Subj : File, file; who's got the file To : FOXY FERGUSON From : mark lewis Date : Sun Sep 02 2001 10:24 am ML>> hehe, this is how i found that the ZEC was hatching files ML>> into "the wrong" area... she broke my automation, too <> FF> 'S ok, Mark. Souvestre and Co broke mine on a regular FF> basis, back when John kept making unannounced changes FF> to the BACKSTAT file. (Altho I don't recall grumblin' FF> 'bout it to anyone by m'self.) i've never had any reason to process any of those files... i only let my tossers have access to them for area confirmation to ensure that requested areas are available or not and which system to send the automated areafix message to when a downlink makes the request... FF> I finally gave up on the automated extract of info FF> from the BACKSTAT files, commented the programs out FF> of that batch file, and didn't post any results until FF> I'd personally verified that it was all copacetic. FF> That's why STATS, NEC18, SYSOP18, and other relevent FF> echoes quit getting all those NAB/WWB/Z1B info and/or FF> comparison posts. I got tired of having to tweak the FF> program just because somebody added a blank line, FF> changed the lines of "***" to "===", rearranged the FF> order of the items, or did something else similar. oh... i had wondered where those had gone... i see that the WWB also does something similar... at least there is a guy on the WWB that is posting several reports and such... FF> And now, just when I'd finally gotten the last bug FF> outta my newest project, the Z1B has done it to me FF> again with their BACKBONE.Z1B, which no longer FF> matches BACKBONE.NA and BACKBONE.WWB. Ah, FF> well, so much for that idea.... oh, ain't that just great... i wonder if it's broken in the tossers that use it as i described above?? FF> By the bye, since Steve Byers also hatched the FF> ROUTELST.xxx into the BACKBONE file area, d'ya FF> mind telling me how I 'broke' your automation such FF> that you felt the need to query the relevance of FF> the file to that FDN? ouch you are correct... i wasn't targeting you... my apologies, please... i tried to use ZEC in the discussions but may have err'd by using "she" instead of a more neutral word... it just so happened that you were holding that position at the time i discovered it... )\/(ark * Origin: (1:3634/12) .