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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/pd2/post*.zip.) .................................................................. Prof. Timo Salmi 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 ; SF-65101, Finland .................................................................. N e w s o f 1 9 9 2 f r o m 1-Jan to 30-Jun Thu 25-Jun-92: I have updated the list of PD & shareware authors reachable by email on and from internet. The list now contains 66 authors. It is 12848 Jun 25 04:49 garbo.uwasa.fi:/pc/pd2/author09.zip Sun 21-Jun-92: Downloaded from the cbip binary postings and made them available at garbo.uwasa.fi archives. 62394 May 4 13:46 garbo.uwasa.fi:/pc/filecopy/docp11.zip 90411 Apr 29 20:00 garbo.uwasa.fi:/pc/filefind/fdf101.zip 11364 Feb 16 11:55 garbo.uwasa.fi:/pc/keyboard/gold22.zip /pc/filecopy docp11.zip A Directory-Oriented CoPy processed by R.Bixler w/C Comes with many optional switches and is definitely worth a closer look. /pc/filefind fdf101.zip Find duplicate files processed by R.Bixler w/C. A duplicate finder as any, but the competiotion is this field is tough with such an excellent utility around as cudup21.zip, and I am not discounting even my own modest attempt in tsutlc17.zip. /pc/keyboard gold22.zip TSR to simulate GOLD key with Num Lock (VTxxx) (w ASM) This is a newer version than what we had. I did not take a closer look since I no longer use the EDT VMS editor but MicroEMACS so that I have the same editor on all the platforms even if I am not an Emacs fan. Sun 21-Jun-92: Acquired from a Finnish BBS 92426 Jul 29 1991 garbo.uwasa.fi:/pc/turbopas/tpsbk100.zip TurboPascal SoundBlaster Toolkit for TP 6.0. I just scanned it, but did not test it in any way since I am not familiar with SoundBlaster myself. Fri 19-Jun-92: I have updated the users' program review file 17944 Jun 19 23:42 garbo.uwasa.fi:/pc/pd2/review06.zip The current items are 1 Dec 31 Timo Salmi (24) /pc/pd2/review.txt file description 2 Jun 19 Peter Breuer (172) TSCHEK, Review of spell checkers 3 Jun 9 NiteLine (34) Review: PED text editor 4 Jun 8 Peter Breuer (186) TSpell, REVIEW of spell checkers 5 Jun 8 Peter Breuer (158) EZSpell, REVIEW of spell checkers 6 Jun 7 Peter Breuer (31) Forthcoming REVIEWS of spellcheckers 7 May 19 Jonathan Rice (253) Reviews of programs in the archives 8 May 15 Marshall G. Flax (84) A review of "redirect output" progra 9 May 14 Michael Favor (84) A review of "move file" programs on Fri 19-Jun-92: I have updated the list of MsDos & Windows FTP sites and moderators. This is a minor update bringing some information up to date. 8198 Jun 19 09:02 garbo.uwasa.fi:/pc/pd2/moder11.zip Wed 17-Jun-92: Acquired from a Finnish BBS: A full screen Environment Editor by Eric C. Weaver 59731 May 5 20:47 garbo.uwasa.fi:/pc/envutil/ev12.zip Tue 16-Jun-92: Updated the upload instructions for our archives /pc/UPLOAD.INF. It is an ordinary ascii file. Mon 15-Jun-92: The (next) garbo.uwasa.fi feedback and information file 36530 Jun 15 08:24 garbo.uwasa.fi:/pc/pd2/post09.zip is now complete. The contents of all these files can be seen from 8239 Jun 15 08:29 garbo.uwasa.fi:/pc/pd2/post00.zip. Tue 9-Jun-92: I have updated the statement of our policy about the default public nature of email sent to us by the users. 