University of Vaasa, Finland, Linux Pentium, node number
193.166.120.5 (garbo.uwasa.fi) has a large collection of PD and
shareware programs which are available by anonymous ftp (file
transfer program), WWW (World Wide Web) and by mail server
(ftpmail). This text file ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/ts/0news95.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
ts@uwasa.fi http://uwasa.fi/~ts BBS 961-3170972; FIN-65101,  Finland
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                    N e w s   o f   1 9 9 5

Sun 10-Dec-95: Wrote
 "BACKDEMO.BAT High intensity background demo"
 "BACKGRND.EXE Enable 16 background text colors"
and put them in a new collection
 :
 16989 Dec 10 11:56 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/ts/tsutlg10.zip
 tsutlg10.zip Timo's 7th utility set (backgrnd,backdemo)
 :
   If you have an EGA or better in your PC, there are sixteen
different text foreground color options, but only eight background
color options in the text mode. The number of background colors can
be increased to sixteen by manipulating the high intensity / blinking
bit. If this bit is set off, then there will be sixteen possible
background colors, but blinking will be disabled. If the bit is on
(as is the default), blinking is enabled, but the high intensity
background option is disables and the background colors are limited
to the eight.
   This program can be used the set the value of the high intensity /
blinking bit. If no switches are set, the program acts as a toggle
between the two modes.
   Is this just a trivial demonstration utility? Not entirely. Some
programs alter the status of high intensity / blink enable bit
without restoring the original status afterwards. This can be
somewhat annoying. If you launch such a program from a batch file you
can easily set things back the way you want in the batch. For more
details and an example, see the program's documentation.

Sun 3-Dec-95: I have made an update
 :
 82459 Dec 3 06:10 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/ts/tsutlb21.zip
 tsutlb21.zip Timo's 2nd utility set (touch,chars,dire,setgra)
 :
Updated "TOUCH.EXE Change date/time stamp of files"
- If the file to be touched does not exist, the program optionally
  creates an empty file and then proceeds to touch its date/time
  stamp.
- Added examples of usage to the help screen and the documentation.
  :
Updated "DIRE.EXE Extended directory". Added to it a new switch /c
which displays the directory list in color using ansi.sys or a
similar screen driver. Note that if you do not have ansi.sys (or a
compatible driver) installed, using the /c switch will produce
somewhat confusing looking output with all the escape sequences
displayed.
   As for the other two programs in the package, I have updated my
address information. The functions of the programs are unaltered.
   Added FILE_ID.DIZ "Brief characterization of TSUTLB". Some BBS
systems scan for a FILE_ID.DIZ in uploaded packages and if found use
its contents as the description in their annotated file list.
   Where possible, the programs now reserve less memory in running.
(I adjusted the compilation parameters.)

Sun 3-Dec-95: I have made an update
 :
 107027 Dec 3 06:59 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/ts/tsutlc22.zip
 tsutlc22.zip Timo's 3rd utility set (dirf,dirinfo,doubles,hidden,split,...)
 :
   - Updated "DIRF.EXE Directory in full". The switch /c now
displays the directory list in color using ansi.sys or a similar
screen driver. Note that if you do not have ansi.sys (or a
compatible driver) installed, using the /c switch will produce
somewhat confusing looking output with all the escape sequences
displayed.
   - As for the other programs in the package, I have updated my
address information. The functions of the programs are unaltered.
   - Where possible, the programs now reserve less memory in running.
(I adjusted the compilation parameters.)

Sun 26-Nov-95: I have made an update
 :
 146405 Nov 26 13:06 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/ts/tsutil42.zip
 tsutil42.zip Timo's 1st utility set
 :
Added to "DIRW.EXE As dir/w, recursive, file status" a new switch /c
which displays the directory list in color using ansi.sys or a
similar screen driver. Made the same addition to
 "DIRD.EXE Directories, different files"
 "DIRS.EXE Directories, same files"
Note that if you do not have ansi.sys (or a compatible driver)
installed, using the /c switch will produce somewhat confusing
looking output with all the escape sequences displayed.
   As for the other programs in the package, I have only updated my
address information. The functions of the programs are unaltered.

