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From: davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.COM (Wm E Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Any interest in simbrowz?
Keywords: simtel20, database
Message-ID: <3262@crdos1.crd.ge.COM>
Date: 14 Mar 91 14:28:45 GMT
Reply-To: davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.com (bill davidsen)
Organization: GE Corp R&D Center
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  Some time ago I wrote a program to browse the simtel20 list of files
so I can see what's online, look for newer versions, etc. Are there
enough people with ftp access to make this useful?

  Note: the building of the indices is relatively quick on a hard disk,
but pretty slow on a floppy (hours). However, access on a floppy is less
than 2 sec per transaction, so it's practical to keep the list on floppy
if you must.

  The version I would post doesn't index on every word in the
description, just file and directory name. So there would be an update
to the version which does keywords after I find a way to make the index
smaller. Right now it's just too big for reasonable use.
-- 
bill davidsen	(davidsen@crdos1.crd.GE.COM -or- uunet!crdgw1!crdos1!davidsen)
        "Most of the VAX instructions are in microcode,
         but halt and no-op are in hardware for efficiency"