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 On 2022 Jan 17 16:56:48, you wrote to me:

 ml>> in the above, fidonet.binkd.txt is the binkd format nodelist file...
 ml>> it is built locally by binkd_nodelister.pl... there was a

 DH> Thanks, mark - that's most helpful and informative!

thank you :)

 DH> How/where do I find binkd_nodelister.pl for use under windows?

well, there's a couple of options, here...

1. the easiest is for someone to take on maintaining the binkd-style nodelist
and distribute it in the I-BINKD FDN like used to be done... then you just
grab that file when it arrives and put it in place where your binkd can find
it... i suggest using the I-BINKD FDN because it already exists for this exact
purpose... someone just needs to pick up the mantle and do the thing...

2. there are two perl environments for windows... ActiveState and Strawberry
Perl... both require installation on your system... binkd_nodelister.pl should
just work but i'm not sure... some slight modification to it may be needed...
Strawberry Perl says that it strives to be as close to perl on *nix systems...
i don't know which way to suggest if one wants to go this route...

3. enable the WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux) on your windows install... i
don't know anything about this other than it exists and a lot of people are
using it to run linux things on their windows systems...

4. another possibility is to run a virtual machine with a linux flavor
installed in it... i don't know how one would make their drives available so
the VM can read and write files on the windows side of the fence of if this is
even possible... seems like a possible security hole, to me...


#1 is the easiest and i could do it... i just need some time to understand
sbbs' hatchit.js tool and to get things set up... if i do it, there would be a
new file created from the daily nodelist when it arrives here... but i don't
mind if someone else wants to pick up the task... they don't even need to be
part of the stars system... they just need to be reliable, get set up with
vince as the maintainer of the I-BINKD FDN, and hatch the new files in a
timely manner...

if someone wants a copy of my version of the binkd_nodelister.pl file because
they are in multiple FTNs and need/want to compile those other nodelists for
their binkd, just ask and i'll send it over...

binkd_nodelister.pl was originally written by Jerry Schwartz... there is also
a port of it to php if someone would rather run php instead of perl...
binkd_nodelister.php is what it is likely known as... i have no other
information about it, though...

)\/(ark

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