From ts@uwasa.fi  Sun Mar 21 19:15:00 1993
From: ts@uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi)
Subject: /pc/pd2/tspost18.zip file description
To: ts@uwasa.fi  (Timo Salmi)
Date: Fri, 31 Dec 99 6:46:16 EET
Status: RO

+---------------------------------------------------------------+
! This file is in mail format, so you can also read it with any !
! suitable Unix mail program such as elm: (elm -f post18.txt).  !
! On a PC /pc/mail/rmail*.zip is a convenient alternative       !
+---------------------------------------------------------------+

   This is the eighteenth file that contains my replies and comments
that I or others have made by email, or just written here instead of
posting to (mainly to) comp.archives.msdos.d, or postings that I
wanted to retain for your information.
   Note that the latest tspost??.zip is always being updated until
it contains 30 messages.  The files are located at the /pc/pd2
directory.
   For an index of all the completed tspost*.zip files please see
/pc/pd2/tspost00.zip.

..................................................................
Prof. Timo Salmi      Co-moderator of comp.archives.msdos.announce
Moderating at garbo.uwasa.fi anonymous FTP  archives  128.214.87.1
Faculty of Accounting & Industrial Management; University of Vaasa
Internet: ts@uwasa.fi   BBS +(358)-61-3170972; FIN-65101,  Finland

1   Dec 31 To Timo Salmi      (32)   /pc/pd2/tspost18.zip file descriptio
2   Feb 16 To Matthias=Wjst@E (70)   Re: Minor problems with TS-utilities
3   Feb 8  PKWARE Inc.        (28)   Re: pkzip 2.06 ? (fwd)
4   Feb 5  To Garbo uploader  (46)   Re: myprog.zip Uploaded to wrong dir
5   Feb 3  To Kenn R. Fagans  (104)  Re: PUSHDIRE.BAT & POPDIRE.BAT
6   Feb 2  To medik@attme.att (41)   Re: LOGFILT.EXE problem
7   Jan 31 To Dale Anglin     (31)   Re: Flag Programs
8   Jan 28 Ari Hovila         (24)   Re: Garbo and 3 minutes' restriction
9   Jan 28 Ari Hovila         (37)   Re: Where is /CDROM ?
10  Jan 26 Timo Salmi         (39)   Re: program to check NumLock status?
11  Jan 24 Glenis Pickering   (38)   Fan mail
12  Jan 21 To Don Benson      (49)   Re: anonymous ftp and passwords
13  Jan 20 To Lars Jensen     (40)   Re: /windows/games at Garbo
14  Jan 18 Tec en tu Casa     (24)   Timo's TP units
15  Jan 18 To Richard P. Cont (34)   Re: Need expert after search failed
16  Jan 17 To Combined SimTel (38)   Garbo's download figures for 1993
17  Jan 10 To Mak Kei Fu      (35)   Re: Permission denied for mpoly55a.z
18  Jan 8  Timo Salmi         (59)   Re: Shareware Reviews
19  Jan 8  Wolfgang Hackl     (194)  isdirfn in Timo's TP FAQs
20  Jan 6  David Pickles      (25)   Re: Re-boot from a batch file?
21  Jan 5  To Marcus Jenkins  (56)   Re: Your BBS
22  Jan 1  Timo Salmi         (59)   About Garbo's resources (was Re: Ill
23  Dec 31 To Kathleen M. Wil (84)   Re: Comments on your Games
24  Dec 27 Timo Salmi         (59)   Re: Illogic of CD-ROM restrictions
25  Dec 20 To Raj Mehta       (57)   Re: Weekly ftp statistics for Garbo
26  Dec 20 To Stan Brown      (53)   Re: An id question, and a program co
27  Dec 17 Timo Salmi         (55)   An electronic research paper directo
28  Dec 14 Ari Hovila         (32)   Re: .FSP_CONTENT files
29  Dec 11 Marshall Levin     (41)   Re: E-MAIL POSTS TO USENET
30  Dec 10 finger@granite.ciw (120)  Re: garbo: cannot map your network a




From finger@granite.ciw.edu Sat Dec 11 09:41:37 EET 1993
Newsgroups: comp.archives.msdos.d
From: finger@granite.ciw.edu
Subject: Re: garbo: cannot map your network address to a hostname ?
Date: 10 Dec 93 20:13:25 GMT
References: <2e7me7$5gq@belfort.daimi.aau.dk> <1993Dec10.045739.16932@uwasa.fi> <1993Dec10.132300.24306@uwasa.fi>
Organization: Geophysical Laboratory
Lines: 37
Status: RO

In article <1993Dec10.132300.24306@uwasa.fi> ts@uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi) writes:
>In article <1993Dec10.045739.16932@uwasa.fi> ts@uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi) writes:
>>In article <2e7me7$5gq@belfort.daimi.aau.dk> tusk@daimi.aau.dk (Martin M|ller Pedersen) writes:
>>>When I start ftp to garbo I get this messages:
>>>220-We cannot map your network address to a hostname, if this
>>>220 isn't fixed soon, access from your host will be unavailable.
>>>What does it means?
>
>> I too have had this message appear.  The problem is not that I could
>> not make a connection at that point in time (I could) but that garbo
>> could not map my network address to a hostname.  The statement, "if
>> this isn't fixed soon, access from your host will be unavailable" implies
>> that, at some point in the future, garbo will deny me access.  I assume
>> this is for security reasons.
>
>I don't think that it is Garbo, but the nameserver at your own host
>that causes the message.  It is thus not up to the Garbo side of
>the connection but the user's end.
>
>   All the best, Timo

We used to have this problem, which was caused by faulty Reverse
Address Resolution.  We had a configuration problem in our
nameserver; therefore, Timo is right, as he always is.

Larry W. Finger
finger@granite.ciw.edu


-Date: Sat, 11 Dec 1993 17:14:25 GMT
-From: w8sdz@SimTel.Coast.NET (Keith Petersen)
-Newsgroups: comp.archives.msdos.d
-Subject: Re: garbo: cannot map your network address to a hostname ?

tusk@daimi.aau.dk (Martin M|ller Pedersen) writes:
>%ftp garbo.uwasa.fi
>Connected to garbo.uwasa.fi.
>220-garbo.uwasa.fi FTP server (Version 5.80 Fri Apr 2 13:55:48 EET DST 1993) rea
>dy.
>220-We cannot map your network address to a hostname, if this
>220 isn't fixed soon, access from your host will be unavailable.
>331 Guest login ok, send ident as password.
>230 Guest login ok, access restrictions apply.

This message from the ftp server means that the domain name resolver on
garbo was not able to determine your host name by doing a reverse lookup
on your IP address.  Under normal conditions this notice could mean that
your host isn't registered in the domain name system.  On Friday there
was a problem with the root nameservers which affected reverse name
lookups for the *entire* Internet.  The problem has been corrected.

Keith
--
Keith Petersen, General Manager of the SimTel Software Repository, a
service mark of Coast to Coast Telecommunications, Clarkston, MI, U.S.A.
Internet: w8sdz@SimTel.Coast.NET     or       w8sdz@Vela.ACS.Oakland.Edu
Uucp: uunet!umich!vela!w8sdz                       BITNET: w8sdz@OAKLAND


-Date: Sun, 12 Dec 93 10:23:34 -0500
-From: John Nash <nash@nrcbsa.bio.nrc.ca>
-Newsgroups: comp.archives.msdos.d
-To: ts@uwasa.fi
-Subject: Re: garbo: cannot map your network address to a hostname ?

In article <1993Dec10.045739.16932@uwasa.fi> you write:
>In article <2e7me7$5gq@belfort.daimi.aau.dk> tusk@daimi.aau.dk (Martin M|ller Pedersen) writes:
>>When I start ftp to garbo I gets this messages:
>>220-We cannot map your network address to a hostname, if this
>>220 isn't fixed soon, access from your host will be unavailable.
>
>>What does it means?
>>I have never had any problems with ftp garbo before.
>>I this a serious warning or what ?
>
>I know very little about this side of things.  But an extract from

Timo, I believe I can explain how some users get this message.

