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University of Vaasa, Finland, Sun IPX sparcstation garbo.uwasa.fi,
node number 128.214.87.1, has a large collection of PD and shareware
programs which are available by anonymous ftp (file transfer
program). This /pc/pd2/news-pd2 file contains selected news and
reviews about the MsDos programs in the /pc directories. (There are
more news in /pc/ts/0news-ts and /pc/pd/post##.txt.)
...................................................................
Prof. Timo Salmi
Moderating at garbo.uwasa.fi anonymous ftp archives 128.214.87.1
School of Business Studies, University of Vaasa, SF-65101, Finland
Internet: ts@chyde.uwasa.fi Funet: gado::salmi Bitnet: salmi@finfun
...................................................................
Thu 2-Apr-92: Acquired from SIMTEL20 to garbo.uwasa.fi archives
269011 Mar 16 00:00 garbo.uwasa.fi:/pc/screen/tdraw450.zip
tdraw450.zip TheDraw Color Screen Image Generator & Editor (good).
This is a very nice program for drawing eg the ansi
graphics screens so familiar as the opening screen
of many BBSes. If you like devising graphics screens
this is your obvious choice. (The std disclaimer
applies). I particularly liked the fact that even
though this is a program with very many features, I
got started with it within a minute of unpacking it.
A depressing number of authors do not realize how
important this is for their utilities to prosper.
Mon 30-Mar-92: Rhys Wheatherley and I added three new MsDos sites to
our list of MsDos sites and moderators. Two in Germany, one in
Hawaii. 10272 Mar 30 10:53 garbo.uwasa.fi:/pc/pd2/moder.lst
Sun 29-Mar-92: I see from our system logs that some users have
downloaded material directly from our /pc/incoming directory.
Please do not do that. The incoming directories are _strictly_ for
uploads only. At garbo.uwasa.fi they are not for downloading, and
they are not for users' exchanges. If this continues we (as the
first step) will have to remove the read option from the incoming
directories. This would be very inconvenient for our kind uploaders
because they would not be able to check that their upload got there.
(Uploading itself would not be prevented by this removal). Please
do not force us to do this. Be also aware that each FTP upload and
download at garbo can be traced from our logs, if something really
out-of-line or malevolent would take place with regard to the usage
of our incoming directories. But I am trustful that we don't ever
have to go that far.
Fri 27-Mar-92: Acquired to garbo.uwasa.fi MsDos archives
/pc/educgames
adq.zip Advanced Dos Quiz by Steve Mount.
Neat idea and good questions, but a bit too drab for
my taste.
/pc/unix
tee9201.zip Tee fork for MsDos w asm (eg dir | tee > dir.txt)
This is potentially quite a useful little utility.
/pc/cmdutil
cmded2e5.zip Command line edit & completion update based on PC Mag
Sun 22-Mar-92: Added an Australian virus site to the list of MsDos
FTP sites garbo.uwasa.fi:/pc/pd2/moder.lst.
Sun 22-Mar-92: Update of the Finnish BBS list. The one you can't
wait to get your hands on :-).
22170 Mar 17 19:49 garbo.uwasa.fi:/pc/bbs/fi920317.zip
Sat 21-Mar-92: Obtained from SIMTEL20 beav132.zip binary editor and
viewer by Peter Reilley. Resembles MicroEMACS. Nice.
73499 Nov 26 16:13 garbo.uwasa.fi:/pc/binedit/beav132.zip
134795 Mar 18 12:39 garbo.uwasa.fi:/pc/source/beav132s.zip
Fri 20-Mar-92: Obtained for a Finnish BBS:
/pc/sysinfo
pcdoc310.zip Menued system information, reqs mouse, R.Leinecker
One of the many. Has one interesting feature. Finds
out approximate clock speed. Without a mouse you
will finally get stock and will have to reboot. (I
have no mouse on my system).
Thu 19-mar-92: Obtained from a Finnish BBS:
/pc/math
math23.zip Mathematical expressions calculator, Greg Kochaniak
One of the many. Works both as a command line
calculator and in interactive mode.
Thu 19-Mar-92: This is for our Finnish students of Accounting and
and Business Finance. The questions and answers to the exam on Levy
& Sarnat's Capital Investment and Financial Decisions are now
available as garbo.uwasa.fi:/pc/exam/yitten34.zip and yitrat34.zip,
or they can be copied directly from me at my reception times (Tue
12:30-14:00) if you bring a proberly _formatted_ 3.5" or 5.25"
diskette with you. Please first, however, read carefully the note
on the second floor bulletin board.
