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-
- XNET v1.01 ■ Copyright 1993 by John Giesbrecht (1:247/128)
-
-
- XNET extracts a selected net or region from a raw nodelist, producing
- an FTS-0005-compatible nodelist (including the CRC) which can be
- processed without error by nodelist processors such as XLAXNODE. XNET
- requires approximately 85K of RAM.
-
- It will optionally include administrative nodes, and produce a
- formatted, human-readable list of the selected nodes.
-
-
- Command-line syntax
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-
- XNET /N[<n>:]<n>|/R<n>|/Z<n> [/I<filespec>] [/A] [/T] [/W]
-
- /N specifies net to extract ┐ (exactly
- /R " region to extract ├ one
- /Z " zone to extract ┘ required)
- /I " input nodelist (optional)
- /A include zone-level independent (administrative) nodes (optional)
- /T generate 80-column human-readable text (optional)
- /W " 132-column " " (optional)
-
-
- Notes:
-
- ■ Parameters must be preceded by either a forward slash ('/') or a
- hyphen ('-').
-
- ■ The command line is not case-sensitive.
-
- ■ The order of the parameters is not significant.
-
-
- /N, /R, : Exactly one must be specified. N followed by a net number
- /Z specifies a net to be extracted; R specifies a region,
- and Z a zone. Since net numbers are unique only within
- zones, you may optionally specify a zone by prefixing it
- (and a colon) to the net number. Zone 1 is the default.
-
- Examples:
-
- /N247
-
- Extract net 247 in zone 1.
-
- /N2:247
-
- Extract net 247 in zone 2.
-
- /I : Followed by a filespec, specifies the input nodelist. XNET
- defaults to looking for the newest NODELIST.nnn (where nnn is
- a day number) in the current directory. If you provide a
- backslash-terminated path, a similar search will be performed
- in the specified directory. If the path does not end in a
- backslash, the last element will be used as the base filename
- instead of NODELIST. If an extension is provided, the
- extract will come from the specified file.
-
- Examples:
-
- -Ifishnet
-
- Use the newest FISHNET.nnn in the current directory.
-
- /Id:\max\nl\
-
- Use the newest NODELIST.nnn in d:\max\nl.
-
- -id:\max\nl\crudnet
-
- Use the newest CRUDNET.nnn in d:\max\nl.
-
- /ie:\bink\nodelist\nodelist.234
-
- Use NODELIST.234 in e:\bink\nodelist.
-
- /A : Include zone-level independent nodes. This group of nodes
- includes Fidonet administrative nodes, the zonegates, and
- help nodes for most major Fidonet software. By including
- these nodes, a system using a small nodelist is still able
- to crash mail to these important nodes. Since these nodes
- are always included in zone-level lists, the /A switch has
- no effect if the /Z switch is used.
-
- /T : Generate an 80-column-wide text listing of the nodes in
- specified region or net, including address, system name,
- sysop, and telephone number. If an entry is too wide for
- its field, it is truncated and terminated with an ampersand
- ('&').
-
- /W : Generate an 132-column-wide text listing of the nodes in
- specified region or net, including address, system name,
- sysop, location, BPS rate, and telephone number. If an
- entry is too wide for its field, it is truncated and
- terminated with an ampersand ('&').
-
-
- Output files
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~
-
- Output files are named as follows, depending on the number of digits to
- be accommodated. Region listings begin with an 'R' rather than an 'N',
- and zone listings with a 'Z'. The file extension is the same as the
- input nodelist's.
-
- Net 80-col text 132-col text
-
- N99-LIST.nnn N99-TEXT.nnn N99-WTXT.nnn
- N247-LIST.nnn N247-TEXT.nnn N247-WTXT.nnn
- N1234LIST.nnn N1234TEXT.nnn N1234WTXT.nnn
- N54321LST.nnn N54321TXT.nnn N54321WTX.nnn
-
- History
- ~~~~~~~
-
- 1.00 - (13 Jan 93) Initial release.
-
- 1.01 - (7 Mar 93) Fixed bug which made XNET crash if SHARE.EXE not
- installed. (Thanks to Jim Whitelaw, Charlie Merryman, and
- Michael Kuhl for helping with this.)
-
- Other stuff
- ~~~~~~~~~~~
-
- XNET is copyright, but it may be used without charge. You are free
- (and encouraged) to distribute it. It comes with no warranty of any
- kind. It's possible that it won't even take up any space on your hard
- drive.
-
- If you have comments, suggestions, or bug reports, please send them
- to me at 1:247/128. I want to make XNET as useful as I can.
-
- Thanks to Tony Auer, Michael Kuhl, and Paul Doerwald for beta-testing
- XNET. Matthew Hildebrand deserves special thanks for sending me more
- bug reports than I had hoped for, and for providing valuable (and much-
- appreciated) suggestions and encouragement.
-
- XNET is written in Borland Pascal 7, and uses TurboPower Software's
- invaluable Turbo Professional library.
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