Many sites (including mine) have dozens of PC on a lan, and instead of
giving them individual IP addresses, they are assigned one each time
they need it for internet access , from a pool (boot or rarp).  These
PCs can't be fingered because there is no fingerd up, nor can the
hostname or IP address be put in a name-server because of its
temporary nature of allocation.

This causes the PCs to fail tests which cause automatic "fingering
back" of "email addresses as passwords" at ftp sites, or tests which
check the existence of such a site in a name-server database.  This
type of checking has the added "benefit" of not allowing these PCs to
connect to IRC servers, either.

Unfortunately this type of connection is growing (cheap, easy to
maintain), so I think it is short sighted to disallow such
connections... but if security is a big concern, I suppose it is tough
for us.  I can say this because I have the additional luxury of having
accounts on several SGIs with real internet connections, so I can
always connect that way.

cheers, and have a good Christmas,

--
John Nash                           (nash@nrcbsa.bio.nrc.ca)
Institute for Biological Sciences,  National Research Council of Canada,
                 Yet another Aussie-in-exile ;-)
      *** Disclaimer:  All opinions are mine, not NRC's! ***




From ajh@uwasa.fi  Tue Dec 14 09:56:41 1993
From: ajh@uwasa.fi (Ari Hovila)
Subject: Re: .FSP_CONTENT files
To: DMEJJ%CUNYVM.BITNET@FINHUTC.hut.fi (Arthur Schlissel)
Date: Tue, 14 Dec 1993 09:56:40 +0200 (EET)
Cc: ts@uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi)
In-Reply-To: <9312131511.AA28133@uwasa.fi> from "Arthur Schlissel" at Dec 13, 93 10:07:30 am
X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL21]
Status: RO

>
> How do I deal with .FSP_CONTENT files? What kind of files are they?

Those files are generated by some unix programs with which you can
manage files a bit easier than with ftp for example (Harri Valkama has
used it here, so I do not know much about it).

So these files are of use only to those programs. Thus you should
ignore these files and I will try to do something to our ftpd so
that it would not show these files.

> Thank you.
> Arthur Schlissel
>

Best regards,

................................................................
Ari Hovila, ajh@uwasa.fi
Moderating at garbo.uwasa.fi anonymous FTP archives 128.214.87.1
Computer Centre, University of Vaasa, Box 700, FIN-65101 Finland

From mlevin@nyx10.cs.du.edu  Sun Dec 12 21:47:30 1993
From: mlevin@nyx10.cs.du.edu (Marshall Levin)
Message-Id: <9312120047.AA27388@nyx10.cs.du.edu>
Subject: Re: E-MAIL POSTS TO USENET
To: ts@uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi)
Date: Sat, 11 Dec 1993 17:47:05 -0700 (MST)
In-Reply-To: <9312111710.AA18512@uwasa.fi> from "Timo Salmi" at Dec 11, 93 07:10:12 pm
X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL21]
Status: RO

Timo Salmi writes:
>In article <1993Dec10.204948.18679@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> you write:
>>>Is it possible to post to a USENET group through Internet e-mail? Our
>>>BBS is limited in USENET group capabilities. It would be great if I could
>>
>>        news.group.name.usenet@decwrl.dec.com      <- note the '.usenet'
>>        news.group.name@pws.bull.com
>>        news-group-name@cs.utexas.edu              <- note the '-'s
>>        news.group.name@news.cs.indiana.edu
>
>Hello Marshall,
>
>Please help me in FAQ maintenance.  Are you quite sure?  I have no
>reason to doubt this.  On the contrary.  I just wish to ascertain,
>since I would like to put your reply into garbo.uwasa.fi:/pc/pd2/
>tspost18.zip information file.  Have you tried _each_ of these
>addresses?
>
>   All the best, Timo

Yes, I tried each of these addresses when I first saw the list a few
months ago, and they worked then.  I think it would be a great help
to people if you posted this info.

I know for sure the decwrl and cs.utexas work as I use them often.
The others I tested once and never really use.

Marshall



From ts@uwasa.fi Fri Dec 17 23:10:02 1993
Subject: An electronic research paper directory created at Garbo
From: ts@uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi)
Date: Fri, 17 Dec 1993 23:10:02 +0200 (EET)
X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL21]
Status: RO

Fri 17-Dec-93: I have experimentally created a new directory to
Garbo archives.  It is /pc/research.  It is for electronic
publication of research papers in the following fields
  Accounting
  Finance (and business finance)
  Operations Research
  Production Economics
  Computer Science

research : Scientific research papers; Acc, Fin, OR, Prod.Ec, CS

Submitting to this directory is technically made exactly the same
way as to any other Garbo directory.  The details are given in

 12664 Nov 30 12:41 garbo.uwasa.fi:/pc/UPLOAD.INF
 UPLOAD.INF Instructions for uploading to Garbo archives

Acceptance is not automatic.  The submissions may be reviewed first.
To get us going I am for the time being taking the liberty of making
the final acceptance choices.  Other arrangements may be made later
involving our library, and our specialists in these fields.  (I can
confidently cover myself only accounting, finance partially, and
operations research partially).

Only time will show whether and how well this will work, and whether
the fields selected are suitable, or will have to be narrowed or
broadened.

If you wish to see two present examples of such electronic papers
(even if they are in another directory since they happen to be my
own) take a look at

 17314 Nov 30 15:29 garbo.uwasa.fi:/pc/ts/tscmpacc.zip
 tscmpacc.zip Review of Finnish Expenditure-Revenue Accounting, a paper

 41741 Feb 8 1993 garbo.uwasa.fi:/pc/ts/tssera.zip
 tssera.zip On the Classification of Financial Ratios, research publication

   All the best, Timo

..................................................................
Prof. Timo Salmi      Co-moderator of comp.archives.msdos.announce
Moderating at garbo.uwasa.fi anonymous FTP  archives  128.214.87.1
Faculty of Accounting & Industrial Management; University of Vaasa
Internet: ts@uwasa.fi   BBS +(358)-61-3170972; FIN-65101,  Finland



From ts@uwasa.fi Mon Dec 20 20:42:11 1993
Subject: Re: An id question, and a program comment
To: brown@ncoast.org (Stan Brown)
Date: Mon, 20 Dec 1993 20:42:11 +0200 (EET)
In-Reply-To: <m0pBlma-0001CfC@ncoast.org> from "Stan Brown" at Dec 20, 93 09:40:23 am
X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL21]
Status: O

> Timo,

Hello Stan,

> I always type my email address at the password prompt when ftp-ing, but
> when I saw your note I suddenly wondered about the purpose of this.  Is
> anything actually done with the information thus collected?

The purpose is to be able to identify to user in case something goes
wrong.  Most commonly if someone uploads without emailing us a note,
and so on.  No statistics about individual users are gathered.
Rather you can consider this a kind of a safeguard, and of course a
kind of basic politeness of not entering anonymously, even if this
method is misleadingly called anonymous FTP.  (The term is very
unfortunate from this point of view.)

> Also, I must tell you how useful I have found CHOOSE.EXE, especially
> since I went back to DOS 5.0 after DOS 6.2 Memmaker locked up my machine
> and wrote garbage to my hard disk.  One small correction:  in the help
> message when I type "choose /?", the text refers to "MicroSoft".  The
> company name is "Microsoft" with a lower-case "s".

Thanks for the tip.  And I am pleased to hear that you liked my

 46394 Aug 15 06:30 garbo.uwasa.fi:/pc/ts/tsutlf13.zip
 tsutlf13.zip Timo's 6th utility set (advdate,choose,strings,strmemo)

> With best wishes for your holidays,

Thank you.  Likewise!

> Regards,

   All the best, Timo

> Stan Brown, Oak Road Systems, Cleveland Ohio USA
> brown@ncoast.org

..................................................................
Prof. Timo Salmi      Co-moderator of comp.archives.msdos.announce
Moderating at garbo.uwasa.fi anonymous FTP  archives  128.214.87.1
Faculty of Accounting & Industrial Management; University of Vaasa
Internet: ts@uwasa.fi   BBS +(358)-61-3170972; FIN-65101,  Finland



From ts@uwasa.fi Mon Dec 20 23:31:39 1993
Subject: Re: Weekly ftp statistics for Garbo
To: Raj.Mehta@UC.Edu (Raj Mehta)
Date: Mon, 20 Dec 1993 23:31:39 +0200 (EET)
In-Reply-To: <199312201921.OAA27389@ucunix.san.uc.edu> from "Raj Mehta" at Dec 20, 93 02:21:41 pm
X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL21]
Status: RO

> Timo:

Hello Raj,

> Thanks for the wonderful work you have been doing.  I am a big fan
> of yours.  I have a couple questions..wonder if you can help!

