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Hello Nick!

Monday January 17 2022 15:26, you wrote to me:

 > On 17 Jan 22  19:17:49, Vincent Coen said the following to Terry
 > Roati:

 VC>> NODELIST and NODEDIFF comes from Z2/0  - now technically it should
 VC>> not make difference other than the content of the remarks which I
 VC>> know Ward set up m moons ago.

 > It does make a difference. Each zone prepares their own iteration of
 > the Nodelist due to a historic implementation of compiling per-zone to
 > ease data processing on IBM XT's, PS/2, Tandy 1000, and other class of
 > PC's where it was crucial to optimize for speed, storage and cost of
 > dialup modem calls.

 > All four of us ZC's share zone segments. A Sysop may not be able to
 > compile a nodelist produced in one zone using the differentials from
 > another. When one ZC does not send a segment to others in a timely
 > manner, this affects the output of that zone-specific nodelist.

 > Unfortunately when 3D addressing was introduced, there appeared to of
 > been no efforts into producing these files named according to zone,
 > which is why we have this generic "Nodelist/Nodediff" filename/echo
 > name convention.

 > Both of these problems were resolved with the introduction of the
 > Dailies.

So it is not exactly totally sorted if it needs the dailies as well.
Does that also include the Z 2, 3 & 4 dailies as well ?



Vincent

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