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echo: batpower
to: Robert Bull
from: Paul Quinn
date: 2004-02-17 16:59:00
subject: looking for ...

Hi! Robert,

On Sun, 15 Feb 04, you wrote to me:

 PQ>> I wasn't sure how nested FORs worked and remembered something
 PQ>> about
 PQ>> Ahha!  Here we go.  From Jamie Hermans, posted MArch '95:
 RB> Now that's really squirrelling away the data  :-))

:)  Damned right.  That's about as far back as my captures go, as I tend to
rely on Bat's FAQ for a lot of stuff before then (had to have a cleanout
when I was only running 120/200 meg HDDs).

 RB> But you might find VARSET gives you even more features  :-)
 RB> 09-08-02  VARSET 1.2 - set environmental variable

I haven't found a use for it... yet.  ;-)

 PQ>> either.  It was something MM came up with in a moment of pure
 PQ>> ingenuity.  :)  He turned out something that could apply any DOS
 PQ>> command line against a list of files or directories, contained
 PQ>> in a text file listing.  I haven't tried to use it but I'm 
 PQ>> waiting to hear from Gerry Miller, to see if it fitted his need.
 RB> OK.  I don't poll very often nowadays, so maybe I'll hear in the next
 RB> packet.

He's struggling with hardware at the moment and is up to his armpits
procrastinating between networking stuff versus lap-linking between
machines, with a basement full of (old) goodies.

How's your netmail off your host?  I'll send it anyhow and see...

Cheers,
Paul.

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