Hi! Richard,

On 18 Dec 08 12:58, you wrote to me:

 PQ>> between emailfidonet (that is, both ways?).  What sort of
 PQ>> message area do have for your netmail area?  (I'm guessing *.msg?)

 RW> GOt access to a good gateway.  MEssage area for netmail
 RW> area is squish format, but netmgr searches mails when tossed into the
 RW> area, and exports it to a file.

Nevermind that query.  At the time I was trying to think of a way to
shoehorn Infomail into your config.  But you've sorted that out.

 PQ>> Okay.  This is the tricky bit.  I'd be building the current
 PQ>> 'status' file -and- retaining the 4x 12-hour data files, still,
 PQ>> and dumping the oldest.

 RW> Just what we're doing.  AT this midnight and noon event,
 RW> current.lst is renamed to two digit for month day hour and
 RW> minute.  i.e. 12181305.txt ...
 RW> oldest of five is purged.  NExt data comes in goes to current.lst.

That's the type of thing that PSIS will do for you (offering a filename
based on date/time data).  For example, this is what my FREQ-able files
list generator does in part:

[ ...]
  PSIS /VYYHHNNSS.JJJ
  SET TEXTFILE=%TEMP%\%PSIS%
[ ... ]

This is done to obtain a unique filename for a temporary file (%TEXTFILE%).
 My system allows for a situation where more than one files list generator
could be running, so it's a part of what I came up with to allow multiple
instances to run without interferring with each other.  (Each is triggered
by my toss batch doover.)  It's most unlikely that it would happen but
anything's possible in a multi-tasking environment.

There's a number of different output formats from PSIS; this is just one of
them.  The other one I quoted to you the other day suits what you had in
mind.  If you have another tool/method then just tell me to shut-up about
it.  ;-)

Cheers,
Paul.

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