For some reason my copy of Xlax appears to have stopped working and I've had to
download my nodelists directly for awhile. Anybody know of another dos nodelist update program that I might use instead?

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Kay Shapero wrote in a message to All on Sun Jan 19 2003 at 01:35:

For some reason my copy of Xlax appears to have stopped working and
I've had to download my nodelists directly for awhile. Anybody
know of another dos nodelist update program that I might use
instead?

Mine still works perfectly. What are the symptoms?

- Bob
Internet : bob@juge.com
Telnet, Vmodem, WWW or FTP to juge.com

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Hello, Kay;

19 Jan 03 01:35, Kay Shapero wrote to All:

For some reason my copy of Xlax appears to have stopped working and
I've had to download my nodelists directly for awhile. Anybody know
of another dos nodelist update program that I might use instead?

I'm still using QNode on a DOS machine, though you'd probably have to use a Pascal Pentium patch (I'm still using a 486). My boss uses Fastlst, I
think, but on OS/2.

Regards,

Robert.

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Hello Kay.

19 Jan 03 01:35, you wrote to All:

For some reason my copy of Xlax appears to have stopped working and
I've had to download my nodelists directly for awhile. Anybody know
of another dos nodelist update program that I might use instead?

Qnode's Qdiff.exe works well. You can get it from http://archives.thebbs.org, or I can send it to you if you want.


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Kay Shapero (1:102/524) wrote to All at 01:35 on 19 Jan 2003:

For some reason my copy of Xlax appears to have stopped working and
I've had to download my nodelists directly for awhile. Anybody
know of another dos nodelist update program that I might use
instead?

Like Bob Juge, my XlaxNode still works perfectly and while QNode might also do the job, it might be just as useful to find out what went wrong.

Take care,

Steven Horn (steven_a_horn@yahoo.ca)
Moderator, ALASKA_CHAT
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on Jan Jan 03 10:01, Bob Juge wrote to Kay Shapero:

For some reason my copy of Xlax appears to have stopped working and
I've had to download my nodelists directly for awhile. Anybody
know of another dos nodelist update program that I might use
instead?

Mine still works perfectly. What are the symptoms?

It was complaining of a missing diff, when there wasn't one - even after I'd downloaded a full nodelist and tried to update it with the next diff. However,
it may not have been Xlax's fault after all since apparently it coincided with a different archiver being used to archive the diffs. I'm going to see if I can manually unpack the next nodediff, then run Xlaxdiff. We Shall See...

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on Jan Jan 03 11:58, Michael Grant wrote to Kay Shapero:

Qnode's Qdiff.exe works well. You can get it from http://archives.thebbs.org, or I can send it to you if you want.

Thanks! I'll go pick it up off the net if it turns out to be necessary.

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Hello, Robert!

Replying to a message of Robert Bull to Kay Shapero:

I'm still using QNode on a DOS machine, though you'd probably have to
use a Pascal Pentium patch (I'm still using a 486). My boss uses Fastlst, I think, but on OS/2.

There's a version of QNode for OS/2 (I'm using it here), but I'm going to be switching to FastLst soon.

Later,
Sean

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Hello Sean!

Tuesday January 21 2003 22:36, you wrote to Robert Bull:

There's a version of QNode for OS/2 (I'm using it here), but I'm going
to be switching to FastLst soon.

I switched from QNode to FastLst some years ago. Never regretted it - FastLst is an order of magnitude faster and very flexible. ;-)


Be lucky,

Neil

This OS/2 system uptime is 126 days 06:49 hours and 59 seconds
... 2.000.000 Lemmings can't be wrong.
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Hello, Neil!

Replying to a message of Neil Walker to Sean Dennis:

I switched from QNode to FastLst some years ago. Never regretted it - FastLst is an order of magnitude faster and very flexible. ;-)

I'll be using that very soon.

This OS/2 system uptime is 126 days 06:49 hours and 59 seconds

What program do you use to do that?

Later,
Sean

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Hello Sean!

Wednesday January 22 2003 10:28, you wrote to me:

This OS/2 system uptime is 126 days 06:49 hours and 59 seconds

What program do you use to do that?

It's called UpdSig. You should have received a copy of it by now. ;-)


Be lucky,

Neil

This OS/2 system uptime is 126 days 17:41 hours and 49 seconds
... Misspelled? Impossible. My modem is error correcting.
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Hello, Robert!

Replying to a message of Robert Bull to Sean Dennis:

One problem with Fido software now is registering it, now that so many authors have disappeared...

Alberto's around. :) He gave me a reg key for NmFwd/2.

Later,
Sean

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Hello, Sean;

21 Jan 03 22:36, Sean Dennis wrote to Robert Bull:

There's a version of QNode for OS/2 (I'm using it here), but I'm going
to be switching to FastLst soon.

I see Neil jumped in... I think FastLst is the one by Alberto Pasquale.
Neil said it's much faster than QNode, especially if you have multiple networks, but as a point who only runs a regional nodelist I don't need
that much speed.

