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N O D E L I S T B R O W S I N G
When you write a netmail message, you must know the name and net
address of the recipient. Unless you have a remarkable memory,
this information can be a bit hard to remember. Therefore GoldED
uses a special nodelist/userlist index to enable you to quickly
lookup any node.
The index is created by the GoldNODE nodelist/userlist compiler.
GoldNODE supports the standard "St.Louis" nodelists, the FrontDoor
Boss/Point pvt/nodelist extensions and the simpler FIDOUSER.LST
userlist.
When you enter a name or address in the header (the TO: field) and
press <Enter>, GoldED looks in the nodelist index to find the
missing data. You can enter the address in the name field. Names
to be searched for must be entered last name first (because of the
way the index is structured). If you enter a partial name or
address, GoldED will find the closest match. Addresses can be
entered in short form, based on the current AKA, like .3 for the
address of your third Point, or 33 for node 33 in your net.
When GoldED has found a match, it looks a bit further to see if
there are more matches. If not, the matching data is inserted in
the header, and you can continue editing. If more than one match
was found, it starts the nodelist browser. Here you can browse
around and find the correct destination node. When found, you
select it with <Enter>. The full name and address of the node you
selected is then placed in the appropriate fields in the header.
Pressing <Esc> in the browser quits it without inserting any node
information.
The list of nodes in the browser is sorted differently, according
to what you entered. If you entered a name, the list is sorted
alphabetically by last name. If you entered an address, the list
is sorted ascending by address.
Before the userlist is searched, the list of address macros are
first scanned, and if a match is found there, the information
there is used instead.
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Written by Dave Pearson