Eric Thomas <ERIC@FRECP11>
Wed, 6 May 1987 18:58 SET
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It would be easy to write an EXEC to automatically update BITEARN NODES from
the NODUPD files from Netserv. Three problems though:
1) LISTSERV must have R/O access to all the required programs.
2) LISTSERV must have R/W access to BITEARN NODES, which is far from being the
case everywhere.
3) At present it is not possible to AFD the NODUPD files from Netserv with a
prologtext. I mean, you can "AFD password * NODUPD prologtext" but the
prologtext is a constant. If you intended to set it to "PUT fn ft options",
it won't work because you don't know in advance what the fileid will be --
it changes every month. Alternatively, you could set it to "PUT LAST
NODUPD" and hope that you will never receive two updates in a row and have
the oldest one overwrite the latest one. I know, they are sent only once a
month, but in some cases we have seen network delays > 1 month...
Eric
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