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echo: fidosoft.husky
to: Gert Koefoed Andersen
from: Sean Rima
date: 2006-06-04 07:43:12
subject: nlupdate question

Hi *Gert Koefoed Andersen*,

 GA> 02 Jun 06 21:34, you wrote to All:

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

 SR>> ---------  Fri 02 Jun 06, nlupdate/w32-mvcdll 1.4.0-sta 09-04-05 1
 SR>> 21:33:30  Start C 21:33:30  Trying to update
 SR>> i:\fido\nodelist\NODELIST.153 C 21:33:30  i:\fido\nodelist\NODELIST.153
 SR>> younger than 7 days, no update 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 advnet
 SR>> found. C 21:33:30  Check fullupdate: 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  Uncompressed
 SR>> file 'C:\DOCUME~1\Sean\LOCALS~1\Temp\nlupdate.tmp\ADVLIST.153' does not
 SR>> exist B 21:33:30  no full update for nodelist advnet found. 1 21:33:30 
 SR>> End

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


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

Sean
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