Subj : Hello FTN world from
To   : August Abolins
From : Charles Pierson
Date : Sun Nov 01 2020 12:54:26

Hello, August Abolins.
On 11/1/20 9:19 PM you wrote:

 CP>> You can do perl in DOS.  I think there might be a couple of 
 CP>> restritions there, but it's do able.

 AA> Thanks for that. I just learned something!  :)  i really enjoyed 
 AA> using the unix-for-dos utils (a library of *nix equivalent 
 AA> executables for the DOS command line) .. in the 90's. Depending on 
 AA> the functions that the tg2fido perl uses: --[begin citation]-- 
 AA> Perl under DOS lacks some features of perl under UNIX because of 
 AA> deficiencies in the UNIX-emulation, most notably: [o]    fork() 
 AA> and pipe() [o]    some features of the UNIX filesystem regarding 
 AA> link count and file dates [o]    in-place operation is a little 
 AA> bit broken with short filenames sockets --[end citation]-- ..it 
 AA> may or may not be possible in DOS.

I did say that I thought there were some restrictions.
I'm thinking even if the particular functions that aren't available are used in Stas's bot, there could be a work around for them.
 

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