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 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 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 1 Tue 18-Dec-2001: Got from the author the update 163185 Dec 17 17:14 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/fileutil/cmp513.zip cmp513.zip Compare text/binary files, replacement for COMP/FC, S.Brown Fri 23-Nov-2001: Update 14552 Nov 13 21:59 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/bbs/fi011107.zip fi011107.zip Phone number list of Finnish BBSes, J.Makinen Fri 2-Nov-2001: Acquired to Garbo archives the miscellaneous utility collections 29355 Feb 18 1999 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/miscutil/mwbat1.zip mwbat1.zip Dos Unixish batch utilities 1, freeware, W.Mahringer : 174643 Jun 19 1998 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/miscutil/mwbat2.zip mwbat2.zip Dos Unixish batch utilities 2, freeware, W.Mahringer : 22060 Jun 19 1998 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/miscutil/mwsysdos.zip mwsysdos.zip Keyboard etc utilities, freeware, W.Mahringer Wed 31-Oct-2001: Obtained to Garbo archives. Did not try it out myself. Just the routine checks. 265722 Jun 22 1993 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/txtutil/drc21.zip drc21.zip David's Readme Compiler, freeware, D.Harris Wed 31-Oct-2001: Also acquired to Garbo archives. Made no functionality testing 30138 Jul 6 2001 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/txtutil/tx2ex32b.zip tx2ex32b.zip Convert txt-files into exe/com-files, freeware, BlackLight Wed 17-Oct-2001: Acquired to Garbo archives the MS-DOS batch utilities 2418 Aug 22 2001 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/batchutil/isdate22.zip isdate22.zip Compares dates, returns errorlevel, freeware, H.Schaeffer : 11543 Jul 30 2001 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/batchutil/lmod12.zip lmod12.zip Batch line modification filter, freeware, H.Schaeffer : 8491 Mar 2 2001 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/batchutil/varset10.zip varset10.zip Set file env variables in batch, freeware, H.Schaeffer Wed 17-Oct-2001: Acquired the update 2955 Jan 15 2001 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/sysutil/wclip22.zip wclip22.zip Clipboard Utility for MS-DOS, freeware, H.Schaeffer, nice Wed 17-Oct-2001: Acquired the utility 8884 Jul 15 10:48 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/fileutil/xfind23.zip xfind23.zip Scan given files for text, freeware, H.Schaeffer Sat 13-Oct-2001: Acquired to Garbo archives based on a tip in news:alt.msdos.batch 22713 Nov 27 1992 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/comm/atsend18.zip atsend18.zip AT commands to Hayes modem from command line, J.Sheppard Mon 8-Oct-2001: Acquired to Garbo archives based on a tip posting by Charles Dye in news:alt.msdos.batch and news:comp.os.msdos.misc 10006 Jan 13 1994 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/pcmagutl/confix.zip confix.zip PC Mag device driver adds commands to config.sys, D.Boling No testing, no guarantees. Sun 7-Oct-2001: Fetched to Garbo archives the update 1386403 Sep 22 2001 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/virus/fp-311.zip fp-311.zip Virus Protection system by Fridrik Skulason Sun 7-Oct-2001: Acquired to Garbo archives 450289 Dec 6 2000 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/unix/gnu/gawk306x.zip gawk306x.zip Awk for some platforms, not well MSDOS compatible : 963005 Aug 7 2000 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/unix/gnu/gawk306d.zip gawk306d.zip Looks like some documents for GNU awk : 423614 Nov 26 2000 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/unix/gnu/gawk306h.zip gawk306h.zip A GNU awk gawk.hlp file : 1159031 Aug 7 2000 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/unix/gnu/gawk306s.zip gawk306s.zip GNU awk C sources Wed 3-Oct-2001: Received to Garbo archives 30416 Oct 3 03:32 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/crypt/tinyaes.zip tinyaes.zip AES cipher in CFB