Erstellt : Sonntag dem 01.11.98                         Erhalten am 04.11.98
von      : *Tony Pater{at}3:712/848* an *Claus Mueller*

Hallo Tony,

TP>   Wei gehtes Claus,
its "Wie" instead of "wei" but anyway

Danke der Nachfrage.

TP>  (needed a sort off menu glue around the routine(s),
...which could be done in Rexx and 4dos or 4os as well....

TP>  I wanted to do it on Ramdisk as the processing is primarily
TP>  on mail which is encrypted....
Is the time that the neccessary copying to the ramdisk already in your  
calculation?

TP>>       line of the file(s) ..... before using a 'goto' ?
As you probably have seen in my codingfragments I do not like gotos.

TP>  Ah ..... that's sounds about right Claus, thanks.
Glad I have been of any help

TP>  I've set myself a fairly complicated task here as not only is there
TP>  the need to have a menu presented in front of each message as it's
TP>  invoked (PM programme), but then a choice of actions (as described
TP>  here and partly in in another posting).. hence maybe I'll do some
TP>  background processing per your suggested script(s), to test it out,
TP>  but then i/f it with REXX stuff for the PM i/f.
Although I love 4dos I have discoverd that there isn't a thing that can't be  
done with rexx. So if the needed solution won't work with 4dos (menues as  
needed) and Rexx isn't available the commercial editor kedit (as mentioned in  
another message) would be a good choice, because his internal programming  
language is Kexx which is a subset of rexx that is enough for most tasks. In  
fact AME KEdit is pretty much like Xedit under VM on IBM's hosts.

TP>  Presently .... I'm doing things manually,
the only thing that I do manually doesn't belong into this area :))

TP>  to contend with 30+ megs of data in some 3000+ emails, it's
TP>  exploded to the point where automation is mandated.
more than 30 times doing the same thing is surely a job that should be  
automated.

TP>  I've just bought a couple of books on REXX, so once I've got a
TP>  working 4os2 solution (minus the PM i/f menu) .... I'll get into
TP>  seeing what PM programming with some PM rexx tools can give.
Thats seddling the horse from behind, because if you wish to do it with Rexx  
your work before is wasted.

TP>  FWIW ..... The data is on the 'Asian Crisis' + private Think Tank
TP>  forums out of Japan/China/Taiwan/Singapore ..... so time I don't
TP> have?
Thats allways a problem when it comes to computers. You'll never have enough  
time.

TP>  OK ..... gotta go ....and BIG thanks for your suggestions/thoughts.
You're welcome.

TP>  a new behemoth to put it on .....
           ^^^^^^^^ my dictionaire is on strike here.....

TP>  .... these 'so-called' gurus couldn't organise a piss-up in a brewery....
Which is pretty much the same in each part of live, unfortunatly. Tax  
laywers, programmers... even carpenters follow that rules. They just don't  
know nothing, they just pretend.

Only once in a while, perhaps when the planets have the right constallation  
you meet exceptions from that rule.



- mfg *Claus* -


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