You are most welcome.  I am naturally pleased to hear this.

> 1) you post weekly ftp statistics for Garbo...are these archived
> some place? I was wondering if I could get these for say the last
> year (1993).  Any pointers?

Yes, they are stored in

 116553 Dec 13 09:06 garbo.uwasa.fi:/pc/filelist/ftplog93.zip
 ftplog93.zip Old ftp stats from Garbo from week 01 1993 ->

 51789 Jan 3 13:45 garbo.uwasa.fi:/pc/filelist/ftpts93.zip
 ftpts93.zip Downloads of Timo's files in 1993

> 2) you are starting a finance related archive why not include
> Marketing as well? I am willing to do what ever I can for you to get
> Marketing related papers archived!

That might come later, but we'll start one step at a time.  The
discipline of marking is at another faculty at our university.  I am
not very well versed in the current marking research, even though
the principles of reseach are rather universal.  All the disciplines
that we'll statr with (accounting, finance, operations reseach,
production economics, computer science) reside at the faculty where
I work (Faculty of Accounting and Industrial Management).  Let's
first see what develops out of that.  But I'll be pleased to bear
you kind offer in mind.

> raj

   All the best, Timo

> Raj Mehta  mehta@ucunix.san.uc.edu             University of Cincinnati
> Marketing Department                           Cincinnati, OH 45221-0145
> rajbm@cyberspace.com                           (513) 556-711

..................................................................
Prof. Timo Salmi      Co-moderator of comp.archives.msdos.announce
Moderating at garbo.uwasa.fi anonymous FTP  archives  128.214.87.1
Faculty of Accounting & Industrial Management; University of Vaasa
Internet: ts@uwasa.fi   BBS +(358)-61-3170972; FIN-65101,  Finland

From ts@uwasa.fi Mon Dec 27 09:15:23 EET 1993
Newsgroups: comp.archives.msdos.d
From: ts@uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi)
Subject: Re: Illogic of CD-ROM restrictions
Organization: University of Vaasa, Finland
Date: Mon, 27 Dec 1993 07:15:08 GMT
Status: RO

In article <1993Dec27.043839.13967@mks.com> richw@mks.com (Rich Wales) writes:
>David DeSimone wrote:
>       Telemate was removed from the Simtel-20 collection because
>       the author of Telemate does not want his program placed on
>       their CD ROM archive.  You can get Telemate from garbo ....

Yes, TeleMate indeed is still at Garbo, but only because we made a
rare exception at the author's own request.

>Hmmm.  Doesn't Walnut Creek CDROM put out CD-ROM's with the Garbo col-
>lection?  As well as the CICA (Windows) collection, for that matter?

Yes.  Garbo's dates far back, though.  :-(

>Are these archives going to have to start banning all packages that
>can't be freely included on CD-ROM's too, just like SimTel is doing?

Yes.

>Actually, I really question whether any sensible purpose is accomplished
>by a shareware author's banning his program from CD-ROM's.  If you con-

No sensible purpose is served :-(.  The authors are just hurting
themselves.  It is a bit like the distribution limitations that say
"no distribution allowed outside the US".  The reponsible sites
abide, but you can easily find such programs all over the world on
innumerable BBSes at the very least.  The Baker utilities that were
withdrawn from SimTel and Garbo are a poignant recent example.  I
sometimes quite seriously wonder if part of the authors live on the
same planet in our solar system as I do :-).  And I trust that I am
not being maintainer biased, since I am also a program author
myself.

>sider the enormity of a collection like SimTel, Garbo, or CICA, it seems
>utterly ludicrous to me to suggest that a CD-ROM publisher is making any
>money from distributing any one particular software item on the disc.

The way I see this is that the authors should divide the price of
the CR-ROM by the number of programs on it before considering these
highly conterproductive distrubution limitations of theirs.  The
current trend is very unfortunate and harmful.  :-(

   All the best, Timo

..................................................................
Prof. Timo Salmi      Co-moderator of comp.archives.msdos.announce
Moderating at garbo.uwasa.fi anonymous FTP  archives  128.214.87.1
Faculty of Accounting & Industrial Management; University of Vaasa
Internet: ts@uwasa.fi   BBS +(358)-61-3170972; FIN-65101,  Finland


From ts@uwasa.fi Fri Dec 31 20:58:45 1993
Subject: Re: Comments on your Games
To: kmw@cs.weber.edu (Kathleen M. Williams)
Date: Fri, 31 Dec 1993 20:58:45 +0200 (EET)
In-Reply-To: <9312302211.AA25934@cs.weber.edu> from "Kathleen M. Williams" at Dec 30, 93 03:11:36 pm
X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL21]
Status: O

>Timo,

Hello Kathleen,

This is very nice feedback.  Thank you.  I'll take the liberty of
copying this reply in full to the garbo.uwasa.fi:/pc/pd2/post18.zip
feedback file.

>My five and six year old children are enjoying your Flaggame as well
>as their 32 year old parents.  Our copy was obtained from the Simtel
>mirror at oak.  I have a suggestion that might help make this game

I am very pleased to hear that you liked my flag games from
tsgmed12.zip.  Among the games I have written they definitely are my
own favorites.

>even more appealing to children.  It would be great to add something
>that played the national anthem of the country whose flag was matched
>last.  I'm sure this would require a great deal of research and
>programming, but I think it would benefit all players of the game to
>learn or hear music from other countries.  My husband Todd (a computer
>programmer) said that he would be willing to help too if you would like.

This is too big a task, especially since there already is a very
nice commercial program that does exactly that.  It is called
PC-Globe as far as I recall.  But thanks for the idea.

>For us older children who play Flagquiz it would be nice to have
>it show the flag of the country that was selected in error.  For
>example, if the game shows the flag for Qatar and the player chooses
>Bahrain, it says "Wrong it was Qatar."  It could then add, "This is
>Bahrain" and show the flag for Bahrain.

This one I'll have to keep in mind.

>I like your version of Hangman except for one problem.  When I type
>a letter that is in a word more than one time it only shows the
>letter appearing in the word once.  For example, if the word was
>"cannon" and I selected the letter "n" it would only appear once
>after the letter "a".  This is confusing because this is not how I
>learned to play this game.  You might want to make this an option
>or mention how your version works detailed in the instructions.

You are right.  Since this is quite deliberate from my part in
tsgmee10.zip, I should say it more clearly in the documentation.

>Overall, we are enjoying the games you've written very much.  I'm
>glad someone is writing some different games.  I really like the
>addition of a time limit in hangman, it makes it more challenging.

I have tested many of my games under actual circumstances, that is
on the children of my own relatives and my dear wife's relatives and
acquaintances.  (We do not have children of our own).  I soon noted
that unless there is a time limit, a quarrel will develop about
someone taking too long to ponder.  Many of the little features on
my games result from such real-life testing.

>Thanks for the Flag Games it has helped us learn about other
>countries as well as appreciate the uniqueness of some of the
>countries' flags.  So many of them seem to be a "variation on a
>theme."

You are right, also from a programming point of view.  That made
drawing the hundred flags a somehow manageable task.  It was fun.
though.  I like programming games, even if I don't play myself (save
for debugging purposes).

