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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.