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From: raymond@math.berkeley.edu (Raymond Chen)
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Subject: Re: Awk script updates SIMIBM.IDX from monthly update
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Date: 24 Feb 91 05:45:19 GMT
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In-Reply-To: ray@ole.UUCP (Ray Berry)

If there is interest, I could post `monthly updates' of SIMTEL20 in
the following form:

 PD1:<MSDOS.WHATEVER>
 Filename    Type Length  Date    Description
 ==============================================================================
-FOO11.ZIP     B    1234  900101  Do something weird, version 1.1
+FOO11.ZIP     B    5678  910101  Do something weird, version 1.2

where the `-' indicates files that have been deleted and the `+'
indicates files that have been added.

Note also that I posted several months ago a package of perl scripts
that automatically incorporate Keith's monthly updates into a
locally-maintained copy of the SIMTEL20 index.  These are the same
scripts that are used at the math.princeton.edu server.

I will mail the scripts to any interested parties.  (As Ray Berry pointed
out, they really aren't very difficult scripts to write, since Keith
Petersen did all of the hard work.)
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