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From: kjs39186@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Kent Squires)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: dumbest guy in the world
Message-ID: <1991Mar20.055035.21947@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
Date: 20 Mar 91 05:50:35 GMT
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Tabakal@UB.CC.UMICH.EDU writes:

>> OK, I must be the dumbest guy in the world...how are those archive on
>> ummts.cc.umich.edu  dir: pc5  dearced? I've tried ShrinkIt, BinSCII, EXEC 
>> command from ProDOS basic...ug.
> 
>No, you're not.  But, do take a look at the !Index file as I spent
>hundreds of hours going through the library and cleaning it up.  It says
>how to decode the files.  Almost all of the files are in binscii/shrinkit
>format, however.
> 
>-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
>    Todd A. Bakal                                Coming soon:
>    U of M Apple User's Group                       a new, improved
>    Ann Arbor, Michigan                          tested, UN*X archive 
> 
>    Internet: Tabakal@ub.cc.umich.edu            FTP: ummts.cc.umich.edu
>    BITnet:   UserTBKL@UMICHUB                        35.1.1.43
>    UUCP: ...!uunet!ub.cc.umich.edu!tabakal           CD PC5:

I still say I'm the dumbest guy in the world.  I've downloaded the !Index file
and the !ReadMe file to my local directory and am not able to read it.  How,
I axe you, HOW does one read it.  I think the unix I'm on has problems with the
! in filenames, but I really don't know.

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