2605 Jun 9 18:17 garbo.uwasa.fi:/pc/pd2/private.txt Sun 7-Jun-92: Acquired /pc/comm/zip151.zip from SIMTEL20. It is a fast serial cable file transfer utility between two PCs. It has no bells and whistles, but it gets done the file transfers effectively. Once one becomes familiar with it, zip has a useful file server mode which means that once you have called zip at both machines, you can make all the rest of the operations from one end of the connection. It is shareware. Sat 6-Jun-92: Rhys Weatherley and I have updated the list of MsDos & Windows FTP sites by adding two new sites and additional information on archie servers kindly provided to us. The current version is 8091 Jun 6 17:35 garbo.uwasa.fi:/pc/pd2/moder07.zip Sat 6-Jun-92: I have updated the list of the email addresses of PD & shareware MsDos authors. It is now 12114 Jun 6 00:12 garbo.uwasa.fi:/pc/pd2/author08.zip The file also contains an invitation to those not already on the list. There are currently 61 authors listed. Tue 26-May-92: Got /pc/format/fm45.zip Menu driven FormatMaster from Keith from SIMTEL20. Handy, indeed. Epilogue: Was very soon updated to fm46.zip. Sat 23-May-92: Garbo has some directories like /pc/miscutil and /pc/unix which include assortments of utilities. It is often difficult to guess by the package names only what is in them. I therefore listed the contents of all the .zip packages in the said two and a couple of other directories. The lists are available (in ascii) as 34976 May 23 09:05 garbo.uwasa.fi:/pc/miscutil/0miscuti.dir 45800 May 23 09:06 garbo.uwasa.fi:/pc/unix/0unix.dir 110681 May 23 10:11 garbo.uwasa.fi:/pc/pcmag/0pcmag.dir 148659 May 23 10:12 garbo.uwasa.fi:/pc/turbopas/0turbopa.dir I cannot guarantee that they will be updated on a regular basis, but they'll be useful anyway since they give the broad outlines on what is in the assortments. - There is, in fact, another such contents file 17584 May 21 15:53 garbo.uwasa.fi:/pc/INDEXTS.ZIP which gives the annotated contents of all the files in the /pc/ts directory, but that list is updated on a regular basis. Fri 22-May-92: Got Stan Brown's comp.os.msdos.programmer Frequently asked questions: 33519 May 20 18:16 garbo.uwasa.fi:/pc/doc-net/faqp9205.zip Wed 20-May-92: Acquired the file list of a large Finnish BBS. The reason for having a couple of good BBS filelists on garbo is to have the information what can be available even if garbo carries only a subset of the same files. 666152 May 19 04:27 garbo.uwasa.fi:/pc/bbs/cbbs_dos.zip Wed 20-May-92: Acquired from a Finnish BBS a command line function evaluator update. Slight nag. Replaces eval104.zip. 30584 Apr 9 01:06 garbo.uwasa.fi:/pc/math/eval106.zip Tue 19-May-92: Jonathan Rice kindly sent me copies of his cbip.archives reviews which I did no longer have. They are on color DIR replacements and on date/time stamp utilities. I have included the material into the update 7950 May 19 22:47 garbo.uwasa.fi:/pc/pd2/review02.zip Tue 19-May-92: I have updated my subjective list of the best PD and shareware programs. It is now 6016 May 19 07:16 garbo.uwasa.fi:/pc/pd2/bestpr24.zip Sun 17-May-92: I have updated the list of MsDos PD and shareware authors with addresses on or reachable from InterNet. There are currently 55 entries on the list which is now 11252 May 17 22:40 garbo.uwasa.fi:/pc/pd2/author07.zip Sat 16-May-92: To encourage the gentle users to write program reviews about the MsDos programs at garbo.uwasa.fi and SIMTEL20 to comp.binaries.ibm.pc.archives I started a new collection /pc/pd2/review01.zip with two reviews in it to get things going. (My own reviews are in the /pc/pd2/news files which you are currently reading). Sat 16-May-92: Rhys Weatherley and I have updated the list of MsDos & Windows FTP sites & moderators by adding the frequently asked information about the comp.binaries.ibm.pc binary postings missing parts server. I also did some minor editing and changed the order of the North American sites. The list is now 7643 May 16 04:56 garbo.uwasa.fi:/pc/pd2/moder06.zip Mon 11-May-92: Acquired /pc/pcmag/vol11n06.zip. For one it contains Michael Mefford's PCUNZP.COM which "Provides a smaller, no-cost alternative to the shareware utility PKUNZIP.EXE for decompressing .ZIP files". Also acquired /pc/pcmag/vol11n07.zip. It contains Douglas Boling's DOSCLIP.COM which is "A TSR utility that provides