in case you find a BAT file too complicated and accidentally format 
drive C: when you try to uudecode the utility. I've included the Pascal 
source to annoy you. Pascal is really easy, and fast, too.

  Of course, you will tell me it isn't really Pascal, but neither is 
your fucking BAT file.

Regards,
Bob

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