HEllo Paul,

following up a message from Richard Webb to Paul Quinn:

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. 

Hmmm, that may work, I've been scratching my head at how to
integrate fgrep into that to see if we couldn't bust out
under the 135 char limit of ms dos 6.22 and so far ...

DId get it to play on wife's win98 machine (dos 7) of
course, but that machine doesn't have a nodelist on it, and
is not networked.
PUt an older one on it a few weeks back just to do some
testing.  AS a byproduct she got some nifty batch add-ons
.

I'll have to play some more with it myself.

Another tool that may give us a way around that might be
sed.  DOn't know if Ben has it, don't see it on his bfds
lists at the positronium but haven't given it a careful look yet. IF he
doesn't have it I'm more than glad to send it to him
for hatching in the bfds.  bet he does or it's available in
bfds lists somewhere.

I'm still learning how to use it, and its docs or the
tutorial I have are a bit cryptic.  I finally have figured
out how to get it to do some simple things I"d like done
though .
.


Regards,
           Richard
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