>Kathleen Williams       kmw@cs.weber.edu

   All the best, Timo

..................................................................
Prof. Timo Salmi      Co-moderator of comp.archives.msdos.announce
Moderating at garbo.uwasa.fi anonymous FTP  archives  128.214.87.1
Faculty of Accounting & Industrial Management; University of Vaasa
Internet: ts@uwasa.fi   BBS +(358)-61-3170972; FIN-65101,  Finland


From ts@uwasa.fi Sat Jan  1 11:16:38 EET 1994
Article: 5283 of comp.archives.msdos.d
Newsgroups: comp.archives.msdos.d
From: ts@uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi)
Subject: About Garbo's resources (was Re: Illogic of CD-ROM restrictions)
Organization: University of Vaasa, Finland
Date: Sat, 1 Jan 1994 08:19:13 GMT
Lines: 46
Status: RO

In article <9401010316.AA5832@SimTel.Coast.NET> w8sdz@SimTel.Coast.NET
(Keith Petersen) writes:
>>In article <2fvf4t$mfu@umcc.umcc.umich.edu>, adamsr@umcc.umcc.umich.edu
>>(Rick Adams) writes:
>>> DOS based telecomcations program available--shareware OR commercial) even
>>> after the author has given in to their demands tends to send a message about
>>> the nature of the new $IMTEL that is not terribly flattering.
:
>know of a better way I'm open to suggestions.  You have free access to
>the collection via the Internet now - would you rather pay for it?

Let's face similar facts of life also for Garbo.  Its operations may
seem free to some on the net, but I can assure you they are not.
Besides the voluteer work I put in out of my own interests to gain
us some international recognition, we have to fund the rest of the
maintenance (and in a way mine too, since the University of Vaasa
pays my salary for my main teaching and research job).  We have to
justify these expenses at our university and/or find additional ways
of funding.  We have not considered the CR-ROM idea for Garbo (maybe
we should!), but we have put an annual fee of about $10 to our BBS
users.  With all the Finnish government cutbacks on education we
have the take the finding very seriously.  We have to look at these
things very seriously, indeed.

Another avenue of justifying the expense, is concentrating on the
scientific side of things.  Therefore I hope that the new
/pc/research directory I put up for electronic scientific papers
will catch on.  It is very important.  As you might recall, you can
submit in the fields of Accounting, Finance, Operations Research,
Production Economics, and Computer Science.  Although it is much
more down to earth, our /pc/turbopas directory has this angle a bit
in mind, being about programming.

I repeat that I am not rooting for the commercial utilization of
InterNet, but pointing out that what many of the users so easily
consider free goods are not free underneath at all.  No, not even by
a long shot.  It is just that someone else carries YOUR tabs!
Please do not become overly pampered :-).

   All the best, Timo

..................................................................
Prof. Timo Salmi      Co-moderator of comp.archives.msdos.announce
Moderating at garbo.uwasa.fi anonymous FTP  archives  128.214.87.1
Faculty of Accounting & Industrial Management; University of Vaasa
Internet: ts@uwasa.fi   BBS +(358)-61-3170972; FIN-65101,  Finland



From ts@uwasa.fi Wed Jan  5 22:46:59 1994
Subject: Re: Your BBS
To: marcusj@apricot.co.uk (Marcus Jenkins)
Date: Wed, 5 Jan 1994 22:46:59 +0200 (EET)
X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL21]
Status: RO

> Dear Timo.

Hello Marcus,

> I have perused the output of 'send help' from the mailserver at garbo,
> but I can't seem to see the answer to this question...

Yes, you are right.

> I notice in your .sig that Garbo has a BBS on +358 61 3170972.  Is this
> for anybody's use?  If so, what logon should I use?

The logon is 'bbs'.

We are in the process of planning our BBS operations, but it seems
that we will be concentrating on the domestic users in our BBS
activities.  In fact, as far as I know, the users' applications from
abroad have been frozen for full privileges.  Garbo MsDos archives
is a global operation, but the BBS will be more local in nature
because of its goals as a local information channel and as our CS
students' teaching device.  Put you can still try the BBS.

The BBS operations at the University of Vaasa are complementary to
Garbo.  They will not affect Garbo's operations, or diminish our
interests in her.

> Thanks in advance.

All the best, Timo

>  _ _ _                         ___
> ' ) ) )                       (   >          /
>  / / / __.  __  _. . . _       __/_/> ____  /_  o ____  _
> / ' (_(_/|_/ (_(__(_/_/_)_    / / (__/ / <_/ <_<_/ / <_/_)_
> Marcus Jenkins               <_/
> Internet: marcusj@apricot.co.uk               | Apricot Computers Limited
> UUCP:     marcusj@apricot.uucp                | Research and Development
> Tel: +44 21 472 3002  Fax: +44 21 471 2935    | 90, Vincent Drive
> If all else fails from US, try:               | Edgbaston
>           uunet!uknet!apricot!marcusj         | Birmingham.  B15 2SP  U.K.

..................................................................
Prof. Timo Salmi      Co-moderator of comp.archives.msdos.announce
Moderating at garbo.uwasa.fi anonymous FTP  archives  128.214.87.1
Faculty of Accounting & Industrial Management; University of Vaasa
Internet: ts@uwasa.fi   BBS +(358)-61-3170972; FIN-65101,  Finland



From D.M.Pickles@bristol.ac.uk  Thu Jan  6 18:36:01 1994
From: David Pickles <D.M.Pickles@bristol.ac.uk>
Date: Thu, 6 Jan 94 16:35:45 GMT
To: ts@uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi)
Subject: Re: Re-boot from a batch file?
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
Status: RO

In article <1994Jan6.155317.8760@uwasa.fi> on Thu, 6 Jan 1994 15:53:17 GMT you wrote:
> In article <CJ7K8F.57w@info.bris.ac.uk> D.M.Pickles@bristol.ac.uk writes:
> >Surely there must be a way of including the reboot instruction in the
> >batch file, so that this is done automatically?  Could anyone enlighten me?

> garbo.uwasa.fi:/pc/ts/tsutld21.zip Fourth set of Utilities, T.Salmi
[snip]
> WARMBOOT.EXE    Reboot with/without memory tests  08-02-93  09:17:28 <------

Excellent... many thanks!  Garbo, here I come!
David

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------------------------------------------------------------------------------


From Wolfgang.Hackl@uibk.ac.at  Sat Jan  8 13:35:30 1994
From: "Wolfgang Hackl" <Wolfgang.Hackl@uibk.ac.at>
Organization:  University of Innsbruck, Austria
To: ts@uwasa.fi
Date: Sat, 8 Jan 1994 12:34:58 +0100
Subject: isdirfn in Timo's TP FAQs
X-Mailer: PMail v3.0 (R1a)
Status: RO

Dear Timo!

I have read a little bit in Your compiled FAQ. IMO it's a very good
list. Following Your advice I tried also Your units for real
programmers ;-). But I'm not satisfied with the solution(s) of
ISDIRFN.

My observations are the following:
 - On floppies and harddisks all devices can be found in
   any subdirectory which exists.
 - On a network you will find all devices in any subdir, regardless
   whether it exists or not! (I'm working with a Novell network)
 - On a CD-ROM you will find none of them!

Maybe there are differences between different drivers. So I tried a
completely other way. I included to this mail a testprogram and a
report which I compiled from the Output from the program.

Unfortunately I had no opportunity to test my program on DR-DOS.

All the best, Wolfgang

{-------start of the program-------------------------------------}
Program ISDIR;

uses tsuntj;

{not working: networknames e.g. EDVZ/SYS:\TMP}
{In this case you would get C: mapped to EDVZ/SYS: !!!
 (=> map del c: corrects the problem)}

{isdir3fn is very stack intensive and long running on our server!}

function ISDIR4FN(name:String):Boolean;
var i:Byte;
    dummy:integer;
    storeActualSubdir,storeScanSubdir:String; {saving unit Dos}
  {C:\TMP>isdir H:\TMP =>nothing should change at drive C: AND H:}
begin
  if (Pos(':',name)<>0) and (Pos(':',name)<>2) then
    begin
      isdir4fn:=false; {don't know how to handle networknames}
      exit;
    end;
  if length(name)<2 then name[2]:=#0;
  for i:=1 to length(name) do
    if name[i]='/' then name[i]:='\';  {for Unix freaks}
  GetDir(0,storeActualSubdir);
  if name[2]=':' then
    begin
      if not (UpCase(name[1]) in ['A'..']']) then
        begin  {drive ']' is possible if 'C'..'Z' are partitions on
                the harddisk and using a network}
          isdir4fn:=false;
          exit;
        end;
      GetDir(Ord(UpCase(name[1]))-Ord('A')+1,storeScanSubdir)
    end
   else storeScanSubdir:=storeActualSubdir;
  While Pos('\\',name)<>0 do Delete(name,Pos('\\',name),1);
  if (name[length(name)]='\') and not
     ( (name='\') or ( (length(name)=3) and (Copy(name,2,2)=':\') ) )
     then delete(name,length(name),1);  {delete last '\' if not root}
  {$I-}
  chDir(name); {no '\' allowed at the end, if not rootdir}
  {$I+}
  if (IOResult<>0) then isdir4fn:=false
                   else isdir4fn:=true;
  {$I-}  {because C:\>isdir J:\ (non existing drive)}
  chDir(storeScanSubDir);
  {$I+}
  dummy:=IOResult; {necessary!}
  if storeScanSubDir<>storeActualSubDir then chDir(storeActualSubDir);
end;


begin
  if ParamCount<1 then
    begin
      Writeln('USAGE: ISDIR <name>');
      Halt(0);
    end;
  Write('''',ParamStr(1),'''');
  Write(' ',isdirfn(ParamStr(1)));
  Write(' ',isdir2fn(ParamStr(1)));
  Write(' ',isdir3fn(ParamStr(1))); {got a stack overflow when using}
  Writeln(' ',isdir4fn(ParamStr(1)));{just one Writeln statement}
end.
{------------end of the program-------------------------------------}



