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- Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle
- Subject: Re: out of sequence news. ( UUXQT question )
- Message-ID: <55X4XB9w165w@status.gen.nz>
- From: jonc@status.gen.nz (Jon Clarke)
- Date: Fri, 29 Jan 93 10:11:03 GMT
- References: <930127.090254.4u9.rusnews.w164w@alpha3.ersys.edmonton.ab.ca>
- Organization: The Z*NET International News Gateway in New Zealand
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- russell@alpha3.ersys.edmonton.ab.ca (Russell Schulz) writes:
-
- > jonc@status.gen.nz (Jon Clarke) writes:
- >
- > > All their news is batched up in numeric order in their /spool/sitename
- > > directory. However when they poll me for it they seem to get a muddled
- > > feed ie
- > >
- > > 5798
- > > 5799
- > > 5743
- > > 5744
- >
- > is this in their /news/comp/bbs/waffle directory? or where?
-
- As it says above russel in the /spool/sitename directory (for their news
- feed).
-
- >
- > (assuming their /n/c/b/w) it's because of the way dos doesn't (by default)
- > sort the filenames - on Unix, it'd do this too (and will show it to you
- > if you force it) - when you expire the old news (5741 and 5742) the new
- > news takes the first available directory position for the new news.
- >
- > I know of no situation in which waffle's rnews.exe would UNBATCH news out
- > of order. that doesn't mean it's impossible, but... it'd be tricky at
- > least, and definitely a non-obvious way to do it.
-
- In this case all the incoming news is batched into the /spool/sitename
- directory in numeric order. However when a remote site polls for its
- news and the feed is over 1 meg it displays the actions as I mentioned
- above in random order. I can see NO logic for this at all unless uucico
- is a bit flakey in some manner.
-
- I have even used Nortons Directory sort to make SURE the files were
- in numeric order (as a test only) and it also demonstrated the same
- symptoms.
-
- Ah well life goes on.
- > --
- > Russell Schulz russell@alpha3.ersys.edmonton.ab.ca ersys!rschulz Shad 86c
-
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