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University of Vaasa, Finland, MIPS node number 128.214.12.37 (garbo.uwasa.fi) has a large collection of PD and shareware programs which are available by anonymous ftp (file transfer program). This /pc/pd2/news91a.pd2 file contains selected news and reviews about the MsDos programs in the /pc directories. ................................................................... Prof. Timo Salmi Moderating at garbo.uwasa.fi anonymous ftp archives 128.214.12.37 School of Business Studies, University of Vaasa, SF-65101, Finland Internet: ts@chyde.uwasa.fi Funet: gado::salmi Bitnet: salmi@finfun ................................................................... N e w s o f 1 9 9 1 f r o m 1-Jan to 30-Apr Tue 30-Apr-91: Acquired from Simtel20 the updates of McAfee's virus facilities. /pc/virus/clean77.zip /pc/virus/netscn77.zip /pc/virus/scanv77.zip /pc/virus/vcopy77.zip /pc/virus/vshld77.zip Tue 30-Arp-91: Acquired a simple 8K 640x480x16 .gif outline map of Finland /pc/gif/suomi.gif. Just shows borders and elevations. Sun 28-Apr-91: Acquired from Simtel20 the GeoClock set of World map day/night terminator graphical display facilities featuring /pc/astronomy/geoclk42.zip. Its an excellent program, but its new user guidance is weak. To try to figure out what can be done with the program is veritable detective work, even with a careful perusal of the manual. Nevertheless, definitely worth a look. Should you be interested in knowing where the heck Vaasa is, include the following line into geoclock.dat: 63.06 21.37 Vaasa Sun 28-Apr-91: Acquired /pc/diskutil/1pass1.zip from Simtel20. Its purpose is to replace MsDos diskcopy program which requires several changes of disks for larger floppies and diskettes. Useful. I had no problems with 1pass when the target disk was already formatted, but the program couldn't cope with an unformatted 1.2K floppy on my 386. Thu 25-Apr-91: Acquired /pc/astronomy/skyglo25.zip update of the Skyglobe educational map of the sky by Mark Haney. Definitely interesting. Skyglobe topped the latest topten list of the PC-SIG shareware magazine. And it is quite a program. A simulation of the sky is, one can say, a natural (pardon the pun) application for computer graphics. Thu 25-Apr-91: Got the following files to garbo.uwasa.fi archives: /pc/memutil 704k.zip Grap extra memory, oldish (works?) /pc/gif cshw824a.zip CompuShow GIF viewer v8.24a (w SVGA) /pc/goldies cshw821b.zip CompuShow GIF viewer v8.21b, full features (good) /pc/printer pgrph101.zip A C Standard Printer Interface v1.01 from Frank Hulst /pc/turbopas vsafe5-6.zip Units to guard a TP program against tampering Mon 22-Apr-91: All these Turbo Pascal goodies were kindly uploaded to us by Lincoln Dale (sdalelt@cc.curtin.edu.au) from his BBS (FidoNet 3:690/627.0). My special appreciation to Lincoln for coming forward, and offering to upload these files to add their general availability to the common benefit of net users with access to our archives. I have made them all publicly available from our /pc/turbopas directory. Note that there are so many of the packages that I had to decide not to test them individually before making them downloadable. break.zip Ctrl-Break handling for TP. execws.zip TP6 Code to swap code to EMS/Disk for exec command. frte.zip FRTE Forced Runtime Error System for TP. generics.zip Generic Turbo Pascal v5.5 TP OOP Objects getput.zip Example TP code for creating pop-up windows help_doc.zip Help file for Turbo Pascal helpme.zip Help file with common questions for TP idfi42.zip Identifies what video card is installed (TP) llist10.zip Shows how to use Linked Lists in Turbo Pascal. minigen.zip Screen generator for Turbo Pascal 4. mrgsort.zip Charles Falconer's merge sort routines for TP. mtask20.zip Simple multitasking for Turbo Pascal v5.5 pas88_21.zip Turbo Pascal library of Assembly units pasflow.zip Smarten up your Turbo Pascal source code pasnet.zip Netware Interface Module for Turbo Pascal pasunzip.zip Zipping and unzipping routines in Turbo Pascal pi.zip Calculate PI to x decimal places - Src TP 3. probots.zip Turbo Pascal programmer's game. qt.zip QuickTime - TSR code for TP4. tas252.zip Autosave v2.52 for Turbo Pascal v5.x timedate Time stamping for Turbo Pascal files tp4_tsr.zip Turbo Pascal v4 routines demonstrating TSRs tp4error.zip Trap a wide variety of critical errors in TP tp5units.zip A collection of Turbo Pascal v4/5 routines tp_tsr10.zip Routines to allow you to make your TP resident tpaint.zip Turbo Pascal v5.5 screen drawing routines tphrt.zip Turbo Pascal High Resolution Timer package tpmouse.zip 3rd Party mouse driver for Turbo Pascal tpnov6.zip Turbo Pascal/Novell Netware API Function tpschk11.zip Turbo Pascal Self-Check. tpv24.zip Interrupt driven Turbo Pascal RS232C routines. trig_pas.zip Mathematical Trig. routines for Turbo Pascal tsrsrc.zip TSR management programs TP source tsrunit.zip Powerful TSR routines for Turbo Pascal 5.5 unitconv.zip Convert Pascal Source files to Units wordwrap.zip Turbo Pascal 4 code for word wrapping xmodem.zip Turbo Pascal 4 code for X-Modem protocol Mon 22-Apr-91: The following files are now available also from garbo.uwasa.fi anonymous ftp archives from directory /pc/turbopas totdemo.zip TechnoJock's Object Toolkit, demo programmes totdoc.zip TechnoJock's Object Toolkit, documentation totng.zip TechnoJock's Object Toolkit, Norton Guide totsrc.zip TechnoJock's Object Toolkit, Source Sun 21-Apr-91: Acquired the Japanese version of LHa .lzh archiving program version 2.12 from Japan. I used the patch of the author to include a version with an English help screen into the package. Since the documents are