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- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
- Subject: Re: CNET SubBoards
- From: flohoff@dataland.owl.de (Florian Lohoff)
- Message-ID: <flohoff.064e@dataland.owl.de>
- Date: Tue, 2 Jan 96 14:10:43 CET
-
- On Tue 26-Dec-1995 19:26 , Bob Maple wrote:
- BM> On Sat 23-Dec-1995 11:45p, David Evans wrote:
-
- BM> DE> Does anyone know how to re-organize CNet's subboards? I have a
- BM> growing
- BM> DE> subboard3 file which has holes in it. I would like to "re-organize"
- BM> and
- BM> DE> eliminate the blank spots (re-number the critter?). The RR command
- BM> DE> doesn't seem to work..
-
- BM> Unfortunately it's a bit impossible to do right now (not IMPOSSIBLE, but
- BM> infeasable).
-
- BM> It's fairly easy to reconstruct the Subboards3 file and remove holes while
- BM> relinking all of the subboard pointers so everything is nested correctly
- BM> --
- BM> however, the problem is some of the other datafiles around the system
- BM> which
- BM> rely on the physical subboard number for identification purposes -- and,
- BM> the
- BM> bummer is that the physical subboard number is the actual placement in the
- BM> file.
-
- BM> So, making a compactor would involve changing not only the subboards file,
- BM> but
- BM> tracking down all other datafiles which might possibly reference the
- BM> subboards3 file and correct them as well (namely the _buser3 files in each
- BM> user's directory that keeps track of what subboards they're joined to,
- BM> dates
- BM> for determining what a 'new' message is, etc) -- and I don't think it's
- BM> completely clear where all of those references are.
-
- BM> So, someone could do it with a tremendous amount of time on their hands
- BM> (that
- BM> counts me out!) but you're likely to see a new version of CNet before
- BM> someone
- BM> writes such a tool.
-
- I wrote such a tool but i still have the problem that the Users (New Files
- pointer to subboards) get shiftet/threaded etc. I don`t no where the bug is
- but i used it once after my subboards file went about 6 Meg size. (I wrote
- myself a tool which adds a whole tree from a script, like aminet cd`s, you
- just get the tree, tell the script which subboard the settings should be
- copied from and run, problem was, that it only appends to subboards3)
-
-
- BM> : Bob Maple : In the beginning, the Universe was created.
- BM> :
- BM> : bmaple@burner.com : This has made a lot of people very angry and
- BM> :
- BM> : http://rmii.com/~bobm : been widely regarded as a bad move.
- BM> .........:
-
- Flo
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