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- │ xnet/2 0.90 Network List Tool - Written by Ken Miller (1:134/111) │
- │ Beta Beta Copyright (c) 1992 Shetland Computer Services │
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-
- xnet/2 is an OS/2 2.0 32-bit program which will search a nodelist for
- a specified network, and create either a raw net dump, or a nicely
- formatted table. For example, to list the Fidonet net that I am in you
- would use the following command:
-
- xnet -i nodelist 134 -f
-
- This will use the latest 'nodelist.nnn' in the current directory, and
- search for net 134. Note that the use of the '-i' parameter is to be
- used for networks whose nodelist is named differently than Fidonet.
-
- If you are in a zone other than '1', the just specify the zone. For example,
- to list the nodes in raw format for 2:200, just use this command:
-
- xnet 2:200
-
- The '-f' option will format the list as a table, so you can use this to
- display as a sign off message for your users.
-
- If the nodelist is in the current directory, and it is called 'nodelist.nnn'
- then you could have used the following command, instead of the one above:
-
- xnet 134 -f
-
- To disable the status display, specify '-q' (quiet mode). If you want to
- capture the output in a file, either redirect stdout to a file, or use the
- '-o' option.
-
- To get a help listing, just run xnet with no options, or specify
- '-h'.
- -----------------------------------
-
- This software is free; most of this stuff comes about when either a) I
- can't sleep, or b) I'm on holidays, and so is created more to ease the
- mind that for making money. xnet (and xnode, also included in this
- archive) came about because of a) **and** b).
-
- As I've said before in some other stuff I've written (as have some
- dudes who wrote some 'ok' fractal software :-)
-
- "Don't want money. Got money. Want admiration".
-
- So, for me to get admiration, you have to send me a note saying you
- are using this software. That's it! You can send a note to any of
- the following addresses:
-
- FidoNet: 1:134/111
- MetroNet: 201:5500/111
- WorldNet: 55:6000/111
- ibmNet: 40:6493/1021
- Internet: hawks@Debug.cuc.ab.ca
-
- If you have any questions about this software, send me netmail, or leave me
- a message in either the OS2PROG or FERNWOS2 message forum on FidoNet, or in
- the IBM.IBMNET forum on ibmNET.
-
-
- ----- Changes -------------------------------------------------------------
-
- Version 0.91
-
- 1. Added character translation to. You can now map characters
- from one string to another. This was added becase some BBS
- embedded language languages interpret certain characters as
- lanuage constructs i.e. Mecca uses the '[' and ']' characters
- to delimite commands.
-
- 2. The nodelist can now be specified with a full path name. This
- means that you don't have to run xnet in the same directory as
- the nodelist.
-
- 3. Most of the common routines between xnet and xnode have been
- mashed into a DLL, called xnlt091.dll. Place this DLL anywhere
- on your LIBPATH. The benefit of this is that the total space
- required by the programs has been reduced by about 30K.
-
- 4. By using the -s option with a percentage, you can now seek
- into the nodelist, to decrease the search fime. This is
- really only useful for FidoNet nodes, and for zones other than
- 1. You must be certain that you do not seek past the zone
- that the network you are looking for resides in. If so, xnet
- will be unable to find it.
-
- 5. Flags were being truncated. Increased flag buffer size.
-
- 6. Fixed some grammatical errors.
-