Date   : Sun, 03 Jul 1983 04:15:00 EDT
From   : Keith Petersen <W8SDZ@mit-mc>
Subject: cpm archives on mc

Hello, Jon.  You asked what the format is for the files on MC.  That's
a rather large question to answer.  If you meant MDM711 files, the
.AQM and .LBR files are stored as "COM files" in binary format.  This
means that if you FTP the files to yourself, you'll have to use the
8-bit binary mode in FTP for those files.  You'll get them intact,
complete with the 4-byte header that is used on ITS "COM files".  You
can get rid of those four bytes by running ITSCVT on them (see
AR13:CPM;ITSCVT HEX).
   Some files are stored in ASCII and some are stored in ITS COM file
(binary) format.  The usual way to know which is which is to look at
the file name.  If it has COM or AQM or WQ or DQC as the last part of
the filename, it's stored in ITS COM file format.  This is necessary
because those are binary files - the COM files and the squeezed files.
   I haven't had the time to split the MDM711 LBR down to individual
files and them upload them to MIT-MC.  That takes a lot of time.  So I
did the next-best thing and uploaded the whole .LBR file.  You'll need
LU.COM to extract the files.  If you can't fit this on your Osborne
disk, the best way to get it would be to call any RCPM system and use
the XMODEM L command to extract the .COM and Osborne overlay files
from the LBR.
--Keith