Hello Ward.   
      
      
      
    WD>     
   ML> The julian date extension is the default for ALL diffs and lists.  It, I   
   ML> don't think, would not show up anywhere in your normal config file - it's   
   ML> how the segments are normally transmitted after whichever program has   
   ML> produced them. E.g., Net9000.018 or Net9000.242.  It's the intended   
   ML> distribution date; that's what MakeNL is looking at in the Master   
   ML> directory and calculating the file's relative age from that extension.   
    WD>     
    WD> I haven't followed this discussion but I don't think it is any of   
    WD> makenl's busyness (pun intended) what the relative age of a segment   
    WD> is and based upon that accept or reject it.   
      
   Precisely.  MakeNL should do specifically what it's "told" to do and not make   
   those "decisions" of it own accord.   
    WD>     
    WD> As a ZC I have to accept that whatever is sent to me by an RC is   
    WD> correctly named and CRC'd, and if nothing newer is received then   
    WD> whatever's in the master-directory "is" correct, whatever its age.   
    WD>     
      
   I'm in much the same position as an RC.  If I don't happen to receive a weekly   
   update from an NC, I have to presume the previous segment from that system is   
   correct and valid... within limits of course.   
      
   Best regards,   
   Marc   
      
   ... Ever stop to think, and forget to start again?   
   --- timEd/2 1.10.y2k+   
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