Hello Robert,

    On Sunday December 08 2002 at 16:28,
    Robert Bull [2:250/501.4] wrote to Gerald Miller,
    about:  wimm

 GM>> There are some versions of 4dos that have been released as
 GM>> freeware.
 RB> I didn't know that.  Must be some lucky people around!

I had to do some checking.  The "freeware" relates to the OS/2 products of
previous versions...  I guess with the premise that OS/2 is a "dying"
operating system, there seems to be very little interest in continuing to
update and/or support that platform.

 GM>> supported by JPSoft (which Rexx Conn purchased) or some other
 GM>> obscure
 RB> I thought he was one of the founders...

He is!  I believe he put more money into the pot so that he can gain a
controlling interest and realize a larger return on his investment.

 RB>>> me. Sendmsg can post either *.MSG or Squish; I just chose *.msg
 RB>>> to allow easy automatic deletion of old reports.
 GM>> I have my weekly maintenance batch file delete the three
 GM>> REPORTS.SQ? files and start fresh....
 RB> That would work.  I just thought that *.MSG would be smaller and
 RB> easier.

I couldn't see much point in maintaining a large report message base.  The
reports are only for my benefit and once they are read, why keep them?  If
there is something of *great* importance, then I can copy or move it to a
SAVE folder....

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

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

 RB> I think that's the latest.

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

 RB> They should have LMOD12.ZIP, but LMOD13.ZIP is just out in the last
 RB> few days.  It's a bug fix.  LMOD 1.2 didn't handle Ctrl-Z correctly,
 RB> but LMOD 1.3 does.  That is, for LMOD 1.2,

 RB> lmod /L* [] < foo.bar

 RB> hangs, but

 RB> type foo.bar | lmod /L* []

 RB> works.  Apparently the "type" strips Ctrl-Zs, and as lmod
is usually
 RB> used in a pipe, it took a long while before anybody noticed  ;-)  I'll
 RB> file- attach 1.3 to Ben Ritchey ASAP, or you can pick it up from
 RB> Horst's Web site;  http://home.mnet-online.de/horst.muc/

Got my Inet connection on Wednesday, December 4th...  I updated to
LMOD13.ZIP as soon as I saw your message with the URL.  

           Thanks ... Gerald
           gerald(dot)miller(at)shaw(dot)ca

... I may not be totally perfect, but parts of me are excellent.

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