On 2018 May 08 20:15:36, you wrote to Bj÷rn Felten:

 KE>  In windows as well a in Unix, you can use filename.upd or whatever. What
 KE>  makenl will do with when it is moved to the master directory, is as
above,
 KE>  dat the daynumber of the publishing day. So you get a file with the name:
 KE>  filename.upd.128 if today was the publishing day.

are you saying that this should also be happening with the OS/2 version of
makenl???

[...]

 BF>>    In the later case there should never be a day number problem.

 KE>  Well I did, and using a * in the CTL file as some do, also creates havoc
 KE>  on systems that do not limit how the filename is structured.

there are no *'s in my CTL files over here... never have been and there should
not be a need for them if folks properly read and understand the docs...

you leave off dots and extensions if you want DOY extensions used automatically
 OR you specify exactly the extension to be used with no wildcards...

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