Subj : Pktdate works fine.. :)
To : Janis Kracht
From : Vince Coen
Date : Mon Mar 28 2016 01:30 pm
Hello Janis!
Friday March 25 2016 20:09, you wrote to me:
Sounds like you and Mark have a later version of pktdate along with the
sources.
Not the easiest to see as there is no notes/comments within the code to
indicate any changes/updates.
If you or Mark does have an updated version than that issued in the Wildcat
file area, I would appreciate it if you can send me the source code so I can
compile it here.
As it seems to change old dates - I will attempt to modify that function
(subject to a switch) so that they are ignored and that way the tosser can
just
reject them if so set.
In my system I do that if msgs are 30+ days prior to current date.
If nothing else it cuts down on msgs going into the dups database for no good
reason and no not that my system is loaded what with 8 cores to handle allthe
workload I have never seen it up to 5% loading unless I am doing large
compiles
where I have specified 3+ cores to be used ( -J5 etc).
I used the wildcat version to compile having made all filenames lower case.
Linux treats the same file name but in different cases as not the same as
against DOS. Windows as far as I know can also do this but not sure if it is
default behaviour (at least under Win 7 Ultimate - I have not upgraded to W10
as I suspect many of my h/w drivers are not available in W10 as h/w is no
longer supported on some of the kit).
Vince
> Hi Vince,
>> Does that mean it worked ?
>> Just wondering as the original date looks ok to me e.g., 19/09/2012
>> !
> This was just a packet I had somewhere over here not a live packet
> that I cared to toss into Fidonet.. Just to test that the binary was
> going to do what I expected.. and it did :) There was nothing wrong
> with the date of the original packet, it was from a long time ago..
>> .. no have not checked what the '-me' means yet :)
> It's for "Messages English"
> If you do have a file a.out, rename it to pktdate then just run pkdate
> with no other parameters and you'll get the help screen.
> BTW, I did rename the uppercase file PKTDATE.C to lower case, and
> since the source #includes pktdate.lng (lower case) that's when I
> actually got it to compile correctly.
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