Hello Ted,
 TM>>> What is GREP? What is it part of, and where does one find it?
 BB>> File request fgrep*.* and xgrep*.*
 TM> Where? Your uplink? And what *is* grep? That question still stands...
     Well, you search your bbs file lists or go to a Simtel site, download
     the small things and read the doc's. You won't be sorry to check them
     out. Grep has (always?) been a Unix search tool. If you don't know what
     "regular expressions" are, it's better to read the doc's than for me to
     mess up an explanation of what a versatile search tool can do.
 TM>>> *processing* the data A line may contain more than one
 TM>>> parameter, and some of the parameters may consist of several
 TM>>> "words". Assigning these parameters to a number of variables
 TM>>> correctly is the issue
       What your trying to do is more complicated that my earier impression.
       The grep util's may indeed help. I can provide them. I will now
       put them aside for you to collect ;-)
Regards, Barry 
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