Hi! Richard,

On 16 Dec 08 13:07, you wrote to me:

 RW> DAta in this case is information on vessels offshore.

This is the sort of application I had thought you intended the process to
support, all along.  Some sort of 'status' report.

 RW> The system receives the information, when found the batch
 RW> invoked uses sed to grab all data and none of the header
 RW> stuff to the current file.

Cool.  So, you've got some sort of working gateway software between
emailfidonet (that is, both ways?).  What sort of message area do
have for your netmail area?  (I'm guessing *.msg?)

 RW> NExt scheduled event, new current file, of course.  Purge
 RW> the file with data over 48 hours old.

Uh huh, 4x 12-hour updates triggered by a new incoming 5th 12-hour update email post.

 RW> WHen another user requests this info by email, or I want to
 RW> have a look at it, all files are combined into one text
 RW> file.

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

 RW> Any thought after a bit more description?

Are you kidding!?!  I've spent most of the morning researching it.  :)

Cheers,
Paul.

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