Subj : Best way to assemble?
To   : Paul Hayton
From : Nicholas Boel
Date : Wed Feb 10 2021 17:43:10

Hello Paul,

On Wed Feb 10 2021 21:25:00, Paul Hayton wrote to All:

 PH> How best to set things up when the soon to be external submissions are
 PH> net 3 and net 4 but I am generating net 1, 2, and 5?

 PH> I can keep my net 1 and 2 info under 'data' then set net 3 and 4 under
 PH> files but can't then pickup with another data entry..

Correct.

 PH> I'm guessing I need to create static submission files for the nets I
 PH> manage and move most if not all of those nets to submissions I have to
 PH> manually copy into the inbound dir for makenl to pick up and
 PH> process... then I end up with just a files entry with

Yes, you would have to copy/paste your segments into their own net files. Then you would edit those when you add/remove nodes rather than the master file.

 PH> It just feels like a pain to do this for the bits I maintain all so I
 PH> keep the assembled nodelist in correct order. I did try a test that
 PH> kept my net 1,2 and 5 info under data and then net 3 and 4 under files
 PH> but it ended up in that order in the final test nodelist... and that
 PH> I'm fairly sure is not good
 PH> :)

This is why I haven't done the same thing with Agoranet yet. It really wouldn't be that difficult copy/pasting segments into separate net files, but I just get grumpy and every time I think about doing it I find something more fun to do. ;)

Regards,
Nick

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