01-16-05  23:16, Dan Ceppa told James Bradley about Saving .rep w/o closing?

 Well, how do, Dan?

 JB> So THAT's what it means! I never did understand why such a redundant
 JB> sounding option would occur. SURE I would like to pack up mail when I
 JB> exit... Why *wouldn't* I? 

 DC> If I am reading it right, just going back to the main menu does NOT 
 DC> close the *.REP  But, it does close it on exit out of BW.  

Sorry, I had a tough night in the comprehension-to-typewriter  department.

I think we are on the same page. I found the toggle, and I'm a happy camper.

The last time I RTFM was in about 1990 or so. I had convinced myself that
that was a redundant question, and never payed any more attention to it.
When you said it was possible, I promptly found the option, and scrubbed
the dust off the  key.

 DC> From what I read, part of the reason was in speed of procesing.  
 DC> That rarely is a problem these days.  

To say, the compression was so slow, people would prefer to do it all at
the end of a session? I guess I was one of those stubborn/stupid people who
tried to run my BW and communications sessions under Windows 3. Once it
mostly worked there, I went back to running it all from DOS. Batch files,
and communication-scripts were handy back then. I have been tempted to do
that again, now that I am calling in for mail again.

 DC> And, I don't think that it was taken into account that multiple
 DC> DOS sessions are now possible.  Well, even back then!  I use 
 DC> a program that gives me that now and I even used it in pure DOS.  

Like I say, I *did* have it running under W'3. If I had anything else
running that consumed much horsepower, it mostly didn't work. True the BW
versions before 2.2 would multitask under Quarterdeck's (forget the name)
multitasking system, but I think that was all there was at that time.
DR-DOS had a GUI that was real slick, but it wouldn't run DOS programs.

 DC> ... Any smart houseworker knows --  "Don't do Windows"

Don't get me wrong, Windows allowed me to learn a lot about this disease.
Now, I feel the need to exercise (Or should that be exorcize?) the brain
again, and Windows seemed to have dummied-up. I thought I would never miss
setting a port speed by editing a text file, but now I'm yearning for that
level of control again. Guess I'm a sucker for punishment, or a power
monger.



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