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From: ts@uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Uploads at garbo.uwasa.fi, Vaasa, Finland
Message-ID: <1991Apr1.061023.9751@uwasa.fi>
Date: 1 Apr 91 06:10:23 GMT
Sender: ts@uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi)
Organization: University of Vaasa
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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
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