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    From Janis Kracht@1:261/38 to All on Sat Sep 5 19:31:50 2020
    A node in fidonet hatched out a TON of duplicate archives today...the areas he hatched them in and from were the EARTH fdn's MODIS and WEATHER, also he hatched some others in MBSE's FDN and BBBS's fdn.

    After much aggravation when I realized why my inbound was incredibly FULL of bad tics and archives, I deleted the entire bunch of them. I don't think there were any files lost, just a bazillion of duped files <sigh>

    Please folks, make sure you have your tick processors set up correctly.

    Thanks,
    Janis

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  • From mark lewis@1:3634/12 to Janis Kracht on Sun Sep 13 12:24:00 2020
    Re: Problems...
    By: Janis Kracht to mark lewis on Sun Sep 13 2020 11:41:26


    1. the pascalnet hatches don't have a REPLACES verb...

    Hmm.. I'll have to take a look ...

    i still have one here for ppoint.z55... i've been editing them to add the necessary line because i absolutely loath turning on "force replace"...

    2. someone was hatching some legion door over and over
    with "REPLACES replaces" instead of the proper file
    name...

    geez.. I'll try to watch for that one as well.

    those are the three in the LEGION FDN... the files were

    -rw-rw-r-- 1 sbbs sbbs 538001 Aug 25 23:30 legd081a.zip
    -rw-rw-r-- 1 sbbs sbbs 500341 Aug 26 00:20 legl081a.zip
    -rw-rw-r-- 1 sbbs sbbs 467160 Aug 25 23:30 legr081a.zip

    i'm not sure if those dates are what the files actually started with, though... i know there were times when i'd have a couple of them with .1, .2, .3, etc added when they were duped before being processed... i'd fix the
    first TICs "REPLACES replace" lines and then have to wait for all my links to pull them before renaming the .1s to their proper name and fixing those TICs for them... then wait again and repeat until they were all
    processed... this only because i didn't want to stick my links with the same situation... everyone linked here that got the files from here got them with proper REPLACES lines in the TICs...


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