Subj : Bug report
To   : Michiel van der Vlist
From : Roy Witt
Date : Thu Mar 22 2012 05:11 am


21 Mar 12 10:35, Michiel van der Vlist wrote to Roy Witt:

 MvdV>>> My main Fido system hads been running the latest official
 MvdV>>> release which is 2.29. That version is over a decade old.

 RW>> Yes, and that was the version that crashed here.

 MvdV> I have a beta running on my point system. Haven't  seen that one
 MvdV> crash, but then again it is not used for incoming calls.

2.31? I'm still using 2.29...

 MvdV>>> It still occasionally crashes on this side. I use the following

 MvdV>>> :loop
 MvdV>>> del \sema\*.0
 MvdV>>> rexw -daemon
 MvdV>>> choice /C:yn /T:n,5 Quit Rex
 MvdV>>> if errorlevel 2 goto loop

 RW>> That's probably a nice workaround for you. However, 'Choice' isn't
 RW>> recognized by W2k as an internal or external command or operable
 RW>> program.

 MvdV> Same for XT, so I will have to find an alternative if end when I
 MvdV> make the plunge..

Well, I did find choice.com in the MSDOS7 folder, so I played with it for
a while, entering the full path to choice. And it works.

@ECHO OFF
rem --- CHOICE.BAT
rem 3-20-2012

:LOOP
ECHO DO YOU WANNA DANCE?
c:\msdos7\choice.com /C:yn /Tn,05    My, my you're cute
@echo off
if errorlevel 2 goto LOOP

Echo Whisper in my ear, Darling.
echo-off
echo Thank you for the dance
goto END


:END
exit

 MvdV>>> I have also created a work around for that, but it is less of
 MvdV>>> an annoyance, as I do not enter new nodes in the node manager

 MvdV>                                      ^^many^

 MvdV>>> any more. Actually, removing a node that left FidoNet happens
 MvdV>>> more often...

 RW>> Starting with the August event of 2011, I began to add new nodes to
 RW>> Rex node-manager as they came online here. I'm also attempting to
 RW>> get Fidonet back to San Antonio and have added a new node to net387
 RW>> just a few weeks ago. There's an older node in San Marcos, just 14
 RW>> miles up the road from here that is listed in the Austin network,
 RW>> but he lives closer to me.

 MvdV> Good.

 MvdV>>> With the next major system upgrade I will switch to binkd I
 MvdV>>> think.

 RW>> The same here...maybe D'B if it can quote properly by the time I get
 RW>> to use it.

 MvdV> D'Bridge seems to be doing fine these days, but I am not found of
 MvdV> these "all in one" solutions.

Other than it has the quoting problem discussed elsewhere and it may or
may not run in a Windows Tray rather than the Desktop, I might be able to
overlook that quoting issue.


                R\%/itt


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