Report about ISDIR:
===================

Existing drives:       existing subdirectories

A: floppy              \TMP     (no differences to harddisk found)
C: harddisk            \TMP
D: CD-ROM              \ACCENT
H: Novell Network      \TMP

I also couldn't find any differences between a harddisk drive and a
drive generated with SUBST, JOIN or ASSIGN.

All Tests have been running on MS-DOS 5.0

example: "C:\>isdir h:\" creates the output:
         "'h:\' FALSE TRUE TRUE TRUE"

Sequence: ISDIRFN ISDIR2FN ISDIR3FN ISDIR4FN
          (by Timo Salmi          ) (by Wolfgang Hackl)

therefore I write: "FTTT T C:\ H:\"
                         |  |   |- parameter for isdir
                         |  |- prompt
                         |- this would be the correct answer (IMO)

Some (partly crazy) tests following:

FFFF F H:\TMP steady.doc (closed file)
FTFF F H:\TMP steady.doc (open file)

TTTT T C:\        \
FFTT T D:\        \
FTTT T H:\        \

TTTT T no matter  C:\
FFTT T no matter  D:\
FTTT T no matter  H:\

FFTF F C:\        ..
FFTF F D:\        ..
FTTF F H:\        ..

TTTT T C:\        .
FFTT T D:\        .
FTTT T H:\        .

TTTT T C:\TMP     ..
FFTT T D:\ACCENT  ..
FTTT T H:\TMP     ..

TTTT T C:\TMP     .
TFTT T D:\ACCENT  .
FTTT T H:\TMP     .


FFTF F no matter  J:\

FFFF F C:\        krzfhk  (non existing subdir)
FFFF F D:\        krzfhk  (non existing subdir)
FTFF F H:\        krzfhk  (non existing subdir)

FTTT * no matter  C:
FTTT * no matter  D:
FTTT * no matter  H:

* I'm not sure, what do You think is correct? Someone could claim
  that 'C:' is a drive rather than a subdirectory.

TTTT T no matter  C:\TMP
TFTT T no matter  D:\ACCENT
FTTT T no matter  H:\TMP

TTTT T no matter  C:\TMP\
TFTT T no matter  D:\ACCENT\
FTTT T no matter  H:\TMP\

TFFT T C:\        \\
TFFT T no matter  C:\\
FTFT T no matter  C:\TMP\\
TTFT T no matter  C:/
TFFT T no matter  C://TMP
FFTF F no matter  #:\
FTFF * no matter  EDVZ/SYS:  (servername=EDVZ, volumename=SYS;
                              drive H: is mapped to EDVZ/SYS:)
FTFF F no matter  EDVZ/SYS:\QWERTZ (non existing subdir)
FTFF T no matter  EDVZ/SYS:\TMP

End of the mail.




From ts@uwasa.fi Sat Jan  8 23:57:31 EET 1994
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions,comp.archives.msdos.d,comp.binaries.ibm.pc.wanted
From: ts@uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi)
Subject: Re: Shareware Reviews
Followup-To: news.newusers.questions
Organization: University of Vaasa, Finland
Date: Sat, 8 Jan 1994 21:19:31 GMT
Status: RO

In article <2gmqmk$cgh@eis.calstate.edu> stweiss@eis.calstate.edu
(Steve Weiss) writes:
(in news.newusers.questions so also the followups directed there)
>Having just learned how to access Shareware programsw thru FTP, I am
>amazed by the amount of programs and would like to be able to separate
>the wheat from the chaff. Are there reviews and/or descriptions anywhere
>on the net so that I can pick out the programs that are worthwhile to me?

It is perfectly ok to ask in news.newsusers.questions, but I am
positive that you would and will find the dedicated newsgroups
comp.binaries.ibm.pc.wanted and comp.archives.msdos.d even more
useful for such subjects (if you mean MsDos shareware).

The answer to your question is yes.  Here is a set of pointers

 9322 Dec 24 15:12 garbo.uwasa.fi:/pc/pd2/bestpr28.zip
 bestpr28.zip Timo's choice of 28 best MsDos SW and PD packages

 27699 Dec 27 08:58 garbo.uwasa.fi:/pc/filelist/usefu32a.zip
 usefu32a.zip The Most Useful PC Programs at SimTel and Garbo, S.Ko

 55904 Nov 23 08:32 garbo.uwasa.fi:/pc/pd2/rev01w20.zip
 rev01w20.zip Users' MsDos program reviews from the UseNet news, Vol.1

 18995 Jan 8 16:45 garbo.uwasa.fi:/pc/pd2/rev02w07.zip
 rev02w07.zip Users' MsDos program reviews from the UseNet news, Vol.2

 1418 Jan 7 12:41 garbo.uwasa.fi:/pc/pd2/news-pd2
 news-pd2 News about the uploads in the /pc (the MsDos) directories

 36278 Jan 1 03:37 garbo.uwasa.fi:/pc/pd2/news93b.pd2
 news93b.pd2 News about files in /pc directories, 1-Jul to 31-Dec-93

etc, etc

Naturally, also see file indexes like
 garbo.uwasa.fi:/pc/INDEX.ZIP
 garbo.uwasa.fi:/pc/INDEXTS.ZIP
 garbo.uwasa.fi:/windows/WINDEX.ZIP
 OAK.Oakland.Edu:/pub/msdos/filedocs/simlist.zip

   All the best, Timo

..................................................................
Prof. Timo Salmi      Co-moderator of comp.archives.msdos.announce
Moderating at garbo.uwasa.fi anonymous FTP  archives  128.214.87.1
Faculty of Accounting & Industrial Management; University of Vaasa
Internet: ts@uwasa.fi   BBS +(358)-61-3170972; FIN-65101,  Finland


From ts@uwasa.fi Mon Jan 10 09:16:38 1994
Subject: Re: Permission denied for mpoly55a.zip
To: kfmak@cs.cuhk.hk (Mak Kei Fu)
Date: Mon, 10 Jan 1994 09:16:38 +0200 (EET)
Status: RO

> Dear Salmi,
>
> I have problem in ftp the garbo archive /pc/educgames/mpoly55a.zip
> The error message returned is "Permission denied".  The reason seems to
> be incorrect protection on that file.  The following is my ftp log in
> downloading mpoly55a.zip,

(The log deleted)

> Could you fix the problem for us ?  Thank you in advance !
>
> - Mike Mak

Hello Mike,

I am afraid the freeze is deliberate.  There are problems with
ascertaining the mpoly55a.zip copyright status, and it seems I may
have to withdraw the file altogether.  Sorry.

