FISHER@CICGE.RPI.EDU ("John S. Fisher") (07/30/87)
I have noted some confusion stemming from my announcement of a file
server on Bitnet for the Simtel20 CPM archives. Perhaps this will
help:
(1) The files are stored as CPM sector-image data. They are sent
as-is (in IBM netdata form). If you have a non-IBM host, it
will probably try to do EBCDIC to ASCII translation. This will
render the orginal data as garbage. Take heart, however,
uuencode support will be available soon....
(2) For all of you that are familiar with LISTSERV and its commands,
FORGET EVERYTHING YOU KNOW. GET, INDEX, etc cannot be used to
access the archives. /PDGET is your only interface. (To make
matters even more confusing, my Listserv does have a CPM
filelist, but it isn't the Simtel20 archives, and it is scheduled
for deletion.)
(3) /PDGET has no directory listing function at present. However,
You can /PDGET PD:<CPM>CPM.ARC and such to get the directory.
You'll need a suitable program like ARCUTIL (available from me)
or VMSWEEP to examine that file on your host rather than downloading
to your micro.
(4) I presently have only the directories CPM and CPM.*. I do not have
CPMUG.* or any of the others. Maybe someday....
Regards,
JSFisher FISHER@RPICICGE.BITNET
P.S. Please note that my network address in the mail headers above
has been rewritten to be an Internet address. Bitnet people
should use FISHER@RPICICGE to avoid unnecessary passage through
the gateways if you need to contact me.
P.S.S. I received one cryptic message from SAC.HQSAC-DOCT@E.ISI.EDU.
I haven't the vaguest idea how to reply to the originator since
E.ISI.EDU rejects the user id.