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CATNODE! v0.25 Beta
Nodelist Processor for WILDCAT! v3.5
(c) Copyright 1992 by Dale L. Barnes, All Rights Reserved
Fidonet 1:3601/14.20
Quick Docs
~~~~~~~~~~
These are the shortest docs I have written so here goes.
The setup for this program is just like WILDNODE except the
you must rename or copy the WILDNODE.CFG to CATNODE.CFG.
What CATNODE offers over WILDNODE 1.10 is the following:
1) Abort ability at any time during compile. You cannot abort
while doing a merge. Just press the ESC key and this will
stop at the current position but you should still be able to
use what has been compiled but it allows you to stop and
reconfigure quickly.
2) Status bar showing current position of current RAW nodelist
file and a percentage of it being completed.
3) Also shows what ZONES have been defined in the config file
and what NODE address you have defined.
4) Merge ability - This will allow you to MERGE any St. Louis format
nodediff file to the proper nodelist file. Also Merge has the
ability to MERGE any "NODEDIFF.xxx" file found.
5) Define your primary nodelist. See the section on the control
file for more details.
Ok, this is a BETA, so you are using it AT YOUR OWN RISK.
Files Included in this release:
CATNODE.EXE - Plain version, runs on any MSDOS machine
CATN286.EXE - 286/386/486 version of program
CATNODE.CFG - Sample configuration file
CATNODE.DOC - This Document
INSTALLATION
~~~~~~~~~~~~
Now with that out of the way, let us install this package.
You have two ways of using this:
1) Place the CATNODE files in the same directory as your
raw nodelist files and where your WC nodelist files are
suppose to be as defined in MAKEWILD. You can run CATNODE!
from this directory or use option #2.
2) CATNODE can use the WCNODELIST DOS environment variable
and place CATNODE.EXE on any path defined via the SET PATH
statement. Your CATNODE.CFG, raw nodelist files and the
WILDCAT! nodelist files will need to be where WCNODELIST
points to. Also this is where your WILDNODE.DAT/IX files
will be placed.
YOU MUST MAKE SURE that the trailing backslash is used:
Example: Set WCNODELIST=E:\WC30\DATA\
Now CATNODE does not require the trailing backslash but I
guess WILDCAT does or other utilities.
Control File
~~~~~~~~~~~~
Now we must edit the CATNODE.CFG file. A Example of what one
might look like is:
; Catnode! v0.25 configuration file
;
; Define what nodelist is your "default". NO PATHS or EXT's NEEDED!
;
Default_List NODELIST
;
; Your Network address
;
Node 1:3601/14.20
;
; What zones to include in compile, as many as you want, not sure
; what the limit will be!
;
Zones 1 5 6
;
; Private St. Louis style nodelists to include
;
Pvtlist dbnet
;
; Your country dialing prefix:
; USA = 1
;
Country 1
;
; Cost for calls
;
; COST <domestic> <international>
;
; Repeats until a "END" is found
;
; First field is the phone number to look for, followed by
; the cost of any phone number that matches the dialing prefix
;
Cost 11 125
1-415- 4
1-916- 9
1-707- 11
End
;
;
; END OF CONFIGURATION FILE
Review
~~~~~~
Well this is the end of the docs for this version. I will try
and clean it up a bit and explain more for the next version. I
have tested this version pretty well but it may fail on someone
elses system. For those of you that use "other" nodelists or
special PVTLISTS, please let me know as I was not able to test
the merge ability with anything other than NODELIST/NODEDIFF
naming.
Enjoy!
Dale Barnes
Gainesville, FL
Fidonet 1:3601/14.20
Registration
~~~~~~~~~~~~
Well it was a rather simple program to do since I had already
written other nodelist compilers and this did get me to add a
few things that I wanted but never got around to doing it, plus
I had some FUN!
The price is FREE, well almost, cost is a simple thank you. I
am currently checking into changing the format of my mailer and
mail processor to support Wildcat!
History
~~~~~~~
v0.10b - 07/22/92 - First initial release of beta
v0.11 - 07/24/92 - Second release of beta. - not public
Zone support added, cleaned up code a bit.
v0.20 - 07/26/92 - Added PVTLIST support and tested. Sending
out as next beta.
v0.25 - 07/29/92 - Added MERGE code, seems to be working but
needs further testing. Sending it to anyone
that wants it. Currently only works with
"NODEDIFF" style files.