One problem with Fido software now is registering it, now that so many
authors have disappeared...

Regards,

Robert.

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Hello, Kay;

20 Jan 03 01:02, Kay Shapero wrote to Bob Juge:

next diff. However, it may not have been Xlax's fault after all since apparently it coincided with a different archiver being used to
archive the diffs. I'm going to see if I can manually unpack the next

Why not use something like GUS or UU, which check the archive type and call the right unpacker? That's maybe OTT for nodelists where archiver type changes rarely, but I have GUS fixed into my MAIL.BAT for mail unpacking.

Regards,

Robert.

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Sun 2003-01-26 16:45, Robert Bull (2:250/501.4) wrote to Sean Dennis:

I see Neil jumped in... I think FastLst is the one by Alberto
Pasquale.
Neil said it's much faster than QNode, especially if you have multiple networks, but as a point who only runs a regional nodelist I don't need that much speed.

One problem with Fido software now is registering it, now that so many authors have disappeared...

FastLst is still in development. It has been ported to Linux and is part of the Husky project.

http://husky.sourceforge.net/fastlst.html

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on Jan Jan 03 16:46, Robert Bull wrote to Kay Shapero:

Why not use something like GUS or UU, which check the archive type
and call
the right unpacker?

Not the problem - the unpacker was ARCE and the nodediff was .arc. When the most recent one came in I manually unpacked it with ARCE and it unpacked just fine. Then I ran Xlaxdiff and that worked. Janis says there was a change in the program used to create the .arc diff which might have caused the problem; I'm going to check the next update and see if it works, and if there is a problem I'll try it with the .zip.

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Kay Shapero (1:102/524) wrote to Robert Bull at 13:22 on 28 Jan 2003:

Not the problem - the unpacker was ARCE and the nodediff was .arc.
When the most recent one came in I manually unpacked it with ARCE
and it unpacked just fine. Then I ran Xlaxdiff and that worked.
Janis says there was a change in the program used to create the
.arc diff which might have caused the problem; I'm going to check
the next update and see if it works, and if there is a problem I'll
try it with the .zip.

As I recall, ARCE won't deal with .ARC files in a batch file so I switched to using PKUNPAK several years ago. Copies of PK361.EXE should still be around in
various places but if you can't find one, I could send you one as an attachment
to e-mail.

Take care,

Steven Horn (steven_a_horn@yahoo.ca)
Moderator, ALASKA_CHAT
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Hello, Sean;

26 Jan 03 20:39, Sean Dennis wrote to Robert Bull:

Alberto's around. :) He gave me a reg key for NmFwd/2.

Contactable is good :-)

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Hmmm... did you ever come across Hal Parks, who wrote MERGEPRO? His
address was Carbondale. It's a program I might have registered, if I could ever have contacted him, but a web search doesn't get me further forward.

Regards,

Robert.

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Hello, andrew;

28 Jan 03 13:53, andrew clarke wrote to Robert Bull:

FastLst is still in development. It has been ported to Linux and is
part of the Husky project.

Does that mean it's now freeware, or some versions are and some aren't, or what?

Regards,

Robert.

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Hello, Kay;

28 Jan 03 13:22, Kay Shapero wrote to Robert Bull:

Not the problem - the unpacker was ARCE and the nodediff was .arc.

OK...

says there was a change in the program used to create the .arc diff
which might have caused the problem; I'm going to check the next
update and see if it works, and if there is a problem I'll try it with
the .zip.

That sounds more like a difference in diff file format, in which case
archive type would be irrelevant. Did anyone else see the same problem?

Regards,

Robert.

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Sun 2003-02-02 20:33, Robert Bull (2:250/501.4) wrote to andrew clarke:

FastLst is still in development. It has been ported to Linux and is
part of the Husky project.

Does that mean it's now freeware, or some versions are and some aren't,
or what?

It's been freeware since Alberto Pasquale (the original author) released the source code to it (and also NEF) in early 1999.

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Hello, Robert!

Replying to a message of Robert Bull to Sean Dennis:

Hmmm... did you ever come across Hal Parks, who wrote MERGEPRO? His address was Carbondale. It's a program I might have registered, if I could ever have contacted him, but a web search doesn't get me
further forward.

Never heard of him or the program...

Later,
Sean

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on Jan Jan 03 23:04, Steven Horn wrote to Kay Shapero:

Kay Shapero (1:102/524) wrote to Robert Bull at 13:22 on 28 Jan 2003:

Not the problem - the unpacker was ARCE and the nodediff was .arc.
When the most recent one came in I manually unpacked it with ARCE
and it unpacked just fine. Then I ran Xlaxdiff and that worked.
Janis says there was a change in the program used to create the
.arc diff which might have caused the problem; I'm going to check
the next update and see if it works, and if there is a problem I'll
try it with the .zip.

