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), WWW (World Wide Web) and by mail server
(ftpmail). This information file ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/ts/0news-ts
contains news about the programs in the /pc/ts directory (in reverse
order).
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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
Spam foiling in effect. My email filter autoresponder will return a
required email password to users not yet in the privileges database.
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Mon 13-Sep-99: I have made an update
407333 Aug 2 01:00 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/ts/tsgifs18.zip
tsgifs18.zip Timo's free collection of 823 GIF thumbnails for WWW
Tue 7-Sep-99: I updated a couple of days ago my first collection of
text filters to take care of the fast machine RTE 200 bug problem.
Unfortunately I missed two programs in the package
LOGFILT.EXE Filters backspaces from logfiles
TOIBM.EXE 7 ascii to Scandinavian 8bit ibm
My thanks to Lars Wigrell for detecting this. I have made a new
update
127607 Sep 7 07:08 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/ts/tsfilt24.zip
tsfilt24.zip Programs for filtering messages, log files, Unix-PC, etc.
Wed 28-Jul-99: Especially on laptops it is occasionally useful to be
able to disable some of the toggle keys. My TSR for MS-DOS
collection has several programs to that effect, but a program to
disable the NumLock key was still missing from the collection.
Consequently I wrote NONUMLCK.EXE "Disable the NumLock key". It is
included in the consequent update
107497 Jul 28 1999 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/ts/tstsr23.zip
tstsr23.zip TSR programs (noboot,reslock,sordino,timedown,timeup ...)
Sun 25-Apr-99: I have made a updated version
ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/ts/tsfaqp48.zip
Common Turbo Pascal Questions and Timo's answers
also available without the version number as
164988 Apr 25 1999 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/link/tsfaqp.zip
tsfaqp.zip Common Turbo Pascal Questions and Timo's answers, linked
Added the new items
153) How can I test if an integer number is a prime?
154) How can I detect if a drive exists?
155) How can I detect if a drive medium is write protected or not?
Sun 14-Mar-99: I updated of my "collection of useful batch files and
tricks to be
161979 Mar 14 17:29 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/ts/tsbat58.zip
tsbat58.zip A collection of useful batch files and tricks, T.Salmi
I have changed the format FAQ text files slightly so that they can
optionally be more easily read also with various email programs. I
have included a 1READMAI.INF file with brief instructions for
alternatively using Netscape, Unix elm or MS-DOS ReadMail to browse
the items. The advantage with the Netscape option is that then
you'll have all the contained links immediately clickable. I also
added the new items
78) Is there a batch to individually zip each file in a directory?
79) A batch to substitute a string through a set of text files?
80) Where do I find a good book or WWW page on batch programming?
81) How to read a file's date and time into environment variables?
D10) How can I delete a file/directory with a space in the name?
Added a QBASIC solution alternative to the item
40) A batch to put user input into an environment variable
Added another solution version to the item
68) How can I compare two numbers with batch commands?
Sun 31-Jan-99: I have made a new version
161616 Jan 31 1999 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/ts/tsfaqp47.zip
tsfaqp47.zip Common Turbo Pascal Questions and Timo's answers
also available as ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/link/tsfaqp.zip .
I have changed the format slightly so that it can optionally be
more easily read also with various email programs. I have included
in the READMAIL.INF file brief instructions for alternatively using
Netscape, Unix elm or MS-DOS ReadMail to browse the items. The
advantage with the Netscape option is that then you'll have all the
contained links immediately clickable. I also added one new item:
152) Where is the help for Code in Val(S; var V; var Code: Integer)?
Wed 27-Jan-99: PCs faster than 200Mhz have brought along a new
problem with some old programs. Turbo Pascal's Crt screen handling
cease to work because of a "divide by 0" initialization error. This
problem only concerns Turbo Pascal 7.0, not the earlier TP versions.
I have therefore made an update
117179 Jan 27 12:34 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/ts/tspa357c.zip
tspa357c.zip Turbo Pascal 7.0 real mode units for (real:-) programmers.
My compliments and thnaks to Osmo Ronkanen for solving this awkward
Crt problem with the FDelay unit. For more about the FDelay unit
please see #124 in the ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/link/tsfaqp.zip Turbo
Pascal FAQ.
Sun 3-Jan-99: I happened to need a program to reverse the order of
some lines of text. Hence I wrote a program that reverses the rows
of a text file: INVERT.EXE. I placed this program within one of my
older text file manipulation collections, now updated to
61568 Jan 3 1999 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/ts/tsf2cm17.zip
tsf2cm17.zip Comparison of two files, etc, T.Salmi
The package also contains from the 1980's my
"FILECOMP.EXE Compares two text files"
"FILEQLPC.EXE Converts deficient end-of-lines"
PCs faster than 200Mhz have brought along a new problem with some
old programs. Turbo Pascal's Crt screen handling cease to work
because of a "divide by 0" initialization error. The updates
of FILECOMP and FILEQLPC hopefully remedy the situation.
Fri 1-Jan-99: The older news about the files in the /pc/ts directory are
available as
:
ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/ts/0news98.ts
The news announcements of 1998 about ts-programs, T.Salmi
:
and so on, backwards.