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From: Gerald Miller 
Date: Sun, 21 Dec 03 07:29:43 +0100
Subject: new! improved!
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Hello Jasen,

    Responding to a post in the 4DOS area:
    On Saturday December 20 2003 at 13:33,
    Jasen Betts [3:640/1042] wrote to All,
    about: new! improved!

 JB> Hi All.
 JB>  here it is: (happy holidays)

 JB> Mark, to enable logging by default change where it says "set
 JB> LOGGING=0" to "set LOGGING=2" (or 1 or 3 - see below)


 JB> :! SCHED.BTM                             VERSION 1.1  20-dec-2003
 JB> :!

[... snip ...]

 JB>     echo. %+   input /c Overwrite %DATAFILE:  %%inp
 JB>     echo.
 JB>     if "%inp" eq "YES!" or then goto blankfile

The above produces: Unknown command "or"

When I introduced this routine, I believe there was no ".or.".  The user
has to specifically type 'yes!' (without the quotes, of course).  I have
removed the "or then" part....

 JB>     echo  The %@DATAFILE data file was NOT overwritten!

Remove the "@" character from the variable name (%DATAFILE).

 JB>     goto fin
 JB>   endiff

There are some other "minor" errors and cosmetic items that I found, but
I'll comment on them later, after I have had an opportunity to explore this
work.

Enjoy the holiday.

           Cheers ... Gerald

... Not one hundred percent efficient, of course... but nothing ever is.