still in Japanese, I'll call the self-extracting file I made /pc/arcers/lha212jp.exe, and for the time being we'll retain also lha211.exe on our archives, since it has English documentation. Sun 21-Apr-91: I recently acquired /pc/doc/murphy.zip for the lighter side of things. Keith Petersen (thanks Keith) told me that there is a murphys.zip at Simtel20. These files are different. (Mr Murphy caught napping?) Thu 18-Apr-91: Acquired the following Zmodem 16-Apr-91 updates from Simtel20: /pc/termutil/dsz0416.zip /pc/termutil/dsz0416n.zip /pc/termutil/dsz0416x.zip Wed 17-Apr-91: Acquired to garbo.uwasa.fi from a BBS and Simtel20: /pc/editor ss23.zip ShareSpell Text File Spelling Checker v2.3. This is a screen oriented spelling cheker, with editing capability. It also makes replacement suggestions when unknown words are encountered. /pc/termprog boyan401.zip Boyan v4.01 telecommuniation program boyan402.zip Boyan v4.01 telecommuniation documentation One more reputedly good telecommunication program. I just tested that it works, but made no actual evaluation. Comments for fellow users anyone? Tue 16-Apr-91: Acquired /pc/games/scram10.zip. This shareware game of Scramble by Diana Gruber (not to be confused with the encryption game of Scramble that was recently distributed in the binaries) is a computer rendition of the well-known letter-board game of Scrabble. It suits very well the garbo policy of having educational games available, although we else try to limit the number of our games. This Scrabble (I'll call it that here) is very well done, and a good exercise of English for us non-English speakers. I usually do not care to play computer games myself, but I'll probably be making a major exception with this one. There is one major catch, which must be made clear here. The Scrabble documentation file says: "PC-Sig is the only shareware distributor [that] is authorized to carry version 1.0 of Scramble in the United States". This international FTP distribution system is making rules like this more than a bit problematic and clearly obsolete (recall the much discussed case of pkzip encryption). Since garbo.uwasa.fi is situated in Europe, I'll make the file available or our archives. But for the record I have to ask the US users strictly to observe the stated statute, and not to download this file from us, _or_ whatever the proper legalities dictate over there. (What else could I do, than to append this disclaimer!) Tue 16-Apr-91: Received bug fixed /pc/comm/rmail31b.zip from Jeroen Schipper of his ReadMail mail & news & messages reader. The bug was in printing output. Tue 16-Apr-91: Obtained /pc/arcers/arc200.exe .arj archiver. Supposed to be the tightest, but I haven't tested whether or not so. Mon 15-Apr-91: Jeroen Schipper's excellent email & news & message reader update is now available as /pc/comm/rmail31.zip. Sun 14-Apr-91: Since moving from chyde to garbo Harri and I have been gradually reorganizing our MsDos program collection, which is located in the /pc directories. Now the major part of this overhaul is ready, and we hope to be back on the regular usage. Among other information files we have /pc/_files.in and /pc/_files.out. The former, giving current months new additions, is naturally of particular interest to users. Since we had to create quite a number of new directories in our overhaul, and move files between them, this means that for the beginning of the year our _files.in and _files.out information files recorded not only our new and deleted files, but the moves as well. Now this situation will be stabilizing from the beginning of May (we hope :-). Sun 14-Apr-91: Acquired the following files from Simtel20, and took a closer look at them: /pc/binedit beav120.zip Binary Editor And Viewer v1.20 by Peter Reilley. This is only the second binary editor that I have seen that I find satisfactory (the first was fed153.zip). If you have been using MicroEmacs, you'll feel at once at home with beav.exe. - The display formats of beav are very flexible. - These are hackers' tools. /pc/dirutil dirsiz11.zip Directory Size information v1.1 by Keith Ledbetter, the author of the excellent SuperSonic Search Tool. Dirsize.exe is a free program to give a list of directory sizes eg on your harddisk, which can be quite useful. I can't refrain mentioning here that I have programmed practically the same utility quite awhile ago. It is dirinfo.exe, currently in tsutlc16.arc at the /pc/ts directory. But different realizations of the same idea are naturally both commonplace and welcome. /pc/unix fw-ls2.zip Unix-like ls list directory for MsDos and OS/2. With the number of users and programmers with a Unix background it is hardly surprising that Unix-like alternatives for MsDos commands abound. The most popular Unix rendition has been ls, and this is yet another one. This one seems well done and quite complete. Sat 13-Apr-91: Updated the Finnish BBS lists, and changed the naming at the same time. It is now /pc/bbs/fi910413.arc. Sat 13-Apr-91: The rearrangement of the /pc/pd2 directory is now complete. The program packages (which were duplicated in the other directories even before) are now only in their proper directories. The files remaining are information files on our /pc directories. Sat 13-Apr-91: I have taken a look at the /pc/games/scramble.zip word cryptogram game my fellow moderator Harri (hv@garbo.uwasa.fi) downloaded from the binary postings. It is a good example how to build a game with a useful educational flavor. A good game need not necessarily be flashy. The trick is to have a good basic idea, as this one has. That's the the hardest part, even if writing the code may have its challenges, as well. You