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   Message 262 of 1,725   
   Kees van Eeten to Janis Kracht   
   Error in the Region 17 / Net 153 segmmen   
   05 Nov 12 19:12:54   
   
   Hallo Janis!   
      
   02 Nov 12 13:59, Janis Kracht wrote to Kees Van Eeten:   
      
    >> ;E DOWN,779,RoadRunner_X,Grande_Cache_Alberta,Randy_Sommerfeld,   
    >> -Unpublished-,9600,XX,CM,V32b,V34,V42b,IBN:rrx.ca   
    >> ;E  -- Invalid keyword -- 'FILES'   
      
    >> This concerns 1:153/779 and my best guess is that the error is generated   
    >> on his system. That would be consistent with the second error line as   
    >> FILES could be the next keyword in te configuration file.   
      
    JK> No, it is NOT generated on his system nor on R17C's system.   
      
    JK> The segment from region 17 does NOT contain "DOWN", nor does it contain   
    JK> the word "FILES".  The error reporting is what is converting the word Down   
    JK> to DOWN, and adding the word FILES.   
      
    JK> This would probably be a bug in the version of Makenl_ng that is run here   
    JK> at 1:261/38 on my 64-bit system.   
      
    JK> The version of MakeNl run here is one that Andrew has asked me to test.   
      
    JK> MakeNL 3.2.15 (GNU/Linux GCC/Linux), compiled on Oct 16 2012 13:26:38   
      
    JK> Previous release versions of MakeNl gave the same  FILES error when   
    JK> Unpublished was used in some instances.   
      
    I have looked into this a bit more and found that I was wrong. ;(   
      
    Reading comments on the Bugtracker page I found the following:   
      
    Details:   
      
   When processing a segment with a Down,-Unpublished- entry with AllowUnpub=0,   
   an error message is logged "Invalid keyword -- "FILES"" . This error message   
   needs to be corrected to indicate the true problem: ie: -Unpublished- is only   
   allowed with Pvt or Hold systems, per FTS-5000.002.   
      
   Reading documents is always good.   
      
   I did my first tests with makenl 3.2.9 from the Debian Wheezy distribution.   
      
    To get a proper nodelist I had to set the option Unpublished=1.   
    Under those conditions the above Error is a correct Nodelist entry.   
    And I wondered, why it was flagged as an error.   
      
    It appears the logic for processing with AllowUnpub=0 in makenl 3.2.9 is not   
    in compliance with FTS-500.002 or even worse.   
      
    You are/were running 3.2.15, so I went vor recent sources on Fourceforge,   
    where at the momnent the current version is 3.2.17.   
      
    By working with that version I was able to reconstruct the current nodelist   
    as it is with the following use of AllowUnpub   
      
    Zone1 segment - AllowUnpub=0   
    Zone2 segment - AllowUnpub=1   
    Zonex segment - not relevant   
    Composite file - AllowUnpub=1   
      
    As noted above AllowUnpub=0 will only allow -Unpublished- together with   
    Pvt or Hold. The above error is a combination of -Unpublished- Down, which   
    is not permitted by FTS-500-002.   
      
    With respect to the weird second error line "Invalid keyword -- "FILES"   
    I can only say, that as far as I can read/follow the code, that line is   
    correct. I agree with the bugreport, that a more relevant text would be   
    nice.   
      
    As a solution to to the error in the nodelist, either the compliance with   
    FTS-5000.002 can be lifted as is done for the Composite file, or RC17/NC153   
    bring the line in compliance, by setting the node on Hold.   
      
    As a last I would like to commend Andrew Leary for the state of the   
    current code.   
      
   Regards,   
   Kees van Eeten   
      
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