Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!samsung!usc!ucsd!helios.ee.lbl.gov!nosc!logicon.com!trantor.harris-atd.com!charybdis!sonny From: sonny@charybdis.harris-atd.com (Bob Davis) Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d Subject: Re: MSDOS uploads to SIMTEL20 for month of June 1990 Message-ID: <3908@trantor.harris-atd.com> Date: 4 Jul 90 16:06:00 GMT References: <70VoL1w162w@cybrspc> <1419@psc90.UUCP> Sender: news@trantor.harris-atd.com Reply-To: sonny@trantor.harris-atd.com (Bob Davis) Organization: Advanced Technology Dept., Harris ESS, Melbourne, FL Lines: 32 X-Local-Date: 4 Jul 90 09:06:00 PDT In article <1419@psc90.UUCP> derykm@psc90.UUCP (Dez) writes: >In article <70VoL1w162w@cybrspc> cybrspc!roy@cs.umn.edu (Roy M. Silvernail) writes: >>w8sdz@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL (Keith Petersen) writes: >> >>> SIMIBM.ARC B 263121 900624 SIMTEL20 MSDOS files listing with... >>> SIMIBM.IDX A 461706 900624 SIMTEL20 MSDOS files listing with... >> ^^^^^^ >>Keith, would it be possible to make SIMIBM.IDX available in a compressed >>format? I usually order the SIMIBM.ARC, just to reduce the load on the >>mailserver. Having SIMIBM.IDX in an arc would be very handy >>-- > >I agree with you 100%, and I expect that a lot of people would like >SIMIBM.IDX in a compressed form. I hope that someday it is possible. > >Deryk > Perhaps you might like instead to download SIMIBM.ARC, which is 200K lighter, and includes SIMIBM.IDX as one of the component files. I have often wondered why one would download SIMIBM.IDX rather than SIMIBM.ARC. I have always found that SIMIBM.ARC is THE most important single file to download for guiding one's access to the massive SIMTEL DOS collection. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bob Davis \\\ INTERNET : sonny@trantor.harris-atd.com Harris Corporation, ESS \\\ UUCP : ...!uunet!x102a!trantor!sonny Advanced Technology Department \\\ AETHER : K4VNO PO Box 37, MS 3A/1912 \\\ VOICE : (407) 727-5886 Melbourne, FL 32902 \\\ FAX : (407) 729-2537