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From: bxw@ccadfa.adfa.oz.au (Brad Willcott)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: MSDOS uploads to SIMTEL20 for month of June 1990
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Date: 5 Jul 90 11:47:03 GMT
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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 this request.  For I too grab the composite ARC file because
it is smaller.  I would also prefer to grab just the index file in an ARCed
format.  Perhaps you could simply call it : "SIMIDX.ARC" as it will be in the
IBM area anyway.  So there should not be any confusion :-).

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