.. One fine day, Brenton waffled to Dieter..

 Hello Brenton,

 DM> 1) What does , (comma) do ? ie copy xxxxx, xxxxx\xxxxx

 BV> It's a delimiter and works the same as the space. I use it in batch
 BV> files and when typing long lines because it make it more readable to
 BV> _me_.
 
 OK.

 DM> 2) Where there are subroutines ie :end, can they be called from
 DM> anywhere within the batch, or only at a stage preceeding that
 DM> subroutine ?

 BV> You can call (goto) them from anywhere.
 
 OK

 DM> 3) Are subroutines processed if the preceeding sub has no call ?

 BV> Ke ? Any and _ALL_ lines in a batch file are executed in sequence
 BV> when they are reached. IOW, unless you specifically jump over a line
 BV> it will be executed. That's why they have labels and goto's.
 
 OK again - you understood the intent of my question.
 
 DM> 4) Relating to TPOINT Sendmail.bat, what does NoMerge supposed
 DM> to do ?

 BV> I haven't looked at it since writing it, but from memory...
 BV> TPOINT looks to see if a previous mail run was aborted or failed.
 BV> If there is NEW mail to send and a previous invocation was not
 BV> completed then there will be a PKT file waiting to be sent. It knows
 BV> that it must merge the NEW mail (which is in QWK format) with the
 BV> PKT that is sitting in the TXFILES directory. In this instance it
 BV> merges the NEW and OLD files so that you end up with one file to
 BV> upload to your host. If there is no new mail or no old mail then it
 BV> doesn't have to merge the packets and it can simply process the
 BV> current stuff or leave the old PKT file there. the :NoMerge label is
 BV> simply a jump point if the two files don't need to be merged because
 BV> there is only one fail. Clear as mud now ?

 No - I think you've got it arse about face, but I'm not handy to 
 the actual files, but NoMerge is passed through at every 
 invocation in Sendmail if the previous attempts have been 
 successful.
 
 But it will give me something to go on with.
 
 Dieter
 

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