Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!hao!boulder!sunybcs!bingvaxu!leah!emb978 From: emb978@leah.Albany.Edu ( Eric M. Boehm) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: Accessing SIMTEL20 Message-ID: <549@leah.Albany.Edu> Date: 20 Dec 87 02:51:49 GMT References: <19@ritcv.UUCP> <45900099@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu> Organization: The University at Albany, Computer Services Center Lines: 49 Summary: How to access SIMTEL20.ARPA from PCSERV-L@RPICICGE In article <45900099@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu>, zinzow@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu writes: > > I've recently seen a note that someone is setting up a file gateway > that has a bitnet listserver that ftp's files from simtel20 and forwards > them on bitnet. I think it was LISTSERV at RPICICGE but I don't know > how it works yet. Sender: Public domain software servers From: "John S. Fisher" Subject: This is what I have... One of my original justifications for starting this list was to encourage sharing ideas, approaches, and software for main-frame support of micro- computer software and bulletin-board systems. The ARCUTIL and PDUTIL programs are examples of software I use with the public-domain software file server running here. I am curious as to what other people might be doing. Are any of you managing file servers and/or BBS you'd be willing to describe to this list? (I know of one person already looking to clone someone else's BBS, if he can only find one.) As I stated, above, I run a file server. It is actually an interface to access the SIMTEL20.ARPA collection from Bitnet. (SIMTEL20 shutdown its mail-based file server about the same time my host joined the Internet.) I use LISTSERV to receive the requests for files from the SIMTEL20 archives, and I have a service machine that actually fetches files via FTP and manages a local cache. Files can be sent to the requestor in netdata, punch, or mail format. Files can be sent as-is (meaning binary image), uuencoded, or translated to EBCDIC (assuming the original is an ASCII text file). The only(?) ugly thing about the server is that since it is playing "front-end" for SIMTEL20, it is obligated to suppprt the SIMTEL20 file naming scheme. A typical request to my server would look something like this: /PDGET PD:UNARC16.ARK ( UUENCODE Users can also get directory listings with something like: /PDDIR PD:ZCPR*.* (An earlier version of the server was entirely LISTSERV-based and was not able to fetch new versions of things over the Internet. It had a static copy of the entire CP/M software archive online, which quickly went out-of-date. But for compatibility with SIMTEL20, it used exactly the same style of names.)