Found an interesting thing tonight. It seems if you want to hatch a new file out more than once and it has the same name in the same file echo then htick does not like it and upon copying the hatched file to the defined filearea it turns the new file into a 0kb one...

I found I was hatching 0kb files when trying to rehatch the infopack.

The only way I could seem to fix it was to set a command to manually remove
the fsxnet.zip file from the defined filearea in the main config file :(

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Re: Htick
By: Avon to Al on Fri Feb 19 2021 09:58 pm

Found an interesting thing tonight. It seems if you want to hatch a new file out more than once and it has the same name in the same file echo then htick does not like it and upon copying the hatched file to the defined filearea it turns the new file into a 0kb one...

I found I was hatching 0kb files when trying to rehatch the infopack.

The only way I could seem to fix it was to set a command to manually remove the fsxnet.zip file from the defined filearea in the main config file :(

I haven't noticed that but I don't often hatch files with the same name.

If I mess up a hatch (and I sometimes do) and need to send out another file with the same name as a previous hatched file I add "replace filename.zip" to the hatch command line after the filename and area on the htick hatch command line.

Using "replace" with hatch adds a replaces line to hatched files so the file is replaced when it is tossed.

Ttyl :-),
Al

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Re: Htick
By: Avon to Al on Fri Feb 19 2021 09:58 pm

Found an interesting thing tonight. It seems if you want to hatch a new file out more than once and it has the same name in the same
file echo then htick does not like it and upon copying the hatched file to the defined filearea it turns the new file into a 0kb
one...

Hmm... I dont think I've come across this issue as you've described...

And I'm sure I've hatched out a file (an infopack) more than once without issues...

I might try it out to be sure.

...ëîåï

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On 19 Feb 2021 at 10:05p, deon pondered and said...

Hmm... I dont think I've come across this issue as you've described...

And I'm sure I've hatched out a file (an infopack) more than once
without issues...

Something is up (at least for me) I can see the same issue occurring if I try to hatch a nodelist out twice within a week. The same compressed nodelist
file name is being a 0kb file in the file area Htick sends the hatched file
too :( It's not great.

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On 20 Feb 2021 at 10:50a, Avon pondered and said...

Something is up (at least for me) I can see the same issue occurring if
I try to hatch a nodelist out twice within a week. The same compressed nodelist file name is being a 0kb file in the file area Htick sends the

Hold that thought... it may be working OK for me for the nodelist.. Hmm

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On 20 Feb 2021 at 10:56a, Avon pondered and said...

Something is up (at least for me) I can see the same issue occurring I try to hatch a nodelist out twice within a week. The same compresse nodelist file name is being a 0kb file in the file area Htick sends t

Hold that thought... it may be working OK for me for the nodelist.. Hmm

I think I solved it.

The issue was I was running Htick from a location where the config files that pointed to the zip/unzip settings were not able to be seen. For some reason that mucks up the way the file being tossed is handled by Htick and can lead
to the 0kb issue...

So by setting the active directory in my script to where the config files
were it seems to have solved the issue. That said I'm still not 100% certain and will keep an eye on things.

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