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- University of Vaasa, Finland, Sun SPARCstation IPX garbo.uwasa.fi
- has a large collection of PD and shareware PC programs available by
- anonymous ftp and mail server. The file /pc/ts/0news-ts contains
- news about the TS-programs and files 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 Co-moderator of comp.archives.msdos.announce
- Moderating at garbo.uwasa.fi anonymous FTP archives 128.214.87.1
- Faculty of Accounting & Industrial Management; University of Vaasa
- Internet: ts@uwasa.fi or timo.salmi@uwasa.fi; FIN-65101, Finland
-
- Sat 16-Oct-93: I have brought up to date the information in my
- general Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) about UseNet news, MsDos
- programs, and Garbo archives. I have also added a new file
- FAQFTP.TXT "Additional questions about FTP"
- "Additional" because the other files in the collection already cover
- FTP (File Transfer Porgram) questions. The updated collection is
- available as garbo.uwasa.fi:/pc/ts/tsfaqn38.zip.
-
- Wed 18-Aug-93: I have made a routine update of my Frequently Asked
- Questions about UseNet news, MsDos programs, and Garbo archives. You
- can obtain it as /pc/ts/tsfaqn37.zip from Garbo by anonymous FTP,
- mail server, or from Vaasa FreePort BBS (+358)-61-3248490, 3170972,
- and 3170974; 9600,N,8,1; login "bbs".
-
- Sat 10-Jul-93: I have updated my Frequently Asked Questions about
- UseNet news, MsDos programs, and Garbo archives. It is now
- garbo.uwasa.fi:/pc/ts/tsfaqn36.zip. This version is to bring the
- items up to date.
-
- Sun 6-Jun-93: I have updated my Frequently Asked Questions about
- UseNet news, MsDos programs, and Garbo archives. It is now
- garbo.uwasa.fi:/pc/ts/tsfaqn35.zip. This update brings up to date
- the Garbo archives parts because of the new arrangements at Garbo. I
- have also edited some of the other parts to bring them up to date.
-
- Sun 16-May-93: My tsfaq33.zip Frequently Asked Questions has grown
- to be quite large. Therefore I have decided to divide it into two by
- separating the Turbo Pascal questions from the ordinary UseNet news
- and program related questions. The two entities are both available
- from the garbo.uwasa.fi:/pc/ts/ directory:
- tsfaqn34.zip Questions from UseNet and Timo's answers
- tsfaqp10.zip Common Turbo Pascal Questions and Timo's answers
-
- Mon 22-Mar-93: I have had to update my collection of Frequently
- Asked Questions. It now is garbo.uwasa.fi:/pc/ts/tsfaq33.zip. The
- main reason for this update is that the headers of the items were
- not compatible from the latest elm version if you use that for
- reading the the FAQ. I have also brought some file references in the
- FAQs up to date.
-
- Sun 24-Jan-93: I have updated my collection of Frequently Asked
- questions. It now is garbo.uwasa.fi:/pc/ts/tsfaq32.zip.
- The TSFAQ collection earlier contained FAQUOTE.TXT which is no
- longer included because part of the information is out of date.
- FAQUOTE.TXT contained edited postings and email of interest
- reproduced with the kind permission of the authors (when the
- _principal_ author is someone else but I). The file will continue,
- however, to be available as garbo.uwasa.fi:/pc/pd2/faquote.zip.
- Other than that I have mainly brought some items up to date with
- the recent developments, and added one item to the Turbo Pascal
- questions section.
-
- Sat 19-Dec-92: I have updated my collection of Frequently Asked
- questions. It is now garbo.uwasa.fi:/pc/ts/tsfaq31.zip.
- Added CAM.INF "CAM discussion groups charter"
- Brought up to date many of the items throughout the FAQ.
- The principal sections of the collection are
- FAQNEWS.TXT Q&As relating to UseNet news
- FAQPAS.TXT Turbo Pascal questions & answers
- FAQPROGS.TXT Questions answers about programs
- PD2ANS.TXT Q&As on uwasa.fi archives & more
- UPLOAD.INF How to upload to garbo archives
- VAASA.INF Info: Finland, Vaasa, U of Vaasa
-
- Sun 20-Sep-92: Updated my answers to Frequently Asked Questions. It
- is now garbo.uwasa.fi:/pc/ts/tsfaq30.zip. This is a working update
- to bring the FAQ collection up to date.
-
- Sat 13-Jun-92: An update garbo.uwasa.fi:/pc/ts/tsfaq29.zip of the
- collection of my Frequently Asked Questions for UseNet news
- newcomers, FTP users, MsDos shareware and PD program users, and
- Turbo Pascal programmers. Most importantly I have added information
- on archie servers kindly provided to me Adam Thompson, and I have
- corrected my error in describing the alt.sources UseNet newsgroup.
