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to: Nightfox
from: Digital Man
date: 2023-12-04 10:08:00
subject: Re: Sbbs question

  Re: Re: Sbbs question
  By: Nightfox to Chad Adams on Mon Dec 04 2023 09:34 am

 >   Re: Re: Sbbs question
 >   By: Chad Adams to Digital Man on Mon Dec 04 2023 09:54 am
 >
 >  CA> Thanks digital. This is the options most TIC Tosser/Hatchers have. The
 >  CA> problem is makenl writes the file as nodelist.zXX where XX is the last
 >  CA> 2 digits of the day. I need to find some way to specific the name of
 >  CA> the file, otherwise id have to just zip it as OTHERNET.ZIP
 >
 > By convention,.zXX is how nodelist zip files are normally named.  Although
 > the first digit is missing that way, it at least provides some way to know
 > about which day of the year the nodelist was made.  Why do you want to use a
 > .zip filename extension?

I think Chad is having trouble auto-discoverying the filename generated by makenl since the file extension changes from one week to the next.
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