Tue 17-Mar-92: The garbo.uwasa.fi:/pc/pd2/post07.zip garbo
information and feedback file has now the full 30 items, and is thus
complete. It is readable on Unix eg by elm or any browser or
editor. On Unix apply unzip -a post07.zip to extract with proper
eolns. On MsDos it is readable with ReadMail /pc/mail/rmail401.zip
or any browser or editor. On MsDos extract with PKUNZIP version
1.10. The earlier PKUNZIP versions fill report bogus CRC errors.
(This goes for a great number of zipped files on the FTP archives).
Wed 11-Mar-92: With the natural exception of the self-extracting
archivers and execompressors I have converted our self-extracting
.exe files into .zip files. I have also zipped the raw .exe
executables on our archives as a matter of general policy.
Fortunately there weren't that many.
Sun 8-Mar-92: Acquired from a Finnish BBS the following function
evaluator.
30698 Feb 6 01:04 garbo.uwasa.fi:/pc/math/eval104.zip
Writing a function evaluator is a challenging, but a standard
programming task. The central problem in the programming is writing
a routine to parse the function given in string fromat in order to
evaluate it. I have even written such a program myself (how else;
/pc/ts/tsfunc13.zip).
Sat 7-Mar-92: There is a new directory /ql (and subdirectories) for
the Sinclair QL users. See /ql/0news-ql for more information.
Thu 5-Mar-92: As you know Rhys Weatherley rhys@cs.uq.oz.au from the
University of Queensland, Australia, is maintaining garbo.uwasa.fi:
/pc/pd2/moder.lst list of FTP sites and moderators jointly with me.
Rhys has come up with much new useful information. He has filled in
the "Main indexes" item, and added new MsDos virus utilities sites
on the list. This version's date stamp is Thu 5-Mar-92 13:05. (The
stamp is always given at the beginning of the moder.lst list).
Wed 4-Mar-92: garbo.uwasa.fi:/pc/pd2/moder.lst list of MsDos FTP
sites and moderators has been updated again. No new sites have been
added, but a co-moderator change at umich has been noted, the
Australian archie.au & rana information has been updated, and a new
item "Main indexes" has been added, but only for garbo and SIMTEL20
for the time being.
Tue 3-Mar-92: Acquired from a Finnish BBS
77649 Jan 8 18:19 garbo.uwasa.fi:/pc/dirutil/daag303.zip
Disk-at-a-Glance directory information & change. Nagware.
Mon 2-Mar-92: The list of FTP sites and moderators garbo.uwasa.fi:
/pc/pd2/moder.lst has been updated again. This time the Australian
garbo and SIMTEL20 mirror site has been updated. The site has
moved. I have also updated the reference to the comprehensive FTP
site list take over by Tom Czarnik.
Sun 1-Mar-92: I have zipped all the /pc/pd2/post*.txt (* =
01,02,03,04,05,06,07) information and feedback files to save you
download time and disk space. Thus they now are /pc/pd2/post*.zip.
The files come with PC eolns so that if you unzip them on your unix
host with /unix/arcers/unzip41.tar.Z apply the -a switch.
Sat 29-Feb-92: I have updated my list of MsDos FTP sites and
moderators garbo.uwasa.fi:/pc/pd2/moder.lst by adding the
information on OAK.Oakland.Edu and by editing the SIMTEL20
information.
Fri 28-Feb-92: Acquired from a Finnish BBS the following shareware
nonlinear regression analysis program by Phillip Sherrod:
159764 Jan 2 08:15 garbo.uwasa.fi:/pc/stat/nonlin10.zip
Fri 28-Feb-92: Acquired from a Finnish BBS:
241051 Jan 12 00:04 garbo.uwasa.fi:/pc/programming/dosref22.zip
It is an update of the Programmer's Technical Reference for MsDos
and the IBM PC by Dave Williams. Shareware.
Wed 19-Feb-92. Mathematical function plotting, not easy:
105727 Jan 1 07:25 garbo.uwasa.fi:/pc/plot/mathpl20.zip
Sun 9-Feb-92: Obtained Texas Zmodem from SIMTEL20
40027 Dec 30 10:04 garbo.uwasa.fi:/pc/termutil/txzm214.zip
It is a nice Zmodem transfer program which is certainly worth a look.
Sun 9-Feb-92: Obtained compressed executables detector update from
SIMTEL20. 18388 Jan 5 09:01 garbo.uwasa.fi:/pc/execomp/chk4c360.zip.
Below is a extract from the documentation.
3.50 -- Changed algorithm for determining version number of PKLITE
files; now also notes PKLITE files with extra compression.
3.55 -- Changed algorithm for determining major and minor version
number of PKLITE files; now also notes files having the
"large extractor" flag set.
3.60 -- Added detection for OPTLINK (used by NORTON UTILITIES).
Tue 4-Feb-92: This information is above all directed to
long-standing users of garbo.uwasa.fi, preferably with an upload
record, or some other background of mutually useful communication
with garbo moderators. If you are interested in having your email
address added to the garbo-infolist upload accouncement, download
statistics, etc news list you are welcome to email me an
"application". For more please see /pc/pd2/infolist.txt.
