Re: Simtel20 (was: pretty printers/parsers/etc.)

[mwills@x102a.harris-atd.com (wills ms 01309)]

The problem here is not connecting to Simtel, it is holding a reliable
connection long enough to retrieve a sizable file.  I can usually get
through one out of five times, but NAPPSRC.SRC is 1MB+ and the connection
usually breaks around 700K or 800K.  Now there's a waste of
bandwidth... Dropping the connection after 70% complete.

Two things might alleviate my current distress:

A kind sole who would put NAPPSRC.SRC and/or ABSTRACT.SRC on their
(non-simtel) ftp site and mail me its address.

-or-

A compressed (zoo, zip, or tar.Z) version of the files at simtel which
would require a shorter transfer time and have a (hopefully) higher
probability of success.

Two people have requested summaries of pretty printer comments.  I
have received none.  However, I have found napp.zip (msdos binary
only) at wuarchive.wustl.edu in mirrors/msdos/ada, in case they are
interested.  For the above reasons, I still don't have one for UNIX.

Thanks in advance.
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