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A gracious thank you for that extended reply! You may be atypical, but
your descriptions are a wealth of examples. I've been thinking about this
article because I believe that a lot of WB 2.0 users haven't quite
understood what they could do with ARexx. Now that so many people will be
getting it "for free", I'd like to find out how afficiandos are using it.
As for 'zooall', I found another "bug" in it yesterday. If the directory
you're in contains no files but only subdirectories, then it tried to
compress stdin, I think – 'zoo' said it was compressing file '*' and it
paused until I hit CTRL \. Or at least that's what I think it was doing.
I wrote a 'cmpall' the other day, too. I'm thinking of extending it to
recognize the contents of files, so it runs 'diff' on source code, and
'crc' on binaries, and skips '.o' and '.lib' files, etc.
As for AUX BBSes, wasn't there a CLI Zmodem (from Steve Drew?) that could
do binary transfers over a shared serial port? I think I worked with it
once – I wanted to make a system that would let me specify an Amiga
filename on my PC and automatically use a PC CLI Zmodem to send or receive
the file through AUX and these Zmodem tools, but I don't think it ever
worked smoothly.
I'm on the verge of getting a Syquest, a tape drive, or both. I've got too
many floppies. I wish I could hire someone to index them all. Many of
them contain things that only appeared on the networks and never made the
Fish disks. It sounds like you have a lot of DAT and QIC tapes. Can you
exchange files with your Suns this way? I'd really like to get a system
that allows exchange with the PC and Mac, too. I moved a six megabyte
'tar.Z' through Twin Express the other day, it worked quite well.