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 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. .................................................................... N e w s o f 2 0 0 2 Tue 17-Dec-2002: I have updated my MS-DOS batches FAQ by adding the following new items and made a few refinements into some of the old items. 159) How can I convert a Unix text file to MS-DOS? And vice versa? 160) How do I add a space after every fourth character on a line? 161) How do I get all but the last line, and replace last by "End"? 162) How can I calculate how many times "e" occurs in my text file? 163) Is it possible to concatenate two text files side by side? The package is available as 235279 Dec 17 16:09 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/link/tsbat.zip tsbat.zip Useful batch files and tricks, linked from /pc/ts, T.Salmi or, alternatively, with a version number as 235279 Dec 17 16:09 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/ts/tsbat78.zip tsbat78.zip A collection of useful batch files and tricks, T.Salmi Sun 27-Oct-2002: I have updated my MS-DOS batches FAQ by adding the following new items and made refinements into several of the old 152) Can I remove the comment from all .zip files in a directory? 153) A NOT in batch? E.g. copy a directory's all but .exe files. 154) I need the for loop to append info to an environment variable? 155) How do I remove consecutive duplicate lines from a file? 156) How can I columnize a single column into columns of e.g. five? 157) Is it possible to sort a text file by the length of its lines? 158) Can I get the full file names AND the file size and datestamp? The package is available as 230849 Oct 27 2002 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/link/tsbat.zip tsbat.zip Useful batch files and tricks, linked from /pc/ts, T.Salmi or, alternatively, with a version number as ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/ts/tsbat77.zip Wed 28-Aug-2002: Released an update 35796 Aug 28 2002 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/ts/ts4st19.zip ts4st19.zip Statistics: Correlation analysis, T.Salmi The program calculates ordinary Pearson's correlations and Spearman's ranks correlations. The latter procedure contained a bug which produced results beyond the -1,1 range. Wed 28-Aug-2002: The following new items have been added to my updated MS-DOS batch tips and tricks collection 225222 Aug 28 2002 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/link/tsbat.zip tsbat.zip Useful batch files and tricks, T.Salmi also available as ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/ts/tsbat76.zip 149) A batch to compare which of two files is the more recent? 150) Can I convert DEC to HEX in a batch file, and vice versa? 151) How do I find and print the longest line in a text file? Some minor corrections and additions have been made to the already existing items. Wed 17-Apr-2002: I have added the following items to my MS-DOS batch FAQ collection 145) How do I insert a pagebreak into a textfile every 25th line? 146) Is it possible to count how many times a batch has been called? 147) Can I enter a password to batch without it being echoed? 148) How can I create a dummy file with a given filesize? The update is available as ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/link/tsbat.zip and alternatively with the version number as 222794 Apr 17 2002 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/ts/tsbat75.zip tsbat75.zip A collection of useful batch files and tricks, T.Salmi Thu 11-Apr-2002: Occasionally one needs just the simplest of programs. The other day on skiing vacation in Lapland we needed a simple countdown timer with a persistent alarm for cooking. I had my laptop with me (mostly for processing electronic photographs), so I decided to write one. In case you are interested I included the result "COUNTDN.EXE A straight countdown timer" into a consequently updated 56420 Apr 11 2002 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/ts/tscdar12.zip tscdar12.zip Perpetual calendar in English and Finnish, T.Salmi Fri 1-Mar-2002: I have again updated my FAQ-like batch information collection. It now is 218093 Mar 1 09:23 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/ts/tsbat73.zip tsbat73.zip A collection of useful batch files and tricks, T.Salmi Also available as ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/link/tsbat.zip As usual, some of the old items have been augmented and these new ones added: 135) Can one calculate the difference between two times in a batch? 136) Is it safe to use debug or other similar tools in batches? 137) How can I retrieve a keyword from a text file into environment? 138) How to find if there is an identical file elsewhere on my HD? Mon 11-Feb-2002: Gosh, is it that time of the year. I have released on the scampering news:rec.humor readership an update 52855 Feb 10 2002 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/ts/tspun23.zip tspun23.zip Timo's nauseating groaners (a collection of puns). All the best, Timo (aka Perfesser Pundit in news:rec.humor) Wed 6-Feb-2002: Made the update 213335 Feb 6 2002 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/ts/tsbat72.zip tsbat72.zip A collection of useful batch files and tricks, T.Salmi Alternatively ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/link/tsbat.zip Added 128) How can I add date and time to each line of a text file? 129) Is a column-sensitive search possible through a text file? 130) How can I calculate the number of words in a text file? 131) How can I put the lines of a text file into a reverse order? 132) How can I add 5:23:11 to the current time? 133) How do I find out the number of parameters given to my batch? 134) How to remove the first two characters throughout my text file? As usual have also added some more alternatives and references to a few of the already existing items. Wed 16-Jan-2002: It is time for my MS-DOS batch trick collection update. It now is 208484 Jan 16 2002 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/ts/tsbat71.zip tsbat71.zip A collection of useful batch files and tricks, T.Salmi Also available for convenience of WWW-referencing without the version number as ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/link/tsbat.zip The previous release was made on Mon 5-Nov-2001. Added CLRBUF.EXE "Clear the key ahead buffer" little batch enhancer to do just what the brief description says. Particularly useful if there is a loop of input. Added five new items 123) How I can (re)set the screen text and background colors? 124) How do I get the echo status into an environment variable? 125) How can I delete all empty directories on a drive? 126) How can I put an = into an environment variable? 127) How can I reverse a word or an entire line? Made some small additions to the existing items, such as: Added to item #88 a method for detecting whether the FIND version you have returns an errorlevel or not. Added to item #34 a quick and dirty method for getting the system year into an environment variable. Added playing a tune into the item #82. Tue 8-Jan-2002: Started a new weekly download statistics collection file because of the turn of the year 5029 Jan 8 2002 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/filelist/ftpts62.zip ftpts62.zip Downloads of Timo's files in 2002 Tue 8-Jan-2002: The older news about the files in the /pc/ts directory are available as : ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/ts/0newts61.txt The news announcements of 2001 about ts-programs, T.Salmi : and so on, backwards.