Subj : human-readable nodelist format
To   : Scott Little
From : andrew clarke
Date : Sun Nov 10 2002 01:30 am

Wed 2002-11-06 09:16, Scott Little (3:712/848) wrote to andrew clarke:

 ac>> I couldn't find any ",T:" in my nodelist, so I think that's a
 ac>> non-issue, unless I've misunderstood.

 > I mean, rather than Txx use T:xx so it's easier to parse.

Well, firstly, that's something you should really take up with whoever wants to 
modify FTS-5001, ie. not me.  Also Tyz is the format people are using in my 
current nodelist so presumably they aren't going see any reason to change.  As 
for actually parsing it, it's seems simple enough to me - if the nodelist flag 
begins in T and contains non-alphabetic characters or isn't 3 characters long 
then it must be something else. But if it is a valid Tyz string then you just 
need a lookup table.

Either way, programs that convert the HRL nodelist to FTS-5/5001 format should 
copy the string in the "Operating Dialup FTS-1 at" line verbatim. So it's like 
two nodelists in one, really.

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