JR> Thanks a lot! BTW, what the heck does "simtel" mean?
In the dark ages of the Internet, when only large corporations and the
government could afford real disk space, the U.S. Army maintained a machine for
its own use and for other government agencies as a repository of useful
software. The name of the machine was SIMTEL-20.WSMR.ARMY.MIL, apparently
chosen for the usual bureuacratic reasons. Presumably, there were 19 other
machines in the same system of nomenclature at the White Sands Missile Range,
but none of them became famous Internet denizens like their brother.
At some point, the Army decided that their project had grown way out of
control, and they sold off the software archive to commercial interests.
Because "Simtel" was by then synonymous with one of the largest software
archives on the Internet, it evolved into a brand name. Several companies, of
which the most well known is probably Walnut Creek ("http://www.cdrom.com"),
started producing CD-ROM snapshots of the "Simtel" archive.
Many sites throughout the world mirrored the Simtel files, and they often use
the term "Simtel" in their filesystem tree. In fact, since the original
Simtel-20 machine was notoriously unfriendly, running the TOPS operating system
on which even the "cd" command was an adventure, most people used the Unix
mirrors anyway.
Because W8SDZ was one of the maintainers of the Simtel archive, it had a very
rich collection of ham radio software.
-- Mike