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   Message 321 of 1,004   
   Tim Schattkowsky to Martin Foster   
   Re: WinPoint Version 394 is available   
   21 Jan 22 13:21:50   
   
   MSGID: 2:240/1120.29 233e3187   
   CHRS: IBMPC 2   
   TZUTC: 0100   
   REPLY: 2:310/31.7 233f6e00   
   //Hello Martin,//   
      
   on *21.01.2022* at *11:36:49* You wrote in rea *WINPOINT*   
   to *Tim Schattkowsky* about *"WinPoint Version 394 is available"*.   
      
    MF> Hello Tim!   
      
    MF> *** Thursday 20.01.22 at 18:18:54, Tim Schattkowsky wrote to Alle:   
      
    TS>> ÉÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍ»   
    TS>> º Û   Û ÛÛÛÛ                          º   
    TS>> º Û   Û Û   Û     WinPoint            º   
    TS>> º Û   Û ÛÛÛÛ      Version 394         º   
    TS>> º Û Û Û Û                             º   
    TS>> º  Û Û  Û         Released 2022-01-20 º   
    TS>> ÇÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄĶ   
    TS>> º Complete Point Software for Windows º   
    TS>> ÇÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄĶ   
    TS>> º Most notable changes since V.389    º   
    TS>> º ùNEW Fully automatic processing of  º   
    TS>> º      nodelists from file areas      º   
      
      
    MF> This weeks nodelist and nodediff arrived via their respective file echos   
    MF> after updating my install to 394. Both of them were automatically moved   
    MF> to their respective sub-directories in the Filebase directory but no   
    MF> processing whatsoever took place :-(   
      
   You have to configure the respective file area for each node list/diff in the   
   node/pointlest settings.   
      
   Also, you have to *use either the diff or the full list* for the automatic   
   update of a list. Enabling both may result in "nothing" because if WP finds   
   more than two lists (also because you stockpiled them in the file area and now   
   all of them show up), it will do nothing. Full lists are only replaced, if   
   exactly two matching files/(e.g., NODELIST.007 and NODELIST.014) are in the   
   DistribNL folder. In this case, the older one will get renamed to NODELIST.OLD   
   and the remaining one will go into processing. Since later no more than one   
   file is assumed to arrive per week this works automatically as long as you   
   grab them every week.   
      
   BTW: THis underlying basics habe been used in WP95 already, so this (contrary   
   to nowadays public belief) was basically working for decades now. The only   
   limitation was that until now, WP was only relying on DIFFs (not supporting   
   automatic update from full list files). In addition, the files had to ne in   
   DistribNL or Inbound, so if TIC-processing was enabled in WP2005 it moved the   
   files out of sight. So for WP2005, either this had to be disabled or some   
   people used scripts to move/decompress the files directly to DistribNL to   
   trigger the automatic processing.    
      
   Regards,   
   Tim   
   --- WinPoint 394.0   
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