Eric Thomas <ERIC@FRECP11>
Tue, 16 Dec 1986 00:18 SET
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Some of you reported problems with UPDNODES when trying to run it against the
VERS8612 NODUPD file. It took us a long while to realize that the problem did
not come from UPDNODES itself, nor from the VERS8612 file, from storage/disk
space requirements, but from the fact that some people had changed the entry
of node WLUCP6 in last month's BITEARN NODES. This entry contained a node
number of 0000 which ought to have been PEND (0000 is an invalid node number).
It seems that someone sent mail to several NADs telling them to change this
node number to PEND using XEDIT lest some other BITEARN NODES based program
might choke on the thing, and that they did it. Or maybe they misunderstood
something, but anyway some NADs XEDITed their BITEARN NODES file to change the
0000 to PEND and forgot about it, possibly thinking that this was an "official"
change which had been done "at the other end". This caused UPDNODES not to
function properly on the VERS8612 file.
If you have made this change to your BITEARN NODES file, you must make the
change back before you can successfully run UPDNODES against VERS8612.
Eric
PS: Sorry for possible duplicates. I sent this note to several lists.
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