Hi All , hope you are having a nice day

 Instead of a new one how about looking at an
old proposal I remember reading abt in a back
issue of fidonews. A binary list which among other
things used a bit field to represent flags such
as MO, CM, LO, PVT.

 Give each a 2^x position and add them up to get a
single value.

 0 0 0 0
 | | | +-MO
 | | +---CM
 | +-----LO
 +-------PVT

 Now a system that's CM and PVT would be 1 0 1 0 or A in hexadecimal,
a CM and MO system is 3, and so on. Do the same thing for the various
modem and ip flags and you'd leave room for quite a bit of additional
information in the standard St Louis format. Simply run a preprocessor
on a nodelist w/ the above to reconstruct the full flags needed for older
software as well as to make any changes needed for pots only or ion systems
which don't need the info the other does.

 Just a thought. :>

 -=> Yours sincerely, Paul Williams <=-

... "I must be doing something wrong...You're not bleeding yet...." - JeffH
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