LE> And you *can't* have a zone,net,node, or point number bigger than
 LE> 32767 according to FTS-5! Well, actually, you *can*, but you can't
 LE> be in a legal nodelist!
                  ^
             -=FIDONET=-

lest we forget, 99% of our programs are also used in OTHERNETS...
yeah, yeah, yeah... let them suffer but isn't that a bit defeatist? they
will do what they like. if we don't support them in their wants and
desires, we are the ones who loose... not they...

FWIW: all my software that does FTN node addressing uses WORD variables and
allows for 65535:65535/65535.65535 as a valid FTN address -=B-)  i just
have to take care to notify the user if the address they put in will not
fit in the alloted space...

  ie: HMB and GoldBase netmail message areas cannot handle zones >255
      so i warn the user when they try to send to a zone >255 in those
      message base types.

)\/(ark