*** Answering a msg posted in area carbonArea (Private Received Netmail).

Hello Sean Rima!

04 Jun 06 07:43, you wrote to me:

 SR>>> I belong to Adventurenet and the full updates come as
 SR>>> advlist.z** but it contains advnet*.* as the nodelist. How do I
 SR>>> tell nlupdate to accept this, it get:

 SR>>> ---------  Fri 02 Jun 06, nlupdate/w32-mvcdll 1.4.0-sta 09-04-05
 SR>>> 1
 SR>>> 21:33:30  Start C 21:33:30  Trying to update
 SR>>> i:\fido\nodelist\NODELIST.153 C 21:33:30
 SR>>> i:\fido\nodelist\NODELIST.153 younger than 7 days, no update
 SR>>> necessary A 21:33:30  Invalid header in
 SR>>> i:\fido\nodelist\ADVNET.069 A 21:33:30  Invalid header in
 SR>>> i:\fido\nodelist\ADVNET.153 B 21:33:30  No instance of nodelist
 SR>>> advnet found. C 21:33:30  Check fullupdate:
 SR>>> i:\fido\fileecho\adv\list\advlist 6
 SR>>> 21:33:30  Executing 'UNZIP.EXE -o -C -j
 SR>>> i:\fido\fileecho\adv\list\ADVLIST.Z53  -d
 SR>>> C:\DOCUME~1\Sean\LOCALS~1\Temp\nlupdate.tmp\' B 21:33:30
 SR>>> Uncompressed file
 SR>>> 'C:\DOCUME~1\Sean\LOCALS~1\Temp\nlupdate.tmp\ADVLIST.153' does
 SR>>> not exist B 21:33:30  no full update for nodelist advnet found.
 SR>>> 1 21:33:30 End

 GA>> There is no way on doing it as nodelist for Adventurenet is write
 GA>> by a text editor and nto with makenl program, Scott Adams have
 GA>> several time been asked to make normal nodelist for adventure
 GA>> net, but don't do it. The only way to manage it is by seperate
 GA>> command as "unzip advlist.z??
 GA>> i:\fido\nodelist" and then using fastlist to make its own nodex
 GA>> .ndx and sysop.ndx files as fastlist will work with the
 GA>> advnet.day file and delete the old file.

 SR> Think I will just made some batch file to run on the arrival of the
 SR> nodelist and compress it to the nodelist directory

It was that I was doing when I run my system on windows by some like
checking for it was came in.

       Take care
        Gert Andersen

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