Re: Re: [VirtualNET open?]...

> > Furthermore, I don't even need to detect Bad Command or File Name these day
> > (as I used to in the SORT days) since other methods are used to detect if a
> > Archiver has worked or failed (by detecting if the .PKT has been deleted by
> > the Archiver's Move command), or if an Unarchiver has worked (by capturing
> > the output to a file and checking for .PKT names), or if a Protocol has
> > worked (by examining the DSZ log file).
>   Capturing the output is a little flaky.  (If the archiver ever changes it's
> output format in a newer version, VFIDO won't work correctly).  The other
> methods you've described are certainly the way it should be done however...

No, it's not. All you need to detect is the word "memory" in the output to
detect that it has had insufficent memory to archive or unarchive, or check
for ".pkt" to see if .PKT files have appeared, for example.

Neil J Marshall.

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