Hello Ted,
 \|/  Subject:  Question #2!
 /|\  On Thursday April 16 1998 at 20:45, 
      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).
 GM>> Have you got a solution?
 TM> Although the story seems to be a bit vague, where details are
 TM> concerned, I think I might be able to help.
 TM> First, I expect your boss not to send you an update that's older than
(He tried that, once.  I jumped all over him after I opened the file and read 
that it was for "day xxx" instead of "day yyy" [he just changed the date of 
the file - young, inexperienced sysop -- figured to fool around by changing 
the date of an older copy and tried passing it off for a new version because 
the correct one has not come down the line...]!)
 TM> the last one you've already recieved earlier. If this is true, things
 TM> become VERY simple. Second, I assume the file to be named
 TM> NODELIST.???. Any other name may be used, of course, but the *only*
 TM> thing that will change every time, is the extension. The *name* will
 TM> always be the same (if this happens for only ONE zone or net,
 TM> of course).
 TM> If this all is true, the following would work:
 TM> iff exist INBOUND\nodelist.* then
 TM>   move NODELIST\nodelist.* OLDNODE
 TM>   move INBOUND\nodelist.* NODELIST
 TM> endiff
This is VERY similar to what I currently have:
move /q E:\Fd\Nodelist\nodelist.* E:\Fd\Oldnode\
copy /q E:\Fd\Incoming\Pending\nodelist.* E:\Fd\Oldnode\
move /q E:\Fd\Incoming\Pending\nodelist.* E:\Fd\Nodelist\
set flag=newlist
(The "flag" just tells the batch file to do a FORCE compile of all the 
nodelists...)
 TM> Of course, you'll have to adjust path- and filenames, for this to
 TM> work. If it *doesn't* work for you at all, please tell me, and we'll
 TM> discuss plan B, and even plan C, if it comes to that ;-))))
What I had in mind, was a method of comparing the dates of 
E:\Fd\Nodelist\nodelist.* and E:\Fd\Incoming\Pending\nodelist.*, and then 
perfoming the move/copy...
I'm thinking that something along the lines --
    IFF %@ext[E:\Fd\Incoming\Pending\nodelist.*] GT ...
        ...%@ext[E:\Fd\Nodelist\nodelist.*] then
      move /q ...
      ...
    ENDIFF
but I think that @ext is interpreted as a "string" rather than "numeric".
    IFF %@filedate[E:\Fd\Incoming\Pending\nodelist.*] GT ...
        ...%@filedate[E:\Fd\Nodelist\nodelist.*] then
      move /q ...
      ...
    ENDIFF
may have a better chance of working...  Maybe @filedate should be converted 
to a three digit number with no separator characters?
              G'Day ... Gerald
... If at first you don't succeed, have Ted Menks do it for you!
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