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- Date: 05-25-89 (00:44) Number: 529
- To: SYSOP Refer#: 526
- From: BOB STEPHAN Read: NO
- Subj: GET Status: PUBLIC MESSAGE
-
- I took a look at GETHELP and it looks fine to me. I have no objections
- to including it as you suggest. Here are a few more comments that you
- might consider.
- 1. It is possible to COPY c.c+c.c e.e. (Saves one
- step).
- 2. The Norton Editor is one that allows almost unlimited line
- length without CR's.
- 3. At the end of the BATch file, include SET GET=
- to clear it out of the environment.
- 4. You might note that on the attempts that did not work, the
- errorlevel is 0 indicating a problem. I decided not to add more
- messages to GET. I didn't think there would be much point in moving
- lines short enough to fit on the screen anyway, but I suppose it would
- be an attention getter. Repeating the first 79 chars pretty well takes
- care of that anyway. If I do another version, I may include automatic
- copying of the first 79 chars to the end rather than requiring them in
- the file. The EXE file is 1 byte short of 4K. 2 more bytes and it
- would take up another cluster on a disk, and I was interested in
- keeping it as small as possible for now.
-
- That's about it. Quite clever of you to work it that way. And since it
- worked for you, it could very well be helpful for others. By all means
- stick it in if you want to...