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to: Neil Walker
from: mark lewis
date: 2002-07-15 19:13:58
subject: proposed new nodelist [2]

NW>>> That's one way but xxxK and xxxM would probably be
 NW>>> more readable and do the job just as well

 JB>> harder to program though,

 NW> So what? Giving the programmers an easy life is not the
 NW> primary objective. Besides, I've yet to come across a
 NW> program that amkes any use of that field in the nodelist
 NW> other than to simply display it. ;-) It's more for human
 NW> readability than anything else.

my FrontDoor sure makes use of it... i've settings to call systems with
speeds above and below certain thresholds... i can even set up certain
modem inits based on the speed field, if i need to...

)\/(ark

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