W8SDZ@SIMTEL20.ARPA (Keith Petersen) (06/16/88)
I have just completed a major step forward toward indexing and describing the files available in the MSDOS archives at SIMTEL20. The following files have been updated: Filename Type Bytes CRC Directory PD1:<MSDOS.FILEDOCS> NODESCR.IDX.2 ASCII 53345 44EEH <--files not described SIMIBM.HDR.2 ASCII 129 64C1H <--PC-File+ database header SIMIBM.IDX.7 ASCII 91634 1C5FH <--files described SIMIBM.IDX was automatically created by taking the latest PD1:<MSDOS>FILES.IDX (updated daily) and comparing it against a combined list of current files on several BBS systems. This was done with a Unix "awk" script which appended the description line to the end of any line where a match was found. Because this was automated there may be some erronious descriptions but the major part of it should be correct. NODESCR.IDX is the output of the awk script for files that didn't match the comparison list. More work is to be done, but this is a good start. The index is now over 90K (about 30K larger than before). Also available: Filename Type Bytes CRC Directory PD1:<MSDOS.FILEDOCS> FILDIF.ARC.1 BINARY 24240 2B53H SIMIBM.ARC.5 BINARY 42596 4371H FILDEF is a program for comparing a previous copy of PD1:<MSDOS>FILES.IDX with a new copy. It displays the files added and deleted since you got the older index. This is useful if you are trying to maintain an archive in sync with SIMTEL20. It can generate output scripts for batch FTP processing. SIMIBM.ARC contains the latest SIMIBM.HDR and SIMIBM.IDX. --Keith Petersen Maintainer of the CP/M and MSDOS archives at SIMTEL20.ARPA [26.0.0.74] Arpa: W8SDZ@SIMTEL20.ARPA Uucp: {decwrl,harvard,lll-crg,ucbvax,uunet,uw-beaver}!simtel20.arpa!w8sdz