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From: ts@uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: looking for PRN2FILE ...
Message-ID: <1990Oct17.094101.14467@uwasa.fi>
Date: 17 Oct 90 09:41:01 GMT
References: <1990Oct14.044632.17482@ccu.umanitoba.ca> <2526.271ac325@zeus.unomaha.edu> <31252@netnews.upenn.edu>
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In article <31252@netnews.upenn.edu> yintien@grip.cis.upenn.edu (Yintien Wang) writes:
>does anyone has PRN2FILE which will redirect the printing file to disk file?
>
>thanks in advance.
>
>- yintien wang

Here we go again about where and how to find a program:

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From:  Prof. Timo Salmi (Moderating at anon. ftp site 128.214.12.3)
School of Business Studies, University of Vaasa, SF-65101, Finland
Internet: ts@chyde.uwasa.fi Funet: gado::salmi Bitnet: salmi@finfun
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An extract from chyde.uwasa.fi advice:

14. *****
 Q: I am interested to know if there exists a program for such and
such purpose.  Would you point me in the right direction.  (This
question also often occurs in the news postings.)

 A1: Most often the best answer is to look through file lists.  We
have several such lists which should together have quite a good
coverage of the PD programs in circulation.  These lists are
/pc/INDEX, /pc/pd2/0dir-pd2, /pc/ts/0dir-ts (lists for our site,
chyde.uwasa.fi), /pc/pd2/files-mm.zip (a good English speaking
Finnish BBS), and /pc/pd2/simibm.zip (Simtel20 list). 

A2: How to find files on chyde.uwasa.fi: If you are looking for a
particular program at chyde.uwasa.fi you should always start by
getting the following three files:
   /pc/INDEX
   /pc/pd2/0dir-pd2
   /pc/ts/0dir-ts 
And for seeing what is new in the /pc/pd2 and /pc/ts directories,
get
   /pc/pd2/0news-pd2
   /pc/ts/0news-ts

A3: To save you the trouble of downloading all of those files if all
you want is to search for one or two programs, you can use an index
server maintained by Raymond Chen (rjc@math.princeton.edu).  To
obtain instructions, send email with any subject and containing the
single word "help" to the above address. 

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