HI Paul,

Paul Quinn wrote in a message to Richard Webb:

PQ> On 21 Oct 07 16:24, I wrote to you:

 PQ> 'drawing board'.  After 10 minutes I discovered that my using a
 PQ> temporary 'zone' file idea just won't work, as some smarties have
 PQ> file-redirection symbols in their nodelistings (i.e., ''
 PQ> characters).

I'm sure I'm not the only guy that's going to appreciate your hard work. 
Sorry I didn't reply to your ealrier note, just got back in town late last
week from a business trip. PQ> I found a glitch of some sort with NSET
when the line counter
PQ> exceeds #767, i.e. anything like "NSET /L768 =$0 <
nodelist.299" (or
PQ> a higher /L[value]) just turns up a blank line. Quite strange.  I'd
PQ> be interested to hear from any other NSET user if they can replicate
PQ> that error... or not. :-)

I think I might have that around here.
PQ> More work to be done yet, probably tomorrow...

PQ> Cheers,
AS I said, I'm sure I won't be the only old dog out here that really
appreciates this.

In all my years in fidonet I was surprised to never see a command line
nodelist search tool.

Regards,
           Richard
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