Windows-like cut-and-paste facilities to applications running under DOS". I like this. This TSR clipboard is very handy for cutting material from one application to another. I also use it for cutting and pasting commands and data when being connected, using MsKemit or Telnet, to your Unix hosts garbo and chyde. Definitely the utility to get and it will be making my bestpr*.zip list next update. Fri 1-May-92: I have updated the list of MsDos SW & PD authors with reachable email addresses on and from InterNet. The list now includes fifty authors. The list is available as 9836 May 1 16:31 garbo.uwasa.fi:/pc/pd2/author06.zip Thu 30-Apr-92: Acquired printer and port redirection utility update 35905 Mar 25 08:02 garbo.uwasa.fi:/pc/printer/prndi802.zip Thu 30-Apr-92: Update of Stan Browns programmers' FAQ 32388 Apr 30 06:58 garbo.uwasa.fi:/pc/doc-net/faqmsdos.zip Stored with PC eolns so if you unzip it on Unix apply unzip -a faqmsdos.zip I have processed the file so that you can read the extracted file also with elm on Unix. Thu 30-Apr-92: The list of MsDos & Windows FTP sites has been updated: 7260 Apr 30 05:38 garbo.uwasa.fi:/pc/pd2/moder05.zip Wed 29-Apr-92: Acquired File and Directory Editor update 207177 Mar 7 06:03 garbo.uwasa.fi:/pc/dirutil/eddy6c1.zip Tue 21-Apr-92: The list of MsDos & Windows FTP sites has been updated to 7215 Apr 21 14:28 garbo.uwasa.fi:/pc/pd2/moder03.zip. I got some useful information of achie sites from Frederic Chapman, and after looking into it decided to include Frederic's note as such. There are no changes in moder.lst. Length Method Size Ratio Date Time Name ("^" ==> case ------ ------ ---- ----- ---- ---- ---- conversion) 5938 Implode 2882 51% 04-17-92 23:31 chapman.txt 11271 Implode 3849 66% 04-21-92 14:28 moder.lst ------ ------ --- ------- 17209 6731 61% 2 Tue 21-Apr-92: The list of PD & SW MsDos authors reachable from internet has been updated. There are now 48 entries, and Keith (Petersen) gave my some useful corrections. The authors interested in getting on this list, please see the full instructions at the end of 9247 Apr 21 13:46 garbo.uwasa.fi:/pc/pd2/author05.zip. Mon 20-Apr-92: Acquired the following diskutility update from SIMTEL20 and took a closer look. /pc/diskutil mega113.zip MegaBack Hard Drive Backup System, Patri-Soft, SW. Beta test 1.13 version, but this I got to work properly contrary to 1.11. Sat 18-Apr-92: Acquired the following utility programs from SIMTEL20 and took a closer look. /pc/format fm42.zip FormatMaster Menu Driven Floppy Disk Formatter, SW. A versatile shareware utility from New-Ware with an excellent user interface. One of those few utilities that has been written the way a utility should be written. A tip. If you for some reason have problems with the MsDos format command when you have an upper memory manager loaded (I do) try FormatMaster. (For me this is one to adopt, and to register). /pc/diskutil mega111.zip MegaBack Hard Drive Backup System, Patri-Soft, SW. Beta version 1.11 of a "Comprehensive Backup for PC Systems". A very professional looking utility as we have come to expect from Patriquin, but not nearly as intuitive as could and should be. In fact somewhat bewildering. Also the program was stymied when I threw at it a substitued drive to backup. (Ok, you may ask, how do I back up then. I use pkzip driven by batches I've customized). /pc/fileutil prune22.zip Overwrite unallocated "Tail End" of files, Sydex. The name of this specialized utility is somewhat misleading, because what this utility does is that it overwrites with a repeated character the unallocated tail end of a file that when the file size is not an exact multiple of the cluster size. It does not actually "prune" anything (or perhaps this is my English acting up again). The purpose of this trick is security, and it can be useful. I actually checked