Re: pre118 - slrnpull still reads huge article numbers

"Rudy Taraschi" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.network.slrn.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
JED wrote:

>>07/11/2008 00:02:47 rec.motorcycles.harley: Retrieving articles 5606-2126026959.
>>07/11/2008 00:02:47 rec.motorcycles.harley: 18 articles available.
>>07/11/2008 00:02:49 rec.motorcycles.harley: 18/18 (16 killed), Time:
>
> The problem is with the server.  What slrnpull will do after
> retrieving the articles in the range 5606-2126026959 is that it will
> mark 2126026959 as the last number fetched.

Thanks for confirming.  I'm going to go out on a limb and toss out a
suggestion.  I know it's not slrnpull's job to do this, but couldn't
slrnpull detect that something was amiss, and replace 2 bazillion with
the highest article actually downloaded in the active and minmax file?
 Having both worked on spacecraft related software, you'll recognize
the term "graceful error recovery".

Right now, it's no biggie for me; I just quickly whipped up a small
script to detect and fix the spool after running slrnpull.

Cheers!

/rudy

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