On 2016 Dec 24 15:42:36, you wrote to All:
For fidonet nodediffs are still done in ARC which is very old school.
Is there any good win32 applications that processes ARC archives?
i don't know of any unless 7zip handles them... they are also available in LZH and ZIP archives... just turn on those FDN, DIFFLZH and/or DIFFZIP to get them in addition to or instead of the traditional ARC ones...
but truthfully, in this day in time, diffs are pretty much a waste of processing time to produce and apply... the changes they carry are so minimal as to not even take a full cluster of drive space... the entire nodelist is only 200k, 1/10th of what it used to be, and you can get a whole new one delivered daily via the DAILYLIST FDN... if the nodelist were still up in the 2meg range, diffs might be desired but with today's fast internet connections a
nodelist of that size takes no time to transfer... with no one really having to
pay for the amount of data or the connection time, getting a complete nodelist every day is quite cheap and easy... i've been running daily lists here for some years, now... none of my old-school software has complained...
plus, the processing is much simplier than doing the diff...
cd nodelist directory
del old nodelist
unzip new daily nodelist
exec nodelist compiler
done!
:)
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