   All the best, Timo

..................................................................
Prof. Timo Salmi      Co-moderator of comp.archives.msdos.announce
Moderating at garbo.uwasa.fi anonymous FTP  archives  128.214.87.1
Faculty of Accounting & Industrial Management; University of Vaasa
Internet: ts@uwasa.fi   BBS +(358)-61-3170972; FIN-65101,  Finland



From ts@uwasa.fi Mon Jan 17 20:21:49 1994
Subject: Garbo's download figures for 1993
To: msdos-ann@TACOM-EMH1.Army.Mil (Combined SimTel & Garbo announcements)
Date: Mon, 17 Jan 1994 20:21:49 +0200 (EET)
Cc: reijo.kallio@uwasa.fi (Reijo Kallio)
X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL21]
Status: RO

Garbo's download figures for 1993
Courtesy of Reijo Kallio, reijo.kallio@uwasa.fi

         Number of calls   Files downloaded
January            68649           354461
February           60414           306448
March              72359           412323
April              45172           261903
May                67549           338157
June               54821           258284
July               57674           282901
August             57179           267562
September          80713           395161
October           100523           493211
November           96871           480577
December           81840           381533

Total:            843764          4232521
                                  =======

   All the best, Timo

..................................................................
Prof. Timo Salmi      Co-moderator of comp.archives.msdos.announce
Moderating at garbo.uwasa.fi anonymous FTP  archives  128.214.87.1
Faculty of Accounting & Industrial Management; University of Vaasa
Internet: ts@uwasa.fi   BBS +(358)-61-3170972; FIN-65101,  Finland



From ts@uwasa.fi Tue Jan 18 04:03:44 1994
Subject: Re: Need expert after search failed
To: rickc@crl.com (Richard P. Contestabile)
Date: Tue, 18 Jan 1994 04:03:44 +0200 (EET)
Cc: w8sdz@TACOM-EMH1.Army.Mil (Keith Petersen), ajh@uwasa.fi (Ari Hovila)
In-Reply-To: <199401172207.AA07814@crl.crl.com> from "Richard P. Contestabile" at Jan 17, 94 02:07:37 pm
X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL21]
Status: RO

>
> Hello - I've exhausted searches for PD/Shareware Class 1 fax modem software.
> Now it is time for expert assistance, so here's the request. Any and all of
> the suggestions you can offer are appreciated. Thank you. Rick
>

I am afraid that grepping the Garbo MsDos and Windows indexes
(/pc/INDEX.ZIP and /windows/WINDEX.ZIP) does not look very
promising.  Here is the result.

mod1.zip        Delrina's (Winfax Pro) beta release of mod.exe V.32bis
wfx304.zip      Winfax Pro 3.0 -> 3.04 update

jvfax50.zip     JVFAX v5.0 program for reception of faxes
fax.lzh         E-mail to fax
rcvfax.zip      Source code (C) for receiving fax with ZyXEL U-1496

   All the best, Timo

..................................................................
Prof. Timo Salmi      Co-moderator of comp.archives.msdos.announce
Moderating at garbo.uwasa.fi anonymous FTP  archives  128.214.87.1
Faculty of Accounting & Industrial Management; University of Vaasa
Internet: ts@uwasa.fi   BBS +(358)-61-3170972; FIN-65101,  Finland

From tec_casa@geronimo.chi.itesm.mx  Wed Jan 19 06:11:11 1994
Date: Tue, 18 Jan 94 22:10:53 PST
From: tec_casa@geronimo.chi.itesm.mx (Tec en tu Casa)
Message-Id: <9401190610.AA01362@geronimo>
To: ts@uwasa.fi
Subject: Timo's TP units
Status: RO

Dear Prof. Salmi :

I'm a programmer and most of the time that i'm using TP (in any
_flavor..) i use some of the *REALLY* good units that in time you'd
created, i fell in love with those /pc/ts/tspa3370.zip units since i
was in the University, so up to this time when- ever i can i use
those units.

Thanks for the GREAT work .

Your Friend.

Leo Medellin
Chihuahua, Chih. Mexico


From ts@uwasa.fi Thu Jan 20 23:36:05 1994
Subject: Re: /windows/games at Garbo
To: ljensen@plains.NoDak.edu (Lars Jensen)
Date: Thu, 20 Jan 1994 23:36:05 +0200 (EET)
X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL21]
Status: RO

> Dear Timo,

Hello Dear Garbo User,

> Where can I find some of the top downloads from garbo, such as winpool3.zip
> and watorw.zip. The windows/games subdir appear to be discontinued at
> garbo. Are there other sites where these games can be found?

The best known games site is ftp.uml.edu, but I do now know if these
files are there.

Yes, indeed, we have discontinued our /windows/games directory and
created a /windows/educgames directory for the future.  The reason
is that there was a number of games in the old directory which are
not in line with Garbo's policy of not carrying purely recreational
games.  Being a university site, we have decided that the games we
are prepared to consider must have an educational aspect.

Selecting the suitable material for /windows/educgames will take
awhile.

> Thanks for your help,
>                                       -Lars

   All the best, Timo

..................................................................
Prof. Timo Salmi      Co-moderator of comp.archives.msdos.announce
Moderating at garbo.uwasa.fi anonymous FTP  archives  128.214.87.1
Faculty of Accounting & Industrial Management; University of Vaasa
Internet: ts@uwasa.fi   BBS +(358)-61-3170972; FIN-65101,  Finland


From ts@uwasa.fi Fri Jan 21 19:53:17 1994
Subject: Re: anonymous ftp and passwords
To: r3dvb@dax.cc.uakron.edu (Don Benson)
Date: Fri, 21 Jan 1994 19:53:17 +0200 (EET)
X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL21]
Status: RO

> I recently logged onto garbo.uwasa.fi and noticed your messages about
> using "anonymous" as the login and using the full email address for the
> password.  I have been in the habit of using a popular shortcut.
> Specifically, I use "ftp" as the login and just type in "r3dvb@" as my
> password, leaving off the site information.  It's been my understanding
> that you would know my site if there were a problem with my access.
>
> Is this still an acceptable way to log in, or do I really need to send
> my full email address (including site information) and use the anonymous
> login in place of ftp?

Dear Garbo User,

It is perfectly all right to use only the first part of your email
address at Garbo as the password because the FTP program we use can
easily augment the rest.  Like I would use ts@ instead of
ts@uwasa.fi.

But there is a recent problem that does not concern you.  Some users
have begun to put in random / fictitious email addresses probably
out of simple laziness.  Something like hjhkjjkh or hjkhkj@@jhjkhkj.
This practice is not acceptable, and we will not allow that.

Another common error is that some of the users have taken our ftp
program's instructions too seriously and use joe@ as their password.
They are confusing what is just an example with what they should
use.  Of course someone could really have a userid joe@, but it is
hardly THAT common :-).

Since this should be of general interest, I'll post a copy of this
to the news.

   All the best, Timo

..................................................................
Prof. Timo Salmi      Co-moderator of comp.archives.msdos.announce
Moderating at garbo.uwasa.fi anonymous FTP  archives  128.214.87.1
Faculty of Accounting & Industrial Management; University of Vaasa
Internet: ts@uwasa.fi   BBS +(358)-61-3170972; FIN-65101,  Finland



From @jess.ccc.nottingham.ac.uk:uazgp@vme.ccc.nottingham.ac.uk  Mon Jan 24 18:38:14 1994
X400-Originator: uazgp%vme.ccc.nottingham.ac.uk@jess.ccc.nottingham.ac.uk
From: "Glenis Pickering" <uazgp@vme.ccc.nottingham.ac.uk>
Sender: uazgp@vme.ccc.nottingham.ac.uk
Message-Id: <uazgp.13.001088B4@vme.nott.ac.uk>
To: " (Timo Salmi)" <ts@uwasa.fi>
Subject: Fan mail
Status: RO

(Timo's comment.  I am fortunate to have gotten some fan mail in my
time but I am so tickled to this particularly nice one that I cannot
help the temptation of including it into the Garbo collections.)

In article <2hqi9p$2np@zippo.uwasa.fi> ts@uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi) said:
>> [stuff deleted]

Sir,
   As a comparatively new UseNet Newser, can I just take this chance to
clutter up your mailbox ?
   I have 'seen' you on several of the Groups I have subscribed to
since last November (when I first discovered the delights {!} of
UseNet News) and I have always found your comments helpful, useful
and very gentle - even when trying not to tell someone they're a bit
of an idiot.  By reading your posts I have been rescued from making
a fool of myself publicly, and have often exclaimed "hear hear" or
"Well said Timo" - I for one value your posts and though there ARE
those on the Net who seem to exist only to flame others and/or take
exception, I'd like to offer this small bucket of water in case you
do get accused of being too assertive.
   There you are; fan mail.  Probably misuse of bandwidth, but I'm
not (I HOPE!) posting this - just replying to you.

