Hello Rick!

24 Nov 02 08:13, you wrote to me:

 RC>> In order to make it worthwhile for programmers to code for it, it
 RC>> has to be actually tested to see if its worthwhile.

 RR> How can you test it if there is no software to act upon it other than
 RR> a script designed to parse it? I mean you can write a script to parse
 RR> anything out of a csv file.

Cart before the horse or chicken before the egg.

 RC>> Since I am guilty as charged for proposing this flag and getting
 RC>> the Z1C to accept the flag for testing, if you or anyone else
 RC>> wish to provide me the names of the developers of your software,
 RC>> I will approach them and ask them if they would be willing to
 RC>> implement them.

 RR> Michiel Broek, but I believe it would need to be an FTSC standard
 RR> first. Again this is only one piece of software and there's more than
 RR> one piece of software out there.

It wont become a standard if it is not used...

Maybe its high time we get off our collective asses and stop batting around
ideas and saying how good they are and then end up doing nothing more than
that.

 RC>> I can tell you that the R16C, has written a perl script that can
 RC>> parse the nodelist and he added to his script the ability to
 RC>> parse out the INA flag.. (thanks Jerry).

 RR> I think David Drummond is going to have to change his script for
 RR> parsing binkp capable nodes as well - seems the INA's don't make it
 RR> through there as well.

Seems to me that someone is gonna have to change something..

 RR> There is also the issue that the addition of this flag will make it
 RR> easier for entries to surpass the 157 character limit imposed by
 RR> compilers such as MakeNL.

I honestly do not know where you have been in the past 2 weeks?

I had a node in my region who wanted to list a FQDN next to every IP
protocol he offers, it threw his listing up to 234 chars, with my flag, it
lowered his listing well within the tolerances imposed by makenl.

Are there pro's and con's with my proposal? Why certainly, but I can name
pro's and cons's with anything else that has been implemented.

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