are shown simultaneously a number of simply crypted words, and your task it to decrypt them. Incidentally there exists another, quite different game of Scramble, which I will be trying to locate for taking a look at it. That Scramble is the computer adaptation of a word game better known as Scrabble. Fri 12-Apr-91: Acquired from Simtel20 /pc/keyboard/click10.zip. It is a utility to produce a click when keys are pressed. In other words it is a resident keyclick program. Unfortunately, on the 386 machines I've tried it, it is pracically inaudible. Fri 12-Apr-91: Acquired from Simtel20 /pc/virus/netscn76.zip, scanv76c.zip, and vshld76c.zip virus fighting facilities from McAfee. Also acquired from Simtel20 /pc/arcers/shez61.zip. Jim Derr's excellent shell for archivers. My thanks to Keith Petersen for the pointer to these new versions. Thu 11-Apr-91: Acquired the following files from a Finnish BBS: dsz0404.zip Zmodem external file transfer protocol 4-Apr-91 dsz404bg.zip Additional documentation on DSZ and Zmodem I was a bit worried about one of the packages, so I asked Keith Petersen and got this reply which settles it: "Timo, you asked about this file, recently uploaded to SIMTEL20: pd1:<msdos.zmodem> DSZ404BG.ZIP Additional background info on DSZ and Zmodem This file was obtained from Chuck Forsberg. He uploaded it to a national on-line service where *anyone* can download it. This file was previously restricted to registered DSZ users only. Apparently Chuck forgot to remove the distribution restrictions from the file." Fri 5-Apr-91: The purpose of the /pc/pd2 directory will change. It will be a place for selected announcements and reviews on MsDos acquisitions to our archives. I'll start gradually moving the other (linked) files from the /pc/pd2 directory. This means that the /pc/pd2 directory will in some near future contain only the selected files which do not appear anywhere else on our archives. For example, this /pc/pd2/0news-pd2 file, which gives my selected comments on MsDos uploads to our archives, will be staying in /pc/pd2. (A similar file for Unix uploads is /unix/ts/0news-u). Fri 5-Apr-91: The garbo.uwasa.fi weekly download statistics are in directory /pc/filelist. Fri 5-Apr-91: /pc/pd2/0post is another FAQ like file I gradually update. I post this since some users may not have noticed its existence along the much more downloaded /pc/ts/tsfaq##.arc FAQ (## = 19 currently). It contains mostly my emailed responses to the questions posed in comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d, and some other information on garbo.uwasa.fi archives. You can browse it conveniently (also) with Unix elm or /pc/comm/rmail30.zip. Thu 4-Apr-91: Acquired the new Telix 3.15 package from Simtel20. The files tlx315-1.zip, tlx315-2.zip, and tlx315-3.zip are in the /pc/termprog directory. The authors state "We are still hard at work on our next major update of Telix, and most people presently using Telix 3.12 will not want or need to upgrade to Telix 3.15." I have looked into it, and I agree. Wed 3-Apr-91: Got /pc/comm/rmail30.zip ReadMail program directly from the author Jeroen Schipper. It is an email and news reader for the PC. You can port your Unix mail and/or news to your PC and read it there. ReadMail is clearly among the best freeware programs I have ever seen. Especially, if you read much Unix mail or follow the UseNet news, get rmail30.zip. There is admittedly some figuring out to do for the user in reading mail if the mail headers are not quite conventional. I have discussed this with the author, and he is looking into it. Mon 1-Apr-91: I have some new files which I have looked at more closely at garbo.uwasa.fi archives: /pc/dirutil go_3_0.zip Go to directories and find files v3.0 Richard Larkin This very handy shareware utility comes from the binary postings. Absolutely worth a closer look. Needs a spell to getting used to, though, but the F1 help function soon solves that. Configuring the advanced options takes some figuring out. Eg I wanted to put the auxiliary file go.dtl on my ram disk for my testing. It took me quite awhile to find out how to achieve this. Simple only in retrospect. (Incidentally, if you haven't come to think of it dc106f.zip Directory Control can also be used for an elementary point and shoot changing of directories. Go_3_0 and dc106f are not, however, substitutes for each other). /pc/diskutil pcopy90.zip Norm Patriquin's fabulous copy program version 9.0. Parti-Soft has produced many excellent utilities including this multi-purpose copier which now seems to have Daniel Collier as co-author. Excellent as pcopy is, I feel that the current version has become severely bloated. Therefore I'll retain pcopy85d.zip on garbo.uwasa.fi archives. In fact, personally I use version 7.87 on my desktop, and version 5.1! on my portable. A minor problem in 9.0 was that despite the documented claim I did not find any legend on the updates in the .doc file. /pc/fileutil ps44c.zip File and text search from Patri-Soft version 4.4c. An excellent menu driven text search with one silly bug. The program chrashes if ascii beyond 127 search strings are used. /pc/miscutil xdos202.zip ExtraDOS utilities v 2.02 from Foley Hi-Tech Systems A shareware collection of a little less than 30 utilities. Worth browsing. Contents: EXTRADOS.TXT CURLOCK.COM HUSH.COM SPKR.COM TURBOBAT.COM AREA.EXE BANNER.EXE BOOT.EXE CAL.EXE CAT.EXE CURSOR.EXE CUT.EXE DELAY.EXE DETAB.EXE EDIT.EXE EVAL.EXE FF.EXE FS.EXE FT.EXE HEX.EXE LASER.EXE LS.EXE MAZE.EXE MOVE.EXE SA.EXE TS.EXE PAUSE.SYS Sun 31-Mar-91: I have some new files which I have looked at more closely at garbo.uwasa.fi archives: /pc/pd2 chk4c305.zip