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

  It doesn't sound like it, really...

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

  Good.  (No more SORT!  Yay!)

> 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).

  Capturing the output is a little flaky.  (If the archiver ever changes it's
output format in a newer version, VFIDO won't work correctly).  The other
methods you've described are certainly the way it should be done however...

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

  Glad to hear it.  I was just irritated by the fact that ANY version of the
program relied on the Bad Command or File Name message... Ahh well.  There
really is no "RIGHT" way to progam now, is there?

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