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--- mutil_merge_node_lists [2016/03/29 04:38] – avon
+++ mutil_merge_node_lists [2016/03/29 04:43] – avon
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 ====== Merge nodelists in to Mystic format ======
-The '[MergeNodeLists]' stanza instructs MUTIL to find the latest nodelists available in your Mystic system for the various message networks your BBS may be connected to.
+The '[MergeNodeLists]' stanza instructs MUTIL to find the latest nodelists available in your Mystic system for the various message networks your BBS is connected to.
-After examining all the available nodelists for each message network MUTIL then merges the results together in to a nodelist.txt file that is saved in the Mystic DATA directory.
+MUTIL then merges the results together in to a file that can be used by BBS users to look up members of any given message network and send addressed Netmail to them from your BBS.
 To enable this function you modify the '[general]' stanza as follows:
   [general]
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 After decompressing, the 3-digit day extensions are compared, selecting the highest number.  It will also compare the years of the file dates, and select the newest option.  So if you have nodelist.025 dated 2013 and also nodelist.320 dated 2012, nodelist.025 will be selected.
-The same process is then be repeated for the fsxnet.### nodelist and then again for the agoranet.### nodelist. Once all of the defined 'nodefiles' are processed, they will be merged together and copied in to Mystic's DATA directory.
+The same process is then be repeated for the fsxnet.### nodelist and then again for the agoranet.### nodelist. Once all of the defined 'nodefiles' are processed, they will be merged together and copied to the file nodelist.txt located in Mystic's DATA directory.
 If no nodelists are found, Mystic will not overwrite the current nodelist.  Comments are stripped while merging to lower filesize and increase search performance.