Hello Ted,
 \|/  Subject:  Question #1!
 /|\  On Wednesday April 08 1998 at 17:07, 
      you wrote to Gerald Miller saying:
 GM>> My humble apologies to Claus.  No slight was intended.
 TM> Claus will accept them, I'm sure ;-)
 TM> /Any use for CTTY ?/
 TM>>> if you want to control the system from
 TM>>> another one at DOS-level, while lacking true
 TM>>> network-capabilities...
 GM>> Never tried that, but I'll take your word for it...
 TM> I've tried it a few times, but the power of such practice is highly
 TM> overrated, if you ask me. But _my_ word isn't sacred, of course. ;-)
Another one of those "NOT carved in stone" statements...   ;^)
 TM> /No BATPOWER access/
 TM>>> My German uplink now supplies me with al the goods, *including*
 TM>>> BATPOWER. :-) EOD (end of discussion ) (Consider a Dutchman
 TM>>> as a German point ;-))
 GM>> EOD!
 TM> Aren't you, by any chance, the same Gerald Miller who started uttering
 TM> something to me in the BATPOWER area about me being unable to get
 TM> there ? ;-)
Aye!  That be me.  I shudder to think there may be another Gerald Miller 
lurking in that echo.  Of course, "All things are possible."
 GM>>>> COMMAND.COM and I don't feel there is an overwhelming
 GM>>>> requirement for the batch to work with that COMSPEC).
 TM>>> Reasonable. I NEVER boot command.com, unless I've screwed up my
 TM>>> 4Dos.com in some fashion... ;-)
 GM>> Not you???  Wouldn't think you could do such a dastardly deed...
 TM> Oh yes, me! I've succeeded in killing 4Dos.com, by using an
 TM> executable-compressor once, while persuing more efficient disk-usage
 TM> ;-) `UCEXE 4Dos.com` certainly killed the poor thing! :-)))
And you didn't try using the same program on COMMAND.COM?  I'm truly 
surprised at you.  This is another one of those times when I can't lay my 
hands on the document file when I want it, so I hope my memory will hold up.  
I **believe**, when I looked at that program (and a few others like it), the 
recommendation was that the program should NOT BE USED on command processors, 
self modifying executables and executable files that operated with overlay 
files (and maybe a few other exceptions).  I bought several versions of 
Stacker and did entire disk drives.  When the prices of hard drives came down 
to the level that made them affordable, I purchased a 4.2 gig and banished 
Stacker (except it works great on my RAM disk), compressed executable files 
and other like acts of magic.  It just isn't worth the time and possible 
aggravations to be messing with that sort of stuff anymore.
              G'Day ... Gerald
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