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From: sonny@charybdis.harris-atd.com (Bob Davis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Where are the PD & Freeware (not Shareware) Archives?
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Date: 27 Dec 90 15:58:34 GMT
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	Shareware includes some of the most useful, affordable
software in the DOS world, BUT...

	I am continually amazed at the quality and quantity of
DOS software that is ENTIRELY free to the individual user. But
often you will have to search through mountains of mostly-shareware
archives at the four corners of the earth to find it.

	And in my experience it seems that some of the really nice 
packages often are not widely known. That is remarkable. (For example,
I only recently discovered AHED, a quite nice free editor with
WordStar-compatible commands -- something I had sought a long while.)

	Surely there is an archive site somewhere with an area
devoted exclusively to Public Domain and Free software, and I simply
do not know of it. Certainly, users would be grateful to find such
a site.

	If you know of such a site, please tell me.

	Thanks.
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