Date   : Fri, 14 Feb 1986 15:05:07 EST
From   : Dave Towson (info-cpm-request) <cpmlist@AMSAA.ARPA>
Subject: Archive blurb changed:

Fellow CP/Mers - Due to the relocation of the newsgroup correspondence
archives on SIMTEL20, the "archive blurb", which is a users' guide to the
SIMTEL20 archives, has been changed as shown below:

1.  The following text has been added to the section entitled "SIGNIFICANT
CHANGES":

     Newsgroup correspondence archive files moved:  Newsgroup correspondence
archives have been moved from directory PS:<MAIL.ARCHIVES> to individual
directories having names of the form PS:<ARCHIVES.KEYWORD>, where "KEYWORD"
has been chosen to indicate the associated newsgroup.  See the section
entitled "NEWSGROUP CORRESPONDENCE ARCHIVES" for additional details.


2.  The section entitled "NEWSGROUP CORRESPONDENCE ARCHIVES" has been changed
to the following:

     Copies of correspondence for several newsgroups are kept on SIMTEL20 in
directories with names of the form PS:<ARCHIVES.KEYWORD>, where "KEYWORD" has
been chosen to indicate the associated newsgroup.  At present, the following
correspondence archives are available:

                  newsgroup               mail archive filename
               ---------------            ---------------------
               ADA-SW                     PS:<ARCHIVES.ADA-SW>
               AMETHYST-USERS             PS:<ARCHIVES.AMETHYST>
               INFO-68K                   PS:<ARCHIVES.68K>
               INFO-APPLE                 PS:<ARCHIVES.APPLE>
               INFO-CPM                   PS:<ARCHIVES.CPM>
               INFO-FORTH                 PS:<ARCHIVES.FORTH>
               INFO-HAMS                  PS:<ARCHIVES.HAMS>
               INFO-MICRO                 PS:<ARCHIVES.MICRO>
               INFO-MODEM7                PS:<ARCHIVES.MODEM7>
               INFO-MODEMXX               PS:<ARCHIVES.MODEMXX>
               INFO-MODULA-2              PS:<ARCHIVES.MODULA-2>
               NORTHSTAR-USERS            PS:<ARCHIVES.NORTHSTAR>
               INFO-PASCAL                PS:<ARCHIVES.PASCAL>
               UNIX-SW                    PS:<ARCHIVES.UNIX-SW>
               INFO-XENIX310              PS:<ARCHIVES.XENIX310>

Descriptions of these and other newsgroups can be obtained via FTP with
anonymous login (as for SIMTEL20) from the Network Information Center's host
SRI-NIC.ARPA.  Ask for the file PS:<NETINFO>INTEREST-GROUPS.TXT (an ASCII
file).  And please note, this is NOT on SIMTEL20.

     File names for SIMTEL20 newsgroup correspondence archives have two
forms.  For example, PS:<ARCHIVES.CPM>CPM.ARCHIV.ymmdd  is a group of files
containing INFO-CPM correspondence going back several years.  The characters
"ymmdd" in the file names are actually digits giving the year, month and day
of the last message in each particular file.  Current correspondence is kept
in the file PS:<ARCHIVES.CPM>CPM-ARCHIV.TXT, which is constantly changing.
Although INFO-CPM has been used as an example here, the same naming scheme
is used for the other newsgroup files as well.  For a complete list of
available files, connect to SIMTEL20 via FTP and do this:

               dir ps:<archives>

You will receive a list of names of the form:

               KEYWORD.DIRECTORY.n

where "n" is one or more digits.  For example, the INFO-CPM listing currently
appears as "CPM.DIRECTORY.1"  To then get a list of files in a particular
archive, do this:

               dir ps:<archives.keyword>

where "keyword" (for example, "cpm") is chosen from the preceding list, and
the word "directory" and the number "n" are not used.  At present, all of
these files are stored in ASCII.


Dave Towson <info-cpm-request@amsaa.arpa>
info-cpm list maintainer