Hello Ward.
<On 23Jan2013 09:30 Ward Dossche (2:292/854) wrote a message to Marc Lewis
regarding re: follow-up on: NCs who've updated to MakeNl_NG >
WD>
ML> The julian date extension is the default for ALL diffs and lists. It, I
ML> don't think, would not show up anywhere in your normal config file - it's
ML> how the segments are normally transmitted after whichever program has
ML> produced them. E.g., Net9000.018 or Net9000.242. It's the intended
ML> distribution date; that's what MakeNL is looking at in the Master
ML> directory and calculating the file's relative age from that extension.
WD>
WD> I haven't followed this discussion but I don't think it is any of
WD> makenl's busyness (pun intended) what the relative age of a segment
WD> is and based upon that accept or reject it.
Precisely. MakeNL should do specifically what it's "told" to do and not make
those "decisions" of it own accord.
WD>
WD> As a ZC I have to accept that whatever is sent to me by an RC is
WD> correctly named and CRC'd, and if nothing newer is received then whatever's
WD> in the master-directory "is" correct, whatever its age.
WD>
I'm in much the same position as an RC. If I don't happen to receive a weekly
update from an NC, I have to presume the previous segment from that system is
correct and valid... within limits of course.
Best regards,
Marc
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