Detect various compressed .exe files by John Land. Fair, but what I would like as an option is an errorlevel for a given file to give the compression status (or have I missed something). Else I think that /pc/pd2/drx101.zip makes this program somewhat superfluous. /pc/astronomy cosmopak.zip Cosmos planetarium simulation 14.11 from Gene Lee. This is a package from the binary postings to delight astronomy fans. Ega and Vga graphics becoming commonplace has set the stage for some nice astronomy programs like this one and skyglob2.zip map which I recently acquired from a Finnish BBS. (I have seen some compatibility problems being reported with the latter). Cosmos being a science program I find it a bit strange using miles instead of the metric system. (I find miles strange anyway :-). /pc/comm dial11.zip Repeatedly dial a list of telephone numbers. I haven't tested this one. The author Jouni Leppajarvi (jml@stekt.oulu.fi) states in a message to me: "Dial11.arc contains dial 1.1, a pc-autodialer for hayes-modems that operates in background. New features (not in dial 1.0) : - can be aborted with a hotkey sequence - pause time between calls can be specified - automatic termination on incoming calls" /pc/dirutil dirno120.zip Annotate directories v 1.20 PcMag update. This is one of the useful utilities to alleviate the effect of the severely limited MsDos filename length. There is one annoying bug in dirnotes.exe, though. The BackSpace key wont work in the insert mode. /pc/screen flower.zip A cross between a screensaver and a demo (286 VGA). Be patient when you run. I first thought my 386 had crashed but it was only that the program is not a fast starter. The author Micael Dahlquist (f89-mda@nada.kth.se) writes: "Probably would do as a screen saver too. But it's not! No, it's some of the amusing backgrounds from the game Pong (that I am still writing on). Anyway, have fun. I do. To make this program work, you need a minimum of 80286 (processor) and VGA." Sun 31-Mar-91: Updated the collection of the Finnish BBS lists to be /pc/pd2/bx910330.arc. Mon 25-Mar-91: Someone kindly uploaded /pc/pd2/inter291.zip to garbo. It is Ralf Brown's impressive list of PC interrupts. A must for advanced programmers. The current size of inter291.zip is 352K. Consequently the future versions will come in two parts according to the documentation. Fri 22-Mar-91: Obtained the latest file list of Micro Maniacs Opus, files-mm.zip. The list has grown drastically, and is 747K in the zipped form, and almost 2000K in ascii form. The telephone is 358-0-2983308, but the most important usage if these file lists is to be able to see what files are in circulation. Thu 21-Mar-91: Acquired to garbo.uwasa.fi archives: /pc/pd2 tlb-v118.zip The Last Byte MsDos Upper Memory Manager v1.18. On the basis of the few experiments I made, and the problems that I have had with some other upper memory managers, this facility to move drivers and tsr programs from the conventional memory looks very promising. I couldn't test its true potential though, since it is (too?) strongly a crippleware rendition. Thu 20-Mar-91: Received /pc/turbopas/indx18eu.zip update from the author. Its description is: TP units (IndexedFiles, Encrypt, Files) by Thomas Jenkins. Wed 20-Mar-91: My fellow moderator Harri Valkama obtained Mskermit version 3.10 files from watsun for the PC. They are now available from garbo.uwasa.fi archives as /pc/termprog/msker310.zip. Wed 20-Wed-91. The /pc/INDEX file list of garbo.uwasa.fi MsDos files will from now on be available also in arced form as /pc/filelist/garboidx.arc. Since an arced file is smaller than the original, it will take less resources to transfer. It is made using arc -fi switches for PC eof compatibility, so if you unarc it on a Unix system, use arc -xi. (Unix arc is available as /unix/ts/arc.tar.Z if you need it.) Tue 19-Mar-91: Acquired to garbo.uwasa.fi archives: /pc/stash (until relocated to /pc/printer) prindir6.zip Printer Redirection v6.0 from Allen Creations. A per se useful utility that allows you to direct output elsewhere instead of the printer. Unfortunately belongs to the cases whose first usage and installation have been made a test of the user's ingenuity and patience. :-) Tue 19-Mar-91: Acquired Shez shell update /pc/pd2/shez60c.zip for handling archives from Simtel20. A must, if use archives often. One of the best programs around. Mon 18-Mar-91: Acquired /pc/pd2/sst_52a.zip "Supersonic Search Tool". It is the former whereis (where44b.zip) from Keith Ledbetter who has changed the name of his facility. Mon 18-Mar-91: The alternative garbo.uwasa.fi weekly statistics, from Monday to Monday is available as /pc/filelist/ftplog11.lst. It is an ascii file. It is due to our system manager Hannu Hirvonen hh@uwasa.fi. Contrary to /pc/pd2/dload##.lst /pc/filelist/ftplog##.lst statistics include all our ftp files (dload##.lst cover only /pc/... and /unix/ts directories). I will not separately announce the the download statistics from now on any more because they are made on a regular basis (Friday and Monday). If you wish to see them every week, the most convenient way is to get them, say, on every Tuesday. If you prepare a batchftp script to do the downloading for you, the system becomes almost automatic, and you dont have to bother much. (Batchftp is convenient, and highly recommeded for getting any files). It is available as /unix/ts/batchftp102.tar.Z. Sat 16-Mar-91: Don't forget the /pc/pd2/0post information file. There is more information for you e.g. on shareware and PD MsDos programs in there. Fri 15-Mar-91: Made available the 8-Mar-91 to 15-Mar-91 download statistics of the most popular files of garbo.uwasa.fi as /pc/pd2/dload11.lst. It is an ascii file. Fri 15-Mar-91: Acquired /pc/pd2/snippr24.zip screen capture facility update from Simtel20. This patch corrects the undesirable feature of having trailing blanks in the resulting file. Thu 14-Mar-91: Got /pc/pd2/lha211.exe Lha .lzh compression. My thanks are due to Keith Petersen for the program. Thu 14-Mar-91: Acquired to garbo.uwasa.fi archives from Simtel20: /pc/stash (until relocated) lcd_21a.zip Led's Change Directory fast 2.1 by Keith Ledbetter. Works by even by name matching so that just a part of the directory name is sufficient to take you there. Nice and very useful, yes. "One of the best 10 utilities of 1990", that's overdoing it a bit. Mon 11-Mar-91: Acquired from a Finnish BBS: /pc/pd2 snippr23.zip Snip the screen into a file, version 2.3. This is no doubt one of the most nifty TSR utilities around. You can capture text from the screen, and send it to the printer, a file, or the keyboard buffer as if typed. Version 2.3 is an improvement of Tom Kilhken's original that was published in the PC-magazine. The update adds Home, End, PgUp, and PgDn keys for cursor movement. Very handy. I have Snipper in my autoexec.bat, which can be considered some kind of an indication of Snipper's usefulness. /pc/stash (later /pc/bbs) blt1 Official WorldWide PCBoard Listing as of 16-Feb-91. This BBS list is one of the files without a changing version number, and it replaces the earlier version in /pc/doc with the same name. Mon 11-Mar-91: The alternative garbo.uwasa.fi weekly statistics, from Monday to Monday is available as /pc/pd2/ftplog10.lst. It is an ascii file. It is due to our system manager Hannu Hirvonen hh@uwasa.fi. Contrary to /pc/pd2/dload##.lst /pc/pd2/ftplog##.lst statistics include all our ftp files (dload##.lst cover only /pc/... and /unix/ts directories). Sat 9-Mar-1991 : Acquired from a Finnish BBS: /pc/stash (temporary location) skyblob2.zip Skyglobe 2.0 educational map of the sky by Mark Haney. I think that astronomy hobbyist will find this quite interesting, and it makes a nice educational graphics demonstration for any user. I can recommend closer look. Sat 9-Mar-91: If you are interested in having your email address added to the garbo-infolist news accouncements news list you are welcome to email me an application. Your application must include the following line YourFirstName YourLastName = youruserid@machine.domain.country eg mine would be Timo Salmi = ts@chyde.uwasa.fi Be very careful to get this information right. It is absolutely essential. Unless we know each other from earlier contacts on the net, you should also clearly state your status, affiliation, and reasons for wanting to be on this list, since I cannot make this a completely open offer. Eg I would state Professor of Accounting and Business Finance School of Business Studies, University of Vaasa, Finland I want to help in propagation of shareware and PD MsDos programs and in order to do that I need information of the new uploads to your anonymous ftp archives... (then eg information about my computer usage background, etc, etc). Sat 9-Mar-91: Acquired from Simtel20: /pc/pd2 shez60b.zip Shell for handling any kind of archives by Jim Derr. Shez is certainly one of the most useful utilities around, especially when you have a lot handling archived files. One of my definite favorites. Version 60b has some quite useful improvements. It can now handle .arj files, it defaults to the logically right directly on adjacent disk, and you can predefine where the extraction goes. The latter two improvements are just small details, but they remove behavior which I found a small, but constant irritant. Shez is a must for any heavy downloader. /pc/pd2 chk4c297.zip Detect compressed .exe files by John Land v. 2.97 see /pc/INDEX lha211sr.zip LHa .lzh compression sources /pc/pd2 dsz0228.zip Yet another ZModem updated from Omen, 28-Feb-91 /pc/pd2 bbs0291.zip "Thelist" US BBS February list Fri 8-Mar-91: This week's download statistics of garbo.uwasa.fi is available as /pc/pd2/dload10.lst. It is an ascii file. It contains the download counts and the descriptions of files that have had at least 10 downloads from our site during the week. It is the same statistics that used to be posted in comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d before I got fed up with the complaints about the free services we provide to the net. The weekly Friday to Friday download statistics of the files will be published as /pc/pd2/dload##.lst. This version contains the descriptions of the files. The second statistics, the Monday to Monday statistics, will be published as /pc/pd2/ftplog##.lst stating the coming monday. This list includes a breakdown by the downloading sites, and will scan all the directories. Likewise, if you are interested in still seeing all the news I write about garbo.uwasa.fi files, take a periodic look at the /pc/pd2/0news-pd2 file. You may also find /pc/pd2/0post of interest. Fri 8-Mar-91: Update of the Finnish BBS list /pc/pd2/bx910308.arc. Thu 7-Mar-91: Downloaded phantom.zip from the binary postings. It is a neat little utility to record and play back your keystrokes. It will first temporarily be in the /pc/stash directory, and later in /pc/keyboard. Thu 7-Mar-91: Updated Compart BBS file list /pc/pd2/cbbs_all.zip. Mind you if you intend to download. It is over 700K. Wed 6-Mar-91: Updated the Micro Maniacs BBS file list /pc/pd/files-mm.zip. Wed 6-Mar-91: Acquired /pc/pd2/pkzm104.exe /pc/pcmag/vol10n04.zip The former is a shell for pkzip and pkunzip. It is from PKWare, and the idea is similar to /pc/pd2/shez59.zip. The latter includes, among others, mboot for selective configurations