Tue 21-Nov-95: I have updated my public collection of gif labels for
WWW users to use on their home pages. There are now 364 GIF items in
my collection. It is available as
 :
 151939 Nov 21 14:04 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/ts/tsgifs12.zip
 tsgifs12.zip Timo's free collection of GIF labels for World Wide Web
 :
Alternatively, you can access this material by using URL
 http://www.uwasa.fi/~ts/gifst/

Sun 12-Nov-95: I have made an update
 50180 Nov 12 17:14 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/ts/tstse16.zip
 tstse16.zip SAL macro sources to extend The SemWare Editor, T.Salmi
1) Wrote a new macro file
 "UPCASE.S Convert text to upper/lower case"
This set handles extended ascii set including a' a" and o", that is
the Scandinavian characters. The SemWare Editor standard includes
an upper / lower case conversion, but it does not cover the foreign
characters.
2) Added macros for inserting escape sequences for several printers.
These help give the editor some features of a true wordprocessor.
The new macros are
 "DICONIX.S Esc seqs, Diconix InkJet 150"
 "HP500.S   Esc sequences, HP DeskJet 500"
Even if you don't have any of these printers, if you understand the
TSE macro language, it should not be too difficult to adapt to
yours.
3) Made a correction in
 "COUNT.S Count block lines, words, chars"
where one of the menu items gave a wrong command.
4) Added a "working..." message to
 "DETAB.S Detab a line or the entire file"
since detabbing a large file can take some time.
5) Added in PROS.S a routine
 "Run a Turbo Pascal source"
to
 "PROGS.S Run programs on the editor text"

Wed 1-Nov-95: I have updated my public collection of gif labels for
WWW users to use on their home pages. I added 85 new images bringing
the total up to 296. I have also updated many of the images by
making the background transparent where applicable. This improvement
often makes a much more professional-looking touch. My thanks to
Hannu Hirvonen for helping me with the technique required. The
collection is available as
 :
 130164 Nov 1 23:39 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/ts/tsgifs11.zip
 tsgifs11.zip Timo's free collection of GIF labels for World Wide Web
 :
You can also access my gif pages with WWW:
  http://www.uwasa.fi/~ts/gifst/

Sat 14-Oct-95: I have recently been working on World Wide Web home
pages for Garbo MS-DOS program archives, the Department of
Accounting and Finance, for my own home page and for my teaching.
The URLs are respectively
 http://garbo.uwasa.fi/
 http://www.uwasa.fi/ktt/lasktoim/
 http://www.uwasa.fi/~ts
 http://www.uwasa.fi/~ts/opas/
In the course of this work I have prepared a considerable number of
GIF labels to be used for illustrating these WWW pages. These GIFs
are now available from
 http://www.uwasa.fi/~ts/gifst/
 http://www.uwasa.fi/~ts/gifsf/
The GIFs in gifst/ and gifsf/ are guaranteed to be my own copyright
since I have prepared them from start to finish.
The material is also downloadable at one go as
 101494 Oct 14 01:04 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/ts/tsgifs10.zip
 tsgifs10.zip Timo's free collection of GIF labels for World Wide Web

Wed 11-Oct-95: I have made a bug fix together with my co-author
Seppo Pynnoenen
 82171 Oct 14 01:04 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/ts/ts5st16.zip
 ts5st16.zip Least absolute deviation (LAD) multiple regression.
As was brought to our attention by Hannu Kirvijaervi of the Helsinki
School of Economics, the standard error, t-value and Prob>|t|
statistics failed to be calculated under some circumstances.

Sun 17-Sep-95: Update
 28074 Sep 17 09:36 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/ts/tsans093.txt
 tsans093.txt Answers to some recurring questions about TS-packages

Wed 6-Sep-95: Update
 91041 Sep 6 12:13 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/ts/tsfaqp28.zip
 tsfaqp28.zip Common Turbo Pascal Questions and Timo's answers
Added an option using IOCTL information to
 15) How can I test that the printer is ready?
A small correction to A4 of
 21) How do I turn the cursor off?
Added the following new items
 85) How do I get the character device name of the (first) CD-ROM?
 86) How do I eject a CD-ROM using a Turbo Pascal program?
 87) How do I find out if the ANSI.SYS driver has been loaded?

