On 2016 Dec 24 15:42:36, you wrote to All:   
      
    MM> For fidonet nodediffs are still done in ARC which is very old school.   
    MM> Is there any good win32 applications that processes ARC archives?   
      
   i don't know of any unless 7zip handles them... they are also available in LZH   
   and ZIP archives... just turn on those FDN, DIFFLZH and/or DIFFZIP to get them   
   in addition to or instead of the traditional ARC ones...   
      
   but truthfully, in this day in time, diffs are pretty much a waste of   
   processing time to produce and apply... the changes they carry are so minimal   
   as to not even take a full cluster of drive space... the entire nodelist is   
   only 200k, 1/10th of what it used to be, and you can get a whole new one   
   delivered daily via the DAILYLIST FDN... if the nodelist were still up in the   
   2meg range, diffs might be desired but with today's fast internet connections   
   a nodelist of that size takes no time to transfer... with no one really having   
   to pay for the amount of data or the connection time, getting a complete   
   nodelist every day is quite cheap and easy... i've been running daily lists   
   here for some years, now... none of my old-school software has complained...   
      
   plus, the processing is much simplier than doing the diff...   
      
     cd nodelist directory   
     del old nodelist   
     unzip new daily nodelist   
     exec nodelist compiler   
     done!   
      
   :)   
      
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