Hello Gerald!
Quoting Gerald's message:
 RB>> What extension does the incoming (nodelist/nodediff) file has?
 GM> They appear to numbers...  as in the last one I received had an 
xtension
 GM> of ".100".
An exension of 100 would have been correct - it would have indicated Friday 
April 10th 1998 as being Julian day number 100.
Here are some examples of the Julian day number for a few Fridays:
    Friday  03 April = 093
    Friday  10 April = 100
    Friday  17 April = 107
    Friday  24 April = 114
    Friday  01 May   = 121
    Friday  08 May   = 128
    Friday  15 May   = 135
So, if you ran the little program I posted, as of today (April 24th) it would 
be looking for Julian day number 114 or a file with extension 114 or for 
FidoNet NODEDIFF.A14 update.
 GM> I think I tried using the extensions to determine the relative age of
 GM> the files, but I trashed that idea because I think the @ext was being
 GM> interpreted as a string rather than a series of digits...
That is probably normal; you then need to use the @int to get the numeric 
part of it.
Sincerely, Raymond Beriau.
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