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), WWW (World Wide Web) and mail server (ftpmail). 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 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 ; FIN-65101, Finland 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 1 9 9 8 f r o m 1-Jul to 31-Dec Sat 26-Dec-98: Got from the author the update 31245 Dec 23 12:24 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/bbs/fi981223.zip fi981223.zip Phone number list of Finnish BBSes, J.Makinen Tue 22-Dec-98: Acquired to Garbo archives the updates 26818 Dec 3 04:41 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/tsr/bremz500.zip bremz500.zip PC Performance-Decrease Utility, A.Berzinsh, Latvia : 397433 Dec 20 04:45 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/sysinfo/hwinf445.zip hwinf445.zip Vanilla DOS-only Hardware Info Program, nagware, M.Malik Mon 21-Dec-98: Obtained to Garbo archives the freeware update 37940 Sep 12 1998 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/gifutil/st201f.zip st201f.zip SCREEN Thief Screen Capture BMP/TIFF/PCX/TXT, J.Hoggarth Sat 19-Dec-98: Obtained to Garbo archives 273505 Dec 7 1998 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/arcers/rar206.exe rar206.exe Multifunctional integrated archive manager, E.Roshal Fri 11-Dec-98: Got from the author 3103 Dec 11 14:11 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/turbopa7/textset.zip textset.zip Replacement for TextMode in TP6+/BP CRT unit, Pedt Scragg Tue 1-Dec-98: Acquired to Garbo archives the updates 61372 Nov 29 09:00 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/fileutil/grepsb40.zip grepsb40.zip Find regular expressions in files, also Win, S.Brown : 369892 Nov 24 04:44 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/sysinfo/hwinf444.zip hwinf444.zip Vanilla DOS-only Hardware Info Program, nagware, M.Malik : 97947 Nov 10 05:29 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/envutil/xset529.zip xset529.zip Put ANYTHING in environment variable, M.Stern Sat 28-Nov-98: Obtained to Garbo the update 133532 Sep 7 16:01 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/hypertext/htmst809.zip htmst809.zip Remove the HTML coding from a file, freeware, B.Guthrie Thu 26-Nov-98: Got from the author the updates 70448 Nov 23 13:17 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/doc-net/asm9812h.zip asm9812h.zip x86 Assembly Language FAQ, html version, Raymond Moon : 59173 Nov 23 13:17 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/doc-net/asm9812t.zip asm9812t.zip x86 Assembly Language FAQ, text version, Raymond Moon Fri 13-Nov-98: Got to Garbo archives 2840403 Sep 30 20:55 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/turbopa1/mos30.zip mos30.zip Graphical Interface for Turbo Pascal 7.0 Programmers Tue 3-Nov-98: Acquired to Garbo archives 16636 Apr 14 1993 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/math/romancvt.zip romancvt.zip Roman numbers to/from Arabic, with C source, D.McMeans Tue 3-Nov-98: Got from the author the updates 69974 Oct 25 14:02 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/doc-net/asm9811h.zip asm9811h.zip x86 Assembly Language FAQ, html version, Raymond Moon : 58763 Oct 25 14:02 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/doc-net/asm9811t.zip asm9811t.zip x86 Assembly Language FAQ, text version, Raymond Moon Tue 27-Oct-98: Got from the author the update 111011 Oct 27 12:15 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/doc-net/faqc9810.zip faqc9810.zip Frequently Asked Questions of comp.compression, J.Gailly Fri 23-Oct-98: Acquired to Garbo's http://garbo.uwasa.fi/Astro.html astronomy section 94027 Oct 23 22:09 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/gifnebul/prc9836.gif prc9836.gif Planetary "Turtle" Nebula NGC 6210, Hubble, 22-Oct-98 Wed 21-Oct-98: Acquired to Garbo's http://garbo.uwasa.fi/Astro.html astronomy section 190628 Oct 21 22:12 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/gifgalax/prc9828.gif prc9828.gif NGC7742 galaxy, Hubble Heritage Team, 21-Oct-98 : 85133 Oct 