Hello, Gerald;

27 Nov 02 19:45, Gerald Miller wrote to Robert Bull:

 RB>> alias, but then, 4DOS is something special.

 GM> It was certainly money well spent, at the time (about ten years or

With Microsoft apparently attempting to eliminate the CLI, I may have to 
get another copy...

 GM> I would request that you provide the publication info on the O'Reilly
 GM> book.
 GM> I might give the info to Santa Claus as a stocking stuffer...  ;))

I only have the first edition, which is out of print.  However, there is a 
scond edition, and this is a Good Thing as I'm told it has a great number 
of corrections and some improvements.  Details from O'Reilly's Web site 
(which is http://www.ora.com) are:

sed & awk,  2nd Edition
by Dale Dougherty and Arnold Robbins
2nd edition, March 1997
ISBN: 1-56592-225-5
US$34.95

Robbins has also written a sed & awk Pocket Reference, but I haven't seen 
that.  My feeling was that the first edition's AWK section wasn't much more 
than a warmed-over version of the official manual, "The AWK Programming 
Language," by Aho, Kernighan, and Weinberger in person(s), Addison-Wesley, 
1988, ISBN: 0-201-07981-X.  However, Dougherty (then the sole author) did 
write the only intelligible manual on SED that I've seen, despite valiant 
efforts by Mike Arst.  Check out

The seder's grab bag http://spazioweb.inwind.it/seders/

for a file called U-SEDIT.ZIP, but I haven't checked that link lately and 
it has been known to move.

 GM> Since you are sufficiently buttered up, I'll "pick" your mind some
 GM> more. :)

:-))

 GM> and Squish ignores it.  The one exception to my using SendMsg is that
 GM> I use MsgPost/2 Version 2.0, Oct 2000 - (C) 1992 by CodeLand Australia
 GM> and "touched up" by Tobias Ernst.  MsgPost will store messages /
 GM> reports in Squish format...

I think MsgPost will also now do JAM, but that's irrelevant to me.  Sendmsg 
can post either *.MSG or Squish; I just chose *.msg to allow easy automatic 
deletion of old reports.

 GM>>> your NDOS, see if it will support the "/q" switch
- eliminate

 RB>> I'll have to dig out the manual!  Thanks for the tip.

 GM> Or maybe copy to a temp file on a RAM disk...  :)

I don't really have enough RAM here - DV on with 4Mb RAM - but it's a good 
idea...  BTW, at work, where I no longer have 4DOS, I use a command-line 
enhancer called TODDY.  For command-line enhancement, it offers as much of 
4DOS as I need ATM.

 GM> I want to try to delete those same four lines /_BEFORE_/ it gets typed
 GM> to the FD.LOG file....

I don't really understand that bit; could you used "find /v" or
another AWK 
script?

 GM> Look like you are a "true fan and" user of the file releases of the
 GM> BatPower BFDS file echo and particularly, Horst Schaeffer utilities.

Correct  :-)

 GM> :) He is truly phenomenally gifted to develop some of these priceless

Yes, indeed, and very generous with them.

 GM> The next line is giving me some trouble....

 GM> === Cut ===
 GM> :: NEXT LINE WRAPPED
 GM> logecho fgrep -xs "$D $N" wimm.log | lmod []
["|"] mawk -f
 GM> wimmxtrc.awk [">>"] wimm.rpt >> wimmtemp.bat
 GM> === Cut ===

 GM> particularly, the LISTMOD [] ["|"] section....  I think there is
 GM> something about it that 4dos doesn't like.  I'll have to dig a little
 GM> deeper and use 4dos debug....

No, I think it's because LMOD handles tokens considerably differently from 
the earlier LISTMOD.  If you're still using LISTMOD, I _think_ the following 
works;

:: NEXT LINE WRAPPED
logecho fgrep -xs "$D $N" wimm.log | listmod $0 $! mawk -f wimmxtrc.awk 
  $)$) wimm.rpt >> wimmtemp.bat

It's true I rarely go back to working batch files and update them with new 
versions of utilities, but I'd recomment you get a copy of LMOD as it's 
much more advanced than LISTMOD, wonderful though that is (and it's the one 
that really got me fascinated with Horst's utilities).

 RB>> Mike Brennan's MAWK, MAWK122X.ZIP.  GNU AWK (GAWK) is the

 GM> I think my version is by Mike and is Version 1.2 - Last change: Dec 22
 GM> 1994.

1.22 appears to be 1996.

     Regards,

              Robert.

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