Hi Uli!

>>>> 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.

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

>> Even though you tell me there are age limits in the Linux version, I
>> have yet to see that, and I have seen RCs here who do not submit
>> 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.*

Ah.. makes sense, Uli.  Thank you for your note.

> 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

Ok, I can see that now.

> 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


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

>and yes, once a segement is found in the search routine that matches the stric
> 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


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

Thanks again, Uli :)

Take care,
Janis

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