MMD>  Thats cool. only is there a *.msg renumbering tool such as
 MMD> 170renum.exe? If I had to switch to *.msg bases I would really need
 MMD> such a tool. I don't rember if squish had such an option for *.msg
 MMD> format. 
 
Simply renumbering files under UNIX is a simple matter of  a shell script,
but that would screw up users' high water mark.
 
That said, it is certainly possible *something* exists to handle *.MSG
under Max/Unix (e.g. from the husky project), but I'm not aware of such a
tool. 
 
I would recommend just running squish bases, which don't need to be
renumbered. You can convert an existing *.MSG message base to squish with
the sqconv utility.
 
 MMD>  If thats similar to the the Synchronet Baja or their new
 MMD> Javascript languages, you are right. I don't use them either.
 
I'm not familiar with Synchronet at all, but MEX is basically like a cross
of Pascal and C++, which runs under a Java-style VM (virtual machine).
 
Also, I'm planning on hatching out the first serial comm module sometime in
the next week. No promises, though.
 
Oh! You mentioned that your run BinkleyTerm XE. Do you know how it hands
off the serial port to the application?
 
Wes

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