Frank, at 08:09 on May 12 1996, you wrote to Bill Grimsley...

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

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

Sounds like a reasonably fail-safe method to me.

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

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

Regards, Bill

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