Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!mips!daver!ditka!mcdchg!ddsw1!corpane!sparks From: sparks@corpane.UUCP (John Sparks) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: 64 Emulator Message-ID: <3211@corpane.UUCP> Date: 2 Oct 90 13:32:15 GMT References: <9573@uhccux.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu> <3198@corpane.UUCP> Organization: Corpane Industries Inc., Louisville, KY Lines: 26 tadguy@abcfd01.larc.nasa.gov (Tad Guy) writes: >In article <3198@corpane.UUCP> sparks@corpane.UUCP (John Sparks) writes: >> When you people upload stuff to FTP sites, and tell us about it, could >> you at least tell us the name of the file to make it easier for us poor >Why not just get /FILES.Z, which contains a list of all the files >available from abcfd20, in reverse cronological order? It's updated >nightly, and could save you some time... Will do. It still wastes around 3 days though, waiting for the list to get back to me, then finding the file I want, then sending off another request. It would still be better to get the people to post the file name they uploaded , after all, it's just a few lines more to the message they are already posting telling us they uploaded such and such program. -- John Sparks |D.I.S.K. Public Access Unix System| Multi-User Games, Email sparks@corpane.UUCP |PH: (502) 968-DISK 24Hrs/2400BPS | Usenet, Chatting, =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-|7 line Multi-User system. | Downloads & more. A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of----Ogden Nash