Subj : human-readable nodelist format
To   : All
From : andrew clarke
Date : Fri Nov 01 2002 04:56 am

Fri 2002-11-01 03:44, andrew clarke (3:633/285.4) wrote to All:

 >                   Human-readable (HR) distribution nodelist

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

I'd like to avoid getting into an unproductive HR vs XML vs CSV argument 
though.  At the end of the day the formats should be all translatable and 
interchangable anyway.  And if you really want to have an XML (or some other 
format) nodelist, write a spec for it, and proof-of-concept code!

I've hacked together some example proof-of-concept code to translate the FTS-5 
nodelist to HR format, and the resultant file back to FTS-5 format (minus the 
original comments and CRC).  It's public domain, written in C and is at

http://blizzard.dnsalias.org/fidonet/nodelist/

From there you can also download Win32 binaries and a copy of a sample HR 
format nodelist (a 400K zip file).

Regards
Andrew

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