Subj : human-readable nodelist format
To   : Jasen Betts
From : andrew clarke
Date : Tue Nov 05 2002 11:55 am

Sat 2002-11-02 07:35, Jasen Betts (3:640/531.42) wrote to andrew clarke:

>>> Human-readable (HR) distribution nodelist

ac>> I'm not much of a documentation-writer, but I've tried to describe
ac>> the format I'm proposing.  If people think they can rewrite a
ac>> paragraph here and there so it makes more sense, or some changes
ac>> in the file format, do so and send me the changes.

> did you see what I was proposing a few months back.

I'm afraid I wasn't in FidoNet a few months back.  I left in January 1999 and
have only returned in the last couple of weeks.  So if you want to repost your
proposal, I'll have a look.

> Mainly leting a node have multiple addresses (since many do) and thus
> saving repeating the same node with the same connection info and thus
> make the nodelist easier to maintain?

I don't see any reason why a single node shouldn't be able to have multiple
connection methods listed in a new format nodelist.  I don't see how the
alternative could be easier to maintain.  Sounds like it could only add more
complexity to people's routing and system configs.

> also a way is needed to translate thesenew lists to old-style (possibly
> by reformatting and selectively dropping information) for se with
> existing software...

The program I wrote, rnlcvt, does just that.

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