Subj : human-readable nodelist format To : andrew clarke From : mark lewis Date : Tue Nov 05 2002 02:45 pm ac> Yes, "ignore", not "strip out". ;-) I was refering to ac> nodelist parsing software ignoring new keywords it doesn't ac> recognise (instead of failing). Segment merging software ac> shouldn't strip out anything unless it's been told to. many understand "ignore" to mean completely and thus they ignore those items when copying or modifying and subsequently those items are ignored right out of the resultant processing... methinks "ignored" is not the proper word to be used... )\/(ark * Origin: (1:3634/12) .