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University of Vaasa, Finland, Sun IPX sparcstation 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
Faculty of Accounting & Industrial Management; University of Vaasa
Internet: [e-mail] Bitnet: salmi@finfun   ; SF-65101, Finland
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Sat 6-Jun-92: I have updated to garbo.uwasa.fi:/pc/ts/tsutle18.zip
as follows. I have written a new SETVIDEO.EXE program for setting
the CRT video mode. This program in fact originates from my own need
to set the 132x43 text mode for (MsKermit) terminal emulation in
order to read wide screens when connected to main frames like the
Vaasa University garbo.uwasa.fi and chyde.uwasa.fi.
   It is easy to set the 40x25 in Turbo Pascal by applying
TextMode(C40). Likewise it is fairly trivial to set the 80x43/50
text mode by applying TextMode (C80 + font8x8). But I initially had
difficulties in finding out how to set the 132 text modes until
David R. Conrad ([e-mail]) kindly informed me
that the interrupt 10hex function 00hex can be used for this purpose
too. The way it goes is that the standard defines video modes from
00hex to 13hex, but in fact there are many more modes which depend
on the particular video adapter card. This information can be found
in Ralf Brown's list of interrupts INTERRUP.A in inter30a.zip
(located in the /pc/programming directory at garbo.uwasa.fi).
    The problem is that the sifferent video adapter cards have
different defaults for the beyond 13hex video modes. I have used the
following solution. You give the video mode as a hex parameter to
SETVIDEO.EXE rather than choose from a menu of preset video modes.
The values to give for the different video adapter cards can be
found in the said INTERRUP.A information file if you look at INT
10h, function 00h. There is a very long list in there. For my own
386s the text modes are
 $00 =  40x25    $01 =  40x25    $02 =  80x25    $03 =  80x25
 $50 =  80x30    $51 =  80x43    $52 = 132x25    $53 = 132x25
 $54 = 132x30    $55 = 132x43    $56 = 132x60

Sat 21-Mar-92: I have updated my CMOS.EXE program which displays
information from your battery backupped CMOS memory.
 - Made the CMOS clock display continuous.
 - Omitted the weekday information because it has turned out to be
   volatile.
 - Added the display of whether a math coprocessor is installed
   according to the CMOS configuration information.
I have consequently released an updated version of my fifth utility
collection. It is now garbo.uwasa.fi:/pc/ts/tsutle17.zip.

Mon 2-Mar-92: The modern PCs have a battery backupped CMOS memory
which includes the backed-up clock to store the date and the time,
and configuration information. This battery usually lasts for
several years, but eventually it will lose power. The current
(pardon the pun) state of the battery can be checked by programming
since as long as the battery is giving power is a certain bit in
CMOS memory is on, and if the battery looses power the bit will be
off. I have written a program CMOSALAR.EXE to read this bit. If the
battery bit is off, an alarm will be sounded. One option is to put
it in your autoexec.bat where it will act as a sentinel for you.
   Another similar program added is CMOS.EXE which displays
information from your battery backupped CMOS memory. A color video
adapter, and at least an AT PC is required.
   CMOSALAR.EXE and CMOS.EXE are part of my hence updated fifth
utility collection garbo.uwasa.fi:/pc/ts/tsutle16.zip. The other
three programs in the package are
 MSPLIT.EXE      Split Unix elm email messages, for UseNet users
 PESTIKID.EXE    Keep your computer to yourself, lock keyboard
 TDEL.EXE        Timo's safe recursive delete for files & dirs
PESTIKID.EXE has a small, invisible correction.  The other two have
not been changed.

Sat 18-Jan-92: I have updated my PESTIKID.EXE program which locks
the keyboard (unless the user knows the code to unlock it). The
following features have been added:
- The alt-ctrl-del combination is inactivated for the time the
  program is running.  Thus the pesty user cannot beat PESTIKID.EXE
  by the simple alt-ctrl-del warm boot. The user either has to know
  the unlock code or reset your PC physically.
- There is an optional message that is flashed to the screen if any
  other key is pressed except the unlock code. The message is
  invoked by a new /w (warning word) switch.  You can choose the
  word yourself, or if you just use /w, "Hands off" will be flashed
  as the default.  The flash is given in LightRed on Blue. The
  screen is restored to blank Black after the flash.
- The cursor can be turned off for the duration of the program.  The
  new /c switch is for turning the cursor off.
- Improved a bit the error messages if incorrect parameters are
  given in the program call
PESTIKID.EXE is a part of my consequently updated fifth utility
collection garbo.uwasa.fi:/pc/ts/tsutle15.zip. The other two
programs in the package are
 MSPLIT.EXE Split Unix elm email messages
 TDEL.EXE   Timo's safe recursive delete
but they have not been changed.

Sun 15-Dec-91: I have updated my TDEL.EXE safe interactive recursive
delete program.
 - It now accepts multiple file definitions. In other words the
   usage now is TDEL FileMask1 [[FileMask2]..] [switches]. For
   example TDEL /s c:\*.bak c:\*.bck would delete all *.bak and
   *.bck files on drive C:.
 - Added a /c "set Counter on" switch to give the count of the
   deleted, skipped, and the total of found files.
 - Corrected an error in the recursive mode of the program. It
   prevented full recursion when the file mask was not *.*.
 - Included an interception if the user tries to put wildcards in
   the directory part of the mask, as in TDEL C:\TEXT*\*.BCK.
 - When the program exits it now clears the keyboard typeahead
   buffer on exit.
 - Included a simple example on the help screen (which is invoked if
   you call TDEL without any parameters).
TDEL.EXE is part of my hence updated fifth utility collection
garbo.uwasa.fi:/pc/ts/tsutle14.zip.

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 then 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 length (/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.