SYNOPSIS

nlpatch [-h] [-x verbosity] [-I file] nodelist nodediff

DESCRIPTION

Nlpatch patches a nodelist.

OPTIONS

-h

Display a short help message.

-x Verbosity

Set the debug verbosity. Verbosity may be a number from 0 to 32 to set 'on' bits from 1 to number, or a string of letters where 'a' = bit 1, 'b' = bit 2, etc. up to bit 26.

-I File

Use the alternate configuration file File.

RETURN CODES

0@Successfull
1@command line usage error
2@cannot open some files
3@could not read some files
4@CRC error
5@unknown command line
6@diff does not match old list

DEBUG VERBOSITY

d@lock files
f@aka matching
g@outbound directories
h@call
j@session handshake
k@file transfer
l@filelist
m@nodelist flags
r@modem
t@nodelist index
z@hydra protocol

FILES

$IFLIBDIR/config

Runtime configuration file.

nodelist.???

A list of nodes in an FTN network.

RELATED TO nlpatch…

ifmail(8), ifpack(8), ifunpack(8), iftoss(8), mgetty(8), getty(1)

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Some ideas taken from Fidogate/RFmail package, written by Teemu Torma and hacked by Martin Junius.

Some tcp code taken from JE version, written by Tsuneo Tanaka <[email protected]>

1993, 1994 Eugene Crosser

This is free software. You can do what you wish with it as long as this copyright notice is preserved.

Manpage and dbz-nodelist-index support by Christof Meerwald <[email protected]>

Many thanks to the institute of computer science in Salzburg/Austria and especially to Anton Hofmann <[email protected]> who made further work possible during his lecture.