University of Vaasa, Finland, Linux Pentium garbo.uwasa.fi, node number 193.166.120.5, has a large collection of shareware, freeware and public domain programs which are available by anonymous ftp (file transfer program) and WWW (World Wide Web). This file ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/pd2/news-pd2 contains selected news and reviews about the MS-DOS and Windows 3.1x programs in the /pc and the /windows directories. There are more news in ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/ts/0news-ts and ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/pd2/tspost*.zip. .................................................................... Prof. Timo Salmi ftp & http://garbo.uwasa.fi/ archives 193.166.120.5 Department of Accounting and Business Finance ; University of Vaasa mailto:ts@uwasa.fi ; FIN-65101, Finland Timo's FAQ materials at http://www.uwasa.fi/~ts/http/tsfaq.html Spam foiling in effect. My email filter autoresponder will return a required email password to users not yet in the privileges database. .................................................................... N e w s o f 2 0 0 2 Tue 31-Dec-2002: Got from the author. 58003 Apr 18 2002 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/arcers/hold116e.zip hold116e.zip Small archiving program using LZH, J.Turin Sat 14-Dec-2002: Acquired the update 334329 Jan 10 1993 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/batchutil/skey40.zip skey40.zip Stackey stuff keys + BatUtils by CTRLALT Associates Sat 14-Dec-2002: Acquired more MS-DOS batch programming information and tips to Garbo arhives 126710 Oct 3 1996 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/batchutil/batpwr02.zip batpwr02.zip Batch programming messages from the FidoNet Echo : 64777 Jan 17 1998 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/batchutil/batpwr03.zip batpwr03.zip More batch programming messages from the FidoNet Echo Sat 14-Dec-2002: Acquired the following MS-DOS batch compiler to Garbo archives, partly because of the need to replace the bat2ex15.zip after all the PC Magazine utilities were removed from Garbo. There is, however, something strage about this compiler, which would appear to work as some kind of an extender rather than just a plain MS-DOS batches compiler. 21767 Mar 15 1992 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/batchutil/batlite.zip batlite.zip Compile a .BAT file into a .COM file, P.Hintjens Sat 14-Dec-2002: Obtained to Garbo program archives an old, very interesting looking conversion program 28440 Jan 12 1994 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/batchutil/batcsh10.zip batcsh10.zip Convert MS-DOS batches to Unix csh scripts, fw, B.Pierpoint Sat 14-Dec-2002: Obtained to Garbo program archives the update 90041 Dec 14 13:25 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/batchutil/batkit58.zip batkit58.zip Utilities for Batch Files, sw, K.Hipple Sat 14-Dec-2002: Updated with minor typing refinements the information file 6283 Dec 14 2002 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/pcmagutl/pcmagutl.txt pcmagutl.txt About the deletion of all PC Magazine utilities from Garbo Fri 13-Dec-2002: Acquired to Garbo archives 69595 Aug 19 1992 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/batchutil/secbat.zip secbat.zip The secrets of batch files, shareware, P.Ferro Fri 13-Dec-2002: Acquired to Garbo archives 746519 Dec 7 2002 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/sysutil/ldos.zip ldos.zip Longname DOS cd, dir, copy, move, ren, FuBiDan Thu 12-Dec-2002: Wrote the information file 5768 Dec 12 2002 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/pcmagutl/pcmagutl.txt pcmagutl.txt About the deletion of all PC Magazine utilities from Garbo Thu 5-Dec-2002: Got from the author and made available 48663 Dec 4 01:00 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/turbopas/rpcrt100.zip rpcrt100.zip Optimized TP50/TP55/TP6/BP7 CRT Unit, Robert AH Prins Tue 19-Nov-2002: Update 13473 Nov 10 14:06 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/bbs/fi021106.zip fi021106.zip Phone number list of Finnish BBSes, J.Makinen Tue 19-Nov-2002: Update 697380 Nov 13 23:48 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/dirutil/wcd310bs.zip wcd310bs.zip Change directory, DOS, Unix, w/C src, GNU, E.Waterlander Sun 20-Oct-2002: Acquired to Garbo MS-DOS archives 179516 Oct 26 1995 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/crypt/apgp22b3.zip apgp22b3.zip Offline e-mail encryption. Requires a PGP program. Sun 20-Oct-2002: Accepted from the author, after some hesitation 302624 Sep 9 12:24 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/math/ind01e1.zip ind01e1.zip Function calculator, w TP TPU, Vadim Melekhin Fri 11-Oct-2002: The files in Garbo's /windows/fontsatm/ directory http://garbo.uwasa.fi/windows/fontsatm.html have been removed in compliance with the demand of the Legal Department of Linotype Library GmbH, a subsidiary of Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG, Heidelberg/Germany, concerning their copyrights. Sat 14-Sep-2002: Acquired to Garbo archives the rather minimal 1029 Dec 4 2001 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/batchutil/findcd.zip findcd.zip