at boot time, and whatcpu2 for processor identification. Tue 5-Mar-91: The English documents for LHa .lzh compressor have come out. Therefore, I have replaced the earlier, leaner version of /pc/pd2/lha210e.exe with the version containing the documents. I have _not_ altered the name of lha210e.exe to retain compatibility with what is, and will be on the other sites. My thanks to Keith Petersen for pointing me to the version with the documents. Tue 5-Mar-91: Update of the Finnish BBS list /pc/pd2/bx910304.arc. Sun 3-Mar-91: Update of the Finnish BBS list /pc/pd2/bx910302.arc. Sun 3-Mar-91: Acquired the new version of McAfee's virus scanner 70033 Feb 27 10:08 /pc/pd2/scanv75.zip. Also acquired 74345 Feb 26 17:13 clean75.zip 56547 Feb 26 18:51 netscn75.zip 68765 Feb 26 18:45 vshld75.zip which will be in the /pc/virus directory. Sat 2-Mar-91: Update of Jon Granrose's 1-Mar-91 ftp site list /pc/pd2/ftpsites.arc Wed 27-Feb-91: The official Japanese release 2.10 of LHa (the successor of LHarc) for .lzh compression has come out. I took the liberty of using the author's patches to convert it into a version with English user interface, and thus LHa 2.10 is now available as self-extracting /pc/pd2/lha210e.exe from our site. The only file in the self-extracting archive is lha_e.exe. Wed 20-Feb-91: Update /pc/pd2/bx910219.arc of the collection of the Finnish BBS lists. Tue 19-Feb-91: Update /pc/pd2/cbbs_all.zip of the huge file list of Compart BBS to show and example of what can be available in BBSes. Mon 18-Feb-91: Update /pc/pd2/scanv74b.zip of McAfee's virus scanner, the definite must. Mon 18-Feb-91: Update /pc/pd2/ansi132.zip of PcMagazine's ansi.sys replacement. Update /pc/pd2/infop145.zip of Andrew Rossmann's InfoPlus system information program, and /pc/pd2/ifp1s145.zip which contains its Turbo Pascal and asm sources. Fri 15-Feb-91: Update ronset25.zip of the environment programming language by Ron Bemis. Thu 14-Feb-91: Acquired /pc/pd2/arc100.exe .arj archiver update. Mon 11-Feb-91: Acquired /pc/pd2/lha205.exe update of LHa .lzh test version with a patch /pc/pd2/bdiff.lzh to impose an English user interface. (Apply lha_e.bat to patch). Unfortunately there already was a different version of lha205.exe in the /pc/pd2 directory (with some English documentation). Therefore I'll take the liberty of renaming this new arrival as lha205j.exe. Sun 10-Feb-91: Got hold of lha205.exe. It is .lzh file compression beta test version from Haruyasu Yoshizaki _in_ Japanese. Download at your own risk. (Actually, you always do, but be aware that I found this one in the self-extracting .exe format lying around in a Finnish BBS). The compression rate is even better than before. Sun 10-Feb-91: Acquired the following packages to garbo.uwasa.fi: see /pc/INDEX tpstr121.zip String functions for Turbo Pascal by Richard Winkel. Replaces tpstring.zip. The author says: "STRINGS.TPU is a Turbo Pascal unit containing 30 string functions implemented in assembler. These routines are fast (check out the benchmark program) and powerful. IBM mainframe users will notice that this package is substantially equivalent to the string routines available in IBM's Rexx language." see /pc/INDEX dabutil.zip A collection of "system-completing" utilities by Don Branson. A definitely useful set. It's featuring program is eventman event manager, which is nice, but didn't attract me personally. But dabutil also includes some general MsDos utilities that that make a very good complement to any utilities set you already have. The directory manager dirm.com and sort current directory sd.com seem particularly worth their while. Thu 7-Feb-91: Obtained the latest file list of Micro Maniacs Opus, files-mm.zip. Micro Maniacs Opus has moved to tel 358-0-2983308. Wed 6-Feb-91: Received tr3-9.zip TeleReplica 3.9 update directly from the author Doug Thomson. Mon 4-Feb-91: Acquired the following updates to garbo.uwasa.fi from a Compart BBS in Finland. /pc/pd2 isl21.zip Has an .exe file been compressed with lzexe or pklite. This is an update of an earlier version (1.2) which only identified lzexe-compressed executables. Else moderate, but annoyingly looses the cursor, and you have to reset with the mode, or a similar command. See /pc/pd2/drx101.zip for a much better alternative. /pc/sysutil stack26.zip Command Line Editor/Enhancer with a menu system. This seems quite a useful addition to the collection of MsDos command line recall programs like ced and dos-edit. The neat trick in this one is that you can invoke the stacked commands into a pop-up window and recall the commands from there. You can also assign commands to the functions keys. The usage of stack26 takes some figuring out, though. You may already have your favorite command line editor, as I do, but this one is definitely worth a second look. Besides, if you know how to utilize mark-release, you can even toggle stack26 with your customary command line editor. Sun 3-Feb-91: There are several, partly overlapping utility file collections in the /pc/pd2 directory at garbo.uwasa.fi archives. I have collected the contents of five of them in /pc/pd2/utillist.txt, so that one does not have to download each one to see what is in them. Sat 2-Feb-91: Updated the Finnish BBS lists bx910202.arc. Sat 2-Feb-91: Acquired the following updates to garbo.uwasa.fi archives from Simtel20, and took a closer look at them. see /pc/INDEX (or /pc/stash) avs223e.zip A Virus Search Program by H+BEDV Datentechnik GmbH Obviously a useful addition to any collection of virus scanners. This one comes from Germany. see /pc/INDEX compfile.zip Dickford Cohn review of executable compression progs Makes interesting reading for users of the