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to: Robert Bull
from: Gerald Miller
date: 2002-11-18 17:17:58
subject: wimm

Hi Robert,

    On Monday November 18 2002 at 20:59,
    Robert Bull [2:250/501.4] wrote to andrew clarke,
    about:  wimm

 RB> Hello, andrew;

 RB> 10 Nov 02 03:35, andrew clarke wrote to All:

 ac>> It still logs to wimm.log like the old version:

 ac>>   09 Nov 14:38:50 WIMM Begin, WIMM/NT 2.0 beta 1

 RB> I'm still using a DOS system, but it's nice to see there's an "upgrade
 RB>  path"  ;-)  I wanted WIMM to do both things, that is, report to a
 RB> log, _and_ make a summary report.  Not being a programmer I resolved
 RB> that with a batch file that runs an AWK script to parse the log file,
 RB> then uses Sendmsg to post to a "reports" echo.

I'm using 4DOS and WIMM, but sending WIMM's output to a temp file AND to
the log.  I SED the temp file and use it as input to SendMsg for netmail.
Essentially the same technique, but 4DOS permits more flexibility.

           Cheers ... Gerald

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