Subj : oxp: Nodelist problem
To   : August Abolins
From : Martin Foster
Date : Fri Mar 12 2021 09:25:00

Hello August!

*** Thursday 11.03.21 at 09:13, August Abolins wrote to Martin Foster:

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

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

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

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

 AA> What and where is fido.txt?

It's the German documentation for the Fido Point system and it's in the  
"doc" directory.

 AA> Anyway..  the news is exciting.

Yes, it's what I would call a little gem :)

 AA> Remember the issues I was reporting regarding nodelist updating?

Will I ever forget =8}

 AA> Originally, my problem was the matching of the right Zone-version of
 AA> the nodelist with the DIFFs.

Yes.

 AA> But I had a "feeling" that I ought to be able to just get OpenXp to
 AA> do a direct replacement of the whole thing (without the diff
 AA> processing)  I mean.. it just seemed silly NOT to be able to do that!

Yep, agreed.

Regards,
Martin

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