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- Q: I am interested to know if there exists a program for such and
- such purpose. Would you point me in the right direction. (This
- question also often occurs in the news postings, especially in
- the comp.binaries.ibm.pc.wanted newsgroup.)
-
- A1: Most often the best answer is to look through file lists. We
- have several such lists which should together have quite a good
- coverage of the PD programs in circulation. These lists are
- /pc/INDEX.ZIP and /pc/INDEXTS.ZIP (these are the MsDos file lists
- for our site, garbo.uwasa.fi), /pc/filelist/cbbs_dos.zip,
- /pc/filelist/files-mm.zip (a good English speaking Finnish BBS), and
- /pc/filelist/simlist.zip (SIMTEL20 list).
-
- A2: How to find MsDos files on garbo.uwasa.fi: If you are looking
- for a particular program at garbo.uwasa.fi you should start by
- getting the following files:
- /pc/INDEX.ZIP (/pc/INDEX in the heavier ascii form)
- /pc/INDEXTS.ZIP (ts-package contents)
- For seeing what is new in the /pc and /pc/ts directories, get
- /pc/pd2/news-pd2 (selected news on all MsDos directories)
- /pc/ts/0news-ts (all news on ts-programs)
-
- A3: There is more advice on finding files in the Frequently Asked
- Questions collection /pc/ts/tsfaq28.zip (or whatever version number
- is current), and the garbo feedback files /pc/pd2/post##.lst (where
- ## = 01,02,03,04,05,06,07,08,09 at the time of writing this).
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