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, Windows 3.1x 16-bit and Windows95/..XP/..
32-bit programs in the /pc, /windows and /win95 directories.

There are more news in ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/ts/0news_ts.txt and
ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/pd2/tspost*.zip.

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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 maintanence of Garbo program archives is further
diminished due to other pressures for time. The public updating and the
posting of the Garbo download statistics will be discontinued as of the
next week. The material on the Garbo achives will, however, be available
as previously. This will be the last news entry.

Tue 3-Jun-2008: The following two packages have been withdrawn from
the distribution at Garbo
 3365706 Apr 15 2003 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/win95/unix/UnxUtils.zip
 UnxUtils.zip GNU utilities for native Win32
 :
 878915 Oct 25 2003 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/win95/unix/UnxUpdates.zip
 UnxUpdates.zip Updates for UnxUtils GNU utilities for native Win32
For more, see
 http://www.google.com/groups?selm=eJzZbIVxIHA.2384%40TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl
 http://www.google.com/groups?selm=484cadf5$0$23819$9b536df3%40news.fv.fi

Sat 8-Mar-2008: Obtained the update
 1190216 Jan 8 2008 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/filecopy/xxcp2965.zip
 xxcp2965.zip A Logical Extension to XCOPY, 16/32, freeware, Pixelab

Tue 24-Jul-2007: Got the following update from the author
 173534 Jan 16 2006 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/fileutil/cmp523.zip
 cmp523.zip Compare text/binary files, replacement for COMP/FC, S.Brown

Thu 12-Apr-2007: Obtained to Garbo archives the update
 250063 Apr 12 02:09 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/filecopy/xxcp2953.zip
 xxcp2953.zip A Logical Extension to XCOPY, 16/32, freeware, Pixelab

Sun 7-Jan-2007: Obtained to Garbo archives
 19353 Apr 1 2005 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/win95/dosshell/xxmklink.zip
 xxmklink.zip Create a shortcut from the command line, K.Yabumoto Pixelab

Tue 2-Jan-2007: The old Garbo upload news for 2006 can be found at
          ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/pd2/news66.txt
For 2005 they are at ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/pd2/news65.txt
  and so on.
For 1999 they are at ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/pd2/news99.txt
  and so on.

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.