Subj : oxp: nodelist situation?
To   : August Abolins
From : Paul Quinn
Date : Mon Apr 06 2020 10:49:59

Hi! August,

On 05 Apr 20 19:53, you wrote to Alan Ianson:

 AI>> It's an external SRIF utility that's needed for binkd that is not
 AI>> well known.

 AA> I don't know what SRIF is.  Google tells me it's a somatotropin
 AA> release  inhibiting factor.  LOL

It's described most recently in FSP-1040.  It's so simple that even I 
understood it enough to design a DOS batch server method of handling FREQs in 
binkD, Argus & Radius.

On the client side, the result is a simple ASCII text file containing a list of 
filenames, one per line, requesting either real names or majic versions as 
concocted by the server's sysop.  To get to that point requires some voodoo, 
usually with a netmail editor using the FREQ attribute (most BBS editors can't) 
and a compliant tosser is required to act on the 'direct'/FREQ nature of the 
netmail (some don't).

In realising the need for a simple text file, one can use an approriate editor 
to produce one.  (Filename is -not- important, though the 'extension' is.  I've 
used current date/time for quick resolution in the past; example: 
"06041050.req".) I've experimented successfully on several occasions by simply 
letting the file languish in a *filebox* configured for a peer system, for the 
mailer to transmit to the server during a session achieved by some other means.

 AA> I thought most bbs softwares (especially sychro and mystic, the
 AA> majority  in fsxnet?) supported freq, built-in.

Nope.  Not a lot of folks took the time to study the proposal (current status 
still, I think; not a standard yet).

Cheers,
Paul.

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