Subj : DailyList ...
To : Janis Kracht
From : mark lewis
Date : Sun Oct 13 2013 01:38 pm
On Sat, 12 Oct 2013, Janis Kracht wrote to mark lewis:
> i am, however, curious about you statement... what do you meain by "limited >
replace line support"??
JK> Yes, same here <g>
maybe we'll see an answer soonish ;)
>> and if one have archive bbs, it might be complete ignored
> very true! ;) i once lost years of files that had been
> distributed... most of those were lost due to aging off which was
> handled quite quickly... others, as you note, were replaced... either
> by newer versions with a different name or by others with the same
> name... different named ones are easy enough to deal with
> but same named ones present a different problem to deal with :?
JK> I think the only files I've "lost" were due to my own sillyness..
yeah, i've done that too... in my case, i had originally set up so that files
were retained for at least a year... maybe two or three... when i finally
realized that the FDN wasn't distributing files any more, it was too late and i
had to go hunt down whatever i could find... that was the fernwood stuff... at
that time i reconfigured for no aging off of files and i'm not sure, at the
moment, about the REPLACE verb being honored... i have to look to see but a
better option would be for REPLACE to trigger a move of the file being replaced
to an archivial directory...
JK> like fat-fingering "rm * ~" Lol.. yes, that was nasty..
i can imagine!
JK> I have a safe del too, that I never use haha..
alias it to rm ;)
JK> anyway, I can't think of a time when a tick caused any files I
JK> didn't want cleaned up to be deleted..
