Date: Tue, 8 Oct 1996 08:46:22 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: "John M. Aldrich" <fighteer AT cs DOT com>
Cc: DJGPP Workers Mailing List <djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com>
Subject: Re: DJVERIFY 0.1a uploaded
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On Mon, 7 Oct 1996, John M. Aldrich wrote:

> > That is true, but I suspect there are people who make high intensity
> > their default, especially those who play with 4DOS/NDOS.
> 
> Then I'll make my messages blinking!  Or force low intensity before
> displaying anything!  I'll show them who's boss.  :)  (j/k - I think
> blinking would be a good alternative)

Not if somebody set their PC to display 16 background colors instead of 8 
and blinking.

Just surround the message with exclams, write it all capital letters and 
move on.

> Excellent idea for the batch file, BTW - I'll implement it forthwith.  I
> did have something like what you suggested, but it required an explicit
> switch (-F) to invoke.  The only problem I can foresee is that the
> program itself uses the first non-switch input as the name of the log
> file to send output to, and the second as the name of the system report
> file.  I'd have to do some serious testing in the batch file for the
> proper extensions, or just assume that if the batch file itself is

Or make the names of output files be switches with values:

	djverify -o report.txt -l log.txt

Then you know that whatever follows -o or -l is a filename, not a 
program.