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From: msingh@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (The Supreme Commander)
Subject: Re: BAM351.ZIP - Bank Account Manager v3.51: Family finance mgr
Organization: Indiana University
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 14:40:33 GMT

In article <1993Jan12.055423.2422@cbnewsc.cb.att.com> kimes@cbnewsc.cb.att.com (Kit Kimes@AT&T/NCR) writes:
>From article <shephard.726795428@sfu.ca>, by (Gordon Shephard):
>> kko@fraser.sfu.ca (Samuel Ko) writes:
>>>
>>>That means the minimum registration fee is US $40 ... Is that too much? ...
>>>given that, with 40 (or fewer) bucks, one can get a copy of Quicken 6.0 - the
>>>best personal finance software ... My point is a shareware author should
>>>charge a considerably lower registration fee than the price of any similar
>>>product in the commerical market ...
>> 
>> Then again, I have the option of trying out BAM before purchasing it. 
>> I don't have the same luxury with quicken.
>
>By that logic, a $35,000 Cadillac is a better buy than a $15,000 Chevy
>if you get to test drive the Cadillac but not the Chevy.
>
>Truth is, Quicken is a well know and reviewed product and I think a person
>could probably determine if it would meet their needs without actually
>trying it out.  That isn't true with BAM (or most shareware, for that matter).

There are other considerations. For instance, with a shareware package
you get low cost upgrades (not mentioned in the manual, but upgrades
are only $10), your input gets *noticed*, shareware authors are more
receptive to comments or complaints.

As for not being as well reviewed, well of course not since the
commercial packages advertise in magazines, and therefore get far more
exposure. If you consider that BAM has been available since 1987, you
would think that it would have gotten more exposure, but since
there are commercial packages out there, people don't tend to bother
with shareware.

Finally, BAM is not like Quicken. It doesn't print checks, nor does it
give you some budget forecasting. Why not? Because *I* truly believe
there are people out there who need a *simple* bank program just to
keep track of several accounts. Should they pay more for this "simple"
program? Well, in general shareware costs more to produce and market.

Our registered users have given us a lot of constructive feedback, and
all are still using the program. (Which is amazing considering some
registered back in 1987!) When asked if they would, today, pay $35 for
the program, they all said yes. As we get more registrations, the
price lowers...



					...Manu

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From: jjins00@nx40.mik.uky.edu (jun jinsok)
Subject: PKZIP v2.04c
Keywords: pkzip
Summary: ...
Organization: University Of Kentucky, Dept. of Math Sciences
X-Path: nx40.mik.uky.edu!jjins00
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 01:25:47 GMT

      Ignore this message if it's just my silly mistake...

      Anyone tried to use new pkzip2.04 with -$ ? 
      I was trying trying to compress one disk as zip file with volume
      label.. I tried pkzip -$a disk.zip a:*.*  and couldn't get the volume
      label.. is this another bug? or is it just me? 

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From: billy@sol.acs.unt.edu (Billy Barron - VAX/UNIX Systems Manager)
Subject: Re: $$ Is pkz204c worth the $$ ?
Organization: University of North Texas
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 23:36:11 GMT

wally@Auspex.COM (Wally Bass) writes:

>The dominant standard, I think, is something that can be decompressed
>with pkunzip 1.10. If someone comes out with something which can't
>be decompressed by pkunzip 1.10, then it is no longer the dominant
>standard. Just because the files produced by this program have
>an extension of 'ZIP' (a disservice, it seems to me, since people
>will mistake these files for files which conform to the dominant
>standard decompression program, namely pkunzip 1.10) and comes from
>the infamous PKWARE software works doesn't mean a thing relative to
>the question of conforming to prevailing standards. pkzip 2.04c is
>fundamentally a new product having little relation to prevailing
>standards, and it should be viewed that way. Or perhaps it should
>be viewed somewhat more negatively, for absolutely destroying
>that 'standard' meaning that we previously could infer from the
>commonly used notion of 'zip file'.
>
Personally, I don't care about the underlaying compression method as
much as I care about the user interface.  I like PKZIP because it
implements the same commands basically all the way back to ARC whereas
with the other programs I always have to look them up....


Billy Barron, VAX/UNIX Systems Manager, University of North Texas
billy@unt.edu, billy@untvax.bitnet, THENET: NTVAX::BILLY

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From: w8sdz@tacom-emh1.army.mil (Keith Petersen)
Subject: Re: pkz204c.exe is out, finally ...
Organization: The SIMTEL20 Archives
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 01:05:54 GMT

csc@pilot.njin.net (Sean Casey) writes:
>w8sdz@tacom-emh1.army.mil (Keith Petersen) writes:
>|Due to the restrictions on the exporting of encryption technology, this
>|program cannot be legally offered by any FTP site in the USA or Canada
>|that can be accessed from other countries,
>
>It's a floor wax, a dessert topping... and a dangerous munition!