various programs for compressing executable files. It is a pity that the text lines are awkwardly long. see /pc/INDEX cv100.zip A Window Into Your PC Memory from RolySoft, Denmark. It is specialized, but nicely done. I like this one. The documentation says: "CoreView is a small but fast memory viewer. With help of CoreView you may look through the memory of your computer. CoreView also has facilities for searching memory for specific strings or BIOS extensions." see /pc/INDEX fasts101.zip Fastsystem plus for autoexec and config management. The documentation says: "This software is designed to give you total and almost instant control of your AUTOEXEC.BAT and CONFIG.SYS files. fastsystem allows you to create/edit/save up to nine different AUTOEXEC.BAT or CONFIG.SYS files and at any time install either one of them and reboot your system." see /pc/INDEX pb14.zip A terminate and stay resident playback of keystrokes Don't you just hate it when using a potentially very useful utility has been made a riddle. Recall my ten minute rule: If an experienced user is still completely stuck after the first ten minutes, a shareware product is badly done. Sat 2-Feb-91: Micro Maniacs Opus (the file list files-mm.zip) is moving, and it's old telephone number is no longer valid. I don't know the new number yet. Fri 1-Feb-91: Acquired the following updates to garbo.uwasa.fi /pc/pd2/ bx910201.arc Finnish BBS lists see /pc/INDEX rjmfilec.zip File Name Completion by Richard Miller. Didn't test this one. The documentation says: FILEC is Terminate and Stay Resident (TSR) utility that reduces the number of keystrokes needed to enter long filenames. When the HOTKEY is pressed FILEC reads a partial filename as typed by the user and attempts to complete the filename by searching the appropriate directory. The completed filename is then pasted by FILEC, as if the user had typed it. see /pc/INDEX ssearch4.zip Supersearch file and text finder by Thomas Price. Even with the many other file finders around, this one is worth a look because of its text finding facility. see /pc/INDEX vram386.zip Expanded, extended etc memory management for 386. A very useful and interesting concept. Unfortunately prohibitively difficult to figure out and configure individually. But perhaps you'll have a better success than I did in experimenting with loading my device drivers and tsrs into the high memory with this system. Mon 28-Jan-91: Acquired the following updates to garbo.uwasa.fi archives from Simtel20. /pc/pd2/ dirx101.zip Shell for compressed executables, very good. This version seems to add some pull-down menus. /pc/pd2 find217.zip A fast file finder. This one is by Bruce Gavin. see /pc/INDEX fff34.zip A fast file finder from Jim Derr. Confusingly there is another fast file finder with almost the same name. It is /pc/pd2/fff345.zip by Don Williams. Don's fff includes source code. see /pc/INDEX zipzap71.zip A disk editor by Keith Chuvala. Colorful interface. The author says: "ZipZap 7.0 allows you to view and/or modify a file or disk sector by sector. The data from the file or disk sector is displayed in two different formats: hexadecimal numbers and ASCII text." see /pc/INDEX tinyprog.zip An executable file compressor alike lzexe and pklite but the compression compares unfavorably. The help screen could be more informative, and the program should give a warning when a file is not found. I didn't have the patience to find out whether tinyprog can decompress files. The documentation states: "Makes EXE or COM file programs smaller. Stops corrupted or patched programs from running. Makes EXE files as easy to self-configure as COM files. Encrypts programs to make internal text unreadable." Mon 28-Jan-91: Update /pc/pd2/bbs0191.zip of 'thelist' of US BBSes. Sun 27-Jan-91: New files at garbo.uwasa.fi archives: see /pc/INDEX dis323.zip Disk manager by Dennis Moon & Scott Leonard One of the many of the kind, although the layout of the screen makes a change. Dis323 is menu driven system to perform various disk operations. Worth looking at. /pc/pcmag vol8n22.zip Includes ALIAS by Douglas Boling & Jeff Prosise The authors say: "A TSR utility that enables DOS command-line editing and recall of previously issued commands and that permits assignment of long commands and environment strings to short synonyms ("aliases") or function keys." A general garbo.uwasa.fi note: If the directory of a file is not given in the announcement, take a look at /pc/INDEX for the list of files. Also you may want to take a look at /pc/stash where we occasionally store files before my fellow moderator Harri Valkama hv@uwasa.fi has reallocated the files to their proper directories. Mon 21-Jan-91: Acquired update /pc/pd2/zzap62a.arc of the universal archive conversion program. If you need to convert from many different kind of archives into any other archive format, this one will certainly be useful. Sun 20-Jan-91: Obtained /pc/pd2/drx100.zip, DirX-Directory of eXecutables, Version 1.00, 01/11/91, rtk. I like the concept and the realization of it. This program has all the makings of being able to become "the Shez" of executable compression. Sat 19-Jan-91: Here are some new files from Simtel20 brought to uwasa.fi archives. : /pc/pd2 96bb0191.zip A sporadic list of international 9600bps BBSes. I have to call it sporadic since one trick is to look at one's own country, and there is no current information on Finnish 9600 BBSes. /pc/pd2 chk4c260.zip Detect compressed .exe files by John Land. Version 2.60. Author says: "Shows which .EXE & .COM files have been compressed by PKLITE, LZEXE, DIET, AXE, LEXEM, TINYPROG, or SHRINK, plus misnamed .EXE &. COM files. Output sortable by