University of Vaasa, Finland, Linux Pentium, node number
193.166.120.5 (garbo.uwasa.fi) 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
information file ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/ts/0news_ts.txt contains
news about the programs in the /pc/ts directory (in reverse order).

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Prof. Timo Salmi   mailto:ts@uwasa.fi   ftp & http://garbo.uwasa.fi/
Hpage http://www.uwasa.fi/laskentatoimi/english/personnel/salmitimo/
Department of Accounting and Finance,  University of Vaasa,  Finland
Timo's  FAQ materials  at  http://lipas.uwasa.fi/~ts/http/tsfaq.html
Dense spam-kill procmail filtering with a public email key in effect
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Sat 13-Sep-2008: The updating of this information has been discontinued 
due to other pressures for time.

Thu 21-Aug-2008: Now that the HTML-version of my NT/2000/XP/..
script FAQ is ready at
 http://www.netikka.net/tsneti/info/tscmd.htm
I have made a corresponding update of the zipped file version
 237833 Aug 21 2008 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/link/tscmd.zip
 tscmd48.zip Useful NT/2000/XP script tricks and tips, T.Salmi

Thu 6-Mar-2008: I am gradually building up the web alternative of
the FAQ section 1CMDFAQ.TXT if this collection at
 http://www.netikka.net/tsneti/info/tscmd.htm
Consequently there are updates of the information reflected in the
following succession
 Tue 20-May-2008 tscmd47a.zip
 Fri 30-May-2008 tscmd47b.zip
 Sat 7-Jun-2008  tscmd47c.zip
 Wed 2-Jul-2008  tscmd47d.zip
 Mon 21-Jul-2008 tscmd47e.zip
 Mon 4-Aug-2008  tscmd47f.zip
 Xxx 8-Aug-2008  tscmd47g.zip

In tscmd47a.zip also updated
 "WHEREIS.CMD Find a file anywhere on a drive"
to be slightly more tolerant of LFN quirks.
In tscmd47c.zip also added
 163} How do I test and ensure that CRLF is the last char of my file?
 164} How to concatenate (join/paste side by side) two files?
In tscmd47g.zip also added
 165} How do I get the date and time separators and the local formats?

Sat 26-Apr-2008 Update
 219168 Apr 26 2008 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/link/tscmd.zip
 tscmd47.zip Useful NT/2000/XP script tricks and tips, T.Salmi
I have started an HTML-version of the collection 1CMDFAQ.TXT file.
That is the main FAQ text file. Only a part of the items have been
converted yet. Nor are the HTML-pages meant to replace the tscmd.zip
collection. Rather as an optional reference utilizing the visual
flexibility of HTML presentation.The address of the HTML-version is
 http://www.netikka.net/tsneti/info/tscmd.htm
Even if there are no new items, as a consequence of the html-version
I have done much even complete rewriting on a number of the FAQ
items. Some of it even crucial. E.g. better to handle long file
names and on occasion the poison characters, and much much more.
Hence the release of this intermediate version.

Thu 6-Mar-2008: A minor update
 209940 Mar 6 2008 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/link/tscmd.zip
 tscmd46a.zip Useful NT/2000/XP script tricks and tips, T.Salmi
Added more information to "10) How can I change the environment
variable values within a FOR loop?"
 Renamed the earlier item "40) How do I get the number of arguments
given to a script?" to a more generic "How to get the number of and
parse the arguments given to a script?" with added tricks.
 Added a new example to the item "80) How can I extract the last part
of a path such as C:\ABC\DEF\GHI\?"

Sat 23-Feb-2008: Released the update
 207709 Feb 23 2008 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/link/tscmd.zip
 tscmd46.zip Useful NT/2000/XP script tricks and tips, T.Salmi
Added to the collection the new scripts
  "QP2DOS.CMD   Convert quoted printable encoded file to DOS"
  "MAKEPASS.CMD Make a randomized password"
 Updated
  "EDATE.CMD to display some alternative date formats"
to display some more date formats by adding switches
 /C1 = DD.MMM.YYYY HH:mm:ss
 /C2 = Wkd DD-MMM-YYYY HH:mm
 /C3 = YYMMDD
 /C4 = YYYYMMDD
It also sends the new result to the clipboard if a clipboard utility
is available. For that, get CLIP.EXE from the publicly available
Windows 98 Resource Kit or copy a more recent version from Windows
Server 2003's C:\%windir%\system32 folder.
  Linkrot is inevitable. Updated a number of reference links in the
1CMDFAQ.TXT FAQ file.

