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University of Vaasa, Finland, Sun IPX SPARCstation garbo.uwasa.fi
has a large collection of PD and shareware PC programs available by
anonymous ftp or mail server. The file /pc/ts/0news-ts contains news
about the TS-programs in the /pc/ts directory (in reverse order).
This text, which you now have, is an extract from the 0news-ts file.
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Prof. Timo Salmi Co-moderator of comp.archives.msdos.announce
Moderating at garbo.uwasa.fi anonymous FTP archives 128.214.87.1
Faculty of Accounting & Industrial Management; University of Vaasa
Internet: ts@uwasa.fi Bitnet: salmi@finfun; FI-65101, Finland
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Sat 29-May-93: I have released garbo.uwasa.fi:/pc/ts/tsfcom24.zip.
The enhancements in this most archaic of my utilities collections
are the following
CRYPTER.EXE "Protects files with a password"
- Added switch /o for Once. No prompting for the "again" question.
In other words a switch for a "batch" mode.
- Prevented usage of unacceptable output devices (com1, aux, ...)
- Enhanced error trapping
FILEADD.EXE "Joins text files side by side"
- Introduced input line editing and recall. It is a handy feature
which I use in many of my programs with interactive input.
- Prevented usage of unacceptable output devices (com1, aux, ...)
- Prevented off-line printers from causing a run-time error
- The input files and the output file can optionally be given as
parameters.
FILECUT.EXE "Cuts a text file in parts"
- Introduced input line editing and recall. It is a handy feature
which I use in many of my programs with interactive input.
- Prevented usage of unacceptable output devices (com1, aux, ...)
- The input file can optionally be given as a parameter.
FILEDUMP.EXE "Special decimal dump of a file"
FILEPAGE.EXE "Prepares files for printing"
FILEPALN.EXE "Counts page lengths and widths"
FILEPRNT.EXE "Text-file to various printers"
- Improved input line editing.
FILETRAN.EXE "Scandinavian conversions"
- Introduced input line editing and recall.
- Prevented usage of unacceptable output devices (com1, aux, ...)
- The input and the output file can optionally be given as a
parameter.
- Enhanced error trapping
FILETRIM.EXE "Trims or pads text file rows"
- Enhanced error trapping
Added FILE_ID.DIZ "Brief characterization of TSFCOM". Some BBS
systems scan for a FILE_ID.DIZ in uploaded packages and if found use
that as the description.
These programs being the first set I wrote for the PC and them
being rather oldfashioned, the question naturally arises is there
anything useful in them. That is up to the user, but myself I still
use two of the programs in the collection. CRYPTER for de/encrypting
a couple of textfiles, and FILEPALN to assess the maximum width of
text files. Incidentally, TSFCOM.INF includes some personal history
on question I am sometimes asked about my programming background,
since as you may know computer science is not my academic field.
Mon 9-Jul-90: Released update /pc/ts/tsfcom23.arc of the file
manipulation package. This package is a collection of older programs
which originate from my earlier VAX/VMS and Sinclair QL programs. I
have made the user interface optionally more PC like, and included
input line-editing and recall in most of these programs. The
documentation also includes some personal reflections.
Sat 30-Sep-89: Released update tsfcom22.arc of the file manipulation
package. This package is a collection of older programs which
originate from my earlier VAX/VMS and Sinclair QL programs.
Mon 15-May-89: The new version tsfcom21.arc of the file handling
package is now available.
Sun 14-May-89: Coming soon a new version tsfcom21.arc of the file
handling package. Most importantly the speed of crypter.exe has
been increased radically (while maintaining compatibility with
earlier versions). Furthermore, all the programs can now handle
read-only files correctly. Stand by for the update.