Hello Raymond,
 \|/  Subject:  Nodelist...
 /|\  On Tuesday April 14 1998 at 14:45, 
      you wrote to Gerald Miller saying:
 GM>> Yup!  I get an new ASCII Nodelist from my boss and I want to move
 GM>> it to my \NODELIST directory and at the same time, I want to move
 GM>> the old nodelist to my \OLDNODE directory (so there is only one
 GM>> nodelist for that particular Net in the directory at one time).
 RB> Is that nodelist produced on the same day (ie: Monday ... Friday) and
 RB> is the extension constant (ie: A##, Z##, etc. the ## representing the
 RB> last two digits of the Julian day number)?
This format would indicate a compressed archive?  I always get an 
UNcompressed ASCII Nodelist file (for this particular network), but I would 
hope they are following the "recognized standard" of the `last two digits' in 
the file extension...
 GM>> I had tried using the extension of the file, the date of the
 GM>> file, the size of the file and tried a comparison test of the
 GM>> two, with less than spectacular results.  I think if I can use
 GM>> the date of the two files to do the comparison testing, this may
 GM>> yield more promising results.
 GM>> Have you got a solution?
 RB> I might have a solution that I have been using for years to process
 RB> the newly arrived FidoNet nodediff and delete the nodediff that is
 RB> older than 21 days.
 RB> Note: This file is based on the Friday - to change the day of the
 RB> week, modify the value of the D_DAY variable according to the
 RB> information.
I got your post today and I wrote it to a file.  The new Nodelist may come 
down the line tomorrow or the next or the next (there doesn't seem to be any 
consistency for a delivery date...) and hopefully I will have enough time to 
implement the code.
Thank you for the post and I will inform you at a later date if I was 
successful in dealing with the problem...
              G'Day ... Gerald
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