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   Andrew Leary to All   
   MakeNL bug with archived segments   
   11 Aug 17 18:24:08   
   
   Hello everybody!   
      
   I have discovered an issue that can manifest itself when archived segments are    
   submitted to the next *C up the chain.  When archiving the new segment prior    
   to submission, MakeNL doesn't check to see if the archive already exists.  The    
   result is submission of an archive containing the new segment, as well as an    
   older one.   
      
   There are two solutions that I've come up with:   
      
   1.  MakeNL check for an existing archive and remove it prior to archiving the    
   segment for submission.   
   2.  When uncompressing incoming segment archives, compare file dates on all    
   files unpacked and use the most recent.   
      
   What do you think?  I'm leaning towards number 2 first, as that will help in    
   cases where the lower level *C hasn't upgraded his version of MakeNL yet.   
      
   As a work around, the problem can be avoided by disabling the compression of    
   submitted segments by adding:   
      
   THReshold -1 -1   
      
   to your control file.   
      
   Andrew   
      
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