University of Vaasa, Finland, Linux Pentium, node number 193.166.120.5 (garbo.uwasa.fi) 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 information file ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/ts/0news_ts.txt contains news about the programs in the /pc/ts directory (in reverse order). .................................................................... 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. .................................................................... Mon 6-Jan-2003 : The default names of the text versions of Garbo archives index files were changed at the beginning of 2003. Therefore I have made an update of the Garbo index searches utilities 22812 Jan 6 10:33 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/ts/tsgarb13.zip tsgarb13.zip Garbo related utilities for the PC (ffind,gfind), T.Salmi More importantly, added the following new batch for added flexibility to handle also other than the MS-DOS file indexes (Windows 3.1x, Windows 95/98, Unix, and Sinclair QL) at Garbo: FFINDB.BAT FileFIND index-search batchshell I do not know how much the gentle Garbo users will need these, but I need then at least for my own maintenance functions. Mon 6-Jan-2003: I have updated some of the information and the link pointers within 125721 Jan 6 10:34 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/link/tsfaqn.zip tsfaqn.zip Questions from Usenet and Timo's answers, linked alternatively available with a new version number 125721 Jan 6 10:34 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/ts/tsfaqn50.zip tsfaqn50.zip Questions from Usenet and Timo's answers Mon 6-Jan-2003: Updated again 31689 Jan 6 09:44 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/link/tsans.txt tsans.txt Answers about ts-packages, linked from /pc/ts, T.Salmi Also available with the version number as 31689 Jan 6 09:44 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/ts/tsans102.txt tsans102.txt Answers to some recurring questions about TS-packages Sat 4-Jan-2003: Made a notification update 30871 Jan 4 22:34 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/ts/tsans101.txt tsans101.txt Answers to some recurring questions about TS-packages This file has been superseded by a set of more modern-day WWW-based set FAQ pages including : Miscellaneous questions, information and comments about Timo's programs etc http://www.uwasa.fi/~ts/garbo.html#faqtimo : Some Frequently Asked Garbo Questions http://www.uwasa.fi/~ts/garbo.html#faq : Latest news about the files in /pc/ts directory ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/ts/0news_ts.txt : Answers to some frequently asked personal questions http://www.uwasa.fi/~ts/personal.html Wed 1-Jan-2003: The older news about the files in the /pc/ts directory http://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/ts.html are available as : ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/ts/0newts62.txt The news announcements of 2002 about ts-programs, T.Salmi : and so on, backwards.