[comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d] Index of SIMTEL20 files ???

mru@unccvax.UUCP (Markus Ruppel) (09/29/88)

I am looking for an index of the SIMTEL20 files. I've heard about a one-
line-per-file-description which is supposed to exist somewhere but I could
not locate it so far.

Thanks a lot for any pointer...

Markus Ruppel 
Dept. of Chemistry
UNCC

UUCP: ...!mcnc!mru
      ...!mcnc!unccvax!mru
BITNET: ACC00MR1@UNCCVM

w8sdz@smoke.ARPA (Keith B. Petersen ) (09/29/88)

The index to SIMTEL20 files, with one line descriptions, is in
PD1:<MSDOS.FILEDOCS>SIMIBM.ARC.  This file is updated at about
one month intervals.

PD1:<MSDOS>FILES.IDX is a complete list, updated daily, but without
descriptions.

Both files are comma-delimited, suitable for importing into PC-File+ or
any other database program that will import such files.  One could also
write a program in BASIC to print the desired fields as these are simple
ascii files with cr-lf delimiters between records.

-- 
--Keith Petersen
Maintainer of the CP/M and MSDOS archives at SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL [26.0.0.74]
Arpa: W8SDZ@SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL
Uucp: {ames,decwrl,harvard,rutgers,ucbvax,uunet}!simtel20.army.mil!w8sdz

floyd@smoke.ARPA (Floyd C. Wofford) (09/29/88)

In article <1134@unccvax.UUCP> mru@unccvax.UUCP (Markus Ruppel) writes:
>
>I am looking for an index of the SIMTEL20 files. I've heard about a one-
>line-per-file-description which is supposed to exist somewhere but I could
>not locate it so far.
>
>Markus Ruppel 
>Dept. of Chemistry

For the software oriented towards pc-dos/ms-dos machines try one of two
places at SIMTEL20.  Look inside pd1:<pc-blue.vol000> for useful information
about the pc-blue archives.  Look inside pd1:<msdos> for useful information
about the msdos archives.  All of this can be retrieved by ftp.