Steve Hayes wrote in a message to Jack Stein:
 SH> Steve Hayes is replying to Jack Stein, who wrote to All on
 SH> 01 Feb 98  18:15:16: 
 JS> Part  1                               
 JS> The OS/2 REXX BabbloMeter Report                  
 JS> Monthly Babble received in OS2BBS at Jack's Free Lunch BBS    
 SH> Did you write that?
Yes, originally I wrote in with 4DOS and AWK and several unix text processing 
utilities, then expanded it a good bit with REXX.
 SH> Is it available anywhere, 
Not available, it was written specifically for my BBS.
 SH> and what software does it work with? 
As written, it only works with OPUS barefoot, and it's *.msg base.  There 
probably aren't 40 people on earth still using this old bird, and fewer than 
that running barefoot.  It's _one_ of the reasons I haven't (yet) switched to 
an OS/2 based BBS.  
I also try not to post the report in any echo that hasn't asked for it, and 
generally manually remove the report before it gets mailed to this conference 
for that reason.  I must have overlooked it this time somehow, so my 
apologies to the moderator here.  The report is posted semi-automatically so 
I have a chance to prevent it from being auto-posted if I remove it from the 
list each month.
Anyway, to generate this report from a database style message base would 
require a re-write of the REXX script, so the script is useless to most 
sysops, even if I made it public.  It does demonstate the power of REXX 
though, it is not a simple script.
                                              Jack 
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