emv@starbarlounge (Edward Vielmetti) (04/30/88)
what the world needs is an annotated list of what's at simtel20. if there's anywhere that has a well-organized, well-maintained name space for ms-dos files and a reasonable chance that anyone can get stuff to and from it with a little help, that's it. i see one document per directory on simtel20 makes some sense. I think I can volunteer a few people for the task. We've got a big collection here a michigan with an index of what's there. volunteers, coordinators, anyone else want to get at this task? just posting the updated index bits could keep this group busy. Edward Vielmetti, U of Michigan mail group.
w8sdz@brl-smoke.ARPA (Keith B. Petersen ) (04/30/88)
A database of the files at simtel20 has already been started and is
updated monthly. The files can be found in
PD1:<MSDOS.FILEDOCS>SIMIBM.ARC. In order to make it portable to various
database programs it has been created as a comma-delimited text file.
A PC-File+ header file is included which defines the size and names of
the various fields.
PD1:<MSDOS>FILES.IDX is a comma-delimited directory listing which is
created daily. It has no descriptions but there is a field reserved for
adding them.
I have a Unix "awk" stript that takes the FILES.IDX and adds the
descriptions from another file that looks like this:
PRINTDOC.ARC Print text files on both sides of page
So, if there are volunteers to provide short descriptions like that one
I can merge them into the database.
I could post a comma-delimited listing of the files that have no
descriptions (the awk script outputs those to a second file) each month
or mail them privately to those who would like to help. I think the
latter approach would be best as it would save net costs.
If anyone is interested I'll provide info on the format needed, with
exact field sizes and spacing. The filenames must have no spaces.
--
Keith Petersen
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