Lawrence Lucier wrote in a message to Roy J. Tellason:
 LL> Roy J. Tellason @ 1:270/615 wrote on 01-10-98 16:49 about
 LL> *OS/2 .cmd files* 
 RJT> A different user editor,  I guess.  I just use the one that's built-in, 
 LL> does this one work okay with
 RJT> max 3.01?
 LL> Roy I know you're not fond of GUI but you might want to check 
 LL> out SqEd/32.......squish based, REXX compatible and a great all 
 LL> round off-line reader.  Try it.......ya never know you just may 
 LL> like a gooey proggie after all! 
Is that an offline reader in the sense of doing QWK,  or an editor that deals 
with existing message bases?  If it's the latter,  I might be interested in 
taking a look at it.  In either case,  it'd make a welcome addition to the 
files section here...

 AH>> out squash -fd:\max\echotoss.log REM sqlinkp -fd:\max\echotoss.log
 RJT> Why the REM here?
 LL> Looks like a missing LF/CR.......
Yep,  there shoulda been one right before that REM.
 LL> if the cmd file was run with this actually setup this way, 
 LL> cmd.exe would generate an error message on the second line (the 
 LL> "-fd:\max\echotoss.log" part).
It looks to me like the cmd file was originally set up to do the link step 
and that it was then disabled by the REM.  Linking *does* take a significant 
amount of time here...
 LL> BTW, good to see your interest in maybe switching to OS/2 is 
 LL> still there! 
Sure.  I'm making progress,  which got stopped rather abruptly last night 
when I realized that I didn't have a spare power connector to hook up to that 
SCSI drive -- and I've already got two y-adapters in this machine!  Seems 
rather silly for a full-sized tower case to skimp on things like that...
 LL> I did send off a reply to you concerning your enquiry in the 
 LL> OS/2 echo about making the switch but maybe you didn't receive 
 LL> it (??).......mail runs have been kinda flakey at this end for 
 LL> the last little while so maybe it ended up in the bit bucket 
 LL> somewhere along the line.
Maybe.
 LL> So how are you feeling about making the transistion.........are 
 LL> your questions being answered?  I hope so..........:-) 
So far,  so good.  Right now I'm still trying to figure out how I'm gonna 
partition things and collecting OS/2-specific versions of software that I 
haven't managed to get a hold of yet,  but the network card got installed 
last night,  and once I can find a power connection for that drive I'll 
probably get a little further along with this...   
email: roy.j.tellason%tanstaaf@frackit.com 
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