2 escorts have me at 170m below. Will it ever end?

Stiebler · 01-12-06, 01:40 PM

I've been fascinated to read some of the items in this thread.

To answer Avon Lady's original post, I think the best strategy (since the warships now lack depthcharges) is to head away from the convoy as far as possible. That is, in the opposite direction to the convoy. At some point, the warships have to retire to resume their position. Whether this would work with a hunter-killer group (no convoy to defend) is less certain, but they must presumably return to defend their own turf at some point.

Concerning the use of copies of library files:
If this is true, then someone has had the bright idea of writing code that looks for key words in the file name, instead of the actual file name required. So 'Copy of sensors.dat' or 'sensorsold.dat' will be searched for the key word 'sensors'. This is pretty peculiar programming behaviour, since the first type of unwanted copy file 'Copy of' will appear first alphabetically but second in terms of file dating, while the second type of unwanted copy file 'sensordold.dat' will appear after the correct file both alphabetically and by time stamp. How can one make a sensible decision between these options? Presumably someone must have thought that it is better to have any file, than to risk having no file. But I just cannot believe that any programmer would not first look for the exactly right file!

Stiebler.

01-12-06, 01:40 PM	#24
Stiebler Fuel Supplier Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: London, UK Posts: 1,237 Downloads: 29 Uploads: 4	I've been fascinated to read some of the items in this thread. To answer Avon Lady's original post, I think the best strategy (since the warships now lack depthcharges) is to head away from the convoy as far as possible. That is, in the opposite direction to the convoy. At some point, the warships have to retire to resume their position. Whether this would work with a hunter-killer group (no convoy to defend) is less certain, but they must presumably return to defend their own turf at some point. Concerning the use of copies of library files: If this is true, then someone has had the bright idea of writing code that looks for key words in the file name, instead of the actual file name required. So 'Copy of sensors.dat' or 'sensorsold.dat' will be searched for the key word 'sensors'. This is pretty peculiar programming behaviour, since the first type of unwanted copy file 'Copy of' will appear first alphabetically but second in terms of file dating, while the second type of unwanted copy file 'sensordold.dat' will appear after the correct file both alphabetically and by time stamp. How can one make a sensible decision between these options? Presumably someone must have thought that it is better to have any file, than to risk having no file. But I just cannot believe that any programmer would not first look for the exactly right file! Stiebler.