This is a partial mirror of simtel.net's msdos archive, downloaded 3/15/2012
via the following command-line:

wget --mirror --no-parent --retr-symlinks --reject "download-*exe" ftp://ftp.simtel.net/pub/simtelnet/msdos/

The intent of the SIMTEL MSDOS archive was to contain files *FOR* MS-DOS.
After Digital River took hold of Walnut Creek CDROM the people maintaining
SIMTEL now thought the MSDOS archive should include files *ABOUT* MS-DOS, which
included windows programs and macintosh programs and other junk.  This bothered
me immensely, so this mirror has been cleaned up in the following ways:

  - All Windows 3.1 files that had been mis-classified as "msdos" were removed.
Criteria was any .zip or .exe filename that did not fit the DOS 8.3 filename
spec; other criteria included if the .exe had the string "This program cannot
be run in DOS mode" or similar included.  See the scripts "wrongfiles" and
"wasted".  3.9 gig of non-MSDOS crap was removed this way (average filesize was
4MB)

  - All Digital River executable downloaders (ie. instead of myfile.zip there was
dm/download-myfile.zip.exe) that had somehow been retrieved despite the
--reject wget option were removed, and their dm/ directories removed.

It is inevitable that some cruft was left in (I did not scan inside every
single.zip), but what was 7G of noise is now 2.4G of signal.