[Ftnpl-develop] pkt2txt maintenance routines

[Robert C. <JC...@te...>]

>>> Russ Johnson <ru...@di...> 09/15/01 11:26PM >>>
>In addition, this is causing problems with tossing messages,
>because once some messages are deleted, it reuses those entries,

    Then it must not really be finding the highest numbered message =
file...<g>

     All that the tossing part of it should worry about is what is the =
highest numbered message file;   & it then starts with the next one after =
that.   There's got to be a way to figure that properly;  so that it =
doesn't care what might not be there, only what the highest numbered =
filename might be...


> so the high message routine always finds
> the same message as the high message.

    I had been wondering about that, because I seem to recall deleteing =
some older files before tossing & it didn't seem to work properly;  but =
hadn't really had a chance to look at how the high numbered filename was =
being done ....   How are you expecting that "findhighmsg" subroutine to =
work?    I was just looking at it (haveing the cvs browsable is so =
useful...<g>), & I'm not sure just what's going on in that subroutine...





Jame