Sun 6-Aug-95: The Frequently Asked Turbo Pascal questions is now in
version
 :
 87726 Aug 6 08:55 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/ts/tsfaqp27.zip
 tsfaqp27.zip Common Turbo Pascal Questions and Timo's answers
 :
Added new items:
 82) How do I detect if more than one standard key is pressed down?
 83) How can I read a disk's Volume Serial Number?
 84) How can I disable and then enable the keyboard in my TP program?
Added a third alternative answer to
 80) How do I find out the size of any kind of a file?

Sat 5-Aug-95: Added to my collection of useful batch files and
tricks a new batch
  "SKIP.BAT Perform commands, skipping files"
because the simple trick of excluding particular files from a
command is so often asked.
Added to BATRICKS.TXT a new item
 40) A batch to put user input into an environment variable
It is the neatest batch programming trick I have ever seen. It
remedies the biggest (alleged) flaw in MS-DOS batch programming,
that is getting user input without any external programs.
 :
The updated collection is now
 :
 120735 Aug 5 19:56 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/ts/tsbat47.zip
 tsbat47.zip A collection of useful batch files and tricks, T.Salmi

Sat 29-Jul-95: Updated
 :
 43713 Jul 29 20:15 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/ts/tstse15.zip
 tstse15.zip SAL macro sources to extend The SemWare Editor, T.Salmi
 :
Added in its macro
 "TOASC.S Scandinavian 7/8-bit conversions"
conversions between Scandinavian html characters used in preparing
Wolrd Wide Web files. Added a new macro
 "LINE.S Insert line numbers"
The editor TSE is
 404275 Dec 14 1994 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/demo/tsetd2.zip
 tsetd2.zip The SemWare Editor (TSE) v2.0 Demo/Test-Drive

Thu 27-Jul-95: The ordinary MS-DOS commands mkdir, rmdir and chdir
cannot handle directory names with blanks in them. I have added
 GOTODIR.EXE Generalized change directory
to complement
 DELEDIR.EXE Generalized delete directory
 MAKEDIR.EXE Generalized create directory
It is part of the updated
 62401 Jul 27 12:38 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/ts/tsutlf15.zip
 tsutlf15.zip Timo's 6th utility set (advdate,choose,deledir,strings,strmemo,)

Sun 23-Jul-95: I have updated the Frequently asked Turbo Pascal
questions collection.
 :
 84640 Jul 23 09:36 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/ts/tsfaqp26.zip   
 tsfaqp26.zip Common Turbo Pascal Questions and Timo's answers
 :
Brought up to date:
 76) What are the current Pascal newsgroups on the Usenet news?
Added:
 81) How do I format graphics output like in textmode writeln?

Wed 5-Jul-95: I have released an update of my Frequently Asked Turbo
Pascal Questions. It is a subset of the subjects often coming up in
Turbo Pascal programming for example in the new Usenet newsgroup
news:comp.lang.pascal.borland. The FAQ covers Turbo Pascal
programming in the real mode, but not protected mode. Also excluded
are Object oriented programming (OOP), linked lists, Turbo Vision
(TV), and Turbo Pascal for Windows (TPW). I hope that someone else
takes on these excluded areas. The updated FAQ is available as
 : 
 83677 Jul 5 11:46 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/ts/tsfaqp25.zip
 tsfaqp25.zip Common Turbo Pascal Questions and Timo's answers
 :
Added the following, new items
 77) How do I detect the CapsLock status, how do I turn it on/off?
 78) How do I detect if the F11 or F12 key has been pressed?
 79) How do I extract (parse) substrings from an input string?
 80) How do I find out the size of any kind of a file?
Based on friendly users' feedback, appended material or corrected
the following, old items
 26) How to get ansi control codes working in Turbo Pascal writes?
 33) Which error is e.g. Runtime error 205, etc
 60) How do I obtain a bit or bits from a byte, a word or a longint?
 65) How can I detect if the shift/ctrl/alt etc key is pressed?
 67) If Delay procedure does not work properly, how do I fix it?
Made it clearer that the answer to the first item, and perhaps the
most frequent of all frequent TP questions
 1) How do I disable or capture the break key in Turbo Pascal?
also covers another frequent TP question, that is how to detect
which cursor key has been pressed.
Made some very minor changes to
 76) What are the current Pascal newsgroups on the Usenet news?
Changed more of the file references to the URL format.

