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- From: frampton@vicuna.ocunix.on.ca (Steve Frampton)
- Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle
- Subject: Bug encountered in UUSTAT statistics program.
- Keywords: dos waffle 165
- Message-ID: <62mJuB2w165w@vicuna.ocunix.on.ca>
- Date: 20 Nov 92 15:18:52 GMT
- Reply-To: frampton@vicuna.ocunix.on.ca
- Followup-To: comp.bbs.waffle
- Organization: Vicuna Systems, Kingston, ON (613) 547-5066
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- Hello:
-
- I have been using the new UUSTAT program that was posted here a couple
- of months ago to generate USENET statistics which are automatically
- posted to a [semi-]local newsgroup.
-
- This program is the greatest thing since sliced cheese (moreso than
- bread)! When combined with statistics from 'SYSMAN', the end result
- is a very complete, comprehensive set of stats.
-
- However, there seems to be a slight bug: I had been using the program
- without a problem for several weeks, then this morning when I ran it
- (I manually run it daily on a fresh UUCICO file to see what has gone
- on during the night) it came up with 'Divide Error'.
-
- I tried it several more times, still coming up with 'Divide Error'. I
- tried it on my "accumulated" UUCICO (as each night's UUCICO file is
- deleted, it is first appended to the end of a much larger one which
- is then used to produce semi-monthly stats) and it worked perfectly.
-
- So I used an editor and took a look at the UUCICO file. It was not
- difficult to spot the problem. One of my neighbours (gtm-inc) had
- polled me, but somehow some line noise or something struck when it
- was identifying itself, and the UUCICO log file had something like:
- "Talking to gt~-?@&. gt~-?@& is unknown to me."
-
- So it appears that if a site is not in the systems file, that UUSTAT
- will not operate properly. Or perhaps if a site has "garbage"
- characters then UUSTAT craps out.
-
- This bug is minor, and this problem will probably occur once in a blue
- moon. However, since I generate semi-monthly stats based on "accumulated"
- UUCICO files (and am planning to generate a yearly summary starting in
- 1993), even one such occurrence would prevent UUSTAT from collating the
- statistics.
-
- Thanks to the author for creating _THE_ statistics generator for DOS
- Waffle.
-
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