ts@uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi) (04/01/91)
Sun 31-Mar-91: I have some new files which I have looked at more
closely at garbo.uwasa.fi archives:
/pc/pd2
chk4c305.zip Detect various compressed .exe files by John Land.
Fair, but what I would like as an option is an
errorlevel for a given file to give the compression
status (or have I missed something). Else I think
that /pc/pd2/drx101.zip makes this program somewhat
superfluous.
/pc/astronomy
cosmopak.zip Cosmos planetarium simulation 14.11 from Gene Lee.
This is a package from the binary postings to
delight astronomy fans. Ega and Vga graphics
becoming commonplace has set the stage for some nice
astronomy programs like this one and skyglob2.zip
map which I recently acquired from a Finnish BBS. (I
have seen some compatibility problems being reported
with the latter). Cosmos being a science program I
find it a bit strange using miles instead of the
metric system. (I find miles strange anyway :-).
/pc/comm
dial11.zip Repeatedly dial a list of telephone numbers. I
haven't tested this one. The author Jouni Leppajarvi
(jml@stekt.oulu.fi) states in a message to me:
"Dial11.arc contains dial 1.1, a pc-autodialer for
hayes-modems that operates in background. New
features (not in dial 1.0) :
- can be aborted with a hotkey sequence
- pause time between calls can be specified
- automatic termination on incoming calls"
/pc/dirutil
dirno120.zip Annotate directories v 1.20 PcMag update. This is
one of the useful utilities to alleviate the effect
of the severely limited MsDos filename length. There
is one annoying bug in dirnotes.exe, though. The
BackSpace key wont work in the insert mode.
/pc/screen
flower.zip A cross between a screensaver and a demo (286 VGA).
Be patient when you run. I first thought my 386 had
crashed but it was only that the program is not a
fast starter. The author Micael Dahlquist
(f89-mda@nada.kth.se) writes: "Probably would do as
a screen saver too. But it's not! No, it's some of
the amusing backgrounds from the game Pong (that I
am still writing on). Anyway, have fun. I do. To
make this program work, you need a minimum of 80286
(processor) and VGA."
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Prof. Timo Salmi
Moderating at garbo.uwasa.fi anonymous ftp archives 128.214.12.37
School of Business Studies, University of Vaasa, SF-65101, Finland
Internet: ts@chyde.uwasa.fi Funet: gado::salmi Bitnet: salmi@finfunts@uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi) (04/01/91)
Mon 01-Mar-91: I have acquired some new files which I have looked at
more closely at garbo.uwasa.fi archives:
/pc/dirutil
go_3_0.zip Go to directories and find files v3.0 Richard Larkin
This very handy shareware utility comes from the
binary postings. Absolutely worth a closer look.
Needs a spell to getting used to, though, but the F1
help function soon solves that. Configuring the
advanced options takes some figuring out. Eg I
wanted to put the auxiliary file go.dtl on my ram
disk for my testing. It took me quite awhile to find
out how to achieve this. Simple only in retrospect.
(Incidentally, if you haven't come to think of it
dc106f.zip Directory Control can also be used for an
elementary point and shoot changing of directories.
Go_3_0 and dc106f are not, however, substitutes for
each other).
/pc/diskutil
pcopy90.zip Norm Patriquin's fabulous copy program version 9.0.
Parti-Soft has produced many excellent utilities
including this multi-purpose copier which now seems
to have Daniel Collier as co-author. Excellent as
pcopy is, I feel that the current version has become
severely bloated. Therefore I'll retain pcopy85d.zip
on garbo.uwasa.fi archives. In fact, personally I
use version 7.87 on my desktop, and version 5.1! on
my portable. A minor problem in 9.0 was that despite
the documented claim I did not find any legend on
the updates in the .doc file.
/pc/fileutil
ps44c.zip File and text search from Patri-Soft version 4.4c.
An excellent menu driven text search with one silly
bug. The program chrashes if ascii beyond 127 search
strings are used.
/pc/miscutil
xdos202.zip ExtraDOS utilities v 2.02 from Foley Hi-Tech Systems
A shareware collection of a little less than 30
utilities. Worth browsing. Contents:
EXTRADOS.TXT CURLOCK.COM HUSH.COM SPKR.COM
TURBOBAT.COM AREA.EXE BANNER.EXE BOOT.EXE
CAL.EXE CAT.EXE CURSOR.EXE CUT.EXE
DELAY.EXE DETAB.EXE EDIT.EXE EVAL.EXE
FF.EXE FS.EXE FT.EXE HEX.EXE
LASER.EXE LS.EXE MAZE.EXE MOVE.EXE
SA.EXE TS.EXE PAUSE.SYS
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Prof. Timo Salmi
Moderating at garbo.uwasa.fi anonymous ftp archives 128.214.12.37
School of Business Studies, University of Vaasa, SF-65101, Finland
Internet: ts@chyde.uwasa.fi Funet: gado::salmi Bitnet: salmi@finfun