using Duncan Murdoch's excellent showf214.zip direct disk read program that this utility really delivers. /pc/diskutil safpak10.zip "The Safe Shareware Disk Defragmentation Program". Didn't have a testbench machine at hand and it did not work on a ramdisk so I left it untested. Experiences, anyone? /pc/printer printp63.zip Print-Plus, The "Print Control Center", Shareware. Seems to have quite a set of useful options, but after trusting me with the final shareware screen left me with a black background and black text :-(. /pc/arcutil zcm12.zip Zip CommentMaster to edit zip comments, New-Ware, SW. Convenient for performing the said task. The only snag was that it obviously clashes with the lastybyte uppper memory manager. Sat 18-Apr-92: Acquired the following mathematics programs from SIMTEL20 and took a closer look. /pc/math cla20.zip Calculate many characteristics for a square matrix. Showy if not outright flashy, but a good program for calculating several properties of a square matrix including Determinant & rank, Inverse, Triangular form, Eigenvalues, Characteristic polynomial, Minimal polynomial, Real eigenvectors, and Jordan form. /pc/math linsys10.zip Solve simultaneous linear equations witn N < 21. Solves simultaneous linear equations of up to 20 variables. Nothing particular in that. The neat twist is that linsys can solve homogenous equations. Furthermore it can give the solution the fractional (p/q) format. But it is one more program that certainly could do with a little less cryptic user interface. For example requires break to end, would you believe. Does not check for input errors but crashes with a run-time error if something goes wrong. /pc/math solveq10.zip Find the roots of a polynomial up to degree of 30. Nothing unique. Solves the real and complex roots. Part of the same Computational Linear Algebra Project as the other two. The project is at Federal University of Paraiba, Brazil, and the programs are by obviously by Lenimar Nunes de Andrade. Sat 18-Apr-92: Acquired the following files from a Finnish BBS to garbo.uwasa.fi MsDos FTP archives. /pc/doc-soft batsec.zip Batch secrets, elementary color & key text advice. A bit a dime a dozen. /pc/sysinfo jconfig.zip A Belgian PC Config, Disk Info, TSR Info, Benchmark. It is natural that also system information programs abound. If you like sysinfo programs this one is worth a look. Has all the basic ingredients plus a some more in a nicely displayed text format even if the name System Information Center is a bit too grand. Shareware from Jerome Chome. /pc/filefind snif134.zip "The ultimate file-finder" by C.Declerck, freeware. A file finding utility, and not a bad one either. From the documents: "SNiF is a program that allows you to find files across one or more harddisks (floppies). It is operated from the DOS command line and offers many options which may affect the 'sniffing' (searching) of files." 12495 Mar 4 01:16 garbo.uwasa.fi:/pc/doc-soft/batsec.zip 33839 Feb 8 12:22 garbo.uwasa.fi:/pc/sysinfo/jconfig.zip 36303 Mar 16 21:57 garbo.uwasa.fi:/pc/filefind/snif134.zip Sat 18-Apr-92: I updated all the garbo feedback and information "post" files this time by putting an subject index to each of them. 16951 Apr 18 16:23 garbo.uwasa.fi:/pc/pd2/post01.zip 22145 Apr 18 16:22 garbo.uwasa.fi:/pc/pd2/post02.zip 26620 Apr 18 16:21 garbo.uwasa.fi:/pc/pd2/post03.zip 24477 Apr 18 16:20 garbo.uwasa.fi:/pc/pd2/post04.zip 23837 Apr 18 16:18 garbo.uwasa.fi:/pc/pd2/post05.zip 23599 Apr 18 16:17 garbo.uwasa.fi:/pc/pd2/post06.zip 26910 Apr 18 16:15 garbo.uwasa.fi:/pc/pd2/post07.zip 27580 Apr 18 16:12 garbo.uwasa.fi:/pc/pd2/post08.zip Fri 17-Apr-92: I have updated the list of MsDos PD & SW utilities authors reachable by email on InterNet by adding eight new entries which brings the total up to 42. It is availabe as 8145 Apr 17 20:34 