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- University of Vaasa, Finland, MIPS 2030 workstation garbo.uwasa.fi
- has a large collection of PD and shareware PC programs available by
- anonymous ftp or mail server. The file /pc/ts/0news-ts contains news
- about the TS-programs in the /pc/ts directory (in reverse order).
- This text, which you now have, is an extract from the 0news-ts file.
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- Prof. Timo Salmi
- Moderating at garbo.uwasa.fi anonymous ftp archives 128.214.87.1
- 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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- Thu 5-Dec-1991: I have updated my MSPLIT.EXE program for splitting
- Unix email files on a PC.
- - Earlier the split was effected when MSPLIT first encountered a
- "From: " and the a "Subject: " on the next line. I have made it
- more general. The first line start criterion is now "From: " or
- "From ". The second line criterion is "Subject: " or
- "Return-Path: " or "Article: " or "Received: ".
- - The count of messages is now given when the messages are directed
- to a single file separated by formfeeds (the /f switch).
- - The output now goes to the default directory. Not forcibly to
- the directory of input.
- - New switch /oDirectory to optionally direct the output to a
- desired destination
- MSPLIT.EXE is part of the updated garbo.uwasa.fi:/pc/ts/tsutle13.zip
- package.
-
- Sun 1-Nov-91: I have written a TDEL.EXE program for safe deleting of
- files. It asks for confirmation before deleting. Besides this
- ordinary usage TDEL has an optional, special feature. One quite
- frequently asked PC related question seems to be how one can delete
- all the files from a directory and all its subdirectories, and
- finally also the directory and subdirectories. There are several
- solutions to this problem, and I wanted to add one more putting
- emphasis on the safety of the operation. TDEL.EXE has a switch for
- recursing into subdirectories. TDEL.EXE can optionally be used also
- for removing directories and subdirectories. TDEL.EXE is part of the
- updated garbo.uwasa.fi:/pc/ts/tsutle12.zip package.
-
- Thu 28-Nov-91: Occasionally I want to download to my PC the email
- messages that I have received on our Unix machine (chyde.uwasa.fi).
- The messages are in a single file. I want to be able to split the
- email messages into separate files (or insert formfeed between them)
- to easily print them on our PC network laser printer. I wrote an
- MSPLIT.EXE program to do the splitting for me. I included it in my
- now updated garbo.uwasa.fi:/pc/ts/tsutle11.arc utilities package.
- Let me give some further background. On chyde I read my email
- using elm (2.3 pl11), and I have the following definition in the elm
- options submenu: P)rint mail using : cat >> /u2/econ/ts/posti/mail.
- This means that each message in the mail file starts by
- From:
- Subject:
- To:
- Date:
- MSPLIT.EXE splits the messages into mail.001, mail.002, etc when it
- encounters the From: Subject: pair. Or if you define so (/f switch)
- it inserts a formfeed before each message in a single mail.001 file.
- The program has also optional switches for page lenght (/p) and
- performing a translation to Scandinavian ascii (/s), ie { to a", [
- to A", and so on.
-
- Sat 20-Jul-91: We had a welcome, but a very noisy visit from from my
- wife's best friend's family with two incredibly lively kids. Between
- their reverberatingly intensive sessions of playing my computer
- games, I had to device a simple, temporary lock for the computer,
- and came up with pestikid.exe. (I just can't resist the challenge of
- making up these puns in a language that is not my own). The program
- simply intercepts all input from the keyboard except for a given
- ascii code (I used 150), which unlocks the keyboard. Since I felt it
- is time to start my fifth collection of utilities, I put it in a new
- /pc/ts/tsutle10.arc package, which is now available from
- garbo.uwasa.fi anonymous FTP archives.
-