Subj : testime.btm
To   : Gerald Miller
From : Jasen Betts
Date : Tue Aug 13 2002 06:22 pm

Hi Gerald.

11-Aug-02 08:56:33, Gerald Miller wrote to Renato Zambon

 GM> I think it would take some fancy coding to prevent the correction
 GM> being applied multiple times....  One possible solution *might* be
 GM> to create a zero-byte "flag" file when the correction is applied
 GM> (near the end of the batch file) and insert some code at the
 GM> beginning to test for the existence of the flag file and to check
 GM> the date / time stamp of that file.  At this moment, I haven't
 GM> given it much thought and am unsure about how I would proceed with
 GM> such a "safeguard"....  ;-]

Possubly you could clear the log file's "A" attribute, (writing to the logi
file automatically sets the A attribute),

Or as you say make a zero byte file with the remote system'e timestamp so
if the timestamp matches the remote time you'll know you've already done
the update it...

 -=> Bye <=-

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