>I noticed that my brain still works as fast (not as long, though), but my
>two fingers don't spell as good as they once did. 
I'm relieved to hear someone else say that, I'm glad I'm not in the
boat by myself.  I used to be amused at the older guys when I could
read a whole page over their shoulder before they were half through.
Now!  I understand. 
And the spelling;  I can't figure out where that skill went!  Same
place the grammar went, I guess.  In the last couple of years, I
have regained some of my typeing speed, but my accuracy is awful.
I had a close, and respected friend who always said that a man could
learn new things all his life, but that our heads are like a bucket,
and after forty, it's full.  You can always pour more into it, but
that when you do, something has to run out.
I suppose I've spent too many years pouring over schematics and
circuit boards and with the day to day tasks of running a TV shop.
I quit reading anything other than technical material years ago,
during that time, I just didn't have time for it, what with twelve
to sixteen hour days in the shop. One day I woke up and a bunch
of my communication's skills were gone.
Since I've slowed down some, and taken up computers, I've slowly
begun regain a few, but I have to refer to my dictionay often.
 CG> In addition to all that, I am fairly new to this programming
 CG> game.:)) 
>Are you programming in QB4.5, PDS or PowerBASIC?  If all, which do you
>like the best?  I have QB 4.5, PDS 7.1, and VB/DOS 1.0, but like the
>PDS the best.
QB4.5 is really my bag.  I like the PDS environment but haven't
learned all the new PDS features.  I've had it a for a while but
haven't gotten serious with it.  I just got VB lately, and have
barely looked it.
I just started working with HTML this past weekend and it looks like
it will be a piece of cake.  I'm trying to come up with a personal
home page.  I can't decide on a theme.  I've thought of personal
things and have loaded pictures of the grandchildren into my local
copy just to see what it would look like, and the page does look neat,
but I really don't want to put their pictures on the net.
I've thought about the programming theme, and the TV shop theme,
but we already have a commercial page for our computer consulting
business, so I'm in linbo with the WEB page for now.
>Telegard will not let you d/l attaches during the logon "read".  You
>can only d/l when actually in the message base, which is really weird,
>and self-defeating, if you ask me.  I'll have to check to see if a user
>can just tag it for d/l while in the logon "read", then actually do the
>d/l soemwhere else.
Is there any way to choose to not read these messages @ login, and then
later have them  d/l along with the QWK package?  For example, what
if I choose to (I)gnore the message?  Would I get it in the QWK packet?
I've now got my script coded to handle two inline messages, (provided
no bugs), but if I could skip reading on line and pick them up in
a d/l, I think I would rather do that.  That way, they would be in my
message base, rather than as separate files on disk, and coding would
be a little less messy on this end. 
I'm getting kind'a wordy here and it's getting late so I'll chop it off
for now.
BTW, thanks for the visiting sysop status upgrade.
See ya next trip,
ChasG
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