Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!umich!samsung!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!psuvax1!psuvm!DHDIBM1!PASCH From: PASCH@DHDIBM1.BITNET (Berthold Pasch) Newsgroups: bit.listserv.nodmgt-l Subject: Re: Ok, *HOLD IT A MINUTE* Message-ID: Date: 2 Feb 90 14:58:12 GMT Sender: Node Management Discussion Reply-To: Node Management Discussion Lines: 35 Approved: NETNEWS@PSUVM Gateway In-Reply-To: Message of Thu, 1 Feb 90 08:52:09 EST from >This announcement that as of the March 1990 nodes, only the >:routtab specification will be used to issue table information >rather than the :inform tags is all well and good, but the >January tables I got were only for RSCS Routing, they were issued >in the wrong format, I complained to both NODMGT-L@BITNIC and You are right. Your :routtab tag shows RSCS. Therefore Netserv sent you an RSCS routing table. The RSCS tableformat has been copied from your existing :info4 tag. If that's wrong, please correct it. If it's the RSCS table that you want, but you don't like the comments in it (which are different from the comments in Chris' tables) then I can't help. >My :inform tags subscribe two 'incoming message servers' to >receive the RSCS Routing Table (ROUTING@PSULIAS) and the RSCS >Links Table (LINKS@PSULIAS). Both have always recieved PUNCH >data; that's the *ONLY* thing we can recieve, since we are *NOT* >an NJE node, but rather a *HASP* node (for those IBM'ers reading The format of the file you received (NETDATA) is what you have specified in the :fformat tag. You may have received the tables in the past in PUNCH format, but probably only because nobody took care of your :fformat specification. Netserv, on the other hand, tries to do its best and sends files in the preferred format as specified in :fformat tag. If you cannot receive NETDATA then please correct the :fformat tag in your node entry. Regarding the Links Table: This file contains (to my knowledge) no customized information. Therefore it need not be generated individually for each node. The administration center (BITNIC) may provide this file on a monthly basis and store it in NETSERV and LISTSERV where you can subscribe to it. Regards, Berthold Pasch