HI Paul,   
      
   following up a message from Richard Webb to Paul Quinn:   
      
   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> Ermm... shouldn't that be 0108.txt; 0109.txt; 0110.txt...  :)    
   RW> Yep, had to lose the leading 0 in single digit months anyway because   
   RW> when HOrst's count does its thing it loses it.  I'm   
   RW> sure you saw that later.   
      
   YEp, and it's doing its thing quite nicely.   
      
   Oh, yeah, the main program, it does everything to a file   
   which is named "boatweek.lst" which is the email product   
   itself.   
   Within this is current logistical notes, notes on regular   
   net participants, and of course the info regarding vessels   
   underway I showed you a sample of, a short humor piece, and   
   maybe some additional stats.   
   PQ> Question.  What happens Sunday 5 February, with the 30th & 31st of   
   PQ> January's logging?  Do they get caught up in "week0212.txt"?   
      
   RW> There's a good example of what I've had to wrestle with for   
   RW> this part of it.  This thing will go out on January 29, as   
   RW> usual, discussing anything of significance for Sunday the   
   RW> 29th, Monday the 30th, the 31st, Wednesday the 1st, 2nd, 3rd and   
   RW> finally the 4th.   
   RW> The "logging" part of this as I say is already done,   
   RW> automagically, on the fly.  What isn't and has required some manual   
   RW> intervention by me was looking through these little   
   RW> text files to find historic trivia to stuff in there.  For   
   RW> example, had this been built last week it would have noted   
   RW> that Thursday the 12th was the 2nd anniversary of the big   
   RW> quake in Haiti.  A few ham ops really used our network   
   RW> services to get help to people who needed it.  So that would of   
   RW> course be in 112.txt, (was 0112.txt) and would have been   
   RW> automagically posted in last Sunday's history section.   
   RW> Except, I never got to looking through those last weekend,   
   RW> hence doing the automation shuffle