mode with A86 ASM sources Tue 2-Oct-2001: Obtained to Garbo archives the update 216289 Jul 4 2001 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/filecopy/xxcopy26.zip xxcopy26.zip A Logical Extension to XCOPY, 16/32, freeware, Pixelab Fri 28-Sep-2001: Acquired to Garbo archives an update 365507 May 30 1994 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/programming/ub874.zip ub874.zip UBASIC high precision language programming environment Also obtained 106787 Oct 7 2000 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/programming/ubc88f.zip ubc88f.zip UBASIC more recent compiler version Fri 14-Sep-2001: Update 114522 Sep 14 2001 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/crypt/blwcb16e.zip blwcb16e.zip Blowfish-CBC file cipher utility, w TP/src, D. de Lacerda Mon 10-Sep-2001: Got the following update from the author 171940 Sep 8 17:15 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/fileutil/grepsb60.zip grepsb60.zip Find regular expressions in files, also Win, S.Brown Fri 7-Sep-2001: Got from the author the update 120339 Aug 24 18:34 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/crypt/blwcbc16.zip blwcbc16.zip Blowfish-CBC file cipher utility, w TP/src, D. de Lacerda Thu 26-Jul-2001: Invited as an exception to Garbo from the author 18959 Jul 22 14:27 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/printer/chrwd100.zip chrwd100.zip Measure character width in HP PCL printer font, D.Wisan Thu 26-Jul-2001: Made available the author's update 1355737 Jul 20 03:10 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/virus/fp-310.zip fp-310.zip Virus Protection system by Fridrik Skulason, great Tue 12-Jun-2001: Got from the author 1110036 Mar 11 03:03 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/turbopa7/bvp303d.zip bvp303d.zip Vector and matrix library for TP7, OptiCode : 175375 Mar 11 03:02 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/turbopa7/cbp302d.zip cbp302d.zip Complex number math library fro TP, OptiCode Tue 8-May-2001: Got an update from the author 12360 May 8 08:59 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/doc-net/faqclpb.zip faqclpb.zip comp.lang.pascal.borland newsgroup Mini-FAQ, P.Scragg Mon 7-May-2001: Got from one of teh authors the update 1870357 Apr 1 04:00 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/stat/pepi40x.zip pepi40x.zip Statistical programs for epidemiologic analysis Mon 23-Apr-2001: Got from the authr the update 106924 Apr 18 08:02 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/fileutil/grepsb53.zip grepsb53.zip Find regular expressions in files, also Win, S.Brown Mon 16-Apr-2001: Acquired to Garbo archives 159259 Apr 8 19:54 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/fileutil/cmp51.zip cmp51.zip Compare text/binary files, replacement for COMP/FC, S.Brown Sat 14-Apr-2001: Acquired to Garbo archives the update 101098 Jan 4 22:07 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/fileutil/grepsb52.zip grepsb52.zip Find regular expressions in files, also Win, S.Brown Fri 13-Apr-2001: Acquired to Garbo program archives the updates 201551 Dec 22 1999 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/fileutil/mtr202b.zip mtr202b.zip MiniTrue multiple-file search/replace utility, A.Pipkin : 211955 Dec 21 1999 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/source/mtr202s.zip mtr202s.zip MiniTrue multiple-file search/replace sources, A.Pipkin Mon 9-Apr-2001: Got from the author the update 1302693 Apr 4 03:09 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/virus/fp-309.zip fp-309.zip Virus Protection system by Fridrik Skulason, great Mon 9-Apr-2001: Meade available the submission 55221 Apr 5 02:00 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/fileutil/crcit200.zip crcit200.zip Generate/validate CRC-32 checksums for files, R.Clark Mon 9-Apr-2001: Updated with the arrived feedback on MS-DOS batch tips the collection 5930 Apr 9 13:22 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/pd2/tspost28.zip tspost28.zip Information email + postings, from 19-Sep-00 