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. .................................................................... 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 ; 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. .................................................................... N e w s o f 1 9 9 9 Wed 29-Dec-99: Made available the update from the author. I have not checked the file except for the usual virus scanning. 288468 Dec 24 1999 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/turbopa7/cyest36.zip cyest36.zip CyGraph VESA + CyVision, ASM + Turbo Pascal, Pranadharma Mon 27-Dec-99: Acquired to Garbo archives 732373 Jul 31 1999 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/spell/ukacd16.zip ukacd16.zip The UK Advanced Crosswords Dictionary, R.Beresford Sat 18-Dec-99: Got from the author the update 26950 Dec 18 1999 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/bbs/fi991201.zip fi991201.zip Phone number list of Finnish BBSes, J.Makinen Sat 11-Dec-99: Acquired to Garbo archives. I have not tested this program. 55379 Nov 16 1993 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/connect/ftp07.zip ftp07.zip WATTCP FTP for MS-DOS, Erick Engelke and Dean Roth Sun 5-Dec-99: Acquired to Garbo archives based on a tip by Yves Bellefeuille in news:alt.msdos.batch and news:comp.os.msdos.misc 65635 Aug 20 1995 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/batchutil/muf17.zip muf17.zip MicroSoft's Undocumented Features, Vol. 1, Nr 7, BatPower Fri 26-Nov-99: Got from the author the update 2392670 Nov 26 10:49 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/virus/fp-306c.zip fp-306c.zip Virus Protection system by Fridrik Skulason, great Sat 20-Nov-99: Got from the author the following program. I have not tested it 432645 Oct 11 1999 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/educgames/typm32e.zip typm32e.zip TypingMaster typing tutor for charity, Tommi Utriainen Sat 13-Nov-99: Got the update 27339 Nov 10 1999 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/bbs/fi991103.zip fi991103.zip Phone number list of Finnish BBSes, J.Makinen Sat 13-Nov-99: Got from the author the update. I have not tested it. 546375 Oct 31 1999 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/virus/sbabr312.zip sbabr312.zip System Boot Areas Antivirus, N. Ferri Fri 5-Nov-99: Made available the update from the author 2351240 Oct 31 1999 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/virus/fp-306a.zip fp-306a.zip Virus Protection system by Fridrik Skulason, great Tue 2-Nov-99: Got from the author the updates 69685 Oct 28 1999 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/doc-net/asm9911h.zip asm9911h.zip x86 Assembly Language FAQ, html version, Raymond Moon : 58330 Oct 28 1999 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/doc-net/asm9911t.zip asm9911t.zip x86 Assembly Language FAQ, text version, Raymond Moon Sun 31-Oct-99: Got from the author the update 11548 Oct 31 12:16 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/doc-net/faqclpb.zip faqclpb.zip comp.lang.pascal.borland newsgroup Mini-FAQ, P.Scragg Fri 29-Oct-99: Acquired to garbo archives the MS-DOS program updates 235567 Oct 1 1999 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/sysinfo/conf915e.zip conf915e.zip SysInfo+Benchmark-Program for MS-DOS, nagware, M.Holin : 85645 Sep 27 1999 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/fileutil/grepsb45.zip grepsb45.zip Find regular expressions in files, also Win, S.Brown : 16849 Aug 16 1999 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/screen/tcap31.zip tcap31.zip Freeware text-output capture utililty, Tim D. Kannel : 14128 Jul 22 1999 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/unix/untar114.zip untar114.zip Unpacking of Unix tar files in MS-DOS, freeware, M.Husted : 103375 Oct 8 1999 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/envutil/xset537.zip xset537.zip Put ANYTHING in environment variable, M.Stern Sat 16-Oct-99: Got from the author the update 2315226 Oct 14 12:08 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/virus/fp-306.zip fp-306.zip Virus Protection system by Fridrik Skulason, great Sun 5-Sep-99: I have moved on to quite a degree from Garbo maintenance. However, made available after