Hi! Richard,

On 09 Oct 07 14:01, you wrote to me:

 PQ>> I've checked the BFDS listings and my own filesbase: nada.  I just
 PQ>> found a listing on my friend Rick's BBS for a thingy called NLR:
 PQ>> nlr001.zip, about 80k small.  Here's the description for it...

That NLR turned out to be a fizzer.  I FREQed it later from Rick's system
and tried it out.  It refused to do anything for me, and in fact my input
to its query screen wouldn't even display while I was typing search text. 
Mind you I am running MS-DOS 7.01 in a DOS-box under Win98SE, so maybe
there was 'something' going on there.

 RW> Had a good collection of bfds stuff up through early '97 or so all
 RW> archived on floppies and some on zip drives. THanks for checking that
 RW> out

I don't have the full BFDS file collection, however I do get the BFDS files
listing published by Ben whatshizname (just kidding: RITCHEY - hi! Ben).  I
couldn't see anything like a nodelist search utility there though.

 RW> IF you've an idea how it could be done with something from the
 RW> collection of bfds utils indeed post it, I'd love to give it a try.

I could certainly do it, given time.  I've done a few other text file
utilities in BATch already; e.g. a FREQ front-end for
binkD/Argus/Radius/Taurus using the SRIF method, and a simple TIC handler
for a point system (or a node without any downlinks).  My favourite BFDS
tools are: NSET, a little bit of PSIS and some IFNUMBER.  :)

Cheers,
Paul.

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