Subj : Lies, damned lies and statistics
To   : Scott Little
From : Kees van Eeten
Date : Fri Jul 27 2018 01:25:03

Hello Scott!

17 Jan 13 06:30, you wrote to me:

 SL>>> The simple solution would be to use scripts to send backwards
 SL>>> compatible versions of each zone segment to Z4C, while everyone
 SL>>> else uses the modern version.

 KE>>  This may take some time, some ZC's use a MS-OS.

 SL> As do I.

 KE>> Scripting there is not as sophisticated,

 SL> Powershell isn't sophisticated?

 I have no idea, never seen it.

 SL> Nevertheless, all major languages can run on Windows, you're not
 SL> limited
 SL> to what comes with it.  My Windows-based BBS uses dozens of Bash and
 SL> Python scripts.

 The last Fido/BBS I ran on a MS-OS was with W95. At the time I used the
 MKS toolkit, I am not shure if Python for Windows was avalable at the
 time. I Think Perl was.

Kees

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