Mr. Rod Welch
rodwelch@pacbell.net
The Welch Company
440 Davis Court #1602
San Francisco, CA 94111 2496
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Subject:
Archiving Diary Records, and SAA
Processing index records
Dear Rod,
You asked:
.. Maybe there is another way to get the files glued together and
sorted without using DOS at all? ..
This is part of what I meant when I talked about moving incrementally toward
a more Windows-like interface.
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Since much of the work of macro is in processing files and generating other
files, this can be written in any language that is convenient.
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If this indexing problem continue to aggravate me, I will seriously consider
doing it in Perl, which I understand.
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I am not saying that we should abandon the macro language, since we need to
make the bas SDS system work, but we could do parts of the extending of SDS
as modular programs. By continuing the approach you are using of having
small support programs to do things like directories, sorting, zipping, etc.
we could write others as needed.