Re: Re: [VirtualNET open?]...

>   Ideally Neil, your program should almost NEVER use a SHELL command for
> anything.  With the exception of calling VFITO/VFICO,etc from your program,
> or calling the archivers and protocols, everything else should be internal to
> the program.  If you ask most programmers, they will all agree that your
> program should do as much as possible internally, and not rely on the
> operating system for anything.
>   In any case, a function to search the path for a file is not difficult to
> code.  Would you like one?

What you describe above is exactly the way the program is, now the Sort
routines are internal!

The only Shell commands I need to do are to run Archivers, Unarchivers and
Protocols.

Furthermore, I don't even need to detect Bad Command or File Name these days
(as I used to in the SORT days) since other methods are used to detect if an
Archiver has worked or failed (by detecting if the .PKT has been deleted by
the Archiver's Move command), or if an Unarchiver has worked (by capturing
the output to a file and checking for .PKT names), or if a Protocol has
worked (by examining the DSZ log file).

So, I'm not inconvenienced by the failure to replicate Bad Command or File
Name, I'm just irritated by it.

Neil J Marshall.

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