Hi Janis,

Friday January 03 2014 13:44, you wrote to me:

 JK> Hi Uli!
 >>> Hi Ward,
 >>>>> Discussions are underway on dealing with Marc's other issue with
 >>>>> MakeNL; he feels that there should not be an age limit on
 >>>>> segments. The original Ben Baker version of MakeNL would only go
 >>>>> ...

 >> so there are some advantages and disadvantages of each processing
 >> method that makenl offers

 JK> Yes, I can see that.  I'll mention this to Marc Lewis, R19C.  It may
 JK> be his whole problem with makenl not 'seeing' older segments.

 JK> Let's hope :)

on tests with the makenl_ng I had an older copy of my live working directory
for makenl on another disk. After some bugfixings, that tooks a while, I've
copied the new makenl.exe to the test disk and was still wondering, why the
new makenl did not found any of the existing segments  :-P

As Ward mentions about "old" segments ... I've also 2 "older" segment files in
my working directory, so they've been never found, once got aware about the
strict file extension numbering schema ...
later Ward reported, some other issues and I've tried to reproduce
the scenario, but couldn't find the trigger ...
after several mails forth and back, the only difference was the
segments definition schema Ward used and I've used to reproduce the issues.

As the definition with .* changes the file search routine completely, and I've
fixed the definitions in my test environment, I've also could reproduce the
issues Ward reported
All in all, it was still trial and error until we've got it fixed.

section 3.2 Generic File Name and 3.3 Explicit Filename and 6.3.6 CLEanup
in makenl's docu gives some info, but no info how makenl
switches between 2 process modes dependent of the makenl.config definition
and under which circumstances the update of file extensions of segment files
will happen in the working directory  :-P

Probably we should create a FAQ for makenl_ng with all found issues and
their related answers ;)



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

regards, uli   ;-)

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