Hiya ec...

-=> echicken wrote to Bill McGarrity <=-

 > Did you see the model I have on my system.  It takes care of up to 10
 ec> different nodelists and has many different search features.  Come take
 ec> a look and you can understand.I did take a peek at FNLScan and decided
 ec> to make something that simplified the search.  

 ec> (I could as easily clone
 ec> FNLScan or NodeView entirely just to make a free alternative, if that's
 ec> desired.)Can you tell me about how you configure it to look for your
 ec> nodelists?  Do you point it at static files, or does it just pick up
 ec> the newest / highest-numbered one for each network?

It picks up the highest ordinal day of each nodelist.  Here is my cnf. file...


;
;
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;                   º     º    º º         º º    ÖÄĺ º  º
;                   ½     ½    ½ ½ÄÄÄÄ ÄÄÄĽ ÓÄÄÄ ÓÄĽ ½  ½
;
;                         FNLScan Configuration File
;                               Version 1.23
;                   (c) Copyright 1997 - ZT Technologies  
;
;      The latest version of FNLScan can always be obtained from the    
;                      support BBS's (see SUPPORT.DOC)
;                         Fidonet (magic tag FNLSCAN)
;
; *** Beginning of FNLScan configuration file ***
;
; Each Keyword must be capitalized and separated from it's value by a space(s)
;
;
; FNLScan has two display modes, short and long, requiring one and two lines
; respectively.  To set your default mode, enter SHORT or LONG.  Commenting
; this parameter out defaults to SHORT mode.
DEFAULT_DISP  short
;
; The following parameters define the position and the length of the area
; code information within the phone number field.  If commented out, these
; parameters will default to the U.S. format.
AREACODE_POS  0
AREACODE_LEN  3
;
; The path/filename of the log file for FNLScan to record its activities.
; Comment out if you don't want disk logging.
LOG_FILE      c:\sbbs\xtrn\ftn\fnlscan.log
;
; The full path and filename, EXCEPT for the extension, to where your
; UNCOMPILED nodelist is stored.  This must not include an extension! FNLScan
; will search the path defined for the latest version of the nodelist.  Up to
; 15 nodelists may be defined for sequential scanning by FNLScan.
; Must be in standard Fidonet format
;
NODELIST     c:\fd\nodelist\nodelist
NODELIST     c:\fd\nodelist\WHISLIST
NODELIST     c:\fd\nodelist\micronet
NODELIST     c:\fd\nodelist\agoranet
NODELIST     c:\fd\nodelist\sportnet
;
; If you do not want a status line on the local display when a user is in
; the door, set this parameter to NO.  If you want the status line, enter
; YES or comment out the parameter.
STATUS_LINE   yes
;
; If you do not want the sysop function keys (e.g. drop to DOS, etc.) active
; during local logins, set this parameter to YES.  Otherwise, enter NO or
; comment it out.
DISABLE_FKEYS no
;
; *** End of FNLScan configuration file ***

Hope this helps....



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