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]
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