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   Message 825 of 1,725   
   Bj”rn Felten to Janis Kracht   
   MakeNL v3.4.1 Release   
   05 Jan 14 16:05:19   
   
    JK> Every segment in the master directory... it deletes old ones and updates   
    JK> new ones.   
      
      You mean that my suggestion (copy + delete) does not do that?   
      
    JK> what is so hard for you to understand?   
      
    JK> Oh, I forgot, you're probably running some homegrown version    
      
      You just can't help yourself, can you?   
      
      I was the one person who started this project. I picked up an old German   
   reverse engineered MakeNL that'd been ignored for several years. I cleaned up   
   the code, removed a lot of outdated functions, fixed a lot of severe errors   
   and finally made make-files for all known operating systems in fidonet.   
      
      Needless to say, I'm interested to know how my baby is used. One of the   
   things I find strange is that so many coordinators choose not to use the added   
   security with .UPD (or whatever extension), but rather the very   
   predictable generic function.   
      
      I guess I'll never get an honest answer from you -- but I *was* hoping that   
   some other coordinators could tell me why they do it this way.   
      
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