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From: herrickd@iccgcc.decnet.ab.com (daniel lance herrick)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: Want pointers to _good_ msdos games
Message-ID: <2653.278318a3@iccgcc.decnet.ab.com>
Date: 3 Jan 91 16:42:27 GMT
References: <1990Dec26.224913.12338@cs.dal.ca> <1990Dec31.181931.26956@uwasa.fi> <2650.278314ef@iccgcc.decnet.ab.com>
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 herrickd@iccgcc.decnet.ab.com (daniel lance herrick) writes:
> In article <1990Dec31.181931.26956@uwasa.fi>, ts@uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi) writes:
>> Fourth, an indignant note from the insulted author :-).  What the
>> heck is wrong with my flag games? (/pc/ts/tsgmed11.arc).  I thought
>> that they were gr8.  :-)
>> 
> I have read your many announcements of tsgmed and want them.  I do
> not believe they have passed by on c.p.i.b.  I am now able to get
> things from simtel20 through the rpi listserver, but listserv
> persists in telling me the pd2-msdos2 directory does not exist.

That was bad net manners.  Here is what listserv has to say:

]From: Revised List Processor (1.6e) <uunet!CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU!LISTSERV%RPIECS.BITNET@ab.com>
]Subject:      Output of your job "abvax!iccgcc.DNET!herrickd"
]To: abvax!iccgcc.DNET!herrickd
]
]> /pdget mail PD2:<MSDOS2.EDUCATION>wordwiz.arc uuencode
]Directory for PD2:<MSDOS2.EDUCATION>WORDWIZ.ARC unknown
]
]> /pdget mail PD2:<MSDOS2.EDUCATION>tsgmed11.zip uuencode
]Directory for PD2:<MSDOS2.EDUCATION>TSGMED11.ZIP unknown

I get the same result for anything I request from PD2:<MSDOS2...>
I edit those requests directly from the index listing (I started
after beginning to get these results).

> 
> Are they coming on c.p.i.b?  Or, did I, indeed, miss them when they
> went by?
> 
> dan herrick
> herrickd@iccgcc.decnet.ab.com

still, dan