21 22:12 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/gifnept/prc9834.gif prc9834.gif Opposite Hemispheres of Neptune, Hubble, 13-Aug-98 : 44064 Oct 21 22:12 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/gifuran/prc9835.gif prc9835.gif May bright clouds on Uranus, Hubble, 8-Oct-98 Sun 11-Oct-98: Obtained to Garbo archives 99008 Mar 23 1998 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/turbopa7/pcl4p61.zip pcl4p61.zip Personal serial communications library pascal, MarshallSoft : 80509 Jun 10 1996 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/turbspec/ppl4p10.zip ppl4p10.zip Personal Xmodem, Ymodem, Zmodem Library for Pascal, MarshallSoft Sun 11-Oct-98: Obtained to Garbo archives 132668 Oct 11 1998 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/gifgalax/prc9832a.gif prc9832a.gif Deepest view of the universe, 8-Oct-98, Hubble Wed 30-Sep-98: Prepared 3296 Sep 30 23:30 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/filelist/garb9809.lst garb9809.lst Annotated list of Garbo's Sep 1998 /pc (MS-DOS) updates : 956 Sep 30 23:31 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/windows/filelist/garw9809.lst garw9809.lst Garbo updates in the Windows 3.1x area during September 1998 Wed 30-Sep-98: Got to Garbo archives 1072772 Sep 1 1998 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/virus/vsumx809.zip vsumx809.zip Virus Information Hypertext Summary List, P.Hoffman Wed 23-Sep-98: Got from the author the updates 67873 Sep 22 18:04 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/doc-net/asm9810h.zip asm9810h.zip x86 Assembly Language FAQ, html version, Raymond Moon : 56880 Sep 22 17:58 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/doc-net/asm9810t.zip asm9810t.zip x86 Assembly Language FAQ, text version, Raymond Moon Wed 23-Sep-98: Update of 16326 Sep 23 1998 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/doc-net/cssgrps.zip cssgrps.zip Moderated comp.software.shareware.* creation information Sun 20-Sep-98: Got from the author the update 85918 Sep 18 10:00 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/dirutil/tdel265.zip tdel265.zip A freeware replacement for the DEL command, T. Chitin Sun 20-Sep-98: Got from the author Pedt Scragg the update 9128 Sep 20 12:08 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/doc-net/faqclpb.zip faqclpb.zip comp.lang.pascal.borland newsgroup Mini-FAQ Sun 20-Sep-98: Got from the author the update 32759 Sep 16 23:41 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/bbs/fi980916.zip fi980916.zip Phone number list of Finnish BBSes, J.Makinen Tue 15-Sep-98: Acquired the update 682413 Jul 15 1998 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/windows/arcers/pk262w16.exe pk262w16.exe PKWARE's pkzip for Windows 3.1x, .zip, TAR, gzip, UU/XXencode Tue 15-Sep-98: Acquired to Garbo archives the very useful 690196 May 2 1997 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/windows/desktop/cm16_426.zip cm16_426.zip ClipMate Clipboard Extender, Win 3.1x, Chris Thornton, good Mon 31-Aug-98: Got from the author the updates 361799 Aug 30 19:26 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/programming/inter59a.zip inter59a.zip x86/MS-DOS Interrupt List, 1/4, Ralf Brown, impressive : 361297 Aug 30 19:32 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/programming/inter59b.zip inter59b.zip x86/MS-DOS Interrupt List, 2/4, Ralf Brown, impressive : 428803 Aug 30 19:41 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/programming/inter59c.zip inter59c.zip x86/MS-DOS Interrupt List, 3/4, Ralf Brown, impressive : 692627 Aug 30 19:52 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/programming/inter59d.zip inter59d.zip x86/MS-DOS Interrupt List, 4/4, Ralf Brown, impressive : 272149 Aug 30 19:19 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/programming/inter59e.zip inter59e.zip Utility programs/source code for interrupt list, R.Brown : 267853 Aug 30 19:19 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/programming/inter59f.zip inter59f.zip WinHelp conversion programs for interrupt list, R.Brown : 248574 Aug 30 19:19 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/programming/inter59g.zip inter59g.zip Hypertext conversion programs for interrupt list, R.Brown Wed 26-Aug-98: Stored the first call for votes for the newsgroup comp.software.shareware.