Yours
Glenis Pickering
Systems Librarian,
University of Nottingham     NG7 2RD (U.K)

-Date: Sat, 3 Sep 1994 00:51:17 -0400
-From: mbrown@world.std.com (Marion D Brown)
-To: ts@uwasa.fi
-Subject: Thank you....

Just a quick note to tell you how much I appreciate your grace and style.
I've been reading your kind words for over a year now and like many others
on the net I feel like I know you.  Your unfailing patience sets an example
for me - thank you for the care you take.  Please consider me a fan.

Marion Brown
mbrown@world.std.com



From zippo.uwasa.fi!chyde.uwasa.fi!not-for-mail Wed Jan 26 22:24:01 EET 1994
From: ts@uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi)
Newsgroups: comp.archives.msdos.d
Subject: Re: program to check NumLock status?
Date: Wed, 26 Jan 1994 20:20:27 GMT
Organization: University of Vaasa, Finland
Lines: 28
Status: RO

> Hello Prof. Salmi,
>
> Let me first say that I enjoy your collection of MSDOS batch file
> tricks and tips; I've been busy writing batch files for almost
> everything.

I am very pleased to hear this.

> And this brings me to my next question... I need to one of my batch
> files to be able to test whether the ScrollLock is on or off.
> I had spotted your NUMLOCK.EXE in TSTSR17.ZIP and thought I could use
> that instead, but it doesn't do what I need either.

Take a look at CAPS.EXE "Get/set keyboard toggles" in

 84355 Aug 15 06:35 garbo.uwasa.fi:/pc/ts/tsutld21.zip
 tsutld21.zip Timo's 4th utility set (bigcurs,keyrate,caps,today,warmboot,...)

That's what I have.  Wheather it will work the way you wish I cant
say outright.  You'll have to check it out.

   All the best, Timo

..................................................................
Prof. Timo Salmi      Co-moderator of comp.archives.msdos.announce
Moderating at garbo.uwasa.fi anonymous FTP  archives  128.214.87.1
Faculty of Accounting & Industrial Management; University of Vaasa
Internet: ts@uwasa.fi   BBS +(358)-61-3170972; FIN-65101,  Finland


From ajh@uwasa.fi  Fri Jan 28 10:25:14 1994
From: ajh@uwasa.fi (Ari Hovila)
Subject: Re: Where is /CDROM ?
To: DanielM@teesside.ac.uk (D.Morris)
Date: Fri, 28 Jan 1994 10:25:13 +0200 (EET)
Cc: ts@uwasa.if (Timo Salmi)
X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL21]
Status: RO

> > archie.doc.ic.ac.uk> find zipfix
> > # Search type: sub.
> > # Your queue position: 1
> > # Estimated time for completion: 00:01
> > working... -
> >
> > Host garbo.uwasa.fi    (128.214.87.1)
> > Last updated 13:29 25 Jan 1994
> >
> >     Location: /CDROM/simtel
> >       FILE    -r--r--r--    9224 bytes  01:00 28 May 1992  pkzipfix.exe

The CDROM directory was removed just a short while ago.  But the
direcotries did not contain the actuel CD-ROM files, only indexes of
those particular CDs.

The archie service has probably not yet been updated in this
respect.

Regards,

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Ari Hovila, ajh@uwasa.fi
Moderating at garbo.uwasa.fi anonymous FTP archives 128.214.87.1
Computer Centre, University of Vaasa, Box 700, FIN-65101 Finland



From ajh@uwasa.fi  Fri Jan 28 11:01:36 1994
From: ajh@uwasa.fi (Ari Hovila)
Subject: Re: Garbo and 3 minutes' restriction
To: Zilch@aurora.equinox.gen.nz (Michael Brown)
Date: Fri, 28 Jan 1994 11:01:36 +0200 (EET)
Cc: ts@uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi)
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>
> > Can you tell me why I get my local BBS dropping carrier on me when I
> > use it to FTP to Garbo?  Someone told me something about a 3 minute
> > time limit for anonymous longins, but that doesn't seem to make much

The 3 minute limit means, that the connection is closed after 3 minutes
of idle time (i.e. if you do not issue any commands in three minutes).

................................................................
Ari Hovila, ajh@uwasa.fi
Moderating at garbo.uwasa.fi anonymous FTP archives 128.214.87.1
Computer Centre, University of Vaasa, Box 700, FIN-65101 Finland



From ts@uwasa.fi Mon Jan 31 21:31:03 1994
Subject: Re: Flag Programs
To: netwrk!afas02.magec.com!deangl@uunet.UU.NET (Dale Anglin)
Date: Mon, 31 Jan 1994 21:31:03 +0200 (EET)
In-Reply-To: <9401311820.AA27884@afas02.AFAS> from "Dale Anglin" at Jan 31, 94 01:20:03 pm
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> Timo,

Hello Dale, I am pleased to hear that you like

 82909 May 21 1992 garbo.uwasa.fi:/pc/ts/tsgmed12.zip
 tsgmed12.zip Learn national flags as educational games (good).

>       We like the flaggame and flagquiz programs.  Is there a way to have
> the programs operate on an alternate set of flags (e.g. US state flag)???

Sorry, no.  Two reasons.  I don't have the flags, and even if I had
it would involve too much additional work.

> Thanks,

All the best, Timo

> Dale Anglin  :-)         |  Maganavox Electronic Systems Co
> deangl@afas02.magec.com  |  1010 Production Rd, MS10-37
> (219) 429-5677           |  Ft Wayne, IN, USA, 46808



From ts@uwasa.fi Wed Feb  2 05:31:59 1994
Subject: Re: LOGFILT.EXE problem
To: medik@attme.att.com
Date: Wed, 2 Feb 1994 05:31:59 +0200 (EET)
In-Reply-To: <9401311046.AA28001@uwasa.fi> from "medik@attme.att.com" at Jan 31, 94 05:41:28 am
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(Epilogue, consequently corrected).

> Timo,

Hello Dave,

>       I tried using the LOGFILT.EXE command to get rid of backspaces
> but if the file has backspaces,then LOGFILT complains and tells me that
> the file is not a text file.  What am I doing wrong?

Thanks for the feedback about my program in /pc/ts/tsfltb16.zip. To
me it seems like your file would be a binary file, that is without
the ascii 13/10 eolns (end of lines). LOGFILE is for text files
only.

But if the offending file indeed is a text file, could you please
put it file into a zip file and email it to me uuencoded, and also
tell exactly what was the command that caused the error.  I'll have
to be able to reproduce the errors here in order to look into them.

> Thanks,

   All the best, Timo

>       Dave Kapalko
>       medik@attme.att.com

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Prof. Timo Salmi      Co-moderator of comp.archives.msdos.announce
Moderating at garbo.uwasa.fi anonymous FTP  archives  128.214.87.1
Faculty of Accounting & Industrial Management; University of Vaasa
Internet: ts@uwasa.fi   BBS +(358)-61-3170972; FIN-65101,  Finland



From ts@uwasa.fi Thu Feb  3 21:45:46 1994
Subject: Re: PUSHDIRE.BAT & POPDIRE.BAT
To: kfagans@nyx.cs.du.edu (Kenn R. Fagans)
Date: Thu, 3 Feb 1994 21:45:46 +0200 (EET)
In-Reply-To: <9402031613.AA15052@nyx.cs.du.edu> from "Kenn R. Fagans" at Feb 3, 94 09:13:08 am
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>I have just started using these two batch files.  I must say it took several
>hours for me to get a handle on how they work (it was a very frustrating, but
>very educational experience --- Thanks!)

I am not surprised, Kenn.  MsDos batch programming is quite tricky
and that is one of the reasons that has given me the incentive to
write my collection

 98894 Jan 15 08:42 garbo.uwasa.fi:/pc/ts/tsbat44.zip
 tsbat44.zip A collection of useful batch files and tricks.

Many of the tricks used in the collection are quite complicated.
They demonstrate that if one manages t9o find out the "how-to",
quite complicated tasks can be achieved with MsDos commands only.

