Date   : Thu, 30 Jul 1987 09:58:15 EDT
From   : "John S. Fisher" <FISHER@CICGE.RPI.EDU>
Subject: Clarification about the RPICICGE archive

I have noted some confusion stemming from my announcement of a file
server on Bitnet for the Simtel20 CPM archives.  Perhaps this will
help:

(1)  The files are stored as CPM sector-image data.  They are sent
     as-is (in IBM netdata form).  If you have a non-IBM host, it
     will probably try to do EBCDIC to ASCII translation.  This will
     render the orginal data as garbage.  Take heart, however,
     uuencode support will be available soon....
(2)  For all of you that are familiar with LISTSERV and its commands,
     FORGET EVERYTHING YOU KNOW.  GET, INDEX, etc cannot be used to
     access the archives.  /PDGET is your only interface.  (To make
     matters even more confusing, my Listserv does have a CPM
     filelist, but it isn't the Simtel20 archives, and it is scheduled
     for deletion.)
(3)  /PDGET has no directory listing function at present.  However,
     You can /PDGET PD:<CPM>CPM.ARC and such to get the directory.
     You'll need a suitable program like ARCUTIL (available from me)
     or VMSWEEP to examine that file on your host rather than downloading
     to your micro.
(4)  I presently have only the directories CPM and CPM.*.  I do not have
     CPMUG.* or any of the others.  Maybe someday....

Regards,
JSFisher    FISHER@RPICICGE.BITNET

P.S.  Please note that my network address in the mail headers above
      has been rewritten to be an Internet address.  Bitnet people
      should use FISHER@RPICICGE to avoid unnecessary passage through
      the gateways if you need to contact me.

P.S.S.  I received one cryptic message from SAC.HQSAC-DOCT@E.ISI.EDU.
      I haven't the vaguest idea how to reply to the originator since
      E.ISI.EDU rejects the user id.