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Skriven 2008-03-29 10:47:24 av Ward Dossche (2:292/854)
     Kommentar till en text av Carol Shenkenberger
Ärende: Re: MakeNl_Ng
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Carol,
 
CS> > CS> The FTSC has no allowance to contravene P4.  If a zone (such as Z2
CS> > CS> had for a long time) has a zone policy, ..
CS> >
CS> > We have? We had?
CS> >
CS> > When was that?
 
CS> There was a text policy listing several things, I've seen it.  I havent
CS> looked for it in yonks so it may have gone away now?  I recall mostly
CS> some
CS> things about the modem codes and how to trim them from there.  I was told
CS> ( do not recall by who) that errflags was built largely to support it.
 
There never has been such a thing even remotely debated here.
 
ERRFLAGS is the product of the cooperation between Jonny Bergdahl and myself.
 
When I took over as ZC Ron Dwight handed me a programme writing in some kind of
a basic-variant and then compiled into an executable which had all the nodelist
parameters/entries hardcoded in it. To get it changed I needed to call Ron
Dwight, explain him what was needed, and only if/when he agreed it was
included. Very frustrating procedure.
 
So I vented this in ENET.SYSOP and Johhny Bergdahl showed me this software of
his, very rudimentary. So we got to talking and explained him what I would like
it to do, with an external parameter file for easy of handling. Some messages
went back and forth, testing was done until a product emerged fine-tuned well
enough to suit the needs of at least one ZC.
 
The software was updated a number of times and when Jonny Bergdahl left Fidonet
I found Johan Zwiekhorst available to maintain it. The code itself has been
freely available for as long as I can think of for anyone wanting to give it a
try and change stuff.
 
At not one single instant has this programme been the result of a previous
document.
 
This one is just for the record. Maybe should publish it in Fidonews, to put it
"on the record".
 
But, let me say, you are one of the Americans who has a better view than most
others on operations in zone-2, definitely because the privileged links you had
while ZC6. Those must have been challenging times ... can't await your
autobiography about that... ;-)
 
 \%/@rd

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