Hello Raymond,
 \|/  Subject:  Nodelist...
 /|\  On Tuesday April 21 1998 at 15:07, 
      you wrote to Gerald Miller saying:
 RB>>> The BTM file I posted does not take care of when the file is
 RB>>> received but rather when the file is supposed to be officially
 GM>> It's no wonder that banging my head on the keyboard didn't help
 GM>> me to get this "puppy" to work on the incoming files...  ;-))
 RB> What extension does the incoming (nodelist/nodediff) file has?
They appear to numbers...  as in the last one I received had an extension of 
".100".  I think I tried using the extensions to determine the relative age 
of the files, but I trashed that idea because I think the @ext was being 
interpreted as a string rather than a series of digits...
 GM>> The hunt continues...
 RB> Too bad!
 RB> I use that subroutine to determine the Julian day number of the
 RB> closest Friday (when the FidoNet nodediff is released) and get the
 RB> rest of the BTM file to operate accordingly...
Peter Holm has suggested that I investigate "@FILEAGE[filename[,acw]]:", 
which I plan to experiment with over the weekend...
              G'Day ... Gerald
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