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.txt 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.txt 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 3 Sun 30-Nov-2003: Acquired to Garbo archives 1385553 Oct 1 2001 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/win95/graphics/cs32v510.zip cs32v510.zip CompuShow 32 Graphic explorer/viewer/printer/catalog Wed 26-Nov-2003: Acquired to Garbo program archives 226625 Mar 23 2001 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/win95/unix/ssed348.zip ssed348.zip Super-sed enhanced stream editor, Paolo Bonzini Tue 18-Nov-2003: Acquired to Garbo program archives 1302398 Feb 25 2003 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/win95/editor/tsepro4.zip tsepro4.zip The SemWare Editor Professional. Excellent. Configurable. This is by far my personal favorite editor. It's origins go back all the way to the MS-DOS days and thus it nicely gives the user the familiar feel that at least I have become accustomed to over the years. Sat 8-Nov-2003: Obtained the update 1943041 Sep 30 13:35 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/virus/fp-314b.zip fp-314b.zip Virus Protection system by Fridrik Skulason, MS-DOS vers. Sun 19-Oct-2003: Obtained to Garbo archives 479019 May 31 2002 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/win95/arcers/arj32v3r.exe arj32v3r.exe Win32 console mode version of ARJ archiver Sun 19-Oct-2003: Obtained to Garbo archives the update 492695 Jun 12 2002 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/arcers/arj281a.exe arj281a.exe Arj self-extracting file archiver, ARJ Software, Inc. Sun 19-Oct-2003: Acquired to Garbo archives 437304 May 20 2003 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/win95/arcers/rarx320.exe rarx320.exe 32-bit RAR archiver command-line version for DOS, sw Tue 14-Oct-2003: Acquired to Garbo archives 858388 May 11 2002 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/unix/gwk311b.zip gwk311b.zip GNU Awk pattern processing language with MS-DOS vers Sat 27-Sep-2003: Acquired to Garbo archives the update 1900341 Aug 5 16:28 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/virus/fp-314a.zip fp-314a.zip Virus Protection system by Fridrik Skulason, MS-DOS vers. Fri 19-Sep-2003: Some MS-DOS batch users might be interested in knowing about these two collections of Unix-like utilities ports to the 32-bit Windows dosbox environment such as for Win95/98/Me. The contents of the files can be seen in the very recent announcement in news:comp.archives.ms-windows.announce or at Google as http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=ts20030918224835.12082@poiju.uwasa.fi http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=ts20030918230240.12348@poiju.uwasa.fi Most interestingly from the current perspective, a sed and a gawk are included. The more recent versions of the said programs at the latter package. I have added to Garbo archives: : 3365706 Apr 15 2003 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/win95/unix/UnxUtils.zip UnxUtils.zip GNU utilities for native Win32 : 681650 Jul 7 08:01 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/win95/unix/UnxUpdates.zip UnxUpdates.zip GNU utilities for native Win32 updates Fri 12-Sep-2003: Obtained to Garbo archives the 32-bit 69320 Sep 14 1999 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/win95/unix/sed3028a.zip sed3028a.zip GNU sed 3.02.80, Alpha release for MS-DOS and Windows Sat 23-Aug-2003: Obtained to Garbo archives the update 251868 Aug 11 2003 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/filecopy/xxfw2849.zip xxfw2849.zip A Logical Extension to XCOPY, 16/32, freeware, Pixelab Tue 17-Jun-2003: Acquired to Garbo archives the update 249690 Feb 17 2002 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/arcers/unz550x3.exe unz550x3.exe Info-ZIP's self-extracting unzipper (with 386 version) The unzip program has problems with long directory names, even if it gets the long file names right (PKWARE's PKUNZIP 2.50 version has the same problem). Tue 29-Apr-2003: Acquired to garbo the update 107130 May 28 2002 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/envutil/xset547.zip xset547.zip Put ANYTHING in environment variable, M.Stern Sun 27-Apr-2003: Acquired to Garbo archives the update 424237 