Hi Janis,

Thursday January 02 2014 03:14, you wrote to Andrew Leary:

 JK> Hello Andrew!
 >>> What has happened is known, it crashes the OS/2 systems of 'top'
 >>> *Cs...

 >> MakeNL never crashed anyone's system, OS/2 or otherwise.  There was
 >> a bug in MakeNL OS/2 versions before 3.4.0 that caused the program
 >> to crash.  This bug has been fixed.

 >> Discussions are underway on dealing with Marc's other issue with
 >> MakeNL; he feels that there should not be an age limit on segments.

 JK> Definitely.. there shouldn't be anything to do with age limits in the
 JK> program..

 JK> Even though you tell me there are age limits in the Linux version, I
 JK> have yet to see that, and I have seen RCs here who do not submit
 JK> updates in well over 6 weeks :)

there are some hidden facts with makenl processing ...

there exist 2 different methods in picking up or calculating segment files.

In the example Ward posted a few mails before, he uses

     region20.*

definition in the control file, so makenl no longer calculates any daynumber
schema and uses any file that matches the filemask region20.*

Otherwise the definition in the makenl.control file has to be
     region20   -or-
     region20.
to use the 7 days daynumbering schema  upcoming friday -> 003,
one week ago -> 361,
2 weeks ago -> 354
and so on

daynumbers out of this sequence will be ignored completely  :-P
so a daynumber 362 will not picked up  (eg while sending an update to
regionxx.361 where the filename regionxx.361 is still in the inbound
and the mailer increments the extension by 1 -> this makes .362


 JK> When I run the nodelist on thursday night, the existing segments (no
 JK> matter what their current extentions, like *361, are "almost" always
 JK> renamed to the julian week number for the Thursday night nodelist like
 JK> *.003.

and yes, once a segement is found in the search routine that matches the
strict numbering schema, the filename extension will be renamed to current
extension and will be updated in each subsequent processing.
So once a segment has been found, its still in the subsequent continous
processings


 JK>   There also some hanger's around which carry previous week's
 JK> julian dates.. If I had my druthers. every segmemt in the master
 JK> directory would get updated to the Julian date of the thursday night
 JK> julian date... I have copies of the original segments I have to check
 JK> the datestamp..

 JK> Take care,
 JK> Janis
 JK>  $ Origin: Prism bbs (1:261/38)

regards, uli   ;-)

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