Sat 1-Feb-92: Obtained /pc/virus/scanv86b.zip McAfee virus scanner
directly from the author.
Mon 27-Jan-92: Keith and I obtained CompuShow GIF viewer new version
directly for the author Bob Berry. The file is available from both
sites and the mirrors as usual. At garbo it is
136108 Jan 20 12:00 garbo.uwasa.fi:/pc/gifutil/cshw841a.zip
Tue 21-Jan-92: Obtained from a Finnish BBS an update of the Equation
solver based on Borland's Eureca. Definitely worth a look if you
use programs like Mathematica etc. Available as
296060 Jul 1 1991 garbo.uwasa.fi:/pc/math/mrcry206.zip
Mon 20-Jan-92: Captured Stan Brown's FAQ from the news for
comp.os.msdos.programmers with Stan's kind permission to store it at
garbo.uwasa.fi.
Sun 19-Jan-92: The garbo MsDos INDEX, that is the annotated file
list of our /pc directories is how available also in the .zip format
as garbo.uwasa.fi:/pc/filelist/garboidx.zip. Especially if you
download our INDEX often, preferably use garboidx.zip because it is
compresses to less than half the size of the original. The zipped
file comes with MsDos eolns (end of lines) so if you wish to unzip
on Unix apply unzip -a garboidx.zip (unzip is from garbo.uwasa.fi:
/unix/arcers/unzip401.tar.Z).
Sun 19-Jan-92: Acquired garbo.uwasa.fi:/pc/math/finan10.zip, The
Financial Analyzer by Ray Zimmerman. One of the many of its kind
making basic financial calculations, but a nice rendition. But
before one can fully utilize any financial calculations program, one
will have to have some rudiments of financial mathematics under
one's belt. Well, anyone having a set of loans and a mortgage is
soon bound to :-).
Sat 18-Jan-92: The update maintenance of garbo.uwasa.fi is about
complete. Garbo formerly run on a MIPS 2030 workstation, and that
has now been replaced by a Sun IPX workstation. We decided to
retain the established garbo name and IP number to make the
transition smooth for you kind users. If you notice any such
irregularities that seem to have come about during the last week,
please report to hv@uwasa.fi, or to me so I'll forward if necessary.
Sat 18-Jan-92: Acquired the following files to our archives
5952 Jul 14 1988 garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/doc-soft/useansi.zip
5849 Nov 4 02:15 garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/editor/qeditq&a.zip
The former contains a fairly useful, if oldish documentation of ansi
codes. The latter contains QEdit editor messages hopefully of
interest to QEdit users.
Wed 15-Jan-92: Acquired from a Finnish BBS:
/pc/memutil
shrom18j.zip Swap to disk when shelling from an application. One
of the big problems with many programs that allow
the user to shell to Dos, is that the user is left
with little memory. This very useful utility
remedies that by swapping the application to dos
when the application shells. Turbo Pascal is the
only important application I have found so far that
is not amenable to SHell ROOM.
Wed 8-Jan-92: I have again updated the list of MsDos FTP sites and
their moderators. Rhys Weatherley rhys@cs.uq.oz.au is kindly
maintaining this list jointly with me from 8-Jan-92 on. The list
6597 Jan 8 06:12 garbo.uwasa.fi:/pc/pd2/moder.lst is an ascii file.
Fri 3-Jan-92: The list of MsDos FTP sites and moderators
garbo.uwasa.fi:/pc/pd2/moder.lst (ascii file) has been updated.
This update is due to Rhys Weatherley rhys@cs.uq.oz.au who
introduced a new item for each site and gathered the information.
This additional item is "Directories:" and it gives the major
directories at each site in a one-line format. Thus the current
information for each site is now
Site:
IP:
Location:
Main areas:
Directories:
Moderator(s):
Thu 2-Jan-92: Keith got us (SIMTEL20 and garbo) a more recent
version /pc/arcutil/ac151.zip of an archive converter from a US BBS.
If you have an earlier version, you should update. The
configuration program of the 150a version was prohibitevely buggy,
but the update seems quite useful and is worth a closer look.
Wed 1-Jan-92: Acquired from a Finnish BBS the following update of an
archive converter:
39345 Dec 1 11:35 garbo.uwasa.fi:/pc/arcutil/ac150a.zip
and retained for the time being
26477 Nov 13 01:42 garbo.uwasa.fi:/pc/goldies/ac142.zip
because the configuration program made a buggy and confusing
impression in my quick and dirtyy 15 minutes test.
Wed 1-Jan-92: The 1991 selected garbo.uwasa.fi news for MsDos
material can be found as /pc/pd2/news91a.pd2 and news91b.pd2. There
is also news for 1991 in /pc/ts/0news91.ts.