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In article <32089c9e.20872715@news.demon.co.uk>
           robm@demon.net "Robert Mortimer" wrote:

>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 */

Ah, bad habits <g>.  Yes, I have a few of those myself <g>...

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

I don't think it's limited to any one profession <g>.  It's a useful
human trait - why do a thing more than once if you can make a machine
(or macro or program) to do it for you?  Why redesign the wheel when it
goes quite nicely in that round shape?  (Well, at least one SF story has
been written about why one might want to do that very thing, I believe
it may have been by Poul Anderson, but in general...)

>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.

Is this the one you recently uploaded to ftp.demon.co.uk under the name
of "export.zip"?  If so, is that one that you've got to work with Demon
or the original?

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

Sounds better all the time.

>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.

The script is objecting to it?  Weird - or does it object to all of the
ones with '&' in them?

>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.

Sure.  That's what all that user web space is for, right <g>?  Well,
that's what I'm going to be using a lot of mine for, anyway.

Oh, another suggestion for additions to KA9Q - how about an HTTP
interface?  Nothing like a full browser, basically all I want it to do
is take the URL and download what's at the other end so I can look at it
offline.  At the moment I have to fire up a special SLIP session to run
Minuet, which is slow and likely to crash a KA9Q session (I often forget
that I'm already connected in another window - DesqView window, not
Windows - and try to use a different comms program).

On a similar subject, does anyone have any freely distributable code (in
C / C++) for HTTP?  The RFC on it isn't the clearest I've seen...

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