-
- Tue 26-May-92: I have again updated the collection of my Frequently
- Asked Questions for UseNet news newcomers, FTP users, MsDos
- shareware and PD program users, and Turbo Pascal programmers. It is
- available as garbo.uwasa.fi:/pc/ts/tsfaq28.zip.
-
- Sun 3-May-92: I have updated the collection of my Frequently Asked
- Questions for UseNet news newcomers, FTP users, MsDos shareware and
- PD program users, and Turbo Pascal programmers. It is available as
- garbo.uwasa.fi:/pc/ts/tsfaq27b.zip. This is a maintenance update
- bringing quite a few items up to the current status. No new items
- have been added, but there are some useful new pointers in the old
- items.
-
- Sun 15-Mar-92: I have updated the collection of my Frequently Asked
- Questions for UseNet news newcomers, FTP users, MsDos shareware and
- PD program users, and Turbo Pascal programmers. It is available as
- garbo.uwasa.fi:/pc/ts/tsfaq27.zip.
- I have added two new files UPLOAD.INF and UPTEXT.INF which give
- information on how to upload to garbo.uwasa.fi MsDos archives, and
- how to write the upload announcement.
- There is one new item in the Turbo Pascal section (storing and
- restoring the screen).
- I have updated the VAASA.INF file giving information about
- Finland, Vaasa, University of Vaasa, our faculty, and yours truly.
- I have made some updating of a few of the old items.
-
- Mon 17-Feb-92: I have updated the collection of my Frequently Asked
- Questions for UseNet news newcomers, FTP users, MsDos shareware and
- PD program users, and Turbo Pascal programmers. It is available as
- garbo.uwasa.fi:/pc/ts/tsfaq26.zip. I have updated some of the items
- and added two items to the Turbo Pascal section.
- If you find this collection interesting, there is more, mostly
- garbo.uwasa.fi MsDos archive site related material in
- /pc/pd2/post*.txt files (* = 01,...,07 currently).
-
- Sun 5-Jan-92: I have updated the collection of my Frequently Asked
- Questions for UseNet news newcomers, FTP users, MsDos shareware and
- PD program users, and Turbo Pascal programmers. It is available as
- garbo.uwasa.fi:/pc/ts/tsfaq25.zip. The collection is already so
- large that I have only added one new item (it concerns the columns
- width of news postings). I have also updated and rewritten some of
- the items.
- Especially if you are new to comp.binaries.ibm.pc.archives,
- news.newusers.questions, and/or comp.lang.pascal I trust that you
- will benefit from this collection.
- If you find this collection interesting, there is more, mostly
- garbo.uwasa.fi MsDos archive site related material in
- /pc/pd2/post##.txt files (## = 01,...,06 currently).
-
- Sat 7-Dec-91: I have again updated my Frequently Asked Questions. It
- is now garbo.uwasa.fi:/pc/ts/tsfaq24c.zip. This is a minor update. I
- printed all the items on paper (using mplit.exe from tsutle13.zip,
- incidentally). I then went trough all the material (noticing once
- again that the screen is not a sufficient substitute for good old
- Finnish paper).
-
- Sat 30-Nov-91: I have updated the collection of my Frequently Asked
- Questions for UseNet users, FTP users, shareware and PD MsDos
- program users, and Turbo Pascal programmers to be
- garbo.uwasa.fi:/pc/ts/tsfaq24b.zip.
- Primarily it updates the version references in the questions &
- answers sets. Also a couple of answers have been rewritten based on
- feedback from users. The packing method has been changed from Arc to
- Zip. If you wish to read the Frequently Asked Questions on your Unix
- host instead of your PC, use /unix/arcers/unzip41.tar.Z (switch -a)
- to unpack tsfaq24b.zip.
-
- Fri 18-Oct-91: I have updated the collection of my Frequently Asked
- Questions for UseNet users, FTP users, shareware and PD MsDos
- program users, and Turbo Pascal programmers to be
- garbo.uwasa.fi:/pc/ts/tsfaq24.arc.
- It adjusts to some recent news on the net, and adds the
- comp.binaries.ibm.pc discussion subgroups charter to the collection.
- Users new to news.newusers.questions, and comp.binaries.ibm.pc
- discussion subgroups in particular, might find it useful to take a
- look at this FAQ collection before asking away on the net.
-
- Sat 21-Sep-91: I have updated the collection of my Frequently Asked
- Questions for UseNet users, FTP users, and Turbo Pascal programmers
- to be /pc/ts/tsfaq23a.arc. This is a minor update. It just brings
- some version numbers up to date and adjusts to some recent news on
- the net.
- If you are reading this as a posting on the news, and you don't
- already have this collection, and if you furthermore don't know how
- to go about getting it, you are welcome to send me an email request
- for instructions.
