[Dxspider-support] DIR/N Confusion

[Dirk Koopman]

I am doing some work tidying up the 'dir' command. But basically, what
should happen is that 'dir new' should display all the new messages that
have come in since they last logged in.

This will probably change to 'all the messages since the last time that
they logged in and used the dir/new command'. What this means is that
you can use dir/n as many times as you like in a session and you will
get the same results. Then when you log out and then log in again
(sometime later), on dir/n, you will only get the new messages since the
time you last logged out. 

If you use the dir/n command in a session, then log out and in a few
times over the space of some days, then do dir/n you will the balance of
new messages since the last session you used dir/n.

Does that make sense?

Dirk 
 
On Sun, 2001-10-21 at 08:58, g3orh wrote:
> Hi List,
> 
>                  Generally my users are happy with DXSpider. However there
> is one variable confusion for quite a few of them. This is the DIR/N
> command. Some users mostly use dir/n and they report finding that some
> new messages are not included in the cluster output with that command.
>         Some others report doing dir/n on two consecutive days and getting
> an identical list to the previous day.
> 
> Question: 1) What process keeps track of which messages each user has
>                     had displayed with the dir/n command.
>                 2) Does the dir/n command only cover new messages which
>                     have come in over the last 24 hours , instead of
> displaying
>                     all new messages since the user last used the command ?
> 
> This is causing a lot of confusion with my users who were weaned on AK1A
> which kept track of such things. As sysop I have to rely on this user input
> as I get everything displayed anyway so don't get the same display as them.
> My remote sysop was the first to notice this when he did dir/n as a user ,
> followed by dir/n after claiming his sysop rights and seeing the messages
> which were missing as a user.
> 
> - Regards Colin   (73's)
> - g3orh at ic24.net
> 
> 
> 
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