Subj : oxp: nodediff fails :(
To   : August Abolins
From : Martin Foster
Date : Fri Apr 24 2020 11:49:00

Hello August!

*** Thursday 23.04.20 at 18:37, August Abolins wrote to Martin Foster:

 AA> Regarding our discussion about the NODEDIFZ and Z2PND_D areas...

 MF>> That could be a possibility because OpenXP writes an empty message in
 MF>> the messagebase every time a new file has been processed in a file echo
 MF>> .....

 MF>> ---------- 8< ----------
 MF>> /FIDO/FILES/NODELISZ
 MF>> /FIDO/FILES/Z2PNT_D
 MF>> ---------- 8< ----------

 AA>  ..OK, those are the file areas.  And they contain a convenient way to
 AA> "view" and even E(x)tract the archives.  Very nice!

Yes and a very quick and handy way of reading such things as FidoNews.

 AA>  ..SO, are the corresponding "empty message"s that you mention in one of
 AA> the MPUFFER.nn files?

Yes.

 AA>>> I'll try one more week with the TIC feature disabled. If that goes
 AA>>> smoothly, I will enable it.

 MF>> Looking forward to the next thrilling installment :-)

 AA> :::::::::
 AA> UPDATE ::
 AA> :::::::::

 AA> TIC processing has been enabled for several weeks now. Operations are
 AA> going smoothly.

Excellent!

Regards,
Martin

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