Wed 5-Jul-95: I have written a new, simple filter
 "SCROLL.EXE Filter to srcoll text at a pace"
It is part of my updated
 80856 Jul 5 12:34 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/ts/tsfltc17.zip
 tsfltc17.zip More filters: dump,col,concat,cut,detab,rep,rot13,undump

Fri 16-Jun-95: I have updated my collection of Frequently Asked
Turbo Pascal Questions. Now
 :
 80222 Jun 16 09:13 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/ts/tsfaqp24.zip
 tsfaqp24.zip Common Turbo Pascal Questions and Timo's answers
 :
Added an acknowledgements list about feedback into tsfaqp.inf
contained within tsfaqp24.zip.
Added items
 75) How can I read another program's errorlevel value in TP?
 76) What are the current Pascal newsgroups on the Usenet news?
Made all the contents compatible with the Pascal newsgroups'
reorganization that took effect Mon 12-Jun-95.
Added to item
 1) How do I disable or capture the break key in Turbo Pascal?
the subquestion
 Q4: How do I detect if a cursor key or a function key has been
     pressed?
Changed file references to URL format where relevant.

Fri 26-May-95: I have made an update
 21838 May 26 08:22 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/ts/tsgarb12.zip
 tsgarb12.zip Garbo related utilities for the PC (ffind,gfind), T.Salmi
by adding
 FFIND.EXE Garbo index searches URL format.

Sun 21-May-95: I have updated ny collection of Frequenly Asked
Usenet questions. It is now
 97621 May 21 10:08 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/ts/tsfaqn43.zip
 tsfaqn43.zip Questions from UseNet and Timo's answers
Besides bringing it up to date, and making some corrections, I added
the following new items:
 26) Can I say hello and find friends on news.newusers.questions?
 27) How long will my posting stay on the Usenet news?
 28) Where did my Usenet posting disappear?
 29) Why are Usenet news postings out of sequence?

Fri 7-Apr-95: I have updated my collection of text file filters to
be
 122356 Apr 1 13:51 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/ts/tsfilt22.zip
 tsfilt22.zip Programs for filtering messages, log files, Unix-PC, etc.
I added the following filter
 "IBM2LAT1.EXE IBM PC Scandinavian to Latin1 characters".
The need for this filter arose from the Finnish computer centres'
decision to use the 8-bit Latin1 character set which is different
from the customary 8-bit IBM PC character set. For example the
conversion is necessary when I print PC text with characters like a"
and o" etc on the PostScript printer in our local net.

Sat 1-Apr-95: I have updated my collection of The SemWare Editor
macros to be
 41067 Mar 31 22:40 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/ts/tstse14.zip
 tstse14.zip SAL macro sources to extend The SemWare Editor, T.Salmi
Added three new marcos
 NOBLANK.S Remove blank lines from file or block
 SWITCH.S  Switch order of text
 DETAB.S   Detab a line or the file
Updated
 TOASC.S   Scandinavian 7/8-bit conversions

Wed 15-Mar-95: I have updated my Frequently Asked Turbo Pascal
Questions collection to be
 78115 Mar 15 06:46 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/ts/tsfaqp23.zip
 tsfaqp23.zip Common Turbo Pascal Questions and Timo's answers
Added item:
 74) What are and how do I use pointers?
Added an explanation why the often proposed SetCBreak(false) is not
the correct response to
 1) How do I disable or capture the break key in Turbo Pascal?

Wed 15-Mar-95: (About /pc/ts/tsfaqn42.zip) It is some time since I
have last updated my general collection of Frequently Asked Usenet
questions. This is partly due to the fact that much of my new FAQ
material has gone to specialized FAQs like
 78115 Mar 15 06:46 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/ts/tsfaqp23.zip
 tsfaqp23.zip Common Turbo Pascal Questions and Timo's answers
 :
 14422 Mar 9 10:03 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/pd2/camfaq.zip
 camfaq.zip comp.archives.msdos.(d/announce) Frequently Asked Questions
 :
 18783 Mar 11 07:45 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/pd2/tspost22.zip
 tspost22.zip Information email + postings, from 18-Oct-94 to ...
 :
However, I have now brought the material up to date, since there
have been so many changes in the referred details like program
version numbers. I have also added the following new items
 24) What are the distribution area codes for Usenet news postings?
 25) Should I thank for posted advice?
My updated, general Usenet FAQ collection is available as
 93426 Mar 15 06:46 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/ts/tsfaqn42.zip
 tsfaqn42.zip Questions from UseNet and Timo's answers
For a complete index of my various FAQ collections see
 25673 Mar 14 22:28 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/pd2/tspost00.zip
 tspost00.zip Index for Timo's FAQs and Information email + postings

