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   Message 393 of 613   
   mark lewis to Björn Felten   
   RFC seriously   
   29 Nov 14 02:11:43   
   
   On Sat, 29 Nov 2014, Björn Felten wrote to Paul Quinn:   
      
    BF>    Indeed. But on the other hand, us batch file phantoms can   
    BF> probably do with just one semaphore file exit, can't we? With an   
    BF> 'EXEC_NOW.OK' flag file that causes Argus to execute 'EXEC_NOW.BAT'   
    BF> (as I've made it now) wouldn't that actually be enough?   
      
   but the mailer is not exiting, is it?? the capability is easily handled by the   
   even scheduler as paul showed previously... or am i missing something besides   
   a decent beverage again??   
      
    PQ> Argus by another name, by your hand, could a Good Thing. 8-)   
      
    BF>    Thanks. I'll at least make sure it'll be 100% backwards   
    BF> compatible -- Mark convinced me of that.   
      
   thank you :)   
      
    PQ> P.S. When the time of general introduction of IPv6 comes, I will be   
    PQ> switching to Linux.   
      
    BF>    Negatory! You'll hang on to the good old Argus family, by then   
    BF> IPv6 aware, you hear!   
      
   it won't help when everything else is *nix... porting it will be a Major PITA   
   [/me salutes Major PITA] but it will open more doors for others... just gotta   
   get it away from delphi shite... huge lack of foreskin^H^H^Hight there on   
   their part... one of the main reasons why i've specifically stayed away from   
   their offerings...   
      
   )\/(ark   
      
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