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 Message 2381 
 August Abolins to Martin Foster 
 oxp: Nodelist problem 
 09 Mar 21 07:57:00 
 
MSGID: 2:221/1.58@fidonet ee47c34a
REPLY: 2:310/31.3@fidonet ee421790
PID: OpenXP/5.0.49 (Win32)
CHRS: CP437 2
TZUTC: -0500
Hello Martin!

** On Tuesday 09.03.21 - 08:24, you wrote to me:

 ACN>>> No, auto-updating as a diff is an option. For example, I
 ACN>>> also have the fsxNet nodelist auto-updated and there I
 ACN>>> don't get diffs.

 AA>> OH!  I had understood from one of the OXP experts here

 MF> Oh, I wonder who that was :-/



 AA>> ³  Process by                                       ³
 AA>> ³                                                   ³
 AA>> ³   [x]   Use internal nodelist processor           ³
 MF>            ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^


 MF> It would appear that whoever did the original translation
 MF> of this got it all wrong and it's taken ~20 years for folks
 MF> to notice it!

Probably because very few English users were using OXP?  
Considering that Z2PNT is documents a large community of users,  
I would assume that point-use is still a very Euro-thing.


 MF> I'll correct it for the next release but I'm struggling to
 MF> find the right words. Perhaps "Update with diff" or "Use
 MF> diff to update" or maybe something else?

I would suggest one of my earlier suggestions, including this  
one:

"Enable DIFF processing"


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