to ... Fri 30-Mar-2001: Based on a tip from Henk Krijgsman got a more recent update 79164 Sep 2 1999 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/dirutil/acd305.zip acd305.zip ChDir FAST; more features than LCD/NCD, A.Merckens Fri 2-Mar-2001: Acquired the update 77330 Jun 8 1998 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/dirutil/acd303.zip acd303.zip ChDir FAST; more features than LCD/NCD, A.Merckens Fri 9-Feb-2001: Update 16476 Feb 7 20:59 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/bbs/fi010207.zip fi010207.zip Phone number list of Finnish BBSes, J.Makinen Sun 4-Feb-2001: Obtained to Garbo archives the update 478123 Oct 11 2000 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/arcers/arj275a.exe arj275a.exe Arj self-extracting file archiver, ARJ Software, Inc. Sun 4-Feb-2001: Thanks to a note on the Usenet news from Ralf Quint did some further searching and found the more recent update. Non-tested save for usual virus checking. 125527 Jan 1 01:08 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/mouse/ctmous18.zip ctmous18.zip Cute MS+MouseSystems+Logitech Mouse driver, w/asm, N.Daniel Sat 3-Feb-2001: Obtained to Garbo archives the following update. Non-tested save for usual virus checking. 38964 Feb 18 1999 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/mouse/ctmous16.zip ctmous16.zip Cute MS+MouseSystems+Logitech Mouse driver, w/asm, N.Daniel Thu 1-Feb-2001: I have mirrored the main Simtel.Net file indexes on a weekly basis at the Garbo archives. Due to the partly unclear future I'll freeze the updating as below for the time being. : 416084 Jan 14 2001 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/filelist/simdos-i.zip simdos-i.zip Comma-delim list of Simtel.Net MS-DOS files w/descrip. : 416084 Jan 14 2001 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/filelist/simdos-i.zip simdos-i.zip Comma-delim list of Simtel.Net MS-DOS files w/descrip. : 77345 Jan 14 2001 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/windows/filelist/simwin-i.zip simwin-i.zip Comma-delim list of Simtel.Net Windows 3.1x files w/descrip. : 75164 Jan 14 2001 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/windows/filelist/simwin-l.zip simwin-l.zip Text format list of Simtel.Net Windows 3.1x files w/descrip. Wed 31-Jan-2001: Started a new list for the monthly new files and updates of the current year 1459 Jan 31 08:05 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/filelist/garb2001.zip garb2001.zip Annotated list of Garbo's /pc (MS-DOS) updates in 2001 Mon 29-Jan-2001: Obtained to Garbo 151061 Jan 23 02:44 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/filecopy/xxcopy24.zip xxcopy24.zip A Logical Extension to XCOPY, 16/32, freeware, Pixelab Contains both 16 and 32 bit versions Mon 29-Jan-2001: Obtained to Garbo archives the update 46199 May 8 1997 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/filecopy/zcopy35.zip zcopy35.zip Freeware XCOPY replacement C.Buijs Thu 18-Jan-2001: Got the update from the author 1274376 Jan 17 03:08 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/virus/fp-308c.zip fp-308c.zip Virus Protection system by Fridrik Skulason, great Mon 15-Jan-2001: Acquired to Garbo archives. Untested expect for the standard virus checking 8826 Jan 19 2000 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/arcutil/fv200.zip fv200.zip FV - Buerg's Verbose archive directory lister : 4934 Feb 3 2000 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/dirutil/ldir46.zip ldir46.zip Display files in one or all directories of a disk V.Buerg : 10356 Feb 2 2000 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/printer/ljbook37.zip ljbook37.zip Print text documents in a book format with HP, V.Buerg Wed 10-Jan-2001: The year's first update of 16626 Jan 4 21:43 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/bbs/fi010103.zip fi010103.zip Phone number list of Finnish BBSes, J.Makinen Tue 9-Jan-2001: The old Garbo upload news for 2000 can be found at ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/pd2/news60.pd2.