Thu 9-Mar-95: LINEGAME is a line fitting game to teach some basics
of analytic geometry. The game expects you to fit lines (y=a+kx) to
touch or intercept circles on a plane in order to gain a maximum
number of points. Part of the output is the angle of the selected
line, but there was an error in the value, as kindly reported to me
by Sol Katz (skatz@dsc.blm.gov).
   WORDEXAM is an aid for learning foreign words for exams. It is
contained in the same games package as LINEGAME. I have added a
selftest to wordexam. The selftest performs a date, size and
checksum test against tampering and viruses.
   WORDQUIZ "Multiple choice learn words" is a new addition. It is
similar to wordexam, but it is in a multiple choice format.
   These programs are contained in my update
 105206 Mar 9 22:19 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/ts/tsgmec12.zip
 tsgmec12.zip Timo's educational games: ascigame,linegame,wordexam

Thu 23-Feb-95: The SUN SPARCstation IPX running Garbo was replaced
on Sun 19-Feb-95 by a Linux Pentium. The directory listing are
slightly different. Hence updated my "GFIND.EXE Make a complete file
information pointer to a Garbo file". GFIND is the program that
produces the familiar Garbo file pointers like
 32095 Jan 5 11:51 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/research/farewa12.zip
 farewa12.zip A Review of Financial Ratio Analysis, T.Salmi+T.Martikainen
 :
The update is available as
 16111 Feb 23 21:22 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/ts/tsgarb11.zip
 tsgarb11.zip Garbo related utilities for the PC (gfind), T.Salmi
 :
The gfind program is also available as a Bourne shell script for
Unix as /unix/ts/gfind from Garbo.

Mon 20-Feb-95: After releasing a new version of my macro collection
for The SemWare Editor I got very useful feedback from Michael Bate
(mbb@crl.com) reporting a factual nonfunctionality of the macro
 "ROT13.S Rotate text by 13 positions"
I have rewritten this macro and hopefully it works correctly now. I
have also rewritten
 "TOASC.S Scandinavian 7/8-bit conversions"
to handle the Unix / IBM PC Scandinavian character conversions since
the new convention by the Finnish computer centres of using Latin1
character set on Unix nodes.
The updated version is available as
 36222 Feb 20 14:08 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/ts/tstse13.zip
 tstse13.zip SAL macro sources to extend The SemWare Editor, T.Salmi

Mon 20-Feb-95: I have made an update
 68793 Feb 20 14:04 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/ts/tsfltb18.zip
 tsfltb18.zip Easily customizable general filters, for text or binary.
I received a truly exemplary bug report with test material from
Peter C. Broekhuizen pcb@cs.utwente.nl about FILGEN.EXE "General
user-configurable filter". In brief, if one wished to substitute and
expression like "ij" with something else, the substitution did not
work if the program encountered the sequence "iij". Hopefully got it
corrected. I have included into the update Peter's bug report for
others to see how really good feedback is done.

Sun 12-Feb-95: I have updated my macro collection for my favorite
MS-DOS editor The SemWare Editor.
 :
 35673 Feb 12 18:26 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/ts/tstse12.zip
 tstse12.zip SAL macro sources to extend The SemWare Editor, T.Salmi
 :
I have added the following material
 "COUNT.S Count block lines, words, characters, like Unix wc"
 "RULER.S Relative, absolute or centered ruler on screen"
The macros are self-documenting. A demonstration version of the
SemWare editor is available as tsedt2.zip from Garbo's /pc/demo/
directory.

