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.
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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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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
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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
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369892 Nov 24 04:44 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/sysinfo/hwinf444.zip
hwinf444.zip Vanilla DOS-only Hardware Info Program, nagware, M.Malik
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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
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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
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85133 Oct 21 22:12 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/gifnept/prc9834.gif
prc9834.gif Opposite Hemispheres of Neptune, Hubble, 13-Aug-98
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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272149 Aug 30 19:19 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/programming/inter59e.zip
inter59e.zip Utility programs/source code for interrupt list, R.Brown
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267853 Aug 30 19:19 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/programming/inter59f.zip
inter59f.zip WinHelp conversion programs for interrupt list, R.Brown
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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
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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
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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.