considerable delay the update 99287 Aug 13 00:00 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/dirutil/tdel268.zip tdel268.zip A freeware replacement for the DEL command, T. Chitin Sun 15-Aug-99: Got from the author 30394 Aug 14 11:46 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/turbopas/crt.zip crt.zip Replacement CRT units for Turbo/Borland Pascal, P.Scragg Sun 11-Jul-99: Got from the author the update 2263150 Jul 9 03:05 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/virus/fp-305b.zip fp-305b.zip Virus Protection system by Fridrik Skulason, great Sun 13-Jun-99: Acquired to Garbo archives the updates 103096 May 12 05:33 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/envutil/xset533.zip xset533.zip Put ANYTHING in environment variable, M.Stern : 14098 Jun 9 09:03 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/unix/untar111.zip untar111.zip Unpacking of Unix tar files in MS-DOS, freeware, M.Husted Fri 7-May-99: Got from the author 22032 Apr 28 10:08 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/turbopa7/uthreads.zip uthreads.zip Multithreading / Dynamic Stack Unit for TP7.0, W.Barath Sat 1-May-99: Acquired to Garbo archive's astronomy section http://garbo.uwasa.fi/Astro.html 294203 May 1 05:32 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/gifnebul/prc9912.gif prc9912.gif Hodge 301 in the Tarantula nebula, Hubble : 129575 May 1 05:33 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/gifjupit/prc9913.gif prc9913.gif Io transit of Jupiter, Hubble Mon 19-Apr-99: I looked through some useful postings which I have stored and come upon Osmo Ronkanen's inventive TPAS.PAS which can be used as a loader program to run Turbo Pascal programs with the infamous Turbo Pascal 7.0 Crt initialization runtime error 200 on fast machines. This is the solution to use if you do not have the problem program's source code available. The posting is now available from the Garbo archives with my best thanks to Osmo as 3511 Feb 1 16:17 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/turbopa7/tfix.zip tfix.zip Loader source to avoid TP 7.0 Crt RTE200, Osmo Ronkanen Sun 11-Apr-99: Got from the author Pedt Scragg the update 9625 Apr 11 07:21 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/doc-net/faqclpb.zip faqclpb.zip comp.lang.pascal.borland newsgroup Mini-FAQ Sun 11-Apr-99: Acquired to Garbo archives the update 207394 Mar 1 1999 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/arcers/pk250dos.exe pk250dos.exe PKWARE zip un/archiver, with long filename support Thu 1-Apr-99: Acquired to Garbo archives the update 240970 Nov 14 02:10 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/editor/pedit330.zip pedit330.zip Program Editor similar to DOS edit, 386+, freeware, P.Brand Fri 19-Mar-99: Obtained the update 65641 Aug 23 1996 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/fileutil/mintr151.zip mintr151.zip MiniTrue multiple-file search/replace utility, A.Pipkin Tue 16-Mar-99: Acquired the update 526555 Mar 8 14:20 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/windows/sound/mycd250a.zip mycd250a.zip CD Player and Library and more, Win3.1/Win95, W.John Wed 3-Mar-99: Got to Garbo archives from the author 5454 Mar 2 13:51 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/turbopa6/trig1.zip trig1.zip TP 6.0 trigonometry and math functions TPU, S.O'Malley Wed 3-Mar-99: Acquired the update 75524 Aug 12 1998 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/memutil/fu_rd19i.zip fu_rd19i.zip XMS/EMS RAMdisk, load/set drive/resize from CL, F.Uberto Wed 3-Mar-99: Obtained to Garbo archive's astronomy section http://garbo.uwasa.fi/Astro.html 89355 Mar 2 22:37 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/gifmars/prc9907.gif prc9907.gif Mars: Visible and infrared, March-July 1997, Hubble Fri 19-Feb-99: A couple of Turbo Pascal related updates at Garbo: 104841 Jan 29 05:53 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/turbopa7/pcl4p62.zip pcl4p62.zip Personal serial communications library pascal, MarshallSoft : 3743475 Jan 30 11:12 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/turbopa1/mos31.zip mos31.zip Graphical Interface for Turbo Pascal 7.0 Programmers Tue 9-Feb-99: I have added a simple search engine to Garbo archives. It can be reached either