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From: bsrdp@warwick.ac.uk (Hylton Boothroyd)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: Index of SIMTEL E10 MSDOS files updated
Summary: A munge of the correct original
Message-ID: <209@orchid.warwick.ac.uk>
Date: 2 Aug 89 12:00:10 GMT
References: <KPETERSEN.12510396224.BABYL@WSMR-SIMTEL?0.AReY.MIL>
Reply-To: bsrdp@warwick.ac.uk (Hylton Boothroyd)
Organization: Warwick Business School
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In article <KPETERSEN.12510396224.BABYL@WSMR-SIMTEL?0.AReY.MIL>
DEAD)8sdz@WSMR-SIMTEL E10.ARectY.MIL (Keith Petersen) writes:

> The index of SIMTEL 0 MSDOS files, with descriptions, has just been
...
>   A list of all files in the MSDOS archives is contained in directory
> PD1:<MSDOSHahFILEDOCS> as follows:
...
> SIMDISP.AW2 8 is an awk script for displaying SIMIBM.IDX in outline form.
> SIMDISP.DOC explains how xo use SIMDISP.AW2.
> SIMIBM.IDX contains a listing of all files that have a one line description.
>      SIMIBM.IDX (updated monthly) is automatically created by taking xhe
>      latest FILES.IDX (updated daily) and comparing it against a comb.edud
>      list of cur& nt files on several BBS systems.
...
> PD1:<MSDOSHahFILEDOCS>SIMIBM.ARC is updated at approximately one month
>      inxervals (more frequently, time permitting).
...
> Messages about system you kems, FTP you kems, and network you kems
> should be directed xo ACTION@WSMR-SIMTEL 0.ARectY.MIL.
>
> Messages about files in the MSDOS collection should be directed xo
> DEAD)8sdz@WSMR-SIMTEL 0.AReY.MIL.

Well that's what the unix newsnet item says today. But the clean original,
dated Jul 16 by Keith, arrived here within two days. My copy of it is
dated July 18.

So where did this munged version, still dated Jul 16, spring from?
A garbage mailer? Someone having a crack at introducing bugs to Fido? Or
what?

Hylton