Find CD-Rom drive letters, ret. errorlevel, B.Lagerweij Sat 14-Sep-2002: Made available from garbo the update submitted by the author 690112 Sep 5 00:11 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/dirutil/wcd306bs.zip wcd306bs.zip Change directory, DOS, Unix, w/C src, GNU, E.Waterlander Wed 11-Sep-2002: Acquired to Garbo archives 69746 Sep 30 1998 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/goldies/loc125.zip loc125.zip A freeware file finder by Charles Dye, FreeDOS compatible : 90769 Sep 8 01:30 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/filefind/loc130.zip loc130.zip A freeware file finder by Charles Dye Sat 7-Sep-2002: Acquired to Garbo archives 15435 Jan 16 1990 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/turbopa45/heap55.zip heap55.zip Heap Management for Turbo Pascal 5.5, TurboPower : 10974 Aug 9 1991 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/turbopa6/heap6.zip heap6.zip Heap Management for Turbo Pascal 6.0,TurboPower Sat 7-Sep-2002: Got from the author quite awhile ago when I was away on vacation 520041 Jul 26 2002 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/assembler/ketmax30.zip ketmax30.zip Complete ASM Programmer's Toolkit, P.Briody Fri 21-Jun-2002: Obtained to Garbo archives 71977 Jan 28 09:48 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/batchutil/getkv7.zip getkv7.zip Get environment variable etc in batch, B.Stewart Thu 20-Jun-2002: Acquired to Garbo archives another MS-DOS batch related FAQ 14861 Mar 6 19:05 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/batchutil/batfaq23.zip batfaq23.zip FidoNet Echo BATPOWER Frequently Asked Questions Thu 20-Jun-2002: Acquired to Garbo archives 99246 Mar 10 2001 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/filecopy/fill0103.zip fill0103.zip Move files to disks sorted by size, B.Guthrie Sun 12-May-2002: Got from the author the update 14091 May 11 2002 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/bbs/fi020501.zip fi020501.zip Phone number list of Finnish BBSes, J.Makinen Thu 25-Apr-2002: Acquired the update 590506 Apr 2 13:29 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/sysinfo/hwinf484.zip hwinf484.zip Vanilla DOS-only Hardware Info Program, nagware, M.Malik Thu 25-Apr-2002: Acquired the update 238291 Oct 28 2000 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/sysinfo/conf933e.zip conf933e.zip SysInfo+Benchmark-Program for MS-DOS, nagware, M.Holin Thu 25-Apr-2002: Acquired the update 129169 Mar 10 2001 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/hypertext/htms0103.zip htms0103.zip Remove the HTML coding from a file, freeware, B.Guthrie Thu 25-Apr-2002: Acquired to Garbo archives 77820 Mar 10 2001 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/fileutil/bfnd0103.zip bfnd0103.zip Find with also boolean options, B.Guthrie Thu 25-Apr-2002: Acquired the update 137592 Mar 10 2001 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/arcutil/av__0103.zip av__0103.zip Archive view: Free ZIP etc directory viewer, B.Guthrie Sun 21-Apr-2002: Acquired to Garbo archives the update 337128 Oct 1 1999 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/editor/pedit400.zip pedit400.zip Program Editor similar to DOS edit, freeware Fri 19-Apr-2002: Obtained the update to Garbo program archives 184467 Apr 3 1999 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/turbovis/editv41u.zip editv41u.zip Text file editor with Borland Turbo Vision src, J.Ferguson Fri 19-Apr-2002: Acquired to Garbo program archives the update 37800 Mar 10 13:47 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/gifutil/lxpic71.zip lxpic71.zip MS-DOS JPG, GIF, PCX, BMP viewer, freeware, S.Peichl Wed 17-Apr-2002: Acquired to Garbo archives. 2690 Feb 16 1999 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/programming/scanc_sp.zip scanc_sp.zip Find out the key scancodes, w asm src, S.Peichl Wed 17-Apr-2002: Acquired to Garbo program archives 68826 Mar 5 23:00 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/tsr/slodn300.zip slodn300.zip Slow down a fast computer, freeware, B.Johnson Wed 17-Apr-2002: Acquired to Garbo archives 147665 Feb 22 2002 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/txtutil/dview172.zip dview172.zip Decoder for word processor format files, sw, M.Drury Originally named view172.zip I had to rename the package slightly because of package name clashes. The contents are, of course, untouched. Nice utility to decode text in MD-DOS format e.g. from Windows Word and HTML files. The section to customize the program, however, is cumbersome. Not good programming in that feature. Mon 15-Apr-2002: Acquired the update 672531 Dec 5 1998 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/binedit/tde50.zip tde50.zip Thomson-Davis Text and binary File Editor, PD, J.Hood Sat 13-Apr-2002: I have updated the Frequently Asked Garbo Questions WWW pages. Their common link page is http://www.uwasa.fi/~ts/garbo.html#faq Thu 28-Mar-2002: Got from the author to Garbo archives the update 279764 Mar 27 20:54 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/fileutil/grepsb71.zip grepsb71.zip Find regular expressions in files, also Win, S.Brown Wed 20-Mar-2002: Got from the author the update 1523986 Mar 19 15:46 