Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!wuarchive!mailrus!accuvax.nwu.edu!tank!eecae!netnews.upenn.edu!eniac.seas.upenn.edu!ferris
From: ferris@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Richard  Ferris)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Files on Simtel20
Summary: How is files.idx stored?
Message-ID: <14791@netnews.upenn.edu>
Date: 27 Sep 89 19:11:50 GMT
Sender: news@netnews.upenn.edu
Reply-To: ferris@eniac.seas.upenn.edu.UUCP (Richard  Ferris)
Organization: University of Pennsylvania
Lines: 12

I downloaded a file called files.idx from Simtel20 but
it seems to be compressed strangely.  Could someone 
enlighten me?  I used type l 8 to transfer to the
mainframe and the file looked odd.  Transferring to
my PC still gives garbage.  Thanks.

RF


Richard T. Ferris
ferris@eniac.seas.upenn.edu
University of Pennsylvania