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nlpatch(8) FTN mailer nlpatch(8)

nlpatch - Patches a nodelist

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

Nlpatch patches a nodelist.

Display a short help message.
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.
Use the alternate configuration file File.

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

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

$IFLIBDIR/config
Runtime configuration file.
A list of nodes in an FTN network.

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

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 <ttan@twics.com>

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 <cmeerw@mail.htl.fh-sbg.ac.at>

Many thanks to the institute of computer science in Salzburg/Austria and especially to Anton Hofmann <hofmann@wst.edvz.sbg.ac.at> who made further work possible during his lecture.

May 29, 1997 3.0.cm.alpha-2