through Garbo archives main page located at http://garbo.uwasa.fi/ and by clicking the search engine button (binoculars), or directly at http://garbo.uwasa.fi/gsearch.html Mon 8-Feb-99: Got from the author the udpate 2129920 Feb 8 11:46 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/virus/fp-304a.zip fp-304a.zip Virus Protection system by Fridrik Skulason, great Mon 8-Feb-99: Got from the author the update 335894 Jan 30 12:34 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/dirutil/wcd221bs.zip wcd221bs.zip Change directory, DOS, Unix, w/C src, GNU, E.Waterlander Mon 25-Jan-99: Obtained to Garbo archives 172659 Sep 19 1995 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/filefind/ffg202.zip ffg202.zip File finder/grouper, T.G. Vavoso Tue 19-Jan-99: Acquired to Garbo's http://garbo.uwasa.fi/Astro.html astronomy section 132668 Oct 11 15:12 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/gifgalax/prc9832a.gif prc9832a.gif Deepest view of the universe, 8-Oct-98, Hubble : 87300 Jan 18 10:51 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/gifnebul/prc9901.gif prc9901.gif Ring Nebula, Hubble Heritage, 6-Jan-99 : 246161 Jan 18 10:51 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/gifgalax/prc9902.gif prc9902.gif Deep infrared and visible galaxies, Hubble, 7-Jan-99 Mon 18-Jan-99: Got from the author the update 1007398 Jan 5 21:59 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/fileutil/tt_r6.zip tt_r6.zip TextTools - a collection of text filters etc, R.Berg Mon 11-Jan-99: Started the new logs 5452 Jan 12 01:09 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/filelist/ftplog99.zip ftplog99.zip Weekly download statistics for Garbo in 1999 : 4920 Jan 12 01:08 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/filelist/ftpts99.zip ftpts99.zip Downloads of Timo's files in 1999 Sun 10-Jan-99: Acquired to Garbo archive's Turbo Pascal collection 23915 Jun 8 1998 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/turbopa7/tplzh031.zip tplzh031.zip Huffman Compression Engine w/TP6+, freeware, Joe Jared Sat 9-Jan-99: I have written an update 29396 Jan 9 1999 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/pd2/bestpr55.zip bestpr55.zip Timo's choice best MS-DOS/Windows PD/FW/SW programs, T.Salmi I have brought the version number information up to date and added one more choice. Fri 8-Jan-99: Got from the respective authors the updates 579013 Dec 31 15:26 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/windows/util/i_m421aw.zip i_m421aw.zip Integrity Master antivirus, Win3.1x front, W.Stiller : 2113546 Jan 5 03:04 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/virus/fp-304.zip fp-304.zip Virus Protection system by Fridrik Skulason, great Tue 5-Jan-99: Acquired to Garbo archives 361404 Jan 3 1999 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/programming/inter60a.zip inter60a.zip x86/MS-DOS Interrupt List, 1/4, Ralf Brown, impressive : 361144 Jan 3 1999 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/programming/inter60b.zip inter60b.zip x86/MS-DOS Interrupt List, 2/4, Ralf Brown, impressive : 433487 Jan 3 1999 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/programming/inter60c.zip inter60c.zip x86/MS-DOS Interrupt List, 3/4, Ralf Brown, impressive : 729487 Jan 3 1999 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/programming/inter60d.zip inter60d.zip x86/MS-DOS Interrupt List, 4/4, Ralf Brown, impressive : 272159 Jan 3 1999 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/programming/inter60e.zip inter60e.zip Utility programs/source code for interrupt list, R.Brown : 269872 Jan 3 1999 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/programming/inter60f.zip inter60f.zip WinHelp conversion programs for interrupt list, R.Brown : 248552 Jan 3 1999 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/programming/inter60g.zip inter60g.zip Hypertext conversion programs for interrupt list, R.Brown Fri 1-Jan-99: Acquired to Garbo archives 34696 Apr 19 1994 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/turbopa7/texter5.zip texter5.zip Grab, edit and store font files for TP6+, G.Smith Fri 1-Jan-99: The news for 1-Jul-98 to 31-Dec-98 can be found in ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/pd2/news98b.pd2, and so on, back.