Subj : Re: processing..
To   : August Abolins
From : Nick Andre
Date : Thu Jan 30 2020 21:14:01

On 30 Jan 20  19:56:00, August Abolins said the following to Nick Andre:

AA> MAKENL for DOS is this the only reliable option?  I thought it could be  
AA> built/compiled for the other OSes.

It can, but the way it runs and returns the first-matching segment operates
differently than it does on Linux. Thats not the fault of MakeNL but really 
the difference between DOS and Linux when it comes to how files are treated.

Its not the only problem... Linux is just not designed to run Fido stuff. The 
software available is just hokey-pokey in my opinion, needs all kinds of work 
to get going and scripting together. On MS-DOS you have far more options.

So on a Linux system, you need to have all kinds of scripting and trickery to
run ZC1. On MS-DOS you really do not. I have two batch files that run
everything and call "standard" DOS Fido software such as Allfix, Gus and some
others. DOS is by far the easiest platform to write Fido stuff for.

One way to look at it is, do I want to babysit Fido ZC1 stuff? Or do I really 
want it to "just work" and be completely hands-off, automated. Where I can go 
away for a weekend and not worry a nodelist will not compile properly.

The other way to look at it, is if I get hit by a bus tomorrow, and my 
daughter has to salvage the remains of my Fido system - It can all be easily 
zipped up and emailed to whomever and at least be understood because MS-DOS is
the bare-minimum of technical competence.

Two batch files run all of ZC1 here.

Nick

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