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                        Nodelist and Userlist Support


       GoldED supports the FrontDoor  and Version 7 nodelist  indexes as
       well as a plain FIDOUSER.LST.  However, if you run software  that
       doesn't use any  of these formats,  you may want  to use GoldED's
       own nodelist index. This chapter describes how to do that.

       In order to enable nodelist/userlist lookup and browsing,  GoldED
       needs to use  a set of  special nodelist index  files, created by
       the GoldNODE nodelist compiler.

       GoldED normally uses and  displays information from the  nodelist
       when  browsing,  but  it  doesn't  really  need  the nodelist for
       anything.  The  index  files  contains sufficient information for
       lookup and browsing  of names or  addresses. This means  that you
       can  delete  or  pack  away  the nodelists and/or userlists after
       compiling with GoldNODE, if you want to save space and you  don't
       need them for anything else.

        GoldNODE commandline syntax:

          GOLDNODE/GN386/GN2 [-options] [configfile]

        Available options:

         -C            Conditional compile.
         -D            Remove duplicate nodes from index.
         -F            Forced compile.
         -M<nodes>     Compile max <nodes> nodes (maximum is 65500).
         -ND           Enable DISK usage. (SLOW!!!  NOT RECOMMENDED!!!)
         -NE           Disable EMS usage. (DOS only)
         -NX           Disable XMS usage. (DOS only)
         -Q            Quite compiled. No screen output improves speed.
         -S<size>      Set the max size of names. Normally not used.
         -U<file>      Create sorted FIDOUSER.LST userlist file.

       The  [configfile]  is  the  path  AND  filename of the GOLDED.CFG
       configuration file  to read.  If no  filename is  given, the path
       specified with the GOLDNODE  or GOLDED environment variables  are
       used.

       The nodelist index files are named GOLDNODE.GX? are are placed in
       the path pointed to by the NODEPATH keyword.

       NOTE:  If  you  use  the  EXCLUDENODES and INCLUDENODES keywords,
       please  note  that  the  <addressmask>  does  NOT accept "ALL" or
       "WORLD" etc. You must use wildcard '*' instead.