MSGID: 2:310/31.3@fidonet ee5a1cab   
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   Hello August!   
      
   *** Thursday 11.03.21 at 09:13, August Abolins wrote to Martin Foster:   
      
    MF>> I've just come across this in fido.txt(sec 3.1) .....   
      
    MF>> With the aid of Goggle Translate and my own limited   
    MF>> knowledge of German, I've come up with the following   
    MF>> translation .....   
      
    MF>> ---------- 8< ----------   
    MF>> There  are  basically  two  possible  forms  of  Node and Point list   
    MF>> updates: Complete updates  in which the old  list is replaced with a   
    MF>> new one, or diff updates where  a new list is generated by merging a   
    MF>> difference file into the old list. Depending on  what kind of update   
    MF>> it is, this can be configured in Fido -> Nodelists -> Config -> Edit   
    MF>> by use of the "Include update as diff" button. The main nodelist and   
    MF>> the Region 24 pointlist always use diff files.   
    MF>> ---------- 8< ----------   
      
    MF>> So, the information was there all the time.   
    MF>> Please feel free to correct my translation if necessary :-))   
      
    AA> What and where is fido.txt?   
      
   It's the German documentation for the Fido Point system and it's in the     
   "doc" directory.   
      
    AA> Anyway..  the news is exciting.   
      
   Yes, it's what I would call a little gem :)   
      
    AA> Remember the issues I was reporting regarding nodelist updating?   
      
   Will I ever forget =8}   
      
    AA> Originally, my problem was the matching of the right Zone-version of   
    AA> the nodelist with the DIFFs.   
      
   Yes.   
      
    AA> But I had a "feeling" that I ought to be able to just get OpenXp to   
    AA> do a direct replacement of the whole thing (without the diff   
    AA> processing)  I mean.. it just seemed silly NOT to be able to do that!   
      
   Yep, agreed.   
      
   Regards,   
   Martin   
      
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