I do not make policy at SIMTEL20.  I just work for them.  If you have
complaints about SIMTEL20 policies, the address to write to is:

    Action@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL (SIMTEL20 Administrators)

I can tell you this:  there are those who would like to see SIMTEL20
shut down and they are looking for any excuse.  Putting a program on
SIMTEL20 that may violate the laws governing exports to countries on
the "restricted list" could give them the excuse to shut SIMTEL20 down.
I think that most people would not insist that SIMTEL20 take that chance.

The proper way to handle this problem is to work to have the law changed.
Perhaps a letter to your congressman would help.

Keith
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Internet: w8sdz@TACOM-EMH1.Army.Mil     or      w8sdz@Vela.ACS.Oakland.Edu
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From: elliott@oliafd.shel.isc-br.com (Elliott Kleinrock)
Newsgroups: comp.archives.msdos.d
Subject: Re: Delay to Mirror Sites
Date: 6 Jan 93 13:56:04 GMT
Organization: Olivetti Advanced Finance Development

In article <1993Jan5.140526.20079@uwasa.fi> ts@uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi) writes:
> consider use automated FTP.  In fact consider it anyway,
>Gentle Users.  This is a trick I often advocate, since it decrases
>the unncecessary connection time.  If you have a BSD Unix host get
>  1670 May 24 11:51 garbo.uwasa.fi:/unix/ftp/batchftp.inf
> 29520 Oct 31  1990 garbo.uwasa.fi:/unix/ftp/batchftp102.tar.Z

What does it do?  Is there a PC version?  If not, is there a planned PC 
version?  (I sometimes do my ftp's from a PC).


>   All the best, Timo

>...................................................................
>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 Bitnet: salmi@finfun   ; SF-65101, Finland
	- Elliott

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From: lemieux@bcrka355.bnr.ca (Robert Lemieux 1601259)
Subject: Wanted: ADLIB driver for Windows 3.1
Reply-To: lemieux@bnr.ca
Organization: Bell Northern Research, Ottawa, Canada
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 18:29:26 GMT

If the PC speaker can produce sound for Windows, is there a driver
for ADLIB anywhere?

Thanks in advance.
From: gorokho1@husc10.harvard.edu (Zhenya Gorokhovsky)
Newsgroups: comp.archives.msdos.d
Subject: Telemate 4.00 terminal emulation
Date: 10 Jan 93 23:11:44 GMT
Organization: Physicists for Poetry


  I have tried the latest release of the Telemate and found  that while
it is supposed to have enhanced vt102 emulation, there is an annoying bug
introduced: I like to use bright white on blue terminal screen, now,
apparently after some ANSI sequence from the host, it switches to 
a regular white (more like gray) on blue. 
  Most notably it comes up when I am using Emacs, the "guilty"
sequence is somewhere in the status line.  
Any comments or workarounds?

Zhenya
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From: rdippold@qualcom.qualcomm.com (Ron Dippold)
Subject: Re: PKZIP vs ARJ. was Re: PKZIP 2.04c
Organization: Qualcomm, Inc., San Diego, CA
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 18:50:09 GMT

robert@alkymi.unit.no (Robert Schmidt) writes:
>If only ARJ wasn't so slow...

Find ARJ 2.39b, it's at garbo.uwasa.fi in /pc/arcers/arj239b.exe.
It's almost the speed of PKZIP.  Or, if you want PKZIP compatability
and compression (but not speed), find Info-Zip.
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From: root@connect.com (Niles Mills)
Newsgroups: comp.archives.msdos.d
Subject: SpinRite V3.0:  Any Problems?
Keywords: spinrite
Date: Thu, 07 Jan 93 21:29:35 EDT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Connect Software, Morehead City, NC

Greetings!

Does anyone have any experience/stories/recommendations/warnings/etc.
regarding the new release of SpinRite, version 3.0?

Thanks in advance for the info.

Regards.

