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AAAREAD.ME

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.AAAREAD.ME -- BRIEF GUIDE TO KERMIT FIL
ES, OCTOBER 1986..FILE NAMES ALL START W
ITH LETTERS AND ARE OF THE FORM NAME.TYP
E, AND WILL.NORMALLY APPEAR IN ALPHABETI
CAL ORDER IN A DIRECTORY LISTING OR ON A
 TAPE..FILES WHOSE NAMES START WITH AA (
LIKE THIS ONE) -- NORMALLY APPEARING AT.
THE TOP OF A DIRECTORY LISTING -- GIVE G
ENERAL INFORMATION ABOUT KERMIT..KERMIT 
PROGRAMS ARE STORED IN THE KERMIT DISTRI
BUTION AREAS WITH RELATED.FILES GROUPED 
TOGETHER USING FILENAME PREFIXES; THE NA
MES OF ALL THE FILES.FOR A CERTAIN IMPLE
MENTATION ALL START WITH THE SAME 2- OR 
3-CHARACTER.PREFIX, FOR INSTANCE ALL THE
 FILES FOR MS-DOS KERMIT HAVE NAMES STAR
TING.WITH MS, THE FILES NAMES FOR VM/CMS
 KERMIT ALL START WITH CMS...THE FOLLOWI
NG FILES DESCRIBE WHAT'S AVAILABLE IN TH
E KERMIT DISTRIBUTION:..AAFILES.HLP - EX
PLANATION OF WHAT FILES ARE AVAILABE AND
 HOW THEY ARE NAMED..AANETW.HLP -- INFOR
MATION ABOUT NETWORK ACCESS TO KERMIT FI
LES..AANOKS.HLP -- INFORMATION ABOUT THE
 OKLAHOMA STATE U KERMIT ARCHIVE..AATAPE
.HLP -- INFORMATION ABOUT KERMIT DISTRIB
UTION TAPE FORMATS...FILES WHOSE NAMES S
TART WITH AAV ARE BRIEF, COMPLETE LISTS 
OF EXISTING,.AVAILABLE KERMIT VERSIONS, 
SORTED IN VARIOUS WAYS:..AAVERS.HLP -- M
ASTER LIST, IN NO PARTICULAR ORDER.AAVNE
W.HLP -- LISTED IN REVERSE CHRONOLOGICAL
 ORDER OF RELEASE DATE.AAVOPS.HLP -- LIS
TED ALPHABETICALLY BY OPERATING SYSTEM O
NLY.AAVPFX.HLP -- LISTED ALPHABETICALLY 
BY PREFIX, REGARDLESS OF TAPE.AAVSYS.HLP
 -- LISTED ALPHABETICALLY BY MACHINE AND
 OPERATING SYSTEM.AAVTAP.HLP -- LISTED B
Y TAPE (A OR B), THEN ALPHABETICALLY BY 
FILE PREFIX..THE NEXT FILE LISTS THE KER
MIT PROGRAMS WE ARE STILL WAITING FOR:..
AAWAIT.HLP -- A LIST OF KERMIT IMPLEMENT
ATIONS REPORTEDLY UNDER DEVELOPMENT..AND
 FINALLY THERE ARE SOME BUREAUCRATIC FIL
ES, WHOSE NAMES START WITH AAX:..AAXFLY.
DOC -- THE KERMIT FLYER AND ORDER FORM..
AAXCOM.DOC -- THE POLICY ON COMMERCIAL U
SE AND DISTRIBUTION OF KERMIT...(END OF 
AAAREAD.ME).
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