Fri 3-Feb-95: I have updated my collection of puns.
 :
 9750 Feb 3 19:08 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/ts/tspun16.zip
 tspun16.zip Timo's nauseating groaners (a collection of puns).
 :
Originally Sat 10-Aug-91: "I was feeling bored while waiting for a
squall to pass to get on my bike (I'm always getting on my bike, but
now I mean physically :-), so I thought why should I be the only one
to suffer, and decided to start writing down some of my adages and
puns. I can't truly claim that all are strictly my own (un)doing,
since some I may have seen somewhere and they have stuck to my
unconscious. Yes, yes, I know they stink, but my kind non-Finnish
readers are welcome to seek their sweet revenge on me by doing the
same thing in Finnish :-)."

Mon 30-Jan-95: My collection of useful batch files and tricks
includes the file "DOSTRICK.TXT Assorted MsDos tricks and tips"
which in turn has the item "7) Selected Doskey macro examples". I
have added descriptions and material to that item. Also made some
small additions of text to the file "BATRICKS.TXT Assorted batch
tricks and tips". These are parts of my updated
 :
 116907 Jan 30 22:59 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/ts/tsbat46a.zip
 tsbat46a.zip A collection of useful batch files and tricks, T.Salmi

Sat 28-Jan-95: Two events made it necessary to revisit my collection
of MSKermit material. The introduction of the new MSKermit version
3.14 from the Columbia University in the City of New York, and the
decision of the Finnish computer centres to impose an 8-bit Unix
standard with upper ascii Finnish characters. I have consequently
released
 :
 53258 Jan 30 07:33 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/ts/tskerm26.zip
 tskerm26.zip Keypads, .bats, logging, and file transfers for MsKermit.
 :
The following material as been added.
 FINNCHAR.TXT  Info about 8-bit Finnish charset
 KERM8BIT.INI  VT102 for mskermit 3.14+ 8-bits
 FINNISH.CMD   Use 7-bit Finnish characters
 LATIN1.CMD    Use 8-bit international chars
 MIXED.CMD     Use new 8-bit Finnish characters
I have also updated the following scripts which were no longer up to
date with the MSKermit program upgrades.
 GETBIN.CMD    Automatic file transfer to PC
 GETTEXT.CMD   Automatic file transfer to PC
 PUTBIN.CMD    Automatic file transfer from PC
 PUTTEXT.CMD   Automatic file transfer from PC
If you need the actual MSKermit program, due to distribution
policies the place to go for it is kermit.columbia.edu. Look for
/kermit/archives/msvibm.zip.

Thu 26-Jan-95: I have updated the FAQ (Frequently Asked questions)
for Turbo Pascal. It is
 :
 76384 Jan 26 23:24 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/ts/tsfaqp22.zip
 tsfaqp22.zip Common Turbo Pascal Questions and Timo's answers
 :
- Added the following new items
    "71) How do I get started with graphics programming?"
    "72) Where to I find the different sorting source codes?"
    "73) A beginner's how to write and compile units."
- Added one text-book to the bibliography.
- Augmented the item
    "55) How can I test and convert a numerical string into a real?"
  with an Standard Pascal example the other way round with a code
  converting an integer into a string.

Sun 15-Jan-95: I have updated my collection of macros for the
SemWare Editor, v. 2.0. You can find a demo version of the said
editor as
 :
 404275 Dec 14 02:00 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/cripple/tsetd2.zip
 tsetd2.zip The SemWare Editor (TSE) v2.0 Demo/Test-Drive
 :
I added the following macro
  "RNGEFIND.S Forward search an ascii range"
The reason for this addition is the following. I needed for my own
purposes to check in (a converted file) whether it has any 8-bit
characters because there isn't supposed to be any in the file.
   The updated package is
 32113 Jan 15 05:08 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/ts/tstse11.zip
 tstse11.zip SAL macro sources to extend The SemWare Editor, T.Salmi

Sun 15-Jan-95: I have updated
 SPLIT.EXE Split a file into pieces
The is a new switch (/p) to enable giving the number of parts one
wants the file split into instead of having to give the number of
bytes (or rows) per file. I got the idea for this improvement from a
posting on the usenet news. The program is part of the updated
 :
 101640 Jan 15 10:32 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/ts/tsutlc21.zip
 tsutlc21.zip Timo's 3rd utility set (dirf,dirinfo,doubles,hidden,split,...)

Mon 2-Jan-95: The older news about the files in the /pc/ts
directory are available as
 :
 22771 Jan 2 16:15 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/ts/0news94.ts
 0news94.ts The news announcements of 1994 about ts-programs
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and so on, backwards.