Date   : Thu, 01 Jan 1981105:00:00-MST
From   : Bob Clements <CLEMENTS@BBNA>
Subject: CPMUG

Update on the CPM user's group stuff on the ARPANET:

I did take up Dave Mitton's offer of the tape of the 42 CPMUG disk
images.  After getting around some crocks in RT11's tape formatting,
I got all the stuff off onto disk. There are some problems
yet, though, due to both the fact that its all too big to keep
on disk, as predicted, and the 7-bit ASCII vs 8-bit micro file
problem. They are all stored as 8-bit files on disk here, which
means you can't just TYPE them or LIST them.  I'm leaning toward
writing a program which will 7-bit-ize all files which don't have
any bytes over 177, and flag the others in the file name.  Any
other inspirations are welcome. 

I have archived all the files, but kept the directories on line,
if you are interested. [BBNG]<CLEMENTS.CPMUG>DIRECTORY.V01 thru .V42
are the directory listings.  The files are named V01-FOO.BAR for
a file FOO.BAR from volume 1.
Exception: Files with "/" in the file name have had the "/" changed
to a "-" due to my not wanting to have to quote the "/" for TOPS-20,
which would be hard thru FTP.

You can use ANONYMOUS login, but it get's a very very small CPU
allocation, so do it when things are quiet, if you want to. That's
a policy I can't change either, so I still think we need a
different site for the librarian.  But the files are available now
if anyone volunteers.

/Rcc