Archive-name: msdos-archives/diff Last-modified: April 17, 1993 Version: 2.5.3 This is a list of major changes since version 2.5 (dated March 30, 1993) ... ... Useful MSDOS Programs at SIMTEL20 and Garbo (Part 1 of 2) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~ **** The Ultimate Guid to MSDOS Archive Files **** Version: 2.5.3 Ap il 17, 1993 The list should be (more or less) accurate as of April 16, 1993. However as the world of archive files is rapidly changing many entries here may be dated soon. So please read the newsgroup comp.archives.msdos.announce or consult the index files of the archive sites to keep yourself informed of the latest uploads and changes. [ you may treat this as a disclaimer :-) ] --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Contents: Part I ------ * Trivia ... [ new ] --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Trivia ... 1) purposes ? This is a collection of many useful, common, and popular sharewares, freewares, and public domain programs ... It will (I hope) give you (especially those who are new to the world of archive files) a good idea on the range of files and programs you can obtain from major DOS ftp sites ... 2) "useful" ? a) most of the programs listed below should enhance DOS in one way or another ... b) most of them should work on any DOS-based computers (from XTs to 486s, from Hercules to SVGA, etc ...) c) most of them can be run by intuition, i.e. you don't have to read the manuals pages after pages to get the programs started ... d) most of them should be relatively bug-free ... e) most of them are "scholarly" (i.e. no games or gif files) ... 3) to get this compilation ? ... a) you're reading it now ... so, save it ... :-) b) this compilation, together with a hypertext version, are archived at SIMTEL20 and Garbo (and, of courses, their mirror sites) ... e.g. oak.oakland.edu: /pub/msdos/info/useful25.zip garbo.uwasa.fi: /pc/filelist/useful25.zip c) the plain text version can also be obtained from the ftp sites archiving news.answers articles ... e.g. pit-manager.mit.edu: /pub/usenet/news.answers/msdos-archive/part1 /pub/usenet/news.answers/msdos-archive/part2 /pub/usenet/news.answers/msdos-archive/diff --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Section B: Compression / Decompression Programs --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Program: Shez [ modified ] Version: 8.9 Upload Date: 93/03/18 File: shez89.zip Size: 224,529 bytes Location: oak: /pub/msdos/arcutils garbo: /pc/arcutil Status: Shareware Comment: More sophisticated shell for manipulating different types of compressed files ... There is also a tutorial (get shezt.zip) ... Alternative: ArcMaster (am91.zip) - good --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Program: GNU zip [ added ] Version: 1.0.7 Upload Date: 93/03/22 File: gzip107.zip Size: 49,053 bytes Location: oak: /pub/msdos/compress garbo: /pc/arcers (as gzip107.exe) Status: Freeware Comment: GNU zip is designed to replace UNIX's Compress ... gzip uses the same algorithm as Info-Zip's zip, so it can compress better than Compress and is free of any patent disputes ... To uncompress *.z (files compressed with gzip), type gzip -d *.z ... And gzip -d can also uncompress *.Z (files compressed with Compress) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Program: Pklite - Executable File Compressor ... Alternatives: ... Diet (diet144.zip) - can compress not only executables, but also data files ... (for oak: in /pub/msdos/dsktul) [ modified ] BTW, ... UNP (unp301.zip) can unpack all (?) types of compressed executables ... DISLITE (dislt115.zip) can uncompress "unextractible" executables ... [ updated ] --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Section C: Utilities --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Area 1: 4DOS --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Program: 4DOS command.com replacement Version: 4.02 (MSDOS 6 - compatible) [ updated ] Upload Date: 93/03/31 File: 4dos402p.zip Size: 310,863 bytes Location: oak: /pub/msdos/4dos garbo: /pc/cmd4dos Status: Shareware Comment: This gives you much more than MSDOS' command.com ... Documentation is in 4dos402d.zip ... --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Area 2: Disk Utilities --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Program: MegaBack disk system backup ... Alternatives: ... Flexibak Plus (flexp250.zip) [ added ] --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Area 4: File / Text Utilities --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Program: Derr's FileFinder ... Alternatives: ... Target (target15.zip) - a good file locator and manupulator [ added ] --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Program: Flip - Dos <-> Unix text-file translation [ modified ] Version: 1.0 Upload Date: 89/07/31 File: flip1exe.zip Size: 14,466 bytes Location: oak: /pub/msdos/txtutl garbo: /pc/unix (as flip1exe.zoo) Status: Freeware Comment: Probably the best utility to add/remove cr or lf ... Alternatives: crlf15b.zip, DOSCVT (doscvt24.zip) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Program: Binary Editor and Viewer Version: 1.40 [ updated ] Upload Date: 93/04/16 File: beav140.zip Size: 94,313 bytes Location: oak: /pub/msdos/binedit garbo: /pc/binedit --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Program: R.E. Marks' UU/XX en/decoder ... Comment: ... And UUDO (uudo12.zip) can handle multi-part uuencoded files ... [ added ] --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Program: Pretty Good Privacy ... Comment: ... And there is a shell program for PGP - get pgpshel1.zip (which can also be found in oak: /pub/msdos/security) ... [ added ] --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Program: PC-Proof [ added ] Version: 1.8 Upload Date: 93/04/14 File: pc-pro18.zip Size: 340,865 bytes Location: oak: /pub/msdos/txtutl garbo: /pc/spell Status: Shareware Comment: A pretty good grammar checker for word-processed files ... Alternative: Thelma's grammar/style checker (thlm5081.zip) - this can handle only WordPerfect files ... (oak: /pub/msdos/wordperf) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- ... Useful MSDOS Programs at SIMTEL20 and Garbo (Part 2 of 2) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ **** The Ultimate Guide to MSDOS Archive Files **** Version: 2.5.3 April 17, 1993 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Area 5: Screen Utilities --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Program: BUFFIT ... Alternative: SCROLLit (scrlit16.zip) [ updated ] --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Program: Snipper ... Comment: ... BTW, to capture graphics screen to pcx files, try PCXDUMP ( pcxdmp80.zip) - in /pub/msdos/graphics or /pc/graphics ... [ added ] -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Program: THEDRAW [ added ] Version: 4.6 Upload Date: 93/02/24 File: tdraw460.zip Size: 310,919 bytes Location: oak: /pub/msdos/screen garbo: Status: Shareware Commment: A great colour and monochrome screen image generator/editor ... --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Area 6: System Utilities --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Program: Secure System Login ... BTW, a nice program to lock your keyboard is pestikid.exe (in the file tsutle22.zip (garbo: /pc/ts) ... [ added ] --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Program: Cal (unix-like) Version: 2.6 [ updated ] Upload Date: 93/04/05 File: cal26.zip Size: 14,730 bytes Location: oak: /pub/msdos/deskaccess garbo: /pc/unix/calendar --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Program: PCCLOCK [ added ] Version: 2.15e Upload Date: 93/04/15 File: pccl215e.zip Size: 70,617 bytes Location: oak: /pub/msdos/systul garbo: /pc/sysutil Status: Shareware Comment: A fine digital clock with alarm ... can set the time by calling the time server at Boulder, Colorado, USA ... And if you want a simple program to call the time server and set the time on your PC, get settime.zip ... on the other hand, if you want a small digital clock program, get bclk.zip (or bc.zip (garbo)) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Programs: MSDOS 5.0 updates (if you're still using 5.0 :-) ... Comment: ... BTW, these and other MS stuff can be obtained from Microsoft Download Service / BBS (call 1-206-936-6735 (US) or 1-416-507-3022 (Canada) or the number near you) ... [ added ] --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Section D: Anti-Virus Programs --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Program: Thunderbyte anti-virus [ added ] Version: 5.04 Upload Date: 93/03/14 File: tbav504.zip Size: 262,317 bytes Location: oak: /pub/msdos/virus garbo: /pc/virus Status: Shareware Comment: A comprehensive package of anti-virus programs ... Very fast scanning!!! ... Requires the virus signatures (vsig9303.zip) ... --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Program: HyperText VSUM Version: 93.03 [ updated ] Upload Date: 93/04/07 File: vsumx303.zip Size: 837,117 bytes Location: oak: /pub/msdos/virus garbo: /pc/virus --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Section E: Editors --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Program: QEdit ... Alternatives: can be found in oak: /pub/msdos/editor Vision-Edit (vised35.zip) - can edit files up to 4 megabytes TDE (tde221.zip) - a fine, public domain editor [ updated ] --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Program: MicroEmacs ... Alternatives: ... Oemacs (oemacs{1,2,3,4}.zip in /pub/msdos/oemacs) - a version of GNU Emacs 18.59 ... which requires lots of disk space and memory [ added ] --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Section G: Miscellaneous Files --------------------------------------------------------------------------- File: tsfaq33.zip ... There are also many other interesting stuffs in /pc/ts and /pc/pd2 ... author16.zip - SW & PD authors reachable on the Internet ... [ updated ] --------------------------------------------------------------------------- File: asp6402.zip Version: 93/04 [ updated ] Size: 546,229 bytes Description: Association of Shareware Professionals Catalog Location: oak: /pub/msdos/info garbo: /pc/doc-soft Comment: A (monthly) catalog of quality shareware programs for BBS users ... However, many of these sharewares should be available from SIMTEL20 and Garbo ...(and SIMTEL20 is the only ASP-approved ftp site) ... There is also a monthly update - upd6402.zip ... Also, read the monthly Hack Report (hack9304.zip) to be aware of hacked files that might be on BBSs ... [ updated ] --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Appendix 1: Mirror Sites --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mirror Site IP Directory ----------- -- --------- I. SIMTEL20 Mirrors ... archive.orst.edu 128.193.2.13 /pub/mirrors/simtel20/msdos [ added ] --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Appendix 2: Obtaining files by e-mail --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Other servers: European: ftpmail@grasp.insa-lyon.fr BITNET: bitftp@pucc.princeton.edu or BITFTP@PUCC [ added ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- ><-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^->< | Samuel C. 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