As I recall, ARCE won't deal with .ARC files in a batch file so I

No batch file involved - and now that I check I'm not sure WHAT xlaxdiff uses to unpack things - I thought there was a .ctl file associated, but all I can find is the one for xlaxnode which naturally enough has nothing to do with archives. If it doesn't work with the archived file this time, I probably will
set up a batch file to unpack things first, and I'm pretty sure I've got pkunpack around here somewhere. If I don't, I'll go find one or accept your kind offer. Thanks!

switched to using PKUNPAK several years ago. Copies of PK361.EXE
should still be around in various places but if you can't find one, I could send you one as an attachment to e-mail.

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Kay Shapero (1:102/524) wrote to Steven Horn at 15:07 on 03 Feb 2003:

No batch file involved - and now that I check I'm not sure WHAT
xlaxdiff uses to unpack things - I thought there was a .ctl file associated, but all I can find is the one for xlaxnode which
naturally enough has nothing to do with archives. If it doesn't
work with the archived file this time, I probably will set up a
batch file to unpack things first, and I'm pretty sure I've got
pkunpack around here somewhere. If I don't, I'll go find one or
accept your kind offer. Thanks!

Unlike Xlaxnode, what xlaxdiff does is determined by parameters -- xlaxdiff /c etc. What each of the arguments does is documented in the xlaxdiff.doc file which I can also send you.

Incidentally, the preferred extractor is ARCE.

Take care,

Steven Horn (steven_a_horn@yahoo.ca)
Moderator, ALASKA_CHAT
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on Feb Feb 03 19:30, Steven Horn wrote to Kay Shapero:

Unlike Xlaxnode, what xlaxdiff does is determined by parameters -- xlaxdiff /c etc. What each of the arguments does is documented in
the xlaxdiff.doc file which I can also send you.

Please do - it didn't come in the bundle I got the xlax software in, and when I
tried to register it the letter came back marked "deceased"...

Incidentally, the preferred extractor is ARCE.

Then that's probably what it's using. In any case, I *have* ARCE... :->

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Kay Shapero (1:102/524) wrote to Steven Horn at 11:30 on 11 Feb 2003:

Please do - it didn't come in the bundle I got the xlax software
in, and when I tried to register it the letter came back marked "deceased"...

Scott Samet did pass on to a better world some time ago. Do you have an e-mail
address? If so. I'll attach the archive.

Take care,

Steven Horn (steven_a_horn@yahoo.ca)
Moderator, ALASKA_CHAT
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on Feb Feb 03 20:22, Steven Horn wrote to Kay Shapero:

Scott Samet did pass on to a better world some time ago. Do you have
an e-mail address? If so. I'll attach the archive.

Did he leave any heirs I could send the registration payment to?

Anyway, send it to kayshapero@earthlink.net

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Kay Shapero (1:102/524) wrote to Steven Horn at 12:14 on 13 Feb 2003:

Did he leave any heirs I could send the registration payment to?

Not that I recall. The obituary which Hector Santos wrote in August 1998 makes
no mention of any heirs nor does an earlier note. One can't even be sure when he died as no sources give an exact date.

Anyway, send it to kayshapero@earthlink.net

It has been sent.

Take care,

Steven Horn (steven_a_horn@yahoo.ca)
Moderator, ALASKA_CHAT
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Hello, andrew;

03 Feb 03 09:25, andrew clarke wrote to Robert Bull:

It's been freeware since Alberto Pasquale (the original author)
released the source code to it (and also NEF) in early 1999.

Releasing the code is not quite the same thing as making free of charge; is there a formal statement to the effect that it now no longer requires registration?

Regards,

Robert.

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Hello, Sean;

02 Feb 03 20:54, Sean Dennis wrote to Robert Bull:

Never heard of him or the program...

:-(( The examples he gives concern merging BBS files lists, but it's
capable of much more than that. Pity he's disappeared... The program is quite widely available, e.g. on SimTelnet.

Regards,

Robert.

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Sun 2003-03-02 16:23, Robert Bull (2:250/501.4) wrote to andrew clarke:

It's been freeware since Alberto Pasquale (the original author)
released the source code to it (and also NEF) in early 1999.

Releasing the code is not quite the same thing as making free of
charge; is there a formal statement to the effect that it now no
longer requires registration?

flstsrc.rar:/Licence.txt:

This archive contains the source files for FastLst.

Since I have no more time to develop this program,
I am releasing this archive so that other people can
fix problems and maybe develop new features.

Effective today, no registration is required for
the use of the program, although possible donations
will not be returned.

Anyone is free to use and modify the source files
contained in this archive provided that:

1) the original copyright is retained
2) the code is used for new versions of this program only


Modena, Italy, February 20th 1999


Alberto Pasquale
alberto@apworks.com

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Hello, andrew;

03 Mar 03 16:32, andrew clarke wrote to Robert Bull:

Effective today, no registration is required for

Alberto Pasquale

Thanks for the clarification :-)

Regards,

Robert.

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