Sun 23-Dec-2007: After the many rounds of the FAQ collection the
updates naturally come farther apart. The previous update was in
May 2007. The new update now is
 202569 Dec 23 2007 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/link/tscmd.zip
 tscmd45.zip Useful NT/2000/XP script tricks and tips, T.Salmi
It includes the following new items in the main FAQ file 1CMDFAQ.TXT
 161} How do I test that the Windows Script Host is available?
 162} Finding duplicate files in a directory tree
plus some additions and corrections here and there.
   I have also updated many of the script files included in the
collection. Mainly, I have added a lockfile test to prevent running
duplicate copies of some of the slower scripts which use auxiliary,
temporary files for their tasks. I have also added some tests to
ensure that the path to the %TEMP% folder is present. And some
other, minor changes. Unless there are problems, these exotic
adjustments should be invisible to the user in running the scripts.
Furthermore, rewrote e.g. the following batch to give much more
information
 "FULLNAME.CMD Display the full name of a file"

Tue 24-Jul-2007: I have made an update of my free-for-private-use
Windows icons collection. It now contains about 418 icons. The
collection is downloadable as
 209279 Jul 24 2007 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/ts/tsicon12.zip
 tsicon12.zip Timo's Windows icons collection, T.Salmi

Sat 14-Jul-2007: In these days most of the web pages on the Internet
are written with all kinds of generator programs. However, it also
is possible to write and edit the source directly, as I have done
for a lot of my own web pages such as my home page located at
http://lipas.uwasa.fi/~ts/ . I habitually use small images for
decoration and information purposes on those pages. During the years
I have made a fair collection of GIF thumbnail images for the
purpose. About six years since the last version I have made an
update
  461029 Jul 14 2007 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/ts/tsgifs20.zip 
 tsgifs20.zip Timo's free collection of 1188 GIF thumbnails for WWW
A tip. If you want to browse the collection, make a temporary folder
and extract all the images to that folder. If you have e.g. XP or   
Vista, it is easy to invoke the thumbnails option in the folder view
to see all the images. Alternatively, connect to the following web
page: http://lipas.uwasa.fi/~ts/gifst/gifst.html

Thu 17-May-2007: I have made an update
 195399 May 17 2007 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/link/tscmd.zip
 tscmd44.zip Useful NT/2000/XP script tricks and tips, T.Salmi
Added the followin new items to the included FAQ file 1CMDFAQ.TXT
 159} How do I test that a name does not contain lowercase letters?
 160} How do I get a list of all my folders with and sorted by size?
Added a method for using ANSI escape color sequences to
 51} How can I echo lines in different colors in NT scripts?

Fri 16-Feb-2007: After releasing the version tscmd43.zip it came up
in alt.msdos.batch.nt that some users may use or have to use long
file names for their TEMP and TMP variables. This was news to me.
Although this might just be a rare exception I have browsed through
the FAQ for such eventualities and tried to make the FAQ items and
the included scripts more universal in that respect. Hence a quick
followup release
 193207 Feb 16 2007 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/link/tscmd.zip
 tscmd43a.zip Useful NT/2000/XP script tricks and tips, T.Salmi

Wed 14-Feb-2007: I have made an update
 192436 Feb 14 2007 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/link/tscmd.zip
 tscmd43.zip Useful NT/2000/XP script tricks and tips, T.Salmi
Added the scripts
 DATET.CMD   Put the current date parts into the environment
             (Aka the mother of all command-line script FAQs)
 FINDTMP.CMD Find and list all the *.TMP files
             (Mainly a demo of another top FAQ)
 RULER.BAT   An aid to pinpoint CLI screen colums and rows
 TSCD.CMD    Show current/given folder both in short and long formats
 WHOISME.CMD Get IP and user information
Added the following FAQ item to 1CMDFAQ.TXT
 158} Why won't the statements within my if condition work properly?

Sat 13-Jan-2007: Update
 182662 Jan 13 2007 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/link/tscmd.zip
 tscmd42.zip Useful NT/2000/XP script tricks and tips, T.Salmi
The changes include:
 MAILDATE.CMD Build a message's "From" header
  Added an /SUBJ switch to include the subject from the email header
  with the date added.
 NAMEDOWN.CMD Covert a filename to lower case
 NAMEUP.CMD   Covert a filename to upper case
  Corrected the bug that caused a failure for filenames with
  parentheses.
Added to the FAQ file 1CMDFAQ.TXT
 154} How do I remove leading zeros from a string with script only?
 155} How can I use command-line to open a Windows Explorer Window?
 156} How does one create a stortcut using the command-line?
 157} How to get the count of words and the last word of a variable?

Tue 2-Jan-2007: The older news about the files in the /pc/ts
directory http://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/ts.html are available as
 :
 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/ts/0newts66.txt
 The news announcements of 2006 about ts-programs, T.Salmi
 :
and so on, backwards.