-=> Quoting James Bradley to Nancy Backus on 04-02-05  23:44 <=-

 NB> Oh, I trusted not...  but at the moment, he's having to do all the
 NB> running I can't* do, with my broken ankle... also the cooking,
 NB> shopping, laundry, etc...   :)

 JB> So I've heard. Things are getting better?

Yes, but slowly...  :)   I just had surgery yesterday to take the pin
out that was holding bones immobile do that ligaments would heal.  Now,
finally (!), I can put some weight on that foot.  New phase, but still
can't do much... lots more healing and therapy in the works...  :)

 JB> In the meantime, the HD started frapping out. So I guess the problem
 JB> *did* fix itself. 

As in, "fixed, but good"?  ;/   Hope you get that* fixed soon, too...

 JB> Thank the hubby for me. (And thanks for the loaner! ;-) I knew about
 JB> the 'chmod' stuff, but 'umask' is a new one. Remember your first day on
 JB> DOS?  

Glad to be of service.  :)   I don't really remember the first day
precisely... but then, I'm constantly having to ask for the magic spells
as I go along...  Anything I haven't used recently, or written down for
future reference, sends me back to the wizard for refreshing the memory.
And it has* been quite a few years...   :)

 JB> I was more interested in imbedding the command into a script
 JB> (DOS=batch). You know, 'Dial board-get mail-change permissions-open
 JB> OLMR-...' Now that the HD is toast though, experimenting will have to
 JB> wait. 

I hear you.  :(   I'd imagine you could put it into a script... wasn't
that part of what the wizard had suggested?  Just at a more basic level
of the computer?  When you are back to experimenting, feel free to
ask... and I can pass it back to the wizard..  :)

 NB> I really am* only a sorcerer's apprentice, who can spout

 JB> But Miss Nancy... (Wish I had more Forest Gump quotes. Oh... Now we
 JB> are onto Harry Potter? |-)

Nope, not Harry Potter... not even Disney... try Dukas ("doo-kah'")  :)
Classical composer, wrote a tone-poem (based on a story), which got used
in Disney's Fantasia...

 JB> But wait... What am I supposed to do with all these friggin'
 JB> brooms?!?! 

Sure hope they've stopped carrying water...     Have they stopped
moving?   Maybe you could sell them to get your replacement HD?  

ttyl           neb

... When in doubt...No, don't do that either.

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