Hello Raymond,
    On Friday April 24 1998 14:18, Raymond Beriau wrote to Gerald Miller:
 RB>>> What extension does the incoming (nodelist/nodediff) file has?
 GM>> They appear to numbers...  as in the last one I received had an
 GM>> extension of ".100".
 RB> An exension of 100 would have been correct - it would have indicated
 RB> Friday April 10th 1998 as being Julian day number 100.
 RB> Here are some examples of the Julian day number for a few Fridays:
 RB>     Friday  03 April = 093
 RB>     Friday  10 April = 100
 RB>     ... SNIP ...
 RB> So, if you ran the little program I posted, as of today (April 24th)
 RB> it would be looking for Julian day number 114 or a file with extension
 RB> 114 or for FidoNet NODEDIFF.A14 update.
 GM>> I think I tried using the extensions to determine the relative
 GM>> age of the files, but I trashed that idea because I think the
 GM>> @ext was being interpreted as a string rather than a series of
 GM>> digits...
 RB> That is probably normal; you then need to use the @int to get the
 RB> numeric part of it.
Okay, I save your message to a file (for future reference), but in the 
meantime, I'm giving @FILEAGE[filename] a trial.  It appeared to work 
correctly on the last run and I'll see how if will perform on the upcoming 
post.  This *may* be the answer...
              G'Day ... Gerald
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