Subj : Nodelist problem
To   : Anna Christina Nass
From : Martin Foster
Date : Thu Mar 11 2021 12:19:00

Hello Anna!

*** Thursday 11.03.21 at 10:51, Martin Foster wrote to Anna Christina Nass:

 AA>>>> ³   [x]   Use internal nodelist processor           ³
 MF>>>                ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
 MF>>> It would appear that whoever did the original translation of this got
 MF>>> it all wrong and it's taken ~20 years for folks to notice it!

 MF>>> I'll correct it for the next release but I'm struggling to find the
 MF>>> right words. Perhaps "Update with diff" or "Use diff to update" or
 MF>>> maybe something else?

 ACN>> "Updatefile is a diff" would be a short description - and tells the
 ACN>> most important thing that this switch selects (diff / no diff).

 MF> Yes, that's a good possibility :)

 ACN>> And in the help file it could be made more clear that an internal
 ACN>> processor merges the diff.

 MF> So, with the option enabled, the internal nodelist processor merges the
 MF> diff with the existing nodelist, whereas with the option disabled, the
 MF> existing nodelist is overwritten by the new full nodelist. Am I
 MF> understanding this correctly?

I've just come across this in fido.txt(sec 3.1) .....

---------- 8< ----------
Grundsätzlich   gibt  es   zwei   mögliche  Formen  von  Node- und
Pointlisten-Updates: Komplettupdates, bei denen die alte Liste durch
eine neue  ersetzt wird,  oder Diff-Updates, bei denen aus der alten
Liste  und  einer Differenzdatei die  neue  Liste  erzeugt  wird. Um
welche Art von Update es sich jeweils handelt, teilen Sie  XP in der
Nodelisten-Konfiguration (/Fido/Nodelisten/Verwalten, Option "Edit")
mit dem Schalter  "Update  als  Diff einbinden" mit. Bei den Updates
zur Haupt-Nodeliste  und  zur Region-24-Pointliste  handelt  es sich
immer um Diff-Dateien.
---------- 8< ----------

With the aid of Goggle Translate and my own limited knowledge of German,  
I've come up with the following translation .....

---------- 8< ----------
There  are  basically  two  possible  forms  of  Node and Point list
updates: Complete updates  in which the old  list is replaced with a
new one, or diff updates where  a new list is generated by merging a
difference file into the old list. Depending on  what kind of update
it is, this can be configured in Fido -> Nodelists -> Config -> Edit
by use of the "Include update as diff" button. The main nodelist and
the Region 24 pointlist always use diff files.
---------- 8< ----------

So, the information was there all the time.
Please feel free to correct my translation if necessary :-))

Regards,
Martin

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