size, name, date/time, & is redirectable. Subdirectories can be processed." /pc/pd2 drx099.zip List and handle compressed executables. Definitely useful. Author says: "DirX 0.99 - Directory of eXecutables. Files compressed with AXE, DIET, EXEPACK, LEXEM, LZEXE, PKLITE, SHRINK and TINYPROG are displayed in the left window. Uncompressed COM/EXE files are displayed in the right window. "Move" individual and groups of files between the Compressed and Uncompressed windows. Navigate between drives/directories by pointing and shooting. New: Override default compressor from within program. Also fixes a few bugs." /pc/pd2 find216.zip Fast file finder. Author says: "FIND is an ultra high speed file finding program. It searches the disk drive(s) for the specified files using the standard DOS drive, filename and wildcard structure. The current version will optionally search ZIP (tm) files. The current version FIND does not support network drives." /pc/pd2 usbbs80.zip Darwin's U.S. BBS list 1-Jan-91 /pc/pd2 zzap61a.zip ZIP/ZOO/ARC/PAK Converter by Ross Wentworth. This one is definitely useful. The only minor gripe that I have is that the warnings on configuration do not stay on the screen. They are extremely difficult to capture. Author says: "Automated conversion between the most common archive types (ARC, DWC, ICE, LBR, LZH, MD, PAK, SDN, ZIP, and ZOO), etc." see /pc/INDEX pcindx01.zip In index of PC-Magazine's utilities. This one is definitely useful. Includes an alphabetical as well as a list by issues. Thu 10-Jan-90: I added a file list of another Finnish BBS to the files available from uwasa.fi, Vaasa, Finland, anonymous ftp archives. The list is /pc/pd2/cbbs_all.zip from Compart BBS 358-0-5063329. The list is not organized in the best possible way, there are many misclassifications, and many undeleted older version. On the other hand the list is huge, about 1.6Mb. This list, along with /pc/pd2/files-mm.zip (Micro Maniacs Opus, 358-0-463636) are useful to show what programs can be available for the PC even if you wouldn't ever intend to call these particular boards. Sun 6-Jan-91: Update arj020.exe of .arc archiver, and where44b.zip of the whereis filefinder. Sun 6-Jan-91: My fellow moderator Harri Valkama (hv@chyde.uwasa.fi) got the update /pc/pd2/inter191.zip of Ralf Brown's impressive interrupt list. Sun 6-Jan-91: Put up Duncan Murdoch's message on pklte103 bugs as pkltebug.txt, with Duncan's kind permission. Sat 5-Jan-91: Updated the list of Finnish BBSes to be bx910105.zip. Thu 3-Jan-91: I received /pc/pd2/showf241.zip directly from the author, Duncan Murdoch. This is one of my shareware favorites. It shows a map of the disk. How the files are located, what is in them, and so on. You can even see what is in deleted, or unused parts of the disk. (Coupled with a screen capture program you might even retrieve e.g. lost text). You see the state of the disk's fragmentation, and can assess the results of defragmentators. And so on. A very powerful and versatile program. Tue 1-Jan-91: I have obtained the following files from Simtel20 to uwasa.fi archives /pc/pd2 directory, and taken a closer look at them. chk4co21.zip Detect lzexe compressed .exe files by John Land. The package was previously called chk4lz20.zip and the name of the program seems to have been renamed to chk4comp from chk4lze. An extract from the documentation: Utility to show which .EXE & .COM files have been compressed by PKLITE, LZEXE, (version 0.90 and 0.91), or TINYPROG. Also can show misnamed .EXE or .COM files. Output is sortable by size (default) or name, and is redirectable. Subdirectories can be processed. Public Domain. dfl150.zip Duplicate File Locator Program Version 1.50. This facility to find the duplicate files on your hard disk has quite many bells and whistles and sports a very nice user interface. Works in two modes, names and exact, which should be self-explanatory. There are already other duplicate finders around, but this one certainly has many features the others don't. The others include finddupe (which crashes my PC), /pc/pd2/where44a.zip (which has duplicate finding as an extra option), and doubles.exe in /pc/ts/tsutlc16.arc (which has an intermediate mode the other lack for faster finding of "exact" duplicates by name, size, and date). drx094.zip List executables and compression method by Raymond Kaya. Screen divided in two. This one shows a lot of promise as an evolving shell, and is in my opinion already the best utility at the moment for identifying compressed executables. An extract from the documentation: DirX 0.94 - Directory of eXecutables. Files compressed with AXE, DIET, LEXEM, LZEXE, PKLITE and TINYPROG are displayed in the left window. Uncompressed COM and EXE files are displayed in the right window. New: Wildcard tagging has been added. "Move" individual and groups of files between the Compressed and Uncompressed windows using the compressor and uncompressors of your choice. Tue 1-Jan-91: Acquired PKWare's .com and .exe runtime compressor update and bug fix /pc/pd2/pklte103.exe to uwasa.fi archives. Also acquired ddj8803.zip which will be in the /pc/programming directory as soon as my fellow moderator logs in. It includes Kent Porter's code for handling huge (> 64Kb) arrays in Turbo Pascal from Doctor Dobb's March 1988 issue. (There is a reference to this code in /pc/ts/tsfaq15.arc in the answer concerning huge arrays. This is why I acquired this "back issue".) Tue 1-Jan-91: The 1990's uwasa.fi news concerning the files in the /pc/pd2 directory (the directory for assorted utilities) has been moved to 0news90.pd2. The news of 1989 is in 0dir89.pd2. The new news will be in /pc/pd2/0news-pd2, as before.