>One question, the delete tracking capacity of msdos 6.0 and 6.2 seems to
>increase fragmentation of my drives.  I guess the FAT or something keeps
>track of the unused, deleted and used clusters and uses unused ones before
>deleted ones (increasing your chance of "undelete"ing a file).  Using

That is quite possible.  I must say that I am not very keen on
version 6, and prefer to stay at 5.0 which I consider the most
convenient of the MsDos versions.

>Pushdire creates a number of temporary files on the current drive & deletes
>them.  Would mind giving me some idea of how to direct Pushdire & Popdire
>to a ramdrive to minimize fragmentation of my hard drives?
>
>All of my configurations that have a ramdrive use H:\.  I will include a
>test for H:\ in the beginning of my batch.

That should be fairly simple.  The batches create files where the
redirection > or >> is used.  Put H:\ in front of those file names.

Incidentally, I use several PCs.  To have my own batches general
across the different individual PCs I always call my ramdisk R.
That is fairl|y easi to achieve my an appropriate substitute command
like subst r: h:\

>Thanks Much,

   All the best, Timo

>Kenn R. Fagans

..................................................................
Prof. Timo Salmi      Co-moderator of comp.archives.msdos.announce
Moderating at garbo.uwasa.fi anonymous FTP  archives  128.214.87.1
Faculty of Accounting & Industrial Management; University of Vaasa
Internet: ts@uwasa.fi   BBS +(358)-61-3170972; FIN-65101,  Finland


-Date: Thu, 3 Feb 94 14:04:00 -0700
-From: kenn.fagans@ssbbs.org (Kenn Fagans)
-To: ts@uwasa.fi
-Subject: RE: Pushdire.bat, etc.

>Many of the tricks used in the collection are quite complicated.

But delightful.

>That is quite possible.  I must say that I am not very keen on
>version 6, and prefer to stay at 5.0 which I consider the most
>convenient of the MsDos versions.

I agree, but went to 6.0 for dblspace and 6.2 for data integrity.

>Pushdire creates a number of temporary files on the current drive & deletes
>them.  Would mind giving me some idea of how to direct Pushdire & Popdire
>to a ramdrive to minimize fragmentation of my hard drives?

>That should be fairly simple.  The batches create files where the
>redirection > or >> is used.  Put H:\ in front of those file names.

I tried that approach, but the "dir | find> go.bat" and "call go.bat"
lines no longer work as go.bat is only "Directory of [full path]" not
"H:\Directory of [full path]".

Whoops, I think I just answered my own question.  I think my problem
would be solved if H:\ where in my path statement.

>Incidentally, I use several PCs.  To have my own batches general
>across the different individual PCs I always call my ramdisk R.
>That is fairl|y easi to achieve my an appropriate substitute command
>like subst r: h:\

Nice solution to a pesky problem, thanks again!

Kenn R. Fagans

kenn.fagans@ssbbs.org

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From ts@uwasa.fi Sat Feb  5 07:30:14 1994
Subject: Re: myprog.zip Uploaded to wrong directory
To: null@uwasa.fi (Garbo uploader)
Date: Sat, 5 Feb 1994 07:30:14 +0200 (EET)
In-Reply-To: <9402042302.AA20089@shire.hw.stratus.com.schematic> from "Ben Sprachman" at Feb 4, 94 06:02:50 pm
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>
>  ANNOUNCING .... for WINDOWs
>

Thank you Dear Uploader.  We very much welcome your upload.

But, frankly, you were lucky.  Usually the files uploaded to the
wrong directory are discarded without further notice, but we made a
rare exception since I happened to notice.  Windows uploads must go
to /windows/incoming NOT to /pc/incoming, which is for MsDos uploads
(and vice versa).  We are extremely pressed for time at Garbo.
Therefore we have a set of automated routines, which, among other
things check whether the /pc/incoming uploads have a matching upload
announcements to pc-up@uwasa.fi.  If they don't ...  poof! ...
they're gone.

Yours was a zipped file just as it should.  But for general
information.  We also have automatic routines which callously
discard all files which are not .zip files from our incoming
directories, without any further notice.

Sorry about being usually that strict but we have no practical
choice.

But I am pleased to tell you that this one time you don't have to do
anything further.  Your upload made it to the Windows queue, but
this is an exception caused by a fluke.

   All the best, Timo

..................................................................
Prof. Timo Salmi      Co-moderator of comp.archives.msdos.announce
Moderating at garbo.uwasa.fi anonymous FTP  archives  128.214.87.1
Faculty of Accounting & Industrial Management; University of Vaasa
Internet: ts@uwasa.fi   BBS +(358)-61-3170972; FIN-65101,  Finland



From ooyyoo@mixcom.com  Tue Feb  8 18:20:13 1994
Subject: Re: pkzip 2.06 ? (fwd)
To: ts@uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi)
Date: Tue, 8 Feb 94 10:13:03 CST
From: "PKWARE Inc." <PKWare.Inc@mixcom.mixcom.com>
In-Reply-To: <9402081357.AA17567@uwasa.fi>; from "Timo Salmi" at Feb 8, 94 3:57 pm
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> A Usenet news posting for your information
> Forwarded to you by ts@uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi)
>
> A friend told me that there is a new version of pkzip, 2.06. True/False?
> If so, where can I get it?
> What new does it offer?
> Does it has 32 bit OS/2 versions too?

        Version 2.06 was released as an INTERNAL use only IBM version.
        It is identical to 2.04G, but it has IBM names in the help
        screens and such. That release is meant for IBM only.

        Mark
        PKWARE, Inc.
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From ts@uwasa.fi Wed Feb 16 15:04:15 1994
Subject: Re: Minor problems with TS-utilities
To: Matthias=Wjst%EPI%gsf@rz1.gsf.de
Date: Wed, 16 Feb 1994 15:04:15 +0200 (EET)
In-Reply-To: <9402160911.AA26934@uwasa.fi> from "Matthias=Wjst%EPI%gsf@rz1.gsf.de" at Feb 16, 94 10:11:26 am
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> Dear Prof.Salmi,

Hello Matthias,

> thank you very much for your nice utilities which i use very often.

I am very pleased to hear that you like my garbo.uwasa.fi:/pc/ts/
utilities.

> Please let me comment on two minor problems
>
> > Fri 25-December-1992 TSFLTC
> > CUT (Ver. 1.1)  Extract or delete text columns
> > CUT StartColumn1 EndColumn1 [StartColumn2 EndColumn2] ... [/h] [/s]
>
> I would like the following possibility:
> CUT StartColumn1 EndColumn1 StartLine1 EndLine2
> Would that be too much work? And the next problem comes with

Not perhaps too much work, but I think it is better not to include
too many fuctions in a filter utility.  It is better to have a
separate program or method for each step.  There are many
alternatives like using a suitable text exitor.  First slice the
approriate part from the file to an auxiliary file and then cut
that, paste back, and so on.

> > Fri 17-September-1993 TSUTIL
> > TIMELOG (Ver. 1.1)  For logging program usage
> ...
> > The elapsed times are not present, but they can be augmented by
> > applying a separate program PCPFON.EXE on program.log. It is
> > available in TSPFON##.ZIP.
>
> This does not work properly on my system. Any suggestions?

I am afraid that this is not anough information to go on from.  In
order try to do something about a problem I have to be able to
reproduce it first.  That requires a much more detailed log of what
goes wrong.

> Thank you very much, for your help,
> Matthias Wjst

   All the best, Timo

> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> This message came from Munich: WJST@GSF.DE
>
> Dr.Matthias Wjst, Institut fuer Epidemiologie,
> GSF Forschungszentrum fuer Umwelt und Gesundheit,
> Neuherberg, Ingolstaedter Landstr 1, P.O.B. 1129,
> 85758 Oberschleissheim, Germany
> Phone +49-89-3187/ -4565, Fax  /-3380
> ----------------------------------------------------------------

   All the best, Timo

..................................................................
Prof. Timo Salmi      Co-moderator of comp.archives.msdos.announce
Moderating at garbo.uwasa.fi anonymous FTP  archives  128.214.87.1
Faculty of Accounting & Industrial Management; University of Vaasa
Internet: ts@uwasa.fi   BBS +(358)-61-3170972; FIN-65101,  Finland

