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 Message 393 
 mark lewis to Björn Felten 
 RFC seriously 
 29 Nov 14 02:11:43 
 
On Sat, 29 Nov 2014, Björn Felten wrote to Paul Quinn:

 BF>    Indeed. But on the other hand, us batch file phantoms can
 BF> probably do with just one semaphore file exit, can't we? With an
 BF> 'EXEC_NOW.OK' flag file that causes Argus to execute 'EXEC_NOW.BAT'
 BF> (as I've made it now) wouldn't that actually be enough?

but the mailer is not exiting, is it?? the capability is easily handled by the
even scheduler as paul showed previously... or am i missing something besides
a decent beverage again??

 PQ> Argus by another name, by your hand, could a Good Thing. 8-)

 BF>    Thanks. I'll at least make sure it'll be 100% backwards
 BF> compatible -- Mark convinced me of that.

thank you :)

 PQ> P.S. When the time of general introduction of IPv6 comes, I will be
 PQ> switching to Linux.

 BF>    Negatory! You'll hang on to the good old Argus family, by then
 BF> IPv6 aware, you hear!

it won't help when everything else is *nix... porting it will be a Major PITA
[/me salutes Major PITA] but it will open more doors for others... just gotta
get it away from delphi shite... huge lack of foreskin^H^H^Hight there on
their part... one of the main reasons why i've specifically stayed away from
their offerings...

)\/(ark

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