Subj : Compression question To : Bo Simonsen From : Bob Jones Date : Sat Jul 12 2003 08:36 pm ... BS> Oh now i understand what Squish has to do with BS> confmail, thanks for the explaination :-) ... BJ> My hard disk crashed before I could investigate further -- BJ> and in the mean time, Fidonet had shut down adding BJ> nodes so that they BJ> could introduce the two (or was it three) d nodelist format -- which BJ> is when the 255 node limit was removed.... BS> Yes then it was a 255 * 255 limit? Or did the BS> nodenumber up to 32768 bee allowed? (afaik is this the limit now). When the 255 (or so) node limit was change, the new format used 16 bit ints and not 8 bit unsigned integers for the new format. So, 2d was about 32K * 32K for the limit. Some software process the 16 bit ints as signed (since the "default" address for the node applying for a node number became -1/-1, at least in some software..... In actuallity, Net and Zone numbers had some structure to how they were originally assigned..... If I remember correctly, we had some European nodes in the 2d setup.... This forced an issue with the netmail hour that was established in / for the North American continent, which got solved when zones were introduced.... BJ> When I finally got back BJ> to hardware that I could use Fidonet with (with appropriate BJ> resources) fidonet was up to three dimentional BJ> nodelists, and I found BJ> that my area already had a local net..... BS> Okey, then Europe got into fidonet too i guess :) Yes..... Originally, zones were one digit, regions were two digits and nets were three digits, with all uniquely assigned through out fidonet. Eventually some duplication started to appear in Zone 2 because they needed more region and net numbers, but they kept similar numbering conventions. And when the second round of three digit net numbers ran out in zone 1, four digit net numbers were introduced in zone 1. Last I looked, net 343 exists in both spain (in zone 2) and the US (zone 1)..... Yes, the 2d addressing in echomail path and seen-by lines can cause problems *if* echos are not properly gated between zones..... BJ> The first fidonet node I BJ> had (local) access to (#56, if I remember the BS> number right -- run out BJ> of the local HeathKit store) also went down about the time fidonet BJ> went from 1-D to 2-D.] BS> Hmm.. i don't know HeathKit, something like D'Bridge? No. HeathKit made electronic kits. Some of their last kits were the H-100 and I believe a H-150. The H-100 was the kit form of the Zenith Z-100, and the H-150 was the kit form of the Z-150. [I believe Zenith bought HeathKit before HeathKit went out of business...] I put two H-100's together.... A fair amount of soldering at the time.... Because electronic manufacturing became cheap enough, HeathKits became to expensive to sell relative to electronic equipment already put together.... In their day, you could build clocks, Ham Radio equipment, computers, radios, weather stations, etc..... almost anything electronic..... We probably should move this to another echo if we continue it (or to netmail).... We're getting a bit far from Squish, which like other mail mashers, only has 2d path and seen-by lines..... Take care...... Bob Jones, 1:343/41 --- Maximus/2 3.01 * Origin: Top Hat 2 BBS (1:343/41) .