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