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 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.txt and
ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/pd2/tspost*.zip.

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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 <http://www.uwasa.fi/~ts/>  ; 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.
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Tue 14-Jan-2003: Got from the author the update
 283778 Jan 13 13:16 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/fileutil/grepsb72.zip
 grepsb72.zip Find regular expressions in files, also Win, S.Brown

Fri 10-Jan-2003: Acquired two useful MS-DOS programs for HTML to
plain text conversion
 128636 Aug 10 2002 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/hypertext/htms0208.zip
 htms0208.zip Remove the HTML coding from a file, fw, good, B.Guthrie
 :
 84581 May 8 1998 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/hypertext/h2t151b.zip
 h2t151b.zip HTML2TEXT convert HTML files to text, good, G.Spearhead

Thu 9-Jan-2003: Quite a number of years ago I started a "Timo's
choice best MS-DOS/Windows PD/FW/SW programs" evaluation text. I
have updated the version number information in the said collection.
One could say that there is also a historical interest to many of
the selected programs. The update of this evaluation package is
available as
 28776 Jan 9 2002 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/pd2/bestpr56.zip
 bestpr56.zip Timo's choice best MS-DOS/Windows PD/FW/SW programs, T.Salmi

Tue 7-Jan-2003: Obtained to Garbo archives the update
 258519 Oct 25 03:08 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/filecopy/xxfw2827.zip
 xxfw2827.zip A Logical Extension to XCOPY, 16/32, freeware, Pixelab

Mon 6-Jan-2003: Updated again
 32006 Jan 6 09:44 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/link/pd2ans.txt
 pd2ans.txt Garbo Frequently Asked Questions, linked from /pc/pd2
Also known with the version number as
 32006 Jan 6 09:44 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/pd2/pd2aw102.txt
 pd2aw102.txt Frequently asked Garbo questions with answers, T.Salmi

Sat 4-Jan-2003: Made a notification update
 30925 Jan 4 20:22 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/pd2/pd2aw101.txt
 pd2aw101.txt Frequently asked Garbo questions with answers, T.Salmi
This file has been superseded by a set of more modern-day WWW-based
FAQ pages located at
  Some Frequently Asked Garbo Questions
  http://www.uwasa.fi/~ts/garbo.html#faq

Sat 4-Jan-2003: Updated the "Garbo Indexes Grep Search"
http://garbo.uwasa.fi/gsearch.html to take into account the changes
in the file index names. (See Wed 1-Jan-2003).

Wed 1-Jan-2003: Started a considerable overhaul of Garbo archive's
information file names. Some, hopefully transient, inconsistencies
might be result.

Wed 1-Jan-2003: The old Garbo upload news for 2002 can be found at
          ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/pd2/news62.txt
For 2001 they are at ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/pd2/news61.txt
For 1999 they are at ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/pd2/news99.txt and so on
back.