The biggest problem I'm having (and not that big a problem anyway)is
automatically merging the new Fido nodelist when it comes in. I have to do it
manually every week, and then I'll try a small mod on my batch file and wait
till the next week, but nothing happens.

The nodelist comes into c:\fido\in0. MERGENL.COM is in c:\fido. I've tried
everything I can think of to make the thing take NODEDIFF.Z* and unarchive it
to the c:\fido directory, then run mergenl.com to merge the two.

Any ideas? The batch file works for everything else (copy filegate.zxx and
backbone.na from the c:\fido\in0 directory to c:\fido).

Here's my batch file:

REM TIC.BAT

@echo off
c:
cd c:\fido\in0

if exist c:\fido\in0\*.sec del c:\fido\in0\*.sec

cd \va

vfido 0 /R >nul.
REM Pull in data received by remote

cd \fido\out\000000
if exist *.pkt del *.pkt
cd \va

vfido 0 /U >nul.
REM Update and packup any outgoing mail

cd c:\fido\in0

REM Check for FIDONET nodediff/nodelist
:FIDO
pkunzip c:\fido\in0\nodediff.z* -o c:\fido >nul.
cd \fido
mergenl >nul.
cd \VA
VFIDO /ND /NC /NL NETWORKID=4 >nul.
del c:\fido\nodediff.*

REM UPDATE IBBS FILES
:IBBS
cd \fido\in0
del c:\va\ibbs?.zip >nul.
copy c:\fido\in0\IBBS*.* C:\VA
CD \VA
IBBSUPD.BAT

REM FILEGATE
:FILEGATE
cd \fido\in0
copy c:\fido\in0\filegate.zxx c:\fido >nul.

:BACKBONE
copy c:\fido\in0\backbone.na c:\fido

:NEXT
cd \va
vtic /path=c:\fido\in0 /checkcrc=no /save=c:\fido\savedtics >nul.

cd \va
vpost /DB=NEWFILES /FILE=c:\va\vticrecv.log /ALTHANDLE=VPost /SUBJECT=New files
arrived $date at $time >nul.

cd \va
REM vtic /u
REM if exist vticrecv.log del vticrecv.log

:EXIT
cd \va