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Subject: MakeNL bug with archived segments Date: Fri Aug 11 2017 06:24 pm
From: Andrew Leary To: All

Hello everybody!

I have discovered an issue that can manifest itself when archived segments are
submitted to the next *C up the chain.  When archiving the new segment prior  to
submission, MakeNL doesn't check to see if the archive already exists.  The
result is submission of an archive containing the new segment, as well as an
older one.

There are two solutions that I've come up with:

1.  MakeNL check for an existing archive and remove it prior to archiving the
segment for submission.
2.  When uncompressing incoming segment archives, compare file dates on all
files unpacked and use the most recent.

What do you think?  I'm leaning towards number 2 first, as that will help in
cases where the lower level *C hasn't upgraded his version of MakeNL yet.

As a work around, the problem can be avoided by disabling the compression of
submitted segments by adding:

THReshold -1 -1

to your control file.

Andrew

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