Subj : File, file; who's got the file
To   : MARK LEWIS
From : FOXY FERGUSON
Date : Tue Aug 28 2001 11:51 pm

ML> hehe, this is how i found that the ZEC was hatching files
ML> into "the wrong" area... she broke my automation, too <<GG>>

'S ok, Mark. Souvestre and Co broke mine on a regular basis, back
when John kept making unannounced changes to the BACKSTAT file.
(Altho I don't recall grumblin' 'bout it to anyone by m'self.)

I finally gave up on the automated extract of info from the BACKSTAT
files, commented the programs out of that batch file, and didn't
post any results until I'd personally verified that it was all
copacetic. That's why STATS, NEC18, SYSOP18, and other relevent
echoes quit getting all those NAB/WWB/Z1B info and/or comparison
posts. I got tired of having to tweak the program just because
somebody added a blank line, changed the lines of "***" to "===",
rearranged the order of the items, or did something else similar.

And now, just when I'd finally gotten the last bug outta my newest
project, the Z1B has done it to me again with their BACKBONE.Z1B,
which no longer matches BACKBONE.NA and BACKBONE.WWB. <sigh> Ah,
well, so much for that idea....

By the bye, since Steve Byers also hatched the ROUTELST.xxx into
the BACKBONE file area, d'ya mind telling me how I 'broke' your
automation such that you felt the need to query the relevance of
the file to that FDN?

Inquirin' minds, y'know?




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