🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <3207360a.14156302@news.demon.co.uk>
           robm@demon.net "Robert Mortimer" wrote:

>I still use dis, but that's mainly because I'm lazy, and can't be
>bothered to write 3 batch files.....actually less than that, as I run
>cppnews I think I need 1 batch file just to automate the login.

Ah, as *I'm* lazy I still use the original Demon batch file, hacked
about to do what I want (and what I've wanted over the last years since
I got a Demon node (goddess, my typing is even worse than it was
yesterday!))...

>A file, sorry got too used to calling any of > <  pipes, sloppy of
>me.

As a Unix, DOS and Windows programmer I've always called the general
term 'redirection' and used 'pipe' for the specific case of joining two
programs (running at the same time under decent OS and sequentially
under DOS etc., but the same paradigm).  I'm interested, where did you
learn to call them all 'pipes'?  If this is a common usage it's best
that I know so I don't get confused in future...

>Hmmm, despite the fact I'm going to start sounding disloyal /* ?? */
>This is possible in jnos using the net.rc file and an add on called
>autoftp, which is in pub/ibmpc/dos/apps/misc due to this question
>being asked previously, personally I'd stick with that rather
>than reinventing the wheel.

Fine by me, whatever will do the job.  I prefer not to reinvent things
if someone's already done the job for me <g>.  As I said, programmers
are lazy, it's a useful attribute (see Robert Heinlein's "The Man Too
Lazy To Fail" in "Time Enough For Love" for a description of this
principle applied to engineers in general).

>Hmmm, I've got bc++ 3.? somewhere might be worth trying that, it might
>also shed some light on my problem with the dial option on my home
>machine.

For me it just locked solid, just after it displayed the initial header
after clearing the screen, and before it got to a "net>" prompt.

>If I can get them working I'll porbably play with those for the
>server box I should be getting together RSN, I'll need as
>much memory as possible to run all the servers I want.

I haven't used interrupts with the DOS extenders.  Something which (I
think) would make that easier and satisfy another of my "wishlist" items
would be if it used the INT 14 interface with the FOSSIL extensions
(then run X00 or similar as the FOSSIL driver, which would also allow it
to run PPP over a telnet connection, since several of the DOS networks
provide an INT14 interface to telnet).

>>>I'm just good at guessing :-)
>><aol> Me too! </aol>
>
>Hmmmm.

With the code I have to work with (I'm a freelance programmer) you
*have* to be good as guessing what the code was supposed to do.  Snews
and KA9Q are some of the best code I've had to work on for several years
- credit goes to Malcolm and the other (Demon employeees and customers,
mainly) maintainers for that.  As for "hack and slash" (sorry, "cut and
paste" <g>) I 'borrow' code from anywhere, file off the serial numbers
and the bits which don't fit and glue it in place.  A lot of it is
technically copyright to me originally, but that just increases the
chance of me being able to remember something about what it did (not to
100%, though) <g>...

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