ULC(1)

NAME
ulc - Husky Fido Userlist Compiler

SYNOPSIS
ulc

DESCRIPTION
ulc is the Husky Fido Userlist Compiler. ulc reads all nodelists that are configured in Fidoconfig (via the "nodelist" keyword) and creates the FIDOUSER.LST file (the name has to be configured with the "fidouserlist" keyword). ulc does not take any command line options; it uses fidoconfig to determine where to find the nodelist files. A log file named "nltools.log" is placed in the fidoconfig log file directory. The FIDOUSER.LST file format is defined as follows: The file consists of text records of fixed length (65 characters including the terminal \r\n sequence). The name of the sysop is left-aligned in the line in reverse order (e.g. "Tobias_Ernst" would become "Ernst, Tobias"). Aligned to the right of the record is the node number of the user. The records are sorted alphabetically, so that a program can use a binary search algorithm to find the corresponding node number for a given user name very fast. The FIDOUSER.LST file format is supported by many mail readers, e.g. Timed and Msged. For Msged, FIDOUSER.LST is currently the best method to implement a node lookup at all, because Msged's V7 routines are flawed.

This manual page was written for the Debian GNU/Linux distribution because the original program does not have a manual page (but a good README :) )

FILES
/fido/etc/config  Default Fidoconfig.

NOTES
All Husky-Software is written by various developers. For detailed information about the Husky-Team take a look at http://husky.sf.net/team.html.

AUTHOR
This manual page was written by Joerg Jaspert (JJ) <joerg@goliathbbs.dnsalias.net>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).