Subj : Recent stuff
To : Carol Shenkenberger
From : Kees van Eeten
Date : Mon Oct 16 2017 12:41 pm
Hello Carol!
15 Oct 17 20:29, you wrote to All:
CS> Hi all, there hasn't been much going on but the FTSC did release an INA
CS> flag cleanup. Mostly to get the position of the flag in a consistant
CS> location. Makes it easier for programmers.
Yes lets go back to punchcards and write Fidonet software in COBOL.
I fail to see the gain. If a programmer cannot find a substring within a
string, I fear for the other code he writes.
Having values in a fixed location, requires that they are always there,
if they are always there there is no need to have a flag attached to them.
The last position dependent value in a nodelist line is the baudrate, it
has no flag and can only be found by its position in the line.
Kees
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