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From: Gerald Miller 
Date: Tue, 02 Dec 03 23:11:50 +0100
Subject: dayboot1 question
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Hello Mark,

    On Monday December 01 2003 at 16:46,
    Mark Lewis [1:3634/12] wrote to Gerald Miller,
    about:  dayboot1 question

 GM>> I've got the flu and I'm taking a few days off....

 ML> hope you get to feeling better...

Right now, I feel like I've been walked on a herd of elephants.

 GM>> If you don't want to enter 26th.btm into the data file twelve
 GM>> times (much more accurate), then put it in once and call
 GM>> 26th.btm everyday (with the following [_untried_] adjustments);
 GM>> until dayboot can be revised.

 ML> understood... one of my main goals is to get /away from/ using flag
 ML> files and the sundry utils i currently use to determine whether or not
 ML> to run a certain routine on a certain day... the idea is to
 ML> simplify...

 ML> the idea of putting 26th.btm in 12 times is ok until you end up with
 ML> 10 or 15 of them to do like that... for operations on 10 seperate days
 ML> of the month, you end up with 120 entries...

NETMAIL is on the way (within the next day or two)....

           Cheers ... Gerald

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