Path: utzoo!yunexus!ists!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!PSUVM.PSU.EDU!ART100 From: ART100@PSUVM.PSU.EDU ("Andy Tefft 862-6728", 814) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple Subject: Re: APPLE2-L (actually LPUNCH) Message-ID: <8911180118.AA10690@apple.com> Date: 18 Nov 89 01:17:00 GMT Article-I.D.: apple.8911180118.AA10690 Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Reply-To: ART100%psuvm.psu.edu@CORNELLC.cit.cornell.edu Organization: The Internet Lines: 29 >I used try and deal with the LISTERV.@BROWNVM server, but there is a >little snag with that beast. It likes to send directory listings and >other things in "lpunch" format, which is a bizaare encryption not >unlike Postscript source code to handle output that is more than 80 >columns long. I was going to just reply personally, but I think this is of general interest. From INFO REFCARD (from listserv@psuvm, v1.6c): GET fn ft Obtain the specified file For compatibility with Netserv: GETND fn ft Same as GET but Netdata format GETDD fn ft Same as GET but Disk Dump format GETPP fn ft Same as GET but Punch format GET80 fn ft Same as GET but Punch format INDex Sends you the desired FILELIST. Same as GET xxxx FILELIST. The F=format option also works for the 'info' command and some others. Get the full refcard (with 'info refcard') for full info. I have written programs to decode lpunch files (in Rexx, not of general usefulness) but now things come to me in netdata anyway.