[BUG]? Celeste message parsing error: At least one digit expected here

Lex Spoon lex at cc.gatech.edu
Sat Nov 10 17:07:14 UTC 2001


Celeste should certainly tolerate badly formatted messages.  Can you
figure out what is wrong with the messages?  I don't see your script.  I
do see two copies of Timestampe>>fromDate:andTime: from Visualworks.

Is it a bogus Date: field that is messed up?  If so, could you try it
again in a new image?  Celeste is pretty robust about handling bad
Date's nowadays -- it looks like update 3906 did the trick, from back in
April.

By the way, the messages are downloaded first in order to be robust. 
The messages are first saved to disk, and only then deleted.  A priority
in Celeste, at least so far, has been reliability.  Since saving is
kinda slow, it's desirable not to do it too often.  Instead of making
this mechanism more complicated, it seems sensible to wait a little and
get duplicates avoidance working, which handily solves this problem...


-Lex




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