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|    Message 237 of 1,725    |
|    Roy Witt to Kees van Eeten    |
|    Error in the Region 17 / Net 153 segmmen    |
|    02 Nov 12 13:34:15    |
      cc: 1:153/0               On 01 Nov 12 00:00, Kees van Eeten wrote to All:               KvE> Dear All,               KvE> I know this is not the place to complain, those that can are        KvE> most likely reading this Echo. Apart from that it could lead to a        KvE> feature in makenl.               KvE> For quite a while the following error shows in the Nodelist.               KvE> ;E DOWN,779,RoadRunner_X,Grande_Cache_Alberta,Randy_Sommerfeld,        KvE> -Unpublished-,9600,XX,CM,V32b,V34,V42b,IBN:rrx.ca        KvE> ;E -- Invalid keyword -- 'FILES'              I entered this line verbatum in my MNL segment. It produced no such error.       In fact, MankeNL converted the DOWN caps to Down and processed my CTL file       without any errors shown in the output file.               KvE> This concerns 1:153/779 and my best guess is that the error is        KvE> generated on his system. That would be consistent with the second        KvE> error line as FILES could be the next keyword in te configuration        KvE> file.              I don't think it is generated on 779's system, since he isn't net 153's       NC.               KvE> As the system is apparently down, no corrections are sent.              Instead of announcing such in this echo, it would have been more prudent       to address this with 153/0...Dallas Hinton.               KvE> Had the host segment been processed, by a current makenl, then DOWN        KvE> would have been converted to "Down" and the line a valid entry.              Yes, but the 'FILES' error has shown it's head in present versions of MNL       too.               KvE> Can someone contact Dallas Hinton or Bob Seaborn, to correct this        KvE> line in their segment.                     I'll forward this to Dallas...               R\%/itt                     ... Mark Owen: "Hey, did you ever hear anything about that beer?       ... Fellow SEAL: "You believed that shit, I bet you voted for change too,       ... SUCKER."                     --- GoldED+/W32        * Origin: Texas Lone-Star - Texan, American, USAian (1:387/22)    |
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