Hi! Richard,

On 19 Jun 08 17:51, you wrote to me:

 RW> Curious about something now that I've got all the utils together to
 RW> really make this thing work. seems to me I had this guy working
 RW> before, but on nodelist.165 I'm getting a lmod error somewhere, after
 RW> it parses the zone.

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

If you're referring to the "General-purpose error trapper..."
mentioning LMOD as the culprit, then it's not really LMOD's fault.  It's a
limitation on the command-line length for MS-DOS 6.22, which 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.

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

I'm gonna look over the notion of using FGREP (just FREQ-ed it through
email from Ben's system - thanks Ben!).  (It's just a passing phase thing
as I don't hold out much hope of it really helping.)  For the moment, I've
pretty much given up on anything like getting NLSS to work in other MS-DOS
versions.  For a nanosecond I toyed with the idea of doing a Pascal thing
but I have a gross distaste for anything that requires nonsense punctuation
in the code.

Cheers,
Paul.

... Me erur corectyng modim is malphunctinyng...
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