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 Co-moderator of news:comp.archives.msdos.announce
Moderating at ftp:// & http://garbo.uwasa.fi/ archives 193.166.120.5
Department of Accounting and Business Finance ; University of Vaasa
mailto:ts@uwasa.fi <http://www.uwasa.fi/~ts/> ; FIN-65101, Finland
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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.