Subj : Dailylists with makenl_ng To : Kees van Eeten From : Andrew Leary Date : Fri Nov 24 2017 03:12:08 Hello Kees! 23 Nov 17 20:52, you wrote to me: KE> @MSGID: 2:280/5003.4 5a172ead KE> @CHRS: LATIN-1 4 KE> @TZUTC: 0100 KE> @TID: hpt/lnx 1.4.0-sta 16-02-06 KE> Hello Andrew! KE> In the last few years it has come in vogue create daily nodelist. KE> In order to accomplish this, the PUBLish has to be changed KE> every day. Although it is not difficult o use some form of scripting KE> to accomplish this, it would be more convenient if "PUBLish" TODAY KE> could be used in the control file. For those who want to make the file KE> one day in advance (before 24:00) "TOMORROW" would also be a usefull KE> publishing day. KE> I have had a look at the code, and applied the following patch: KE> ---8<----------------------------------------------------------------- KE> ------- diff -r makenl_ng/makenl-code/src/config.c KE> makenl_fg/makenl-code/src/config.c 399a400,401 >> {"TODAY", 3, 7}, >> {"TOMORROW", 3, 8}, KE> 798a801,810 >> } >> time(&thetime); >> mytime = localtime(&thetime); >> if (NewExtWDay == 7) >> NewExtWDay = mytime->tm_wday; >> { >> } >> if (NewExtWDay == 8) >> NewExtWDay = mytime->tm_wday + 1; >> { KE> ---8<----------------------------------------------------------------- KE> -------- KE> When using this patch, it is of importance, that KE> in the files section of the controlfile wilcards are used. KE> Region 28 region28.* 2:28/0 KE> If the wildcard is omitted, only files of the same publishing day will KE> be looked for. When not found, older files published on the same KE> weeday wil be used. (There is aworkaround, but that is not relevant KE> here). KE> I am not completely happy with how the wild card operates. It probably KE> sorts the files by their suffix and uses the highest number. I suspect this is system dependent. Some systems match wildcards in some sort of sorted order, but most probably just go by the order the files are physically listed in the disk directory. KE> How this works out at the changeover from one year to the next may be KE> implemented in makenl, but I am not shure. KE> It would suit me better if files were sorted by creation date like in KE> "ls -t ". If such a construct would work for all the versions that KE> exits is questionable. It should be possible to implement it, but will require a significant investment of coding and testing time to ensure that it works on all of the platforms and compilers MakeNL currently supports. KE> I hope that the main users would like the above patch to be included KE> in the mainstream version of makenl_ng. When the keywords TODAY and KE> TOMORROW are not used, the code is just idle. I don't see a compelling reason to not include it. After all, if those keywords are not used, the program continues to work exactly as it currently does. Andrew --- GoldED+/LNX 1.1.5-b20170303 * Origin: Phoenix BBS * phoenix.bnbbbs.net (1:320/219) .