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 Windows 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. .................................................................... 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 Dense spam foiling procmail filters in effect. .................................................................... N e w s o f 2 0 0 4 Tue 21-Dec-2004: Got and made available an update from the author 343025 Dec 19 2004 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/fileutil/grepsb75.zip grepsb75.zip Find regular expressions in files, also Win, S.Brown Tue 16-Nov-2004: Downloaded to Garbo archives 90106 Feb 23 2004 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/win95/dosshell/getkv9.zip getkv9.zip Get keystroke input, environment variable, B.Stewart Tue 2-Nov-2004: Got from the author the update 33073 Oct 29 2004 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/turbopa7/over-120.zip over-120.zip Optimized TP6/BP7 Overlay unit, Robert AH Prins Mon 1-Nov-2004: Got from the author the update 313435 2004-10-30 12:06 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/fileutil/grepsb74.zip grepsb74.zip Find regular expressions in files, also Win, S.Brown Thu 28-Oct-2004: Obtained to Garbo archives the update 351313 Aug 19 2004 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/win95/dosshell/bst11.zip bst11.zip Win32 enhanced command-line scripting tools, B.Stewart Mon 18-Oct-2004: Got from the update author 459244 Oct 10 2004 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/turbopa7/bpl70v20.zip bpl70v20.zip Borland-Pascal 7.01 RT-Libary Update Rel2.0, R.Prins Fri 8-Oct-2004: Obtained to Garbo archives 123564 Jul 29 2004 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/fileutil/listp96x.zip listp96x.zip LISTPLUS Vernon Buerg utilities including LIST v.9.6x and a very old update 6724 Oct 9 1991 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/fileutil/sortf238.zip sortf238.zip V. Buerg's fast text sort utility (not a filter) Sun 1-Aug-2004: Acquired to Garbo archives the update 250306 Apr 18 2004 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/filecopy/xxcp2855.zip xxcp2855.zip A Logical Extension to XCOPY, 16/32, freeware, Pixelab Mon 26-Jul-2004: Obtained to Garbo the update 102772 Aug 10 2002 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/calendar/cal40.zip cal40.zip Displays a calendar, some lng, Unixish, good, A.Matulich The older, more MS-DOS names compatible version is still stored: 41332 Jan 23 1995 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/goldies/cal33.zip cal33.zip Display a calendar for a month or year, Unixish, A.Matulich Fri 9-Jul-2004: Got from the author the update 301258 Jul 8 2004 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/fileutil/grepsb73.zip grepsb73.zip Find regular expressions in files, also Win, S.Brown Thu 8-Jul-2004: Converted most of the *.arc *.lzh *.zoo *.arj packages into the zip format in the /pub/pc subdirectories. Tue 6-Jul-2004: In the /pub/pc/unix directory converted all the old non-zip (arc, arj, lzh, zoo) files into zip files into the zip-format. I.e. at http://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/unix.html Fri 2-Jul-2004: Acquired to Garbo archives 15427 Jul 2 19:28 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/win95/unix/sed15exe.zip sed15exe.zip MS-DOS HHsed, compliant with Windows 32-bit, H.Helman : 45660 May 16 2003 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/win95/unix/gsed407x.zip gsed407x.zip GNU sed version 4.0.7 - compiled for Win32 Wed 23-Jun-2004: Acquired to Garbo archives 33898 Jun 21 2004 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/win95/dosshell/cmd2e102.zip cmd2e102.zip Batch-file-to-EXE tool for Windows 2000/XP, sw, J.Lawless Sun 13-Jun-2004: Obtained to Garbo archives 366142 May 27 2004 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/win95/arcers/unz551xN.exe unz551xN.exe Info-ZIP command-line unzip for Win9x/NT/2K/XP/2K3 : 206034 May 28 2004 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/win95/arcers/unz551dN.zip unz551dN.zip Info-ZIP command-line unzip additional files : 149396 Dec 21 1999 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/win95/arcers/zip23xN.zip zip23xN.zip Info-ZIP command-line zip for Win9x/NT/2K/XP/2K3 : 107619 Dec 9 1999 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/win95/arcers/zip23dN.zip zip23dN.zip Info-ZIP command-line zip additional files Sun 13-Jun-2004: Obtained to Garbo archives the bug-fix update 249454 May 27 2004 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/arcers/unz551x3.exe unz551x3.exe Info-ZIP's self-extracting unzipper (with 386 version) Wed 12-May-2004: Obtained to Garbo archives the update 2203264 Mar 16 10:09 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/virus/fp-314e.zip fp-314e.zip Virus Protection system by Fridrik Skulason, MS-DOS vers. Fri 30-Apr-2004: Garbo Indexes Grep Search is back online and working: http://garbo.uwasa.fi/gsearch.html Mon 26-Apr-2004: Obtained to Garbo archives 14319 Aug 18 2003 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/win95/dosshell/cmdow142.zip cmdow142.zip Win32 Commandline Window Utility, NT4/W2K/XP, R.Lawrence Sun 25-Apr-2004: Obtained to Garbo archives 19290 Apr 6 2002 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/bgidriv/fix8x14s.zip fix8x14s.zip 8x14 font fixer source, BTTR Software, GNU : 18877 Apr 6 2002 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/bgidriv/fix8x14b.zip fix8x14b.zip 8x14 font fixer, BTTR Software, GNU Thu 15-Apr-2004: Got from the author 343888 2004-04-09 15:11 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/win95/dosshell/bst1.zip bst1.zip Win32 enhanced command-line scripting tools, B.Stewart Sat 14-Feb-2004: Acquired to Garbo archives 95218 Nov 25 2000 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/programming/efontd20.zip efontd20.zip Cvt *ANY* graphic font to CHR format used by BGI, P.Navato : 26121 Jun 6 2002 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/programming/efontw30.zip efontw30.zip Easy Fonts convert Windows TrueType to CHR, crippleware Thu 12-Feb-2004: Acquired to Garbo archives 207718 Jul 15 1995 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/turbovis/tts.zip tts.zip Turbo Pascal access for TrueType Fonts for DOS, SW, M.Koeppe Thu 5-Feb-2004: Overhauled 39417 Feb 5 06:35 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/pd2/tspost00.zip tspost00.zip Index for Timo's FAQs and Information email + postings Tue 6-Jan-2004: The year having changed, started new 5466 Jan 6 01:42 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/filelist/ftplog64.zip ftplog64.zip Weekly download statistics for Garbo in 2004 : 4984 Jan 6 01:42 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/filelist/ftpts64.zip ftpts64.zip Downloads of Timo's files in 2004 Thu 1-Jan-2004: The old Garbo upload news for 2003 can be found at ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/pd2/news63.txt For 2002 they are at ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/pd2/news62.txt For 1999 they are at ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/pd2/news99.txt and so on back.