HI Paul,

Paul Quinn wrote in a message to Richard Webb:

PQ> Hi! Richard,

PQ> Since doing that work on NLSS I've installed Virtual Box for linux. 
PQ> Finally, I was able to test it after I concocted a MS-DOS 6.22
PQ> virtual machine for NLSS.  It doesn't work. It will/does work in
PQ> MS-DOS 7.xx; not version 6.xx. 

THe command line would explain it I think.  IT seems to get to where it
processes a region segment then burps, 

PQ> If you're referring to the "General-purpose error trapper..."
THat's the one, which refers to lmod.  Looked at those command lines
invoking it, and couldn't find anything wrong . PQ> It's a
limitation on the command-line length for MS-DOS 6.22, which
PQ> is set at 135 characters.  Dammit. 

 RW> Am scratching my head at this point as I parse the docs for lmod and
 RW> your program to see if I can find it.

PQ> Imagine my grief: a BATch that works in one OS version but not in an
PQ> older one.  I had to rumage through 14 years worth of text captures
PQ> to find the root of the problem.

 RW> Thanks to Ben at Positronium I'm retrieving a lot of old bfds stuff I
 RW> had available on the bbs in the old days, and some new stuff.

PQ> I'm gonna look over the notion of using FGREP (just FREQ-ed it
PQ> through email from Ben's system - thanks Ben!).  (It's just a
PQ> passing phase thing as I don't hold out much hope of it really
PQ> helping.)  For the moment, I've pretty much given up on anything
PQ> like getting NLSS to work in other MS-DOS versions.  For a
PQ> nanosecond I toyed with the idea of doing a Pascal thing but I have
PQ> a gross distaste for anything that requires nonsense punctuation in
PQ> the code. 
That's a handy little program, as its author states, if you're looking for
full fledged grep with expressions, look elsewhere, but it's dropping in
for many apps where I used to use find and then use chg to strip out the
numbers in brackets, a pita to do and funky to boot. I ahve a little
feature which allows fellow radio operators who work with vessels at sea as
I do to search for a vessel by part of its name or its callsign, amateur or
marine. Fgrep cleaned up the code for that little tool, eliminating about
10% of the batch code .


tHanks, now I can quit scratching my head, looking at examples in the docs
and looking at your code.


Regards,
           Richard
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