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to: Thomas Seeling
from: Paul Walker
date: 1999-04-24 02:14:34
subject: Fidonet Technical Guidelines

Hi Thomas,

Thomas Seeling to Paul Walker, 13 Apr 99 09:17.

 PW>> You and James. :) Used to be a time when people would alias the
 PW>> magic name NODELIST to the current nodelist, but that doesn't
 TS> TTick has a function to update a magics file :)

I think allfix does as well, but I'm not interested enough to check ;)

 TS> I have released the full source for NLmake, which also contains
 TS> creating a nodelist from segments, and a diff from last week's list.
 TS> The diff function is based on Gnu diff ed-forward algorithm with some
 TS> tricky hash function :)

Heh. I'm sure it's good, but wouldn't it have been easier to just use diff 
and process the output? :)

  Paul              (p.r.walker{at}warwick.ac.uk)                 

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