Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!seismo!sundc!pitstop!sun!amdcad!ames!pasteur!ucbvax!SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL!RCONN From: RCONN@SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL (Rick Conn) Newsgroups: comp.sys.zenith.z100 Subject: Re: SIMTEL20 MSDOS file description database updated Message-ID: <12430454541.13.RCONN@SIMTEL20> Date: 14 Sep 88 10:06:10 GMT References: Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 20 Keith, your MSDOS file description IDX file was a greate idea! I just downloaded SIMADA.ARC and looked at it with REFLEX, and it worked great. I could view the MSDOS file information without any problem. I've been addressing this problem in a radically different way, writing an Ada program which will interactively display a data base, but I think your approach is much better. I can easily write a program in C on SIMTEL20 to generate a file like your IDX and HDR files for the ASR and then allow the users to download it and use their own database systems to review it. Thank you very much for the idea! One note: a program CCHECK.ARC, which is a PD Lint with C source, is listed under GAMES. You might want to fix that if this is indeed the case. Can you send me a message giving the format of the HDR file? The comma delimited file is no problem. Thanks again! Keep those good ideas coming! Rick -------