Subj : Re: Nodelist Door
To : echicken
From : Bill McGarrity
Date : Sun Oct 22 2017 10:49 am
Hiya ec...
-=> echicken wrote to Bill McGarrity <=-
> Did you see the model I have on my system. It takes care of up to 10
ec> different nodelists and has many different search features. Come take
ec> a look and you can understand.I did take a peek at FNLScan and decided
ec> to make something that simplified the search.
ec> (I could as easily clone
ec> FNLScan or NodeView entirely just to make a free alternative, if that's
ec> desired.)Can you tell me about how you configure it to look for your
ec> nodelists? Do you point it at static files, or does it just pick up
ec> the newest / highest-numbered one for each network?
It picks up the highest ordinal day of each nodelist. Here is my cnf. file...
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; FNLScan Configuration File
; Version 1.23
; (c) Copyright 1997 - ZT Technologies
;
; The latest version of FNLScan can always be obtained from the
; support BBS's (see SUPPORT.DOC)
; Fidonet (magic tag FNLSCAN)
;
; *** Beginning of FNLScan configuration file ***
;
; Each Keyword must be capitalized and separated from it's value by a space(s)
;
;
; FNLScan has two display modes, short and long, requiring one and two lines
; respectively. To set your default mode, enter SHORT or LONG. Commenting
; this parameter out defaults to SHORT mode.
DEFAULT_DISP short
;
; The following parameters define the position and the length of the area
; code information within the phone number field. If commented out, these
; parameters will default to the U.S. format.
AREACODE_POS 0
AREACODE_LEN 3
;
; The path/filename of the log file for FNLScan to record its activities.
; Comment out if you don't want disk logging.
LOG_FILE c:\sbbs\xtrn\ftn\fnlscan.log
;
; The full path and filename, EXCEPT for the extension, to where your
; UNCOMPILED nodelist is stored. This must not include an extension! FNLScan
; will search the path defined for the latest version of the nodelist. Up to
; 15 nodelists may be defined for sequential scanning by FNLScan.
; Must be in standard Fidonet format
;
NODELIST c:\fd\nodelist\nodelist
NODELIST c:\fd\nodelist\WHISLIST
NODELIST c:\fd\nodelist\micronet
NODELIST c:\fd\nodelist\agoranet
NODELIST c:\fd\nodelist\sportnet
;
; If you do not want a status line on the local display when a user is in
; the door, set this parameter to NO. If you want the status line, enter
; YES or comment out the parameter.
STATUS_LINE yes
;
; If you do not want the sysop function keys (e.g. drop to DOS, etc.) active
; during local logins, set this parameter to YES. Otherwise, enter NO or
; comment it out.
DISABLE_FKEYS no
;
; *** End of FNLScan configuration file ***