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/virus/fp-312.zip fp-312.zip Virus Protection system by Fridrik Skulason Sat 9-Mar-2002: Acquired the update 234479 Jan 6 2002 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/filecopy/xxfw2803.zip xxfw2803.zip A Logical Extension to XCOPY, 16/32, freeware, Pixelab Sun 3-Mar-2002: Acquired to Gabro archives 10282 Jun 3 2001 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/fileutil/show14.zip show14.zip List Browser for DOS, freeware, H.Schaeffer Fri 1-Mar-2002: Acquired to Garbo archives from Germany 65973 Jun 2 2000 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/turbopa7/lfn110.zip lfn110.zip TP6+ Support of long filenames under Win95/98, A.Killer Mon 11-Feb-2002: 187536 Mar 9 1999 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/filecopy/scdos100.zip scdos100.zip Super Copy Sat 9-Feb-2002: Acquired to Garbo archives based on a tip from Charles Dye in news:alt.msdos.batch 6102 Nov 2 1989 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/batchutil/onboot11.zip onboot11.zip Selective running of programs in autoexec.bat, C.Dunford Thu 7-Feb-2002: Acquired to Garbo archives 27827 Mar 29 2001 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/turbopa7/ejectcd.zip ejectcd.zip Open or close a CD-ROM tray, w TP6+, F-P.Schultze Tue 5-Feb-2002: Got the update 14324 Feb 4 22:40 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/bbs/fi020206.zip fi020206.zip Phone number list of Finnish BBSes, J.Makinen Thu 31-Jan-2002: Started 304 Jan 31 08:52 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/filelist/garb2002.zip garb2002.zip Annotated list of Garbo's /pc (MS-DOS) updates in 2002 Thu 31-Jan-2002: Got from the author the update 25532 Jan 29 01:10 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/turbopa7/over-110.zip over-110.zip Optimized TP6/BP7 Overlay unit, Robert AH Prins Thu 31-Jan-2002: Got from the author the update 31903 Jan 29 01:10 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/turbspec/em8x-110.zip em8x-110.zip Optimized TP6/BP7 hardware emulator files, Robert AH Prins Tue 22-Jan-2002: Got from the author the update 270611 Jan 21 00:39 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/fileutil/grepsb70.zip grepsb70.zip Find regular expressions in files, also Win, S.Brown Tue 22-Jan-2002: Acquired to Garbo archives 2309 Nov 23 1998 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/sysutil/datetime.zip datetime.zip Date and time with echo option, W/asm, M.Andreas Tue 15-Jan-2002: Got from the author 24291 Jan 14 01:01 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/turbopa7/over-101.zip over-101.zip Optimized TP6/BP7 Overlay unit, Robert AH Prins Tue 15-Jan-2002: Also got from the author 43964 Jan 14 01:01 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/turbspec/em8x-101.zip em8x-101.zip Optimized TP6/BP7 hardware emulator files, Robert AH Prins Sat 12-Jan-2002: Acquired to Garbo archives a neat little environment setting utility from my net-friend Dr. John Stockton's collection. It can include (for example in batches) an = in the variable names (which MS-DOS COMMAND.COM can't do). For example, one might make the following test @echo off echo.|stow test Timo=Salmi echo %test% set The package is 4619 Apr 26 2001 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/envutil/stow.zip stow.zip General set parent environment variables, J.Stockton Sat 12-Jan-2002: Acquired the update 22586 Dec 9 2001 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/turbopas/hunt.zip hunt.zip Scan sub/directories + commands, w/TP src, J.Stockton Tue 8-Jan-2002: Started a new weekly download statistics collection file because of the turn of the year 5357 Jan 8 2002 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/filelist/ftplog62.zip ftplog62.zip Weekly download statistics for Garbo in 2002 Tue 8-Jan-2002: Acquired to Garbo archives the sorting and textfile reversal package 32283 Feb 13 2000 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/fileutil/sorttx03.zip sorttx03.zip Sort textfile, text paragraphs, reverse, J.Ferguson Tue 8-Jan-2002: Obtained to Garbo archives the update to replace the previous version 633878 Feb 19 2000 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/turbspec/jrfpas06.zip jrfpas06.zip A Turbo Pascal Library by J.R. Ferguson Tue 8-Jan-2002: Acquired to Garbo MS-DOS archive's collections 36810 Oct 5 1994 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/menu/valet.zip valet.zip PC Valet MS-DOS Shell, John A. Junod Tue 8-Jan-2002: Acquired to Garbo 33444 Dec 21 1993 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/menu/vmenu.zip vmenu.zip PC-Valet Super Menu to launch applications, J.Junod Wed 2-Jan-2002: Made available the update from the author 1494543 Dec 20 03:11 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/virus/fp-311b.zip fp-311b.zip Virus Protection system by Fridrik Skulason Tue 1-Jan-2002: The old Garbo upload news for 2001 can be found at ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/pd2/news61.pd2 For 2000 they are at ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/pd2/news60.pd2 For 1999 they are at ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/pd2/news99.pd2 and so on back.