> Hello Michiel!   
      
   >Wednesday October 01 2014 18:01, Michiel van der Vlist wrote to Kees van Eeten   
      
   >>> Should makenl_ng flag spaces in a node line as errors?   
      
   >> Definitely! According to FTS-5000 it IS an error.   
      
   > Agreed.   
      
   >>> Should makenl_ng remove these spaces,   
      
   >> Or replace them with an underscore?   
      
   >>> probably a nono, as makenl should not apply automatic editing of   
   >>> nodelist lines..   
      
   >> Replacing with an underscore will most likely give the desired result   
   >> in the name fields. removing spaces will most likely result in line   
   >> that parses. Or it may produce another error.   
      
   >> Perhaps it is better to let a human judge. But it definitely should be   
   >> flagged as an error!   
      
   >I just dug through the code.  Currently leading or trailing spaces in the firs   
   > 7 fields (keyword, number, name, location, sysop, telephone, baudrate) of a   
   > nodelist line will be removed.  The issue here is an incorrect entry with a   
   >space embedded in the flags field.  MakeNL has never done error checking on th   
   > flags, which is why ERRFLAGS was developed in the first place.  I suppose I   
   > could add basic error checking of the flags (probably limited to flagging   
   > illegal characters such as spaces.)  Anything more extensive would probably   
   >involve rewriting ERRFLAGS in C and merging it with MakeNL.  That is a project   
   > that would require extensive amounts of time to code, test, and debug.  Given   
   >that some of the current ZCs refuse to use ERRFLAGS, I don't imagine they woul   
   > want to have the equivalent added to MakeNL.   
      
   Good points Andrew. I would not like it merged with makenl.   
      
   Take care,   
   Janis   
      
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