* into 6377 Aug 26 13:47 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/doc-net/cssgrps.zip cssgrps.zip Moderated comp.software.shareware.* creation information Mon 24-Aug-98: Acquired to Garbo's http://garbo.uwasa.fi/Astro.html astronomy section 214197 Aug 24 13:22 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/gifgalax/prc9826a.gif prc9826a.gif Distant Galaxy Cluster, MS1054-0321, 19-Aug-98, Hubble Note that the gif contains embedded comments which can be read e.g. with 912393 Feb 12 1998 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/windows/graphics/cshww320.zip cshww320.zip CompuShow GIF viewer for Windows 3.1x, B.Berry Sat 22-Aug-98: Got from the author 66052 Aug 21 12:45 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/doc-net/asm9809h.zip asm9809h.zip x86 Assembly Language FAQ, html version, Raymond Moon : 55161 Aug 21 12:43 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/doc-net/asm9809t.zip asm9809t.zip x86 Assembly Language FAQ, text version, Raymond Moon Tue 18-Aug-98: As usual on Tuesdays produced 11609 Aug 18 1998 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/filelist/ftplog33.lst ftplog33.lst Ftp stats from Garbo (calls,files,hosts) week 33 1998 : 13665 Aug 18 1998 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/filelist/ftpts33.lst ftpts33.lst Ftp statistics of downloads of Timo's files week 33 1998 Sun 16-Aug-98: I have added a few new free thumbnail images to the part of my collection at http://www.uwasa.fi/~ts/gifst2/tsgifs9.html The entire collection is at http://www.uwasa.fi/~ts/gifst/gifst.html Thu 13-Aug-98: Got from the author the update 1660367 Aug 7 03:02 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/virus/fp-302a.zip fp-302a.zip Virus Protection system by Fridrik Skulason, great Thu 13-Aug-98: Acquired to Garbo archives 123339 Aug 6 15:14 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/editor/ie101.zip ie101.zip A 32-bit MS-DOS editor, freeware, reqs 386+, VGA, I.Gay Fri 7-Aug-98: Obtained the update 1682212 Aug 2 08:42 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/science/penc1g.zip penc1g.zip A text encyclopaedia of uncommon issues, freeware, M.Probert Sat 1-Aug-98: Obtained the update 1657306 Jul 31 03:02 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/virus/fp-302.zip fp-302.zip Virus Protection system by Fridrik Skulason, great Mon 27-Jul-98: Got from the author the update 111116 Jul 27 11:09 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/doc-net/faqc9807.zip faqc9807.zip Frequently Asked Questions of comp.compression, J.Gailly Fri 24-Jul-98: Acquired to Garbo's http://garbo.uwasa.fi/Astro.html astronomy section 193491 Jul 24 1998 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/gifnebul/prc9825.gif prc9825.gif Star cluster yields insights into early universe, 23-Jul-98 Thu 23-Jul-98: Acquired to Garbo archives 17878 Mar 3 1987 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/printer/prndsk.zip prndsk.zip A Printer-To-Disk Redirector, David H. Rifkind Fri 17-Jul-98: Started storing official information from the Usenet news about 3277 Jul 17 1998 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/doc-net/cssgrps.zip cssgrps.zip Moderated comp.software.shareware.* creation information Wed 15-Jul-98: Acquired to Garbo archives 41142 Jun 2 1998 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/unix/sedmod10.zip sedmod10.zip MS-DOS version Unix stream editor, GNU freeware, E.Pement Thu 2-Jul-98: Acquired to Garbo archives the update 1738963 Jul 1 11:54 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/windows/screen/snagit42.zip snagit42.zip The Windows 3.1x screen capture utility, C.Wheeler The news for 1-Jan-98 to 30-Jun-98 can be found in ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/pd2/news98a.pd2, and so on, back.