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In article <kehbxvaa@holly.demon.co.uk>
   mcr@holly.demon.co.uk (Mark Rogers) writes:
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>I haven't got a C++ compiler with extender, 

Borland C++ v4.5 - eighteen quid from Microworld whilst stocks last
(01425 610699).  Though it doesn't "come with" a DOS extender, details
of how to extract and use its undocumented built-in one were posted to
comp.os.msdos.programmer just last week.  I haven't tried it yet but it
sounds like a simple and useful thing.

>I'd still be interested in what people think of indexing batch.txt, 
>though, as I still can't see why I think it might be a bad idea...

I don't think it's a bad idea in itself.  But as the "So you want to
write a newsreader" FAQ says, there are a multiplicity of newsreaders
already - what would you hope to gain by writing one that just did
things a different way ?  Would there be any major advantages from the
change in approach ?

Nick