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echo: locsysop
to: Bill Grimsley
from: Frank Malcolm
date: 1996-05-15 07:36:06
subject: Abortions

Hi, Bill.

BG> BG> If your setup is not configured to delete the outbound packet upon
BG> BG> _apparently_ successful uploads, just send it again.  If they're dupes,
BG> BG> Paul's system should detect and delete them automatically anyway.

BG> FM> That's how I'm set up. The Telix script deletes an apparently
BG> FM> successfully uploaded packet and .REQ, the batch file detects
BG> FM> if the packet is still on disk and reports failure (in case I
BG> FM> am not watching) and on a subsequent run sends it again.

BG> Sounds like a reasonably fail-safe method to me.

Yeah. The idea is basically what Brenton created for TinyPoint, although
the batch file is totally my own creation.

BG> FM> I *think* that's what happened on these occasions.

BG> It seems to have done.  Nothing was obviously missing at this end.

But your upload worked. Mine didn't.

Regards, fIM.

 * * Bugs? I just program in undocumented features.
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