Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site brl-tgr.ARPA Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!brl-tgr!internet!"Frank J. Wancho" From: "Frank J. Wancho" Newsgroups: net.micro.cpm Subject: Simtel20 CPM directory file restructuring Message-ID: <5920@brl-tgr.ARPA> Date: Tue, 20-Nov-84 01:44:24 EST Article-I.D.: brl-tgr.5920 Posted: Tue Nov 20 01:44:24 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 22-Nov-84 07:49:16 EST Sender: news@brl-tgr.ARPA Organization: Ballistic Research Lab Lines: 28 Jim, As long as you have the file of interest already on the mainframe, presumably FTP'd from here, why not use the CP/M-equivalent utilities while you have the file there? TOPS-20 and ITS systems already have DE-LBR, TYPE8, TYPESQ, and USQ. Unix systems have LAR (an LU equivalent), XSQ, XTYPE, and XUSQ. Why waste the download time when you can examine the files ahead of time with these utilities? Why should we "waste" valuable disk space to keep such files around in unsqueezed format (and waste net resources letting you FTP such files instead their squeezed counterparts)? Almost all new files and packages placed into MICRO: are announced to INFO-CPM as they appear. The mail archives for INFO-CPM are available in reasonably-sized chunks in for FTP and review of such messages. (Hint: survey messages from W8SDZ.) Of course, there are .DOC (.DQC) and .HLP (.HQP) files for many of the files. Most others are documented in the front of the source files. We will eventually have all the files in MICRO: catalogued in a fashion similar to the catalogue files found in the SIG/M and CPMUG volumes. Until resources can be made available to do that task, please bear with us. --Frank