Subj : human-readable nodelist format
To   : Rick Van Ruth
From : andrew clarke
Date : Sun Nov 10 2002 04:28 pm

Sun 2002-11-10 13:22, Rick Van Ruth (3:640/954) wrote to Scott Little:

 RR>>> I had a look at the nodelist it generated, but sorry I don't agree
 RR>>> with the fields

 SL>> Feel free to share specifics..

 > I don't understand why some information is given a line for the field 
 > yet the connection information is still all in one line.

The "Operating Dialup FTS-1 at" was designed to be backward compatible with the 
St Louis nodelist, so you could copy anything after that string back into the 
St Louis nodelist.

 > I figure if you were going to use this type of format there would be
 > a greater number of defining lines.

What for?  Other connection methods than FTS-1 and BinkP?  There is scope for 
more if needed, eg. "Operating TCP/IP VMODEM at example.org".  Which reminds 
me, there's no method to specify an alternate BinkP port number in my proposal, 
so I'll have to fix that.  Something like

Operating [TCP/IP] [Binkp] [at] [host] [port]

Where [port] is optional, and if unspecified, the default BinkP port will be 
used.

Regards
Andrew

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