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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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