Subj : oxp: Nodelist problem
To   : August Abolins
From : Martin Foster
Date : Thu Mar 18 2021 11:44:00

Hello August!

*** Tuesday 16.03.21 at 18:15, August Abolins wrote to Martin Foster:

 MF>> Many many many years ago, I had some translation software
 MF>> but it got "lost" somewhere. I don't remember the name of
 MF>> it but I do recall it did a reasonable job and it also had
 MF>> the power to learn.

 AA> I think Grammarly works the same way. It "learns" (or rather,
 AA> retains) the corrections you make and then remembers them the
 AA> next time a word or set of words are used in context.

 AA> I found another online translator.  Here is the TOC using DeepL:

 AA>         I Basics

 AA>              1.1 FidoNet - structure and addressing
 AA>              1.2 Point in FidoNet
 AA>              1.3 The nodelist(s)


 AA>         II Installation and operation

 AA>              2.1 Installation and configuration
 AA>              2.2 Network call
 AA>              2.3 Ordering and managing areas (boards, echoes)
 AA>              2.4 Board groups: Umlauts, Origins, Re^n and size limit
 AA>              2.5 Writing and polling under different AKAs
 AA>              2.6 Sending and receiving files
 AA>              2.7 Addressing Internet gateways
 AA>              2.8 Sysop mode (diskpoll)


 AA>         III Node lists

 AA>              3.1 Managing node and point lists
 AA>              3.2 Crash mails
 AA>              3.3 File Requests
 AA>              3.4 Call charge counter for crashes and requests
 AA>              3.5 Crash/Request by Timing List and AutoSend


 AA>         IV Technical Documentation

 AA>              4.1 The NDIFF node list editor
 AA>              4.2 The message converter ZFIDO
 AA>              4.3 The call log file XPFIDO.LOG
 AA>              4.4 The Fido mailer XP-FM
 AA>              4.5 The yuppie converter YUP2PKT


 AA>         Appendix

 AA>              A.    Files in the CrossPoint/Fido package
 AA>              B     XP-ToolNET
 AA>              C.    Glossary
 AA>              D.    Known problems
 AA>              E.    CrossPoint/Fido - Version History

 AA> "Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version)"

 AA> Do you see anything amiss above?

Nope, that's an excellent job. Is that exactly as it came out or did you  
do a bit of tickling up?

I'm asking because I tried it out with a short paragraph and it came out  
looking like a dog's dinner.

 AA> DeepL will allow 5000 chars per translation.

 MF>> Nice idea, are you volunteering :-))

 AA> I would suggest that we can split the effort between several of
 AA> us OpenXP users, post the translation results in the XPOINT echo
 AA> and tweek where necessary to produce the final result.

I would NOT advise using the XPOINT echo for that purpose as it's actually  
a gated *German* newsgroup. Some sort of versioning system, such as git or  
svn, would be a far better way of handling it IMO.

Regards,
Martin

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