Hello August!

*** 10.02.20 at 22:48, August Abolins wrote to Martin Foster:

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 MF>> ..The only files it takes action on are nodediffs/pointdiffs and if
 MF>> any of them are out of sequence, it just ignores them.

 AA> It was still taking action on the NODEDIFF that was in /FILES,

Yes, that's what I said but .....

 AA> even though I had cleared out the nodelist config tables.  The /FIDO
 AA> directory was empty!

..... I forgot to mention that the nodelist routines still run regardless  
of whether there's anything in the /FILES directory that they need to  
process.

 AA> The following settings marked "<==THIS" were probably enabled:

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 AA> |   [x]   Use internal nodelist processor           |<==THIS

That's fine.

[snip]
 AA> Ý   [x]   Import nodelist updates automatically  Ý<==THIS

As is this.

 AA> Ý   [ ]   Delete empty messages                  Ý
 AA> Ý   [x]   Automatic TIC file processing          Ý<==THIS?


 AA> Is it the presence of a .TIC file in /FILES that can trigger the "action"
 AA> too?

That has nothing to do with the nodelist routines, see the help topic for  
a full explanation of what this feature is/does :)

Regards,
Martin

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