Subj : oxp: nodediff fails :(
To   : Martin Foster
From : August Abolins
Date : Fri Feb 14 2020 20:59:55

Hello Martin!

On 14/02/2020 7:04 a.m., Martin Foster : August Abolins wrote:

 AA>>I hate to be the bearer of bad news,.. but right after
 AA>>NODEDIFF.Z45 arrived, it locked up, again!

 MF>FFS :-(((((((((((( Sorry, just had to say that.

    ^^^
Another new brit term for me.  We use WTF here.   ;)


 MF>In all my years(26 of them) of using OpenXP, FreeXP, XP2 and
 MF>CrossPoint, I've never ever come across anything quite like this
 MF>before - Hmph!

Yes.. I seem to have this effect on people and things.


  AA> SEE?   So.. the .TIC file in /FILES *could* be a problem.
  AA> Maybe the system is trying to create "Area NODEDIFZ" and is failing?
  AA> Bug?

 MF>All I can suggest you do is to disable it and see what happens
 MF>next Friday. I have it disabled, so I'll enable it and see what
 MF>happens here next Friday.

Another week of s u s p e n c e !

BTW.. The pointdiff arrived a littler later, and processed fine (as it
always has), but this time I forgot to keep the .TIC processing enabled.

I am pretty sure that I have *always* had the tic proccessing enabled,
but the lockups were only happening with the main nodelist.



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