[comp.sys.mac] Question about FILESERV@IRLEARN

johan@dutnak2.UUCP (03/05/90)

I read the mac digest newsgroup that announces new utilities
to be found in the info-mac archives at sumex. Because we have no
access to the Internet, I pick up new utilities from
FILESERV@IRLEARN.BITNET (let me call that irl for brevity). But irl
(being a "mirror image of the sumex archive) sort of lags behind sumex.
Moreover, one has to access the file by "number" instead of by their
name.

The problem is that when I send for an "INDEX NEWMAC", I receive a list
that consists for 95% of abstract files etc. And all I want are your
"fn ft" numbers for the newest mac utilities, cdevs applications etc.

That leaves me with two questions:

-  Can I get a list of all new files between say, December 1989 and
   now? 

-  Can I (in some way or another) automatically get INDEX NEWMAC or
   something else that gives me an up to date list of the newest 
   Macintosh things (APP, CDEV etc.).


Johan de Haas     tel. +31 15 785188   E-mail: johan@dutnak0.tudelft.nl
Delft University of Technology
P.O Box 5046, 2600 GA Delft, The Netherlands