garbo.uwasa.fi:/pc/pd2/author04.zip Fri 17-Apr-92: Acquired the following files from a Finnish BBS to garbo.uwasa.fi MsDos FTP archives. /pc/connect lap101.zip LapView PC-to-PC linking, shareware, nagware. Performs functions similar to the commercial Laplink program but is par from par. Works however fairly enough and is worth a look. Using it is not quite as intuitive as it could. Eg getting files copied across the connection for the first time takes a bit of experimenting and reading the slightly ambiguous document. /pc/education typdos40.zip A beginner's type-it quiz to MsDos with 66 tasks. /pc/dirutil tdir92.zip TreeDir jump to directories from a menu (w asm). Seems a bit unfinished. Cannot jump to the root, search line editing makes information disappear and the seach bar can go beyond the listed directories. But it is freeware. Fri 17-Apr-92: I have updated garbo.uwasa.fi:/pc/pd2/bestpr22.zip. It is my subjective choice as the most useful PD & SW utilities. I have added one item, updated the version numbers, and rewrote a bit. Thu 16-Apr-92: Acquired the following files from a Finnish BBS to garbo.uwasa.fi MsDos FTP archives. /pc/dirutil dired306.zip DIREDIT Directory Editor by P. R. Fletcher. This shareware utility can be used to change the order of a directory. A bit drab and not an entirely finished product. For example when I tried to sort a ram disk directory I had to use a third party screen capture buffer to see the error message that flashed by. /pc/doshelp dossum20.zip DOS Summary hypertext tutorial and reference (good). Shareware. From its documents: "DOS Summary is a hypertext tutorial and reference product which covers all DOS commands and drivers through MS-DOS version 5.0. Also added are tutorials covering memory management and how DOS starts. The program can be used in standalone or resident mode." Thu 16-Apr-92: Acquired the following files from SIMTEL20 and took a brief closer look. Why are the other users so shy of writing these reviews to comp.binaries.ibm.pc.archives? We most often have the author's comments from the upload announcements. But how about a bit more of the users' views? /pc/filecopy a-ren301.zip eXceptional REName, move&rename file, directory. Move files from one directory to another, and can renames while moving. Does not work across drives. No option for asking confirmation. Includes an option for directory renaming. Curiously the archive is called a-ren301.zip instead of the more obvious xren301.zip. PD/SW status not defined but solicits a tiny offering. By James Ritterbusch. /pc/unix bm_rm.zip Remove files and/or directory subtrees (w C & asm). The umpteenth of the theme of an Unix like rm for MsDos. Quite a good rendition so if you are looking for a rm for MsDos, this is one option to look at. By Brian McGuinness. GNUish. /pc/filefind fff38.zip File Finder Pack by Jim Derr (author of Shez). Basically takes you conveniently to the directory where the file is that you want to find. Can also perform fuzzy searches. From documentation: "Beginning with this release, you can also perform a fuzzy search. This is useful if you are trying to locate a file but don't know the exact filename. The fuzzy search routine will attempt to locate files that sound like the filename entered on the command line." Wed 15-Apr-92: Updated the list of MsDos & windows FTP sites to bring CICA windows site information up to date. 4234 Apr 15 14:04 garbo.uwasa.fi:/pc/pd2/moder02.zip Tue 14-Apr-92: Got updates of two of my long-time favorites: 381296 Apr 13 12:44 garbo.uwasa.fi:/pc/memutil/tlb-v200.zip This is an upper memory manager by Dan Lewis. I use it extensively (if you pardon the pun). The second is Jim Derr's Compression Companion. I had the pleasure of being able to help testing to get a crippling bug removed from version 7.0. 