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- From: ts@uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi)
- Subject: Re: INDEX files [WAS: Recent msdos uploads to SIMTEL20...
- Message-ID: <1993Jan27.152556.3945@uwasa.fi>
- Keywords: simtel20,msdos,recent,uploads
- Organization: University of Vaasa, Finland
- References: <1993Jan24.072036.18021@uwasa.fi> <1993Jan25.133441.12355@fwi.uva.nl> <1993Jan27.075041.5769@alf.uib.no>
- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 15:25:56 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan27.075041.5769@alf.uib.no> buboo@alf.uib.no (Ove
- Ruben R Olsen) writes:
- >Why need yet-another-browse-util ?
-
- A fair question. The answer is the following. Because a well
- written browse util can combine useful information from two (or even
- more) related files. I suggested this (for INDEX with descriptions
- and _dir.lst with file sizes and dates) to Michael Sanders who is
- writing an update of his Garbo browser.
-
- >I use good 'ol grep and his friends for most of my browsing. It has been
- >fairly sufficient until now :-)
-
- Grep is very useful, but it does not give you the directory
- information from the standard Garbo and SIMTEL20 file lists, nor (on
- Garbo) the file sizes and dates.
-
- >\Ruben.
- >(Member of the KISS Principle :-)
-
- (If simple, make it complicated, if straight-forward, confuse the
- issue, if still not fuzzy enough, invite a comittee, and finally, if
- nothing else fails to kill it, let's make it a public administration
- issue :-).
-
- All the best, Timo
-
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- Prof. Timo Salmi Co-moderator of comp.archives.msdos.announce
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