🚀 go-pugleaf

Previously Chris Croughton <chris@keris.demon.co.uk> said:
>In article <3207360a.14156302@news.demon.co.uk>
>           robm@demon.net "Robert Mortimer" wrote:
[snip]
>>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...

I don't think that this is common usgae so much as me getting confused
by starting on VAX/VMS systems before DOS and then heading into
the world of UNIX comminded with shouting ides to people across
offices and hoping they guess what I mean if I say "pipe it to file"
/*it's fewer letters/sylables than redirect */

>>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

I was always told that it was mathematician that where lazy.

>Lazy To Fail" in "Time Enough For Love" for a description of this
>principle applied to engineers in general).

Hmmm, I've got that one on my shelf somewhere time to hunt it our
perhaps.

>>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.

I think it's time to try again as I want to have a lock at phil karns
new version of ka9q which has soundblaster support, just what this
does or why you'd want it I don't know but it sounds interesting.

>>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

On the plus side of course the JNOS code I've got supports both ems
and xms memory, which should help matters.

>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

Sounds familliar, I've worked on WP macro's like that, some of the
stuff "bespoke software" writers do is scary....

Speaking of alternative versions I found the problem with 
the dialer script I was working on, it seems to be that
it's objecting to the carrier detect /* &C1 */ in my
modem init string, I removed that and it's fine.

Now I've just got to check that all my code is reasonably
commented, check the documentation such as it is, and then
I can use it, and put it to oneside for a bit. Unless anyone
else would like to play with it a bit.
--
RobertM
Demon Internet Ltd
         "Trust the computer, the computer is your fiend"