193459 Apr 12 22:55 garbo.uwasa.fi:/pc/arcutil/shez71.zip Mon 13-Apr-92: Updated again the list of MsDos PD & SW authors reachable on InterNet email: 6983 Apr 13 23:53 garbo.uwasa.fi:/pc/pd2/author03.zip Mon 13-Apr-92: I am not publicizing this on the news although this information is not confidential. Following a suggestion from Rhys Weatherley we have made a new directory /pc/link and for better or worse linked four fairly frequently updated files in there. Thus the users can obtain these particular files also without knowing their current version numbers should s/he so choose. The files are author.zip List of PD & SW authors on InterNet (/pc/pd2/author02.zip) moder.zip List of MsDos sites & moderators (/pc/pd2/moder001.zip) pd2ans.txt Canned garbo instructions (/pc/pd2/pd2ans059.txt) tsans.txt Questions about ts-progs (/pc/ts/tsans059.txt) INDEXTS.ZIP List of contents of TS-programs in /pc/ts The last of these files is in the /pc main directory. The others (as said above) in the /pc/link directory. Sun 12-Apr-92: I have already updated the list of major MsDos PD & SW authors reachable by email on internet. The list is now garbo.uwasa.fi:/pc/pd2/author02.zip. Sun 12-Apr-92: I am starting a new list on garbo.uwasa.fi archives. A list of PD & SW utilities authors at MsDos FTP archives reachable by email from InterNet. The list is garbo.uwasa.fi:/pc/pd2/ author*.zip. I will include a version number in the future releases, that is author02.zip, author03.zip, etc. If you are an author interested on submitting your information. Please see /pc/pd2/post08.txt for more on this. Sun 12-Apr-92: I am changing the naming convention of the garbo.uwasa.fi:/pc/pd2/moder.lst list of MsDos FTP sites and moderators which I maintain together with Rhys Weatherley. I'll make it a .zip file, and include a version number from now on. Thus I have changed it now to be moder001.zip. There are no changes in the text this time. The file uses PC eolns so that if you wish to unzip it on your Unix host, apply unzip -a moder001.zip. Fri 10-Apr-92: Acquired to garbo.uwasa.fi archives from a Finnish BBS: /pc/printer prn2fil3.zip Direct printer also to a file, with sound (w asm). This has been modified from the original asm sources in the PC magazine first by Mel Brown and now by John Durso. Adds a sound as a reminder to the user that printer traffic is being redirected to a disk file by this program. Also says to correct several logic errors in the original version of the program. I retained the previous prn2file.zip since I am far from convinced that this works quite as intended. /pc/printer psprnt11.zip Print a regular ASCII file on a Postscript printer. I have not tested this shareware program from Star Graphics since I do not have a postscript printer available at the moment. Someone please write us a review to cbip.archives. /pc/unix tail20.zip Displays the tail of a text file, by Miles Levy. Solicited as being fast. Does not quite use the Unix syntax. /pc/math xcal41.zip Extensible, programmable, double precision calculator Yet another command line calculator. This one has quite a plethora of functions. Worth a look. Mon 6-Apr-92: I have updated the list of MsDos FTP sites garbo.uwasa.fi:/pc/pd2/moder.lst which I moderate togerther with Rhys Weatherley. Mon 6-Apr-92: I got shez70.zip compression companion to replace the earlier /pc/arcutil/shez65.zip version, but unfortunately the new version refused to run on the machines I tried. I have been in contact with the author Jim Derr and I am retaining the old version on our archives for the time being. Incidentally if you do not have Shez and use various archivers, this is definitely the utility to download. Mon 6-Apr-92: Received from the author Norbert Juffa Turbo Pascal TPL run-time replacement: 114858 Apr 1 16:39 garbo.uwasa.fi:/pc/turbopas/tpl60n11.zip 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.