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From: dmurdoch@watstat.waterloo.edu (Duncan Murdoch)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal
Subject: Re: Borland BBS
Message-ID: <1991Jun22.165424.1971@maytag.waterloo.edu>
Date: 22 Jun 91 16:54:24 GMT
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In article <27274@adm.brl.mil> yimling@geography.leeds.ac.uk (Yim Ling Siu) writes:
>Hi,
>I noticed some time ago that Borland has an area on Compuserve. I
>have no access to Compuserve, and I wonder what kind of information
>can be found there, and if it is held anywhere else (e.g. at an
>anonymous FTP site)... There never seems to be that much in the
>Borland section of the Simtel archives...

There are files available on Compuserve, but they're mostly not that 
interesting.  The interesting ones usually show up on ftp sites, like Simtel
or garbo.uwasa.fi.

The main value of the forums on Compuserve is the messages.  They're something
like this newsgroup, but with a much higher volume (a hundred or more messages
per day).  Luckily there's software available to help you select only the topics
that interest you; it's much better than rn, for example.  If you can find them,
there are some real gems available there:  you'll generally get good answers
to hard problems from someone or other.

As to availability:  I remember reading that Compuserve was setting up
a European connection.  I wasn't particularly interested at the time so 
I can't remember the details, but 
it may exist by now, and may make it available in the UK at reasonable prices.

If I were you I'd write to them and ask:

Compuserve Information Service
P.O. Box 20212
5000 Arlington Centre Blvd.
Columbus, OH 43220
U.S.A.

Duncan Murdoch
dmurdoch@watstat.waterloo.edu