Subj : Re: Event log for mail ru
To   : Finnigann
From : Digital Man
Date : Mon Aug 29 2005 03:08 pm

  Re: Re: Event log for mail ru
  By: Finnigann to Digital Man on Sun Aug 28 2005 09:25 pm

 >  >  > This indicates no new messages have been posted. If your VERT export
 >  > pointers
 >  >  > are corrupt (as it appears they may be), you can clear them by deletin
 >  >  > renaming) the file data/qnet/vert.ptr.
 >  >  >
 >  >  >  > is there a clue here?
 >  >  >
 >  >  > Export pointers corrupt, maybe.
 >  >  >
 >  >
 >  > OK so I nuke everything and start over... ?
 > 
 >  DM> No, just that one file.
 > 
 > Ummm I'll save this for NEXT time.
 > 
 > 
 > But you do understand it wasn't so much a problem with VERT as it was BNB no
 > sending out what was written.

Yes, I understand that. The vert.ptr file tells *your* BBS which messages are
*new* to vert since the last export. Any messages newer than the message
numbers in the pointer file will be exported. If the pointers are corrupted, no
messages will be exported.

 > I know this mirros yyour tastes in subs, but do we REALLY need so many
 > programming subs?

We did at one time.

                                                  digital man

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