[Ftnpl-develop] pkt2txt maintenance

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

Russ,

     I'll admit that I do consider pkt2txt pretty much done for now;  =
except for the maintenance side of things...   I think some kind of =
maintenance needs to be available;   either as function(s) in pkt2txt.pl =
or as a separate script that is distributed along with it...

    And I agree that part of the problem is how that "findhighmsg" =
subroutine is running;   I don't think it's really finding the highest =
numbered file name...   =20
    For tossing, that's all it needs to be able to do;  find the actual =
highest numbered filename there, & start with the next highest after that. =
  And it shouldn't care about gaps in the numbering...   Perhaps a reverse =
sort of some sort that would put the highest number in the first entry of =
an array?  (Hmm...   How easy is it to do a actual numerical sort?)   Or =
is there perhaps already available some kind of Max function that could =
find the largest number in a set of numbers?

    Then could also have some kind of simple deletes by date and/or number =
of existing msgs, along with some kind of re-numbering routine...=20


>>> Russ Johnson <ru...@di...> 09/15/01 11:26PM >>>
The problems I'm running into are several. The biggest of which is=20
maintenance. If I set up a limit to the number of messages, much depends =
on how the OS reads the directory from the drive, and how the entries =
are=20
sorted. In addition, this is causing problems with tossing messages,=20
because once some messages are deleted, it reuses those entries, so the=20
high message routine always finds the same message as the high message.