davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.COM (Wm E Davidsen Jr) (03/14/91)
Some time ago I wrote a program to browse the simtel20 list of files
so I can see what's online, look for newer versions, etc. Are there
enough people with ftp access to make this useful?
Note: the building of the indices is relatively quick on a hard disk,
but pretty slow on a floppy (hours). However, access on a floppy is less
than 2 sec per transaction, so it's practical to keep the list on floppy
if you must.
The version I would post doesn't index on every word in the
description, just file and directory name. So there would be an update
to the version which does keywords after I find a way to make the index
smaller. Right now it's just too big for reasonable use.
--
bill davidsen (davidsen@crdos1.crd.GE.COM -or- uunet!crdgw1!crdos1!davidsen)
"Most of the VAX instructions are in microcode,
but halt and no-op are in hardware for efficiency"chapman@acf3.NYU.EDU (Gary Chapman) (03/15/91)
How is your program better than the simtel35 program which front ends the complete listing of simtel holdings? - Gary Chapman, NYU
davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (Wm E. Davidsen Jr) (03/25/91)
In article <9230001@acf3.NYU.EDU> chapman@acf3.NYU.EDU (Gary Chapman) writes: | How is your program better than the simtel35 program which front | ends the complete listing of simtel holdings? If that program can locate stuff in under 2 sec on a floppy or 100ms in a hard disk, then there's no advantage. And since there's been no interest I assume everyone has their own program so I'm not going to bother posting it. -- bill davidsen - davidsen@sixhub.uucp (uunet!crdgw1!sixhub!davidsen) sysop *IX BBS and Public Access UNIX moderator of comp.binaries.ibm.pc and 80386 mailing list "Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward" -me