Niles Mills

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From: mcdonald@aries.scs.uiuc.edu (J. D. McDonald)
Subject: Re: DPMI (Re: pkz204c.exe is available)
Organization: UIUC SCS
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 17:59:25 GMT

In article <C0p9DK.HME@SSD.intel.com> jkearns@ssd.intel.com (Jerry Kearns) writes:

>In article <1993Jan11.123715.10856@cs.tcd.ie>, dherity@cs.tcd.ie (Herity D.) writes:

>A PC running DOS can be "used as a 386", i.e., run in 386 mode, without using
>DPMI.  DPMI is a multitasking spec (replacing VCPI), used by programs like
>MS Windows and DESQview.

DPMI can supplement VCPI but cannot "replace" it. There are things 
that can be done with VCPI that are impossible with DPMI. It would be
easy to fix the DPMI spec, but this has not been done.

Doug McDonald
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From: boone@a.cs.okstate.edu (Barry E. Boone)
Subject: Re: COMP430D.ZIP problems with DOS5
Organization: Oklahoma State University
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 93 18:03:20 GMT

From article <ecm9093.54@aston.ac.uk>, by ecm9093@aston.ac.uk (J.P.FLETCHER):
> I have had problems with the compress/decompress program extracted from 
> COMP430D.ZIP since I have moved from DOS4.01 to DOS5 on my 486 PC.
> I get a message "Packed file is corrupt" when I run the program, even with 
> no command line arguments.
> 
> Has anyone any advice on coping with this one?


On the command line, try putting the word LOADFIX (I think) in front of the
file you are trying to run...


> 
> John
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Gravity: It's not just a good idea, it's the law.
From: ts@uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi)
Newsgroups: comp.archives.msdos.d
Subject: Re: virus scan
Date: 7 Jan 93 05:20:30 GMT
Organization: University of Vaasa, Finland

In article <1993Jan7.000821.14644@nmsu.edu> ddresp@dante.nmsu.edu (DRESP) writes:
> Please does anyone know where i can get a copy of a virus scan.

Yes.  Start by getting the file lists like

garbo.uwasa.fi:/pc/INDEX.ZIP
wsmr-simtel20.army.mil: PD1:<MSDOS.FILEDOCS>SIMLIST.ZIP

Then:

"If you do not know how to go about getting this material, users are
welcome to email me for the prerecorded garbo.uwasa.fi instructions
(long, circa 29Kb), Keith Petersen (w8sdz@TACOM-EMH1.Army.Mil) for
SIMTEL20 information, or Craig Warren (ccw@archie.au) for Australian
Garbo mirror information.  North American users are advised first to
search on SIMTEL20, its mirrors OAK.Oakland.Edu, ftp.uu.net, or the
SIMTEL20 & Garbo mirror wuarchive.wustl.edu.  Australian users are
referred to archie.au, Asian to NCTUCCCA.edu.tw.  Some of the
mirrors may lag occasionally, or might not have all the files.
   If you send email to me for the Garbo instructions and do not
receive my reply within five days, please ask your own site's system
manager to construct a returnable mail path for you".

   All the best, Timo

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From: kimes@cbnewsc.cb.att.com (Kit Kimes@AT&T/NCR)
Subject: Re: BAM351.ZIP - Bank Account Manager v3.51: Family finance mgr
Organization: AT&T
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 17:02:20 GMT

From article <C0qwrL.5z@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu>, by (The Supreme Commander):
# In article <1993Jan12.055423.2422@cbnewsc.cb.att.com> (Kit Kimes@AT&T/NCR) writes:
#>
#>Truth is, Quicken is a well know and reviewed product and I think a person
#>could probably determine if it would meet their needs without actually
#>trying it out.  That isn't true with BAM (or most shareware, for that matter).
# 
# There are other considerations. For instance, with a shareware package
# you get low cost upgrades (not mentioned in the manual, but upgrades
# are only $10), your input gets *noticed*, shareware authors are more
# receptive to comments or complaints.

	Good point, but most programs don't need a lot of upgrades.
	I do like the idea that I can write to the author directly as
	I have on a few occasions.
 
# Finally, BAM is not like Quicken. It doesn't print checks, nor does it
# give you some budget forecasting. Why not? Because *I* truly believe
# there are people out there who need a *simple* bank program just to
# keep track of several accounts. Should they pay more for this "simple"
# program? Well, in general shareware costs more to produce and market.

	I agree, and was not trying to make the point that Quicken was
	a better product, only that most people can read product 
	reviews on it and probably decided if it sounds right for them.
	They could still be disappointed, though, and  are then stuck
	with a product they don't like.
 
# Our registered users have given us a lot of constructive feedback, and
# all are still using the program. (Which is amazing considering some
# registered back in 1987!) When asked if they would, today, pay $35 for
# the program, they all said yes. As we get more registrations, the
# price lowers...

