Yes, I'd second that and anyway, I've rewritten my INFO.TXT now ;) Regards, Mark. \ Sampsa Laine wrote: Why? What would that accomplish that the pipe separated format doesn't except make things uglier? The reason I chose the pipe symbol is because this way we don't have to quote strings as people very seldomly use pipe symbols, but do use commas all the time... On 21 Oct 2009, at 02:15, Steve Davidson wrote: Let's try this again... Any chance this could be in comma separated format? Put strings in quotes if necessary. -Steve -----Original Message----- From: owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE [mailto:owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE] On Behalf Of Sampsa Laine Sent: Tuesday, October 20, 2009 19:43 To: hecnet at Update.UU.SE Subject: Re: [HECnet] HECnet crawler and INFO.TXT I've updated CHIMPY in the same format. Sampsa On 21 Oct 2009, at 00:26, Bob Armstrong wrote: I took Sampsa's suggestion and put an INFO.TXT on CODA with a machine readable section at the end that contains information about the local nodes. I already wrote a little DCL script that crawls the HECnet and collects all the INFO.TXT files that it can find (so far there are eight, counting mine) and if enough people adopt this format I'll write another little script to parse out the node information. The format is pretty straight forward - you can just type out CODA::INFO.TXT and see for yourself. Bob