From: Ted Menks 
Subject: Question #2!
Date: 1998/04/16
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Hi Gerald,

(Sunday April 12 1998 11:57) Gerald Miller to Ted Menks about: Question #2!

 TM>>>>  That certainly beats any batch I could hammer together ;-)))
 GM>>> We don't like to talk about hammers either -- I wouldn't want to
 GM>>> be giving them ideas....  :^}}
 TM>> ByeBye, Trini Lopez, heh? ;-)
 GM> Who?

:) That's exactly what I mean 

 GM> Yup!  I get an new ASCII Nodelist from my boss and I want to move it to my
 GM> \NODELIST directory and at the same time, I want to move the old nodelist
 GM> to my \OLDNODE directory (so there is only one nodelist for that
 GM> particular Net in the directory at one time).

 GM> I had tried using the extension of the file, the date of the file, the
 GM> size of the file and tried a comparison test of the two, with less
 GM> than spectacular results.  I think if I can use the date of the two files
 GM> to do the comparison testing, this may yield more promising results.

 GM> Have you got a solution?

Although the story seems to be a bit vague, where details are concerned, I
think I might be able to help.

First, I expect your boss not to send you an update that's older than the last
one you've already recieved earlier. If this is true, things become VERY simple.
Second, I assume the file to be named NODELIST.???. Any other name may be used,
ofcourse, but the *only* thing wthat will change every time, is the extension.
The *name* will always be the same (if this happens for only ONE zone or net,
ofcourse).

If this all is true, the following would work:

iff exist INBOUND\nodelist.* then
  move NODELIST\nodelist.* OLDNODE
  move INBOUND\nodelist.* NODELIST
endiff

Ofcourse, you'll have to adjust path- and filenames, for this to work.
If it *doesn't* work for you at all, please tell me, and we'll discuss plan B,
and even plan C, if it comes to that ;-))))

Talk to you later,
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