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), WWW (World Wide Web) and by mail server (ftpmail). 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 1 9 9 9 Mon 13-Sep-99: I have made an update 407333 Aug 2 01:00 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/ts/tsgifs18.zip tsgifs18.zip Timo's free collection of 823 GIF thumbnails for WWW Tue 7-Sep-99: I updated a couple of days ago my first collection of text filters to take care of the fast machine RTE 200 bug problem. Unfortunately I missed two programs in the package LOGFILT.EXE Filters backspaces from logfiles TOIBM.EXE 7 ascii to Scandinavian 8bit ibm My thanks to Lars Wigrell for detecting this. I have made a new update 127607 Sep 7 07:08 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/ts/tsfilt24.zip tsfilt24.zip Programs for filtering messages, log files, Unix-PC, etc. Wed 28-Jul-99: Especially on laptops it is occasionally useful to be able to disable some of the toggle keys. My TSR for MS-DOS collection has several programs to that effect, but a program to disable the NumLock key was still missing from the collection. Consequently I wrote NONUMLCK.EXE "Disable the NumLock key". It is included in the consequent update 107497 Jul 28 1999 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/ts/tstsr23.zip tstsr23.zip TSR programs (noboot,reslock,sordino,timedown,timeup ...) Sun 25-Apr-99: I have made a updated version ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/ts/tsfaqp48.zip Common Turbo Pascal Questions and Timo's answers also available without the version number as 164988 Apr 25 1999 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/link/tsfaqp.zip tsfaqp.zip Common Turbo Pascal Questions and Timo's answers, linked Added the new items 153) How can I test if an integer number is a prime? 154) How can I detect if a drive exists? 155) How can I detect if a drive medium is write protected or not? Sun 14-Mar-99: I updated of my "collection of useful batch files and tricks to be 161979 Mar 14 17:29 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/ts/tsbat58.zip tsbat58.zip A collection of useful batch files and tricks, T.Salmi I have changed the format FAQ text files slightly so that they can optionally be more easily read also with various email programs. I have included a 1READMAI.INF file with brief instructions for alternatively using Netscape, Unix elm or MS-DOS ReadMail to browse the items. The advantage with the Netscape option is that then you'll have all the contained links immediately clickable. I also added the new items 78) Is there a batch to individually zip each file in a directory? 79) A batch to substitute a string through a set of text files? 80) Where do I find a good book or WWW page on batch programming? 81) How to read a file's date and time into environment variables? D10) How can I delete a file/directory with a space in the name? Added a QBASIC solution alternative to the item 40) A batch to put user input into an environment variable Added another solution version to the item 68) How can I compare two numbers with batch commands? Sun 31-Jan-99: I have made a new version 161616 Jan 31 1999 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/ts/tsfaqp47.zip tsfaqp47.zip Common Turbo Pascal Questions and Timo's answers also available as ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/link/tsfaqp.zip . I have changed the format slightly so that it can optionally be more easily read also with various email programs. I have included in the READMAIL.INF file brief instructions for alternatively using Netscape, Unix elm or MS-DOS ReadMail to browse the items. The advantage with the Netscape option is that then you'll have all the contained links immediately clickable. I also added one new item: 152) Where is the help for Code in Val(S; var V; var Code: Integer)? Wed 27-Jan-99: PCs faster than 200Mhz have brought along a new problem with some old programs. Turbo Pascal's Crt screen handling cease to work because of a "divide by 0" initialization error. This problem only concerns Turbo Pascal 7.0, not the earlier TP versions. I have therefore made an update 117179 Jan 27 12:34 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/ts/tspa357c.zip tspa357c.zip Turbo Pascal 7.0 real mode units for (real:-) programmers. My compliments and thnaks to Osmo Ronkanen for solving this awkward Crt problem with the FDelay unit. For more about the FDelay unit please see #124 in the ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/link/tsfaqp.zip Turbo Pascal FAQ. Sun 3-Jan-99: I happened to need a program to reverse the order of some lines of text. Hence I wrote a program that reverses the rows of a text file: INVERT.EXE. I placed this program within one of my older text file manipulation collections, now updated to 61568 Jan 3 1999 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/ts/tsf2cm17.zip tsf2cm17.zip Comparison of two files, etc, T.Salmi The package also contains from the 1980's my "FILECOMP.EXE Compares two text files" "FILEQLPC.EXE Converts deficient end-of-lines" PCs faster than 200Mhz have brought along a new problem with some old programs. Turbo Pascal's Crt screen handling cease to work because of a "divide by 0" initialization error. The updates of FILECOMP and FILEQLPC hopefully remedy the situation. Fri 1-Jan-99: The older news about the files in the /pc/ts directory are available as : ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/ts/0news98.ts The news announcements of 1998 about ts-programs, T.Salmi : and so on, backwards.