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to: andrew clarke
from: Rick Van Ruth
date: 2002-11-10 18:46:44
subject: human-readable nodelist format

Hello andrew.

10 Nov 02 16:34, you wrote to Scott Little:

 >> I don't know what alternate use people would use for the Uplink
 >> keyword, but it won't matter, because the spec won't allow them to.

 ac> Maybe if I just called it Parent, and Uplink was not a synonym for
 ac> Parent, there would be less confusion about its purpose.

 ac> Then the Uplink keyword could be used for specifying non-default routing
 ac> information, if necessary.

I don't understand what there is to gain from the format.

Cheers,
                Rick

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