Hi Uli!   
      
   >> Hi Ward,   
   >>>> Discussions are underway on dealing with Marc's other issue with   
   >>>> MakeNL; he feels that there should not be an age limit on segments.   
   >>>> The original Ben Baker version of MakeNL would only go back 2 weeks   
   >>>> before the upcoming week; the current MakeNL_NG release goes back 6   
   >>>> weeks before the upcoming week.   
      
   >>> I have segments that go back years and they don't cause a problem.   
   >>> REGION21 (Norway) dor example dates from August 22nd 2011 and its   
   >>> full name is REGION21.238. Region-38 (Yugoslavia etc dates from   
   >>> Jan.4 2011 and is named REGION38.077, so there even isn't any   
   >>> serious correlation between the file-production date and the Julian   
   >>> date.   
      
   >> Interesting.. over here, REGION21.238 would have been renamed to   
   >> REGION21.003 this week upon running Makenl for Tuesday's zone   
   >> segment.. geez..   
      
   >this is, what I've also still wondered once got aware of this processing schem   
   > ... after a while Ward and me discovered the difference in   
   > defining the segments mask in the makenl.control file   
      
   Ok, this makes sense as I mentioned, thank you.   
      
   > with   segment.*   the strict daynumbering schema and automatism will be   
   >skipped. The segment will be processed, but nothing happens with the daynumber   
   > extension update   
      
   > so there are some advantages and disadvantages of each processing method   
   > that makenl offers   
      
      
   Yes, I can see that.  I'll mention this to Marc Lewis, R19C.  It may be his   
   whole problem with makenl not 'seeing' older segments.   
      
   Let's hope :)   
      
   Take care,   
   Janis   
      
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