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|    Vincent Coen to Wilfred van Velzen    |
|    WROPIC EIC EIC Echolist Update    |
|    02 Aug 23 20:54:34    |
      REPLY: 2:280/464 64ca833f       MSGID: 2:250/1@fidonet 64cab6a8       CHRS: UTF-8 2       TZUTC: 0100       TID: MBSE-FIDO 1.0.8.4 (Linux-x86_64)       Hello Wilfred!              Wednesday August 02 2023 18:24, you wrote to me:               >>> In the previous edition it was ok...               VC>> Update rerun and seems to be correct.               VC>> I have no idea why this happened for this area as the other        VC>> updates appears to be ok - unless you know different.               > I didn't notice anything.               VC>> Please advise if you find any other oddities.               > Will do. But you could use for instance https://winmerge.org/ (like I        > do) before you publish. It takes like 1 minute to do a side by side        > compare between the previous and latest versions, and spot these        > differences quite easily! ;-)              Nope, for *nix there is a very good tool - kdiff3 but did not need it.                             VC>> I seem to recall this has happened in the past for THIS echo,        VC>> most odd.               > Your memory is correct. It happend 2 months ago for this same area...                      > If there are 5 weather reports for 10 locations a day, this could be a        > realistic number. Personally I don't see the need for these kinds of        > areas. If I want to know the weather for any place on earth I just        > look on the web for up to date information...              Totally agreed - plus weather moves faster than the emails.              Now found two errors that could well have caused this problem so fixed and       recompiled and installed the program.       I will take a look at the version that ran on the Pi to see if it was fixed       there - in which case I will get very annoyed with myself as there is no       excuse for sloppiness in programming or s/w management.              Although my excuse could be my age.              Now to see if it fixes it -       I have resubmitted the dropped good ? echos :              SECURITY       UKNEWS       HUMOR              IMECHO I did not do so as there is zero traffic for that.              Will try and remember if these expire next year I will leave them alone.       Possibly some more that now sits under the BACKBONE banner.              Problem with mbse (that uses JAM), is there is no statistics available for        echo       areas.              Vincent              --- Mageia Linux v8 X64/Mbse v1.0.8.3/GoldED+/LNX 1.1.5-b20180707        * Origin: The Elist Maintainer (2:250/1)       SEEN-BY: 1/120 123 10/0 1 15/0 18/0 200 25/0 21 50/109 90/1 102/401       SEEN-BY: 103/1 705 105/81 106/201 116/116 123/0 25 131 180 200 755       SEEN-BY: 123/3001 129/305 135/115 300 153/7715 214/22 218/0 1 215       SEEN-BY: 218/700 720 840 850 860 880 221/1 6 222/2 226/30 227/114       SEEN-BY: 229/110 112 113 206 307 317 400 426 428 470 664 700 240/1120       SEEN-BY: 250/0 1 3 4 5 6 7 8 11 13 14 261/1466 263/0 266/512 275/1000       SEEN-BY: 280/464 282/1038 291/111 292/854 299/6 301/1 113 317/3 320/219       SEEN-BY: 322/757 335/364 342/200 396/45 460/58 467/4 888 633/280 712/848       SEEN-BY: 712/1321 2320/105 3634/0 12 24 27 56 57 119 5001/100 5005/49       SEEN-BY: 5020/715 846 1042 4441 5030/49 5061/133 5075/35 128 5083/444       SEEN-BY: 5090/958       PATH: 250/1 3634/12 5020/1042 301/1 218/700 229/426           |
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