Subj : Daynbr
To   : Mark Lewis
From : Paul Quinn
Date : Wed Aug 29 2012 03:49 pm

Hi! mark,

On Tue, 28 Aug 12, you wrote to me:

PQ>> It's a technical solution found long ago in BATPOWER. I use it here.

ml> yeah, that's similar to the one i posted where the ficticious whatdoy
ml> tool emits the doy number which is redirected to stdout and then
ml> saved to a bat to be called next...

Pretty much, yeah.  I like to use the real thing rather firing blanks.  :)

PQ>> However, the environmental constraints that Dallas is hinting at
PQ>> has me confused.

ml> seems that he doesn't or can't run a VM and the old 16bit apps are
ml> [censored] in this supposedly better world of 64bit schtuff :?

Yeah, I'd forgotten about the latest advances in my original reply.  They've
gone out of their way to forget their roots.  (Psst.  I'm writing this from my
wife's Ubuntu host, upstairs, in a RDP session to my Win98Se VM on my Ubuntu
host downstairs. :)

Cheers,
Paul.

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