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From: sonny@charybdis.harris-atd.com (Bob Davis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: Where are the PD & Freeware (not Shareware) Archives?
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Date: 27 Dec 90 18:34:37 GMT
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In article <5156@trantor.harris-atd.com> sonny@trantor.harris-atd.com (Bob Davis) writes:
>
>	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.

	E-mail responses to this posting of mine highlight my problem
in locating TRUE Public Domain and FREEWARE (NOT SHAREWARE -- I say again:
NOT SHAREWARE) archives. I am now receiving, via E-mail, things like a complete
listing of ALL FTP SITES ON THE INTERNET. I appreciate your attempt to
help, but, Friends, I already know of the Infinity of Internet ftp sites!
I know and love: SIMTEL, CHYDE, GRAPE, WUPD, etc., etc., etc.
	The problem, as I stated in my original posting, is that one must wade
thru a veritable MOUNTAIN of software titles to discover a PD or FREEWARE
title of true usefulness. Surely a savvy archive manager has already recog-
nized the value and usefulness of GOOD, TRUE PD and FREE stuff in the DOS 
arena, and has consequently established an area in her archive as a repository
of NOTHING but FREE stuff. Right? Where at IS it? 

	THAT's the question.
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