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UWA week 20 (1st semester, week 11) ↓

project Did the one station know the name of all station (all 4)

8:02am Mon 13th May, Christopher M.

"Henry Hewgill" <23*1*7*8@s*u*e*t*u*a*e*u*a*> wrote:

> So I just want to clarify that this means it's not our protocol's responsibility to try & collate + maintain a list of all available stations in each station, but rather to gleam this from the timetable files in the project? Because we're not sure what that file structure will be like when you mark, so I'm assuming you want us to scan every file in the server's directory for any that start with 'tt-' and then add the rest of the file's name (the station name) to this list for the server to share as the list of possible destinations?

Hi Henry, There's no requirement for your protocol to find all station names, and no station should need to know/use all other station names in your protocol. But see [help3002]⬈ Each station only needs to have and read its own timetable file; it's reasonable to assume it's in the same directory as your station's executables. There's no need to scan the directory for *your* timetable file, and you won't be reading other timetable files.