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echo: locsysop
to: Paul Edwards
from: Frank Malcolm
date: 1995-02-13 06:28:10
subject: zipping

Hi, Paul.

PE>  FM> I requested some interesting files from you, and inadvertently
PE>  FM> duplicated one of the names in the REQ. So I get xxx.ZIP when it gets
PE> to
PE>  FM> the first one in the list, timestamped with its original. Then I get
PE>  FM> xxx.ZI0, timestamped with the current time. Later on it gets to the
PE>  FM> second entry in the list, and I get xxx.ZI1 timestamped original, then
PE>  FM> xxx.ZI2 timestamped current!

PE>  FM> At this point I thought it was in a loop and was going to kill the
PE>  FM> connect if it started on another one, but it didn't.

PE>  FM> I expected to get 1 copy (if it was smart) or 2 (if it wasn't), but
PE> 4???

PE> There are two copies of zip201.zip, in different directories.  You

Ah ha! That's probably why I asked for 2, I was going through FILES
looking for related stuff and didn't realise I'd copied that file name
twice.

PE> get sent both, in case they are different.  I bet the copy I put

As it happens, they were the same.

PE> there was put there before David put his version there.  BFN.  Paul.

Regards, FIM.

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