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from: Paul Edwards
date: 1995-12-24 23:21:00
subject: files lists

For those of you who may not be aware, as a stop gap measure
to having a you-beaut common database format for all files
on all BBS's everywhere, whenever I FREQ something off another
BBS, I always FREQ the files list (as the last thing), so that
I get that too (assuming I have time remaining).  I have thus
collected a whole swag of files lists from a lot of other
BBS's, and these file lists are available for FREQ from me.

Thanks to Andrew Clarke, I got his file list "in the mail"
also, so that is yet another that I have added to my collection.
I also noticed that he has done the same thing, collecting
file lists, so if you live in the Deep South, you might want
to try FREQing a swag of files lists from 3:633/267.

Bear in mind that the data is always out of data, but what it
does do is give you an indication, e.g. maybe 3:711/111 has
"MSQ305.ZIP" there, but it is 6 months down that track, so what
you do instead is FREQ "MSQ*.*" and you might end up with
MSQ320.ZIP instead, e.g.

BFN.  Paul.
@EOT:

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