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 Message 2460 
 Martin Foster to August Abolins 
 nodelist curveball 
 04 Apr 21 11:33:00 
 
MSGID: 2:310/31.3@fidonet ef1a3536
REPLY: 2:221/1.58@fidonet ef08d393
PID: OpenXP/5.0.49 (Win32) (i386)
CHRS: ASCII 1
TZUTC: 0100
Hello August!

*** Friday 02.04.21 at 18:18, August Abolins wrote to All:

 AA> Micronet decided to throw in a curveball.

 AA> For a couple of weeks now, this was working fine:

 AA> Listfile=micronet.###
 AA> UpdateFile=micronet.###
 AA> UpdateArchive=micronet.z##
 AA> DelUpdate=J
 AA> DoDiff=N
 AA> Format=1
 AA> zone=618

 AA> In otherwords, my bossnode was delivering micronet.zip with
 AA> micronet.### inside.

 AA> The last two updates processed automatically quite fine.

 AA> But I *just* received MICRONET.Z92, with micronet.092 inside.

 AA> At first, I thought this would be the solution:

 AA> Listfile=micronet.###
 AA> UpdateFile=micronet.###
 AA> UpdateArchive=MICRONET.Z##
 AA> DelUpdate=J
 AA> DoDiff=N
 AA> Format=1
 AA> zone=618

 AA> But that did NOT work in the automatic mode. :(  Automatic mode
 AA> would normally kick in the NEXT TIME OpenXP is lauched. I was a
 AA> bit surprised by that.   FSXNET.Z## which operates the same way
 AA> has not problem at all upadating automatically.  I wondered..
 AA> WHY doesn't the MICRONET.Z## file cooperating?

 AA> The last FSXNET.Z## contains:

 AA> Archive:  FSXNET.Z92
 AA>   Length     Date   Time    Name
 AA>  --------    ----   ----    ----
 AA>     36459  04/01/21 09:15   FSXNET.092
 AA>  --------                   -------
 AA>     36459                   1 file


 AA> Looking inside MICRONET.Z##:

 AA> Archive:  MICRONET.Z92
 AA> Micronet Information Network nodelist for
 AA> 02 April 2021 (day 92).  A friendly
 AA> and active international BBS mail network.
 AA> Info on how to join is in the nodelist.
 AA>   Length     Date   Time    Name
 AA>  --------    ----   ----    ----
 AA>     26735  04/02/21 13:35   micronet.092
 AA>       165  04/02/21 13:47   file_id.diz
 AA>  --------                   -------
 AA>     26900                   2 files

 AA> SO.. the difference is that the latter has TWO files inside.

 AA> Could it be that the presence of file_id_diz is throwing off the
 AA> automatic processing to work as expected?

Maybe, maybe not but I would say that micronet need to get their act  
together with their filenaming convention for their nodelist files before  
anyone attempts to offer a solution to your problem. As things stand at  
the moment, I couldn't even hazard a guess as to what the problem could  
be, sorry.

Regards,
Martin

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