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   Michiel van der Vlist to Bj”rn Felten   
   feature request   
   06 Oct 14 21:51:55   
   
   Hello Bj”rn,   
      
   On Monday October 06 2014 18:09, you wrote to me:   
      
    MvdV>> BAUDRATE 300 1200 2400 4800 9600 14400 16800 19200 28800 33600   
      
    BF>    But then again, since many *Cs have used my patched version of the   
    BF> original MakeNL for ages, that field has kinda redundant for a decade   
    BF> and a half.   
      
   True, it does not serve a purpose any more. But for backward compatibility we   
   can not just put anything there. Many nodelist processing sofware will barf if   
   theer are jyst two adjacent commas. Or something that is not an integer. And   
   as it serves no purpose, it does not hurt to check for "funny" input and   
   replace it with "9600" does it?   
      
    BF> I removed that check completely, since it serves absolutely no   
    BF> purpose. Never has, except possibly as penis enhancer   
    BF> for some people in need for that...   
      
   The Baud rate field DID serve a purpose in the very early days when there were   
   modems without buffers and RTS/CTS handshake. They required that the DCE/DTE   
   speed was set to the same value as the line speed.   
      
      
   Cheers, Michiel   
      
   --- GoldED+/W32-MSVC 1.1.5-b20130111   
    * Origin: http://www.vlist.eu (2:280/5555)   

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