Hell Paul,   
      
   On Fri 2012-Jan-13 17:23, Paul Quinn (3:640/384) wrote to Richard Webb:   
      
    RW> One thing I've always wanted to implement was a bit of a   
    RW> history section, keyed by date.  These go out on Sunday   
    RW> mornings, of course.   
      
   PQ> Uh, huh.   
      
    RW> This batch would run at midnight utc on Sunday of course adn prepare   
    RW> the history information, compiling into it a file that the weekly    
    RW> email generator code would find.   
      
   PQ> Okay, I want to look at your system... no scripting at this point...   
      
   PQ> The daily files consist of some sort of activity logs?  The weeklies   
   PQ> consist of a compilation for the previous week?   
      
   PQ> I would be looking at a system something similar to...   
      
   DO that with station logs, but this is for the whole group.   
   The weekly file is mainly what vessels have used us and   
   that's already done.   
      
   There are a couple of sections that prepend all this   
   hwoever, and they're built as well to generate this email.   
   they're a "welcome newcomers" type section, a logistics, who needs pinch   
   hitters, etc. section, etc.   
      
      
    RW> So, taking this Sunday's for example, the batch would look   
    RW> in a defined directory for files named 0115.txt; 0116.txt; 0117 ...   
    RW> etc.   
      
   PQ> Ermm... shouldn't that be 0108.txt; 0109.txt; 0110.txt...  :)    
      
   PQ> (With the system I propose, those files won't be necessary.  The   
      
   PQ> weekly file would be built-up during the week's daily operations.    
   PQ> They would still be available in the relevant archive if something   
   PQ> screws up, somewhere.)    
      
   Yep, had to lose the leading 0 in single digit months anyway because when   
   HOrst's count does its thing it loses it.  I'm   
   sure you saw that later.   
      
   These are still quite relevant as I might not be around.   
   For example, in April the Birthdays of Samuel MOrse, the   
   inventor of MOrse Code, and Gugliemo Marconi are both in   
   files for those dates.   
   So yes, still necessary as these aren't quite logging   
   functions per se.  That part's already written and working   
   great.   
      
   PQ> Question.  What happens Sunday 5 February, with the 30th & 31st of   
   PQ> January's logging?  Do they get caught up in "week0212.txt"?   
      
   There's a good example of what I've had to wrestle with for   
   this part of it.  This thing will go out on January 29, as   
   usual, discussing anything of significance for Sunday the   
   29th, Monday the 30th, the 31st, Wednesday the 1st, 2nd, 3rd and finally the   
   4th.   
   The "logging" part of this as I say is already done,   
   automagically, on the fly.  What isn't and has required some manual   
   intervention by me was looking through these little   
   text files to find historic trivia to stuff in there.  For   
   example, had this been built last week it would have noted   
   that Thursday the 12th was the 2nd anniversary of the big   
   quake in Haiti.  A few ham ops really used our network   
   services to get help to people who needed it.  So that would of course be in   
   112.txt, (was 0112.txt) and would have been   
   automagically posted in last Sunday's history section.   
   Except, I never got to looking through those last weekend,   
   hence doing the automation shuffle .   
      
   Regards,   
              Richard   
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