- There is also a FAQ on this FAQ collection. It is why it is not
- distributed as a text file but in an archived form. The reply is
- this. It is not a just single ascii file but an entity of 13 text
- files put together into a single archive. Another reason is that the
- entity is quite big, and archiving it saves in the transfer load.
-
- Wed 7-Aug-91: I have had to make an update of my Frequently Asked
- Questions to bring it up to date, most importantly with respect to
- the change of garbo.uwasa.fi archives IP number. A couple of items
- have been rewritten and there are some minor adjustments. There is
- new item file POST.INF within the package to give a pointer to more
- FAQs at garbo.uwasa.fi. The FAQ update is available as
- /pc/ts/tsfaq23.arc.
-
- Sat 20-Jul-91: I have brought my Frequently Asked Questions
- collection /pc/ts/tsfaq22.arc up to date with the recent
- developments. Other than that just one new item has been appended.
- If you happen like this FAQ collection of mine, there is more
- information on garbo.uwasa.fi and similar matters in
- /pc/pd2/post##.txt, where ## is currently 01, 02, and 03.
-
- Sat 18-May-91: The same questions are often repeatedly asked on the
- net, and users might be well advised to take a look at a Frequently
- Asked Questions collection before posting a question. New users in
- particular should first observe for a while what goes on, since many
- questions become answered by just watching how to do things. I have
- a large collection of these questions with answers covering topics
- like how to behave on the net, how to find programs on the net using
- mail servers and anonymous ftp, how to transfer and unpack archived
- files, how to find sources of further information, and as a special
- feature many questions and answers to common Turbo Pascal
- programming questions, and so on and on.
- Starting from the now released version /pc/ts/tsfaq21.arc of my
- Frequently Asked Questions collection you can easily browse and read
- this collection optionally on your Unix host using the elm mail
- program. (See unixelm.inf in the package for the instructions). The
- new format fully retains the previous option to read the files on
- the PC as ordinary ascii files, or Jeroen Schipper's ReadMail
- program. My compliments to Arjan de Vet (devet@win.tue.nl) for
- suggesting the use of Unix mail format.
- There is also some new material in the updated release. The added
- up size of the tsfaq files has now merrily exceeded the 200K limit
- (when unarchived into the plain ascii format).
- If you don't know how to go about getting tsfaq21.arc, I am
- prepared to send you instructions on a email request. The collection
- is available from the archives at garbo.uwasa.fi, Vaasa, Finland,
- and SIMTEL20 archives in the US, and the mirrors of the two. It is
- usually also available at some BBSes.
-
- Sun 5-May-91: Update /pc/ts/tsfaq20b.arc of the Frequently Asked
- Questions for UseNet news and/or Turbo Pascal users. Some amendments
- and editing of the existing material.
-
- Tue 23-Apr-91: Released an update of my FAQs (Frequently Asked
- Questions) /pc/ts/tsfaq20.arc. Some rewriting of a few of old
- answers. There is one new item in the Turbo Pascal questions section
- concerning ansi codes in writes. There is now a pointer to a
- comp.binaries.ibm.pc postings archive site by Bob Sloane in the
- quotes section. I have included my prerecorded answer (fax.txt) to
- faxed inquiries.
- For those who may not be familiar with this collection, it gives
- information on things like how to find programs and get them, how to
- go about in the UseNet news, and a section on Turbo Pascal, etc. To
- get the instructions for downloading this collection of FAQs you are
- welcome to email me for the prerecorded garbo.uwasa.fi instructions.
-
- Fri 19-Apr-91: I have brought some answers up to recent developments
- in my Frequently Asked Questions, and the collection is currently
- available as /pc/ts/tsfaq19b.arc. There are also a couple of new
- questions in there.
- A note for readers of the Turbo Pascal section of my FAQ. There
- are no changes in that section since the previous version.
- To read this FAQ package in a very convenient fashion, you are
- well advised to get Jeroen Schipper's /pc/comm/rmail31b.zip ReadMail
- program, even if the FAQ files can be read with any standard text
- browsing method.
- A few users have inquired why I don't post these FAQs to UseNet
- news on a regular basis. There are three main reasons. First, the
- package is too big. Second, there are ten individual files within
- the package. Third, there already are FAQs that are regularly
- posted. Raymond Chen has a FAQ posting for c.b.i.p.d, and there is
- a useful FAQ in comp.graphics, and so on.
- I have also been asked the natural question why my FAQ is not in
- ascii form. The reasons are similar. The entity is too big, and made
- up of the individual constituents.
- I notice that there is now so much material in my FAQs that I
- don't remember even myself what is in there, let alone what are all
- the individual answers. All the more so, because there is also
- material in there from others, not only from me.
