DiffList.Exe v0.951á  (C) 1995 Tony Bearman

** This is a wide beta version. Use it at your own risk **

This program will prepare a report of changes that have occurred between any
two Region or Net nodelist segments. The report is named CHANGES.TXT, and is 
suitable for insertion into an echomail message in your admin area. 

It should run on OS/2 versions >2.0 or DOS versions >3.0. It may also run on 
others.

Syntax is:

   DiffList <segment1> <segment2> 	
         to process two segments
   or

   Difflist <nodelist> </xxx> 
         to extract a Region or Net segment 

where segment1 is the earlier Region or Net nodelist segment and segment2 is 
the later. This version checks whether you have them in the right order, and
aborts if you have them backwards. If there is enough demand to automatically
rearrange the inputs, I'll add this feature. The segment preparation syntax 
takes a full nodelist or Zone segment as input, and the switch /xxx where xxx
is the Region or Net number to extract. 

You can use your MAKENL (by Ben Baker) output as segments, or you can use
the second command line example to prepare them for you. If you use Difflist
to prepare a segment, it will be named XXXYYY.ZZZ, where XXX is (RGN)ion or 
(NET), YYY is the Region or Net number, and ZZZ is the day number.

**NOTE**  This version requires that all input files be in the current 
directory. i.e: you can not specify pathnames, just filenames. I'll add this
functionality in a future release.

Errorlevels returned:

   4 - other/unknown error
   3 - net/region not found
   2 - invalid input file format
   1 - input files not found
   0 - normal completion

This program is Copyright (c) 1995 Tony Bearman, all rights reserved, and is
provided free of charge for non-commercial use, in the hope that it will be
useful to network coordinators. It carries no guarantees of any kind other 
than occupying space on your disk. If you like it, and feel so moved, send me
a nice postcard. If you have any suggestions for enhancements, I'd like to 
hear them. The latest version may be freqed with the magic name DIFFLIST from
the addresses below.

Special thanks to:

  Frank Cox, 1:140/53, for the inspiration.
  Dallas Hinton, 1:17/0, for being a one-man beta team and suggestion box.


Enjoy.

Tony Bearman
December 11, 1995.

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