Hi Paul,

On Tue 2036-Dec-16 12:03, Paul Quinn (3:640/384) wrote to Richard Webb:

PQ> Killing off old files is relatively easy.  I do something similar in
PQ> my toss batch for the Fidonews file echo:

Yep, too many solutions available here .  I was thinking
something with nset as part of the solution.

so, here's the way it works.

I receive email as netmail with position and other info for
one of the cruisers that uses our ham radio network.  HEader and other
unnecessary information sent to bit bucket, data
placed in current.txt in a special directory.

Next event that processes, current.txt is renamed to
numerics for month day hour and minute.  I.e. 12151627.txt
and then your solution works.

We're nuking the entry on line 5 of our dir output, as you
are.

Just about a drop-in solution!!!  thanks!!!
still, if you think of anything I'm missing in this process, bounce it off me.

BOy m$ sure shot themselves in the foot with later
iterations of windows by not allowing the use of environment variables.  I
couldn't live without them.

Regards,
           Richard
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