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Name        : nltools                      Relocations: (not relocateable)
Version     : 0.99                              Vendor: (none)
Release     : 1                             Build Date: Fri Feb 20 15:56:57 1998
Install date: (not installed)               Build Host: chanae.alphanet.ch
Group       : Networking/Utilities          Source RPM: (none)
Size        : 227551                           License: artistic licence (like perl)
Summary     : NLMaint, the FidoNet nodelist maintenance package.
Description :
NLMaint is an tool designed to assist in the maintenance, checking and dis-
tributed processing required in the production and maintenance of FidoNet for-
mat nodelists. It was created as a direct and highly compatible replacement of
the long used tool MAKENL used by FidoNet technology networks for many years,
but which has, unfortunately, become dated by the fact that it was written and
published only for the MSDOS operationg system, and using methods and means of
distribution which have become, over time, more archaic and obsolete. The num-
ber of platforms represented in FidoNet and other networks using its technology
is now considerably larger than it was some years ago, with MSDOS itself is
gradually sliding into obsolescence. MAKENL also fails to check many aspects of
a nodelist entry which have become more critical to correct behaviour of
FidoNet mail server software since the time of its publication.