Who's Who and Whom Should You Call on Garbo Archives ==================================================== ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/pd2/whoiswho.txt Last modified Thu 2-Jan-2003 15:28 University of Vaasa, Finland, Linux Pentium garbo.uwasa.fi has a large collection of shareware, freeware and public domain PC programs and material which are available by anonymous FTP (file transfer program) and WWW (the World Wide Web). ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/ http://garbo.uwasa.fi/ The "who is who" section of this file is outdated and goes back to 1996. Hence, please instead see http://www.uwasa.fi/~ts/garbinfo/garb0070.html http://www.uwasa.fi/~ts/garbinfo/garb1996.html -------------------------------------------------------------------- The old information: =================== This "who's who" file gives information on the moderators of Garbo archives, and their specialities so that you know whom to contact with your potential queries. (There is more information for uploaders in ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/UPLOAD.TXT and /pc/UPTEXT.TXT which you should read very carefully before uploading to the Garbo archives). Site: garbo.uwasa.fi (Garbo) WWW: http://garbo.uwasa.fi/ ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/ IP: 193.166.120.5 Location: University of Vaasa, Finland Main areas: MS-DOS, ts-progs, Research, Windows, Unix, Sinclair QL, Mac Directories: /pc /pc/ts /pc/research /windows /win95 /unix /ql /mac Main indexes: /pc/INDEX.ZIP /pc/INDEXTS.ZIP /windows/WINDEX.ZIP /win95/W95INDEX.ZIP /unix/UINDEX.ZIP /ql/QLINDEX.TXT Moderator(s): Ari Hovila, ajh@uwasa.fi (SysMgr, On a leave of absence) Timo Salmi, ts@uwasa.fi (publicity, policy, _NOT_ sysmgr) Joni Yrjana, joyr@uwasa.fi (Garbo archivist, no more) Hannu Hirvonen, hh@uwasa.fi (+ postmaster; VMS,Unix) Other info: Garbo's mail server is maintained by the system manager The prerecorded instructions /pc/pd2/pd2aw*.txt (29Kb) are available (also) on an email request to Timo Salmi. For uploading *FIRST* see /pc/UPLOAD.TXT and /pc/UPTEXT.TXT For your upload announcements (compulsory!) use (without the X) pc-up@uwasaX.fi (For MS-DOS announcements) win-up@uwasaX.fi (For Windows 3.1x announcements) w95-up@uwasaX.fi (For Windows 95 announcements) mac-up@uwasaX.fi (For Mac announcements) unix-up@uwasaX.fi (For Unix announcements) ql-up@uwasaX.fi (For Sinclair QL announcements) For much information on questions related to Garbo see the /pc/pd2/tspost*.zip information files. Walli BBS for domestic users only: 06-3170972 (no more) Last update: Wed 27-Aug-97 Ari Hovila ajh@uwasa.fi (http://www.uwasa.fi/~ajh/) ---------- Main interests on Garbo: - Garbo FTP archive maintenance (including Windows) - Garbo mail-server maintenance - The Garbo-Announcements public mailing list maintenance - Garbo system management - Walli BBS ("A domestic public access Unix system", no more) Special interests on Garbo: - C programming - AI and Neural Networks - Unix, Computer Networking Timo Salmi ts@uwasa.fi (http://www.uwasa.fi/~ts/) ---------- Main interests on Garbo: - Garbo policy decisions - Garbo publicity (for MS-DOS programs) - FAQ maintenance (several) - news:comp.archives.msdos.announce co-moderation - news:comp.archives.ms-windows.announce co-moderation Special interests on Garbo: - Scientific electronic research publications (http://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/research.html) - Turbo Pascal (real-mode, non-object) programming - The TS-program collection (http://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/ts.html) - Collecting high quality MS-DOS utility programs, and Turbo Pascal sources to Garbo archives - Simple Unix sh (Bourne shell) scripts (http://garbo.uwasa.fi/unix/ts.html) (Please note that Timo's computer interests have shifted from Garbo related matters to WWW publishing of scientific material.) Areas outside scope on Garbo (direct all related questions to the relevant, other Garbo moderators): - All Windows files related questions - All Unix X-windows files questions - All Mac files related questions - Problems with uwasa.fi email and IP addresses - Problems with connecting to garbo.uwasa.fi archives - Mail server problems For our valued Garbo MS-DOS uploaders it might occasionally be useful to have an example list of MS-DOS (/pc) areas that Timo's is not personally interested in. animation : Animation players and animation files autocad : AutoCAD LISP modules and utils bbs : Bulletin boards, the utilities in particular cad : Computer Aided Design related files cmd4dos : 4DOS command shell and utilities djgpp : DJ's GCC port to DOS pl 8 ham : Ham and other radio related programs sb : Sound Blaster utilities and sounds sound : Scream Tracker and other sound programs and files tex : Public Domain PC-TeX Everything that requires special accessories to run like a soundboard also falls outside Timo's scope. Joni Yrjana joyr@uwasa.fi ----------- - Garbo archivist (no more) Tuomas Eerola te@uwasa.fi ------------- Main interests on Garbo: - Garbo Mac department Hannu Hirvonen hh@uwasa.fi -------------- Main interests at our site: - uwasa.fi general system manager and postmaster, i.e. our foremost system manager extraordinaire - VAX/VMS files - Unix - Garbo's reserve system manager -- 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