Carol,

>>> Sounds interesting!   I use Perl & SQL (&, currently,
SQLite databases) t
>>> put the nodelists into a database & work on the info from
there...  (I'm
>>> working on using it to support the z1.fidonet.net DNS domains,
related web
>>> pages, and anything else that comes to mind...)

     I'm useing FTN::Database:Nodelist (part of the FTN::Database perl module
distribution) & it's associated ftnpldb-nodelist script to load a
nodelist into an SQL database.  Then do any processing I'm interested in
doing on that database;  like for generating web pages using the nodelist
information, creating reports about flag usage, things like that.

  On MS Windows, I use Strawberry Perl and install the FTN::Database & other
modules from CPAN in they're not in the standard Perl distro.  On Linux
(Debian/Ubuntu), I use the standard Perl installation:  currently if a
module isn't already packaged I get it from CPAN, although I also plan to
package the FTN related modules.

     For instance; I use it to generate a report about Zone 1 IBN/BINKD flag
usage [4].  It needs some work ;  I'm getting slightly different
results on different Debian installs (stable & testing), which I think
is related to the Perl code rather than the SQL...   I plan to post regular
summaries once I get
get more consistant results...

     Note that FTN::Database is hosted at Sourceforge [1] and is also available
at CPAN [2], where there are other FTN related perl modules.

     The SQL side of what I'm doing is not particularly complex (see also [3]);
 I'm basically learning both more about Perl & more about SQL as I go
along......  



Jame


[1] http://ftnpl.sourceforge.net/ftnpldb.html [2]
http://search.cpan.org/dist/FTN-Database/ [3]
http://git.rocasa.org/gitweb.cgi/z1dnsadm.git [4]
http://ftn.rocasa.us/files/ftn/z1net/z1dnsrpt.txt

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