Subj : human-readable nodelist format
To   : Scott Little
From : andrew clarke
Date : Sun Nov 10 2002 04:00 pm

Sun 2002-11-10 10:44, Scott Little (3:712/848) wrote to andrew clarke:

 ac>> I can't decide whether you're saying it's too difficult to parse or
 ac>> not.

 > Fully specifying the address for each node bothers me, esp. in 
 > conjunction with the Uplink field.

Why?

 >  *  Initial version.  Currently the Uplink field in the human-readable
 >  *  nodelist is ignored by rnlcvt.  Which assumes the input file is 
 >  *  already in hierarchical order.

 > A _correct_ implementation will be more complex unnecessarily in the 
 > name of human readability.

Not really.  But keep in mind that rnlcvt's aim was just to check the valididty 
of nlcvt's output.

 > Much easier to extract a human readable list from a strict format
 > than the other way around.

True.  But still pretty simple.

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