On 2019 Mar 15 18:37:42, you wrote to Ward Dossche:

 >> If you properly deliver it in a proper format following the guidelines
 >> all should be well.

 RS> As long as the format isn't some 1980's relic that no modern editor
 RS> supports -- sure.

the nodelist and the segments that make it are plain ASCII files... any editor
worth its salt should be able to handle them...

the structure of the file is CSV with specific field definitions... if one is
manually editing their segment, they should know the proper format... that's
part of learning and understanding that experienced FTN operators will have...
one can easily refer to the FTSC document describing the nodelist, too...

  http://ftsc.org/docs/fts-0005.003

as for checking the format and publishing a segment, that's what nodelist
processors (vs nodelist compilers that simply generate nodelist indexes) are
for... makenl-ng is the most common one used these days... it is also still
maintained and updates are issued when necessary... check the MAKENL echo ;)

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