Subj : processing.. ELIST stuff
To   : Nick Andre
From : August Abolins
Date : Fri Jan 31 2020 18:53:56

On 30/01/2020 9:14 p.m., Nick Andre : August Abolins wrote:

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

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

Yes.. even viewing text files generated in a unix environment can
display differently in a DOS environment because of the way end of lines
are designated.  Could that be a problem when passing around the
DOS-created NL segments to unix-based systems?

Dan Cross made a fine point about glob expansions.  DOS/Win and unix
environments just do things differently.

IMHO, and from my programming experience, I have found the unix
environment to be quite more versatile in many ways. Even just switching
to a different shell would yield new (good) wonders.


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

Whether unix or DOS, I see that the ELIST processing ought be
accomplished successfully in either unix or DOS.


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