Sep 21 1998 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/screen/aplus405.zip aplus405.zip Ansiplus enhanced console driver for SVGA/VGA/EGA Sat 12-Apr-2003: It is some time since the last activities at Garbo since I have been otherwise occupied. Anyway, acquired to Garbo archives the option-packed update 249049 Feb 10 2003 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/filecopy/xxfw2829.zip xxfw2829.zip A Logical Extension to XCOPY, 16/32, freeware, Pixelab Fri 21-Feb-2003: Acquired to Garbo archives the update 1707341 Jan 28 13:08 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/virus/fp-312d.zip fp-312d.zip Virus Protection system by Fridrik Skulason Thu 6-Feb-2003: The file 27669 Mar 22 1991 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/keyboard/pb16.zip pb16.zip A TSR Playback! of keystrokes v1.6 has been removed from the Garbo archives, because of testing positive on a virus scanner. Whether there actually is a virus or not is not decisive, because at the very least there is a threat of confusion. Sat 25-Jan-2003: Received a useful note from Robert Prins telling me of having duplicate context in 134558 Jan 25 2003 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/INDEX.ZIP INDEX.ZIP The annotated list of Garbo's MS-DOS files, zipped This indeed was the case following the rearrangement of some of the filename extension at the beginning of the year. Corrected and added a FILE_ID.DIZ brief information file within the index package. (The same goes for all Garbo's other main sections' main index files as well.) Tue 14-Jan-2003: Got from the author the update 283778 Jan 13 13:16 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/fileutil/grepsb72.zip grepsb72.zip Find regular expressions in files, also Win, S.Brown Fri 10-Jan-2003: Acquired two useful MS-DOS programs for HTML to plain text conversion 128636 Aug 10 2002 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/hypertext/htms0208.zip htms0208.zip Remove the HTML coding from a file, fw, good, B.Guthrie : 84581 May 8 1998 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/hypertext/h2t151b.zip h2t151b.zip HTML2TEXT convert HTML files to text, good, G.Spearhead Thu 9-Jan-2003: Quite a number of years ago I started a "Timo's choice best MS-DOS/Windows PD/FW/SW programs" evaluation text. I have updated the version number information in the said collection. One could say that there is also a historical interest to many of the selected programs. The update of this evaluation package is available as 28776 Jan 9 2002 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/pd2/bestpr56.zip bestpr56.zip Timo's choice best MS-DOS/Windows PD/FW/SW programs, T.Salmi Tue 7-Jan-2003: Obtained to Garbo archives the update 258519 Oct 25 03:08 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/filecopy/xxfw2827.zip xxfw2827.zip A Logical Extension to XCOPY, 16/32, freeware, Pixelab Mon 6-Jan-2003: Updated again 32006 Jan 6 09:44 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/link/pd2ans.txt pd2ans.txt Garbo Frequently Asked Questions, linked from /pc/pd2 Also known with the version number as 32006 Jan 6 09:44 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/pd2/pd2aw102.txt pd2aw102.txt Frequently asked Garbo questions with answers, T.Salmi Sat 4-Jan-2003: Made a notification update 30925 Jan 4 20:22 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/pd2/pd2aw101.txt pd2aw101.txt Frequently asked Garbo questions with answers, T.Salmi This file has been superseded by a set of more modern-day WWW-based FAQ pages located at Some Frequently Asked Garbo Questions http://www.uwasa.fi/~ts/garbo.html#faq Sat 4-Jan-2003: Updated the "Garbo Indexes Grep Search" http://garbo.uwasa.fi/gsearch.html to take into account the changes in the file index names. (See Wed 1-Jan-2003). Wed 1-Jan-2003: Started a considerable overhaul of Garbo archive's information file names. Some, hopefully transient, inconsistencies might be result. Wed 1-Jan-2003: The old Garbo upload news for 2002 can be found at ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/pd2/news62.txt For 2001 they are at ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/pd2/news61.txt For 1999 they are at ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/pd2/news99.txt and so on back.