Hello Robert,

    On Sunday December 01 2002 at 16:31,
    Robert Bull [2:250/501.4] wrote to Gerald Miller,
    about:  wimm

 RB>>> alias, but then, 4DOS is something special.
 GM>> It was certainly money well spent, at the time (about ten years
 RB> With Microsoft apparently attempting to eliminate the CLI, I may have
 RB> to get another copy...

There are some versions of 4dos that have been released as freeware.  I
think it has something to do with those releases no longer being supported
by JPSoft (which Rexx Conn purchased) or some other obscure reason.  Now,
that information may only apply to the 4OS2 stuff.....

 GM>> I would request that you provide the publication info on the
 GM>> O'Reilly book. I might give the info to Santa Claus as a stocking
 GM>> stuffer...  ;))
 RB> I only have the first edition, which is out of print.  However, there
 RB> is a scond edition, and this is a Good Thing as I'm told it has a
 RB> great number of corrections and some improvements.  Details from
 RB> O'Reilly's Web site (which is http://www.ora.com) are:

[snip]

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

Thanks for the info; I'll put it to good use....   8-))

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

 RB> :-))

 GM>> and Squish ignores it.  The one exception to my using SendMsg is
 GM>> that I use MsgPost/2 Version 2.0, Oct 2000 - (C) 1992 by CodeLand
 GM>> Australia and "touched up" by Tobias Ernst.  MsgPost will store
 GM>> messages / reports in Squish format...
 RB> I think MsgPost will also now do JAM, but that's irrelevant to me.
 RB> Sendmsg can post either *.MSG or Squish; I just chose *.msg to allow
 RB> easy automatic deletion of old reports.

I have my weekly maintenance batch file delete the three REPORTS.SQ? files
and start fresh....

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

I've got my box maxed with 128Mb (bought it before it got cheap!).

 GM>> I want to try to delete those same four lines /_BEFORE_/ it gets
 GM>> typed to the FD.LOG file....
 RB> I don't really understand that bit; could you used "find /v" or
 RB> another AWK script?

You have to remember that I wrote the above _before_ I was able to get
wimmxtrc.awk to process the wimm.tmp file.....

 GM>> Look like you are a "true fan and" user of the file releases of
 GM>> the BatPower BFDS file echo and particularly, Horst Schaeffer
 GM>> utilities.
 RB> Correct  :-)
 GM>> :) He is truly phenomenally gifted to develop some of these
 GM>> priceless
 RB> Yes, indeed, and very generous with them.

Very true.... 

 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
 GM>> little deeper and use 4dos debug....
 RB> No, I think it's because LMOD handles tokens considerably differently
 RB> from the earlier LISTMOD.  If you're still using LISTMOD, I _think_
 RB> the following works;

I'm using "LISTMOD 2.3 (c) 1997, Horst Schaeffer"....  I think I was able
to get it from his last BFDS release.  What version do you suggest?

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

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

I'll go back to my BFDS directories and see if I can find an archive that
has LMOD.* within.....

 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:
 GM>> Dec 22 1994.
 RB> 1.22 appears to be 1996.

I'll have to look into locating MAWK122X.ZIP.

           Thanks ... Gerald

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