Hello Robert,

    On Sunday December 08 2002 at 16:40,
    Robert Bull [2:250/501.4] wrote to Gerald Miller,
    about:  wimm

 GM>> BTW, did you know that Horst has a version 2.2 available?  There
 GM>> is a new token:  "$+" for a new line; which makes this:

 GM>>   C:\Util\logecho $+-+- MPost/386 v2.0a-stable >>
 GM>> C:\Fd\Sq\WIMM.RPT

 RB> No, I hadn't spotted that.  Thanks for pointing it out.  I had the
 RB> archive, but must have forgotten to decant it, and was still using
 RB> 2.0.  BTW, the latest of Horst's HORSTnn.ZIP series of archives has
 RB> been renamed PBATS32.ZIP for consistency with the German version.
 RB> There's no difference in functionality compared to HORST32.ZIP.

Do you know if future releases from Horst will be coming through the
FileGate as PBATS### or HORST### ???  I don't imagine it would make much
difference, but I have my "post AllFix" batch file processing the HORST
archives....

 GM>> Would you please show me what a WIMMTEMP.BAT should look like
 GM>> just before it is called?

 RB> Today's, bearing in mind that it uses the date, looks like this;
 RB> ======================[ BEGIN QUOTE ]======================
 RB> fgrep -xs "08 Dec" wimm.log | mawk -f wimmxtrc.awk
>> wimm.rpt
 RB> =======================[ END QUOTE ]=======================

 RB> BTW, remember that I used the same name WIMMTEMP.BAT successively for
 RB> two different things.  This is the first call, which was the problem
 RB> one.  The second one is trivial.  Also, the version I posted last time
 RB> using LISTMOD should generate the same thing.  At least, it seems to
 RB> work here, and saves you downloading LMOD (though in the long term I
 RB> recommend you upgrade from LISTMOD to LMOD; it's more powerful)

 RB> Come to think of it, I could have avoided the "fgrep" bit by using
 RB> something like

 RB> "logecho $D $N" | getline date

 RB> in the AWK script, but I didn't think of that at the time.  Probably I
 RB>  didn't know about "getline" back then.

This keeps getting better every time a new message comes my way.  

           Thanks ... Gerald

... The smallest good deed is better than the grandest intention.

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