-
- Thu 4-Apr-91: Update /pc/ts/tsfaq19.arc. Since the last update of my
- Frequently Asked Questions Jeroen Schipper (jschippe@cs.ruu.nl) has
- written his really excellent ReadMail email, news, and message
- reader (available as /pc/comm/rmail30.zip, or whatever version
- number is current). I have edited the Frequently Asked Questions
- files in a consistent format so that all the *.txt files included
- can be read with ReadMail. Try it. You'll like it. See readmail.inf
- in tsfaq19.arc for a suitable "modify rule" to use ReadMail for
- browsing the FAQ files.
- There is also another consistent change I have made. If you are
- well familiar with garbo.uwasa.fi archives, you may know that there
- are some files duplicated in /pc/pd2 directory (by Unix links). We
- will be gradually getting rid of these links, and I have edited the
- references to reflect this gradual change.
-
- Sat 30-Mar-91: I have updated my Frequently Asked Questions
- collection. It is now /pc/ts/tsfaq18.arc. It contains new
- information such as a pointer to the archie database (in
- faqnews.txt), and a pointer to the database of postings on
- frequently asked questions (in faquote.txt). Both very useful for
- finding information by oneself, instead of posting the queries.
-
- Sun 10-Mar-91: Again a minor update of my Frequently Answered :-)
- Questions. It is now /pc/ts/tsfaq17d.arc.
-
- Sun 3-Mar-91: I have updated my Frequently Asked Questions
- collection almost immediately after the last update to be
- /pc/ts/tsfaq17c.arc. The collection includes among other things the
- prerecorded instructions for garbo.uwasa.fi and I noticed that they
- were somewhat out of date.
-
- Sat 2-Mar-91: I have updated some answers in my Frequently Asked
- Questions collection. I have not given the update a new version
- number but called it /pc/ts/tsfaq17b.arc to reflect the fact that
- there are no totally new items.
-
- Fri 25-Jan-91: I have updated my Frequently Asked Questions
- collection to /pc/ts/tsfaq17.arc mainly to reflect the move of the
- University of Vaasa anonymous ftp archives to garbo.uwasa.fi. There
- are also a couple of new Q&As, and some of the old answers have been
- updated.
-
- Sat 12-Jan-91: I have updated the material in my Frequently Asked
- Questions collection to be /pc/ts/tsfaq16.arc at the uwasa.fi
- anonymous FTP archives. Many of the old answers have been amplified,
- and there are new questions & answers including:
- How can I link graphics drivers directly into my executable?
- Which is better, Procomm Plus or Telix?
- How can I trap a Turbo Pascal runtime error?
- Many of questions and answers should be of interest to all UseNet
- readers. New UseNet news users will find much information on UseNet
- usage and advice on the rules on using the net. What to do and what
- not to do. As a speciality there is separate section for Turbo
- Pascal programmers.
- You are welcome to email me for instructions how to download
- tsfaq16.arc if you do not know.
-
- Wed 12-Dec-90: I have updated the material in my frequently asked
- questions collection, and added a few new questions and answers. The
- collection is available as /pc/ts/tsfaq15.arc from uwasa.fi
- archives.
-
- Sun 25-Nov-90: Released update /pc/ts/tsfaq14.arc of my frequently
- asked questions with answers on general matters of interest to PC
- users, UseNet users, and Turbo Pascal programmers. Since there are
- quite a number of questions & answers, I have reorganized the files
- within the package into more categories than in the previous
- version.
-
- Thu 15-Nov-90: Released update /pc/ts/tsfaq13.arc of my frequently
- asked questions with answers on general matters of interest to PC
- users, UseNet users, and Turbo Pascal programmers. New questions and
- answers have been added, and some of the old answers have been
- updated.
-
- Fri 9-Nov-90: Released update /pc/ts/tsfaq12.arc of my frequently
- asked questions with answers on general matters of interest to PC
- users, UseNet users, and Turbo Pascal programmers.
-
- Fri 2-Nov-90: Released an update of my frequently asked questions
- with answers on general matters of interest to PC users, UseNet
- users, and Turbo Pascal programmers. This time I have just updated
- the Turbo Pascal answers. Therefore I'll call this a b-version
- instead of giving it a full new version number. The update is
- /pc/ts/tsfaq11b.arc.
-
- Sat 27-Oct-90: I have released a new version of my frequently asked
- questions with answers. It contains both new questions, and updates
- of the old ones, on general matters of interest to PC users, UseNet
- users, and Turbo Pascal programmers. It is available as
- /pc/ts/tsfaq11.arc from uwasa.fi by anonymous ftp or mail server.
-
- Sat 13-Oct-90: I have collected some frequently asked questions in
- the UseNet news, and my answers to these questions, into a
- downloadable package /pc/ts/tsfaq10.arc.
-