	You have convinced me to take a copy to our User Group's next
	meeting and add it to the shareware library.  Hopefully, some
	will try it and register it.  My only complaint (without 
	actually trying BAM) is that I have a program that I have been
	using for 2 years now called PCA (Personal Checking Account)
	that does all I need (basically an electronic register with
	search capability, etc) and it only cost me $10 to register it.
	Maybe that is too little for a good and useful product, but it
	fits my rather limited software budget and I am one that likes 
	to register as many programs that I use as I can.

Kit Kimes
AT&T Resource Link (under contract to NCR)
Naperville, IL
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From: ts@uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi)
Subject: Re: Four Galileo space probe images
Organization: University of Vaasa, Finland
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 17:05:34 GMT

In article <1993Jan5.135009.19509@uwasa.fi> ts@uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi) writes:
>To give you and other gentle users a general answer, which you can

More tips for identifying and finding recently uploaded files

The current month's Garbo upload raw list
    400 Jan  5 15:37 garbo.uwasa.fi:/pc/_files.in

The December's Garbo upload raw list
   2260 Dec 30 09:42 garbo.uwasa.fi:/pc/filelist/garb9212.lst

Selective news about Garbo uploads
   1798 Jan  5 00:38 garbo.uwasa.fi:/pc/pd2/news-pd2
   1470 Jan  5 15:36 garbo.uwasa.fi:/pc/ts/0news-ts

Ditto for (the last half of) the last year
  41125 Jan  1 19:54 garbo.uwasa.fi:/pc/pd2/news92b.pd2
  55333 Jan  1 20:05 garbo.uwasa.fi:/pc/ts/0news92.ts

   All the best, Timo

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Moderating at garbo.uwasa.fi anonymous FTP archives 128.214.87.1
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From: fox@rei.com (Fuzzy Fox)
Subject: Re: Wanted: ADLIB driver for Windows 3.1
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 18:38:51 GMT
Organization: Recognition Equipment, Inc.

lemieux@bcrka355.bnr.ca (Robert Lemieux 1601259) writes:

>If the PC speaker can produce sound for Windows, is there a driver
>for ADLIB anywhere?

What type of driver?  Windows 3.1 includes a MIDI driver for AdLib, and
it works.  There is a PD sound drive (for WAV files) which can be
retrieved from:

ftp.cica.indiana.edu:/pub/pc/win3/sounds/adlibw.zip

This file can be installed in parallel with the MIDI driver, allowing
digitized sound effects that sound a bit better than the PC speaker.

For playing ROL files while in Windows, try this shareware demo:

ftp.cica.indiana.edu:/pub/pc/win3/demo/fmdemo.zip

These drivers can be installed in parallel with the above.  A ROL file
player is included, and it's somewhat Windows-friendly.

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From: tsand@vipunen.hut.fi (Tapio Sand)
Newsgroups: comp.archives.msdos.d
Subject: Re: Russian word processors
Keywords: Russian Cyrillic Word Processor Bilingual Text Editor
Date: 10 Jan 93 10:31:01 GMT
Reply-To: tsand@vipunen.hut.fi (Tapio Sand)
Organization: Helsinki University of Technology

In article <1ils71INNoo8@crcnis1.unl.edu> vporguen@unlinfo.unl.edu (victor porguen) writes:
...
>Believe it or not, the advent of MS Windows 3.1 has brought with it 
>some blessings <g>. One of them is TrueType scalable fonts. The 
...
>dot-matrix printer!  And the good news gets better: there are now 
>several free TrueType Cyrillic fonts, including a high-quality 
>classical Cyrillic designed by Bill Tavolga and released to the 
>public domain. 
...

Where? Are these available via FTP? If so, what site(s)? 
Do you know the name of the file, I could then do an Archie search.

Thanks in advance,
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From: robert@alkymi.unit.no (Robert Schmidt)
Subject: Re: pkz204c.exe is out, finally ...
Organization: Norwegian Institute of Technology
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 93 16:22:27 GMT

In article <kko.726351589@sfu.ca>, kko@fraser.sfu.ca (Samuel Ko) writes:
> grover@little-charlie.isri.unlv.edu (Kevin Grover) writes:
> 
> Ooooh? ... hopefully, the national security guys in the States aren't
> reading this ... :)  So, what about wuarchive? Legally, they should not
> mirror some files (pkz204c.exe included) from Garbo (unless wuarchive
> can make sure those files are downloaded by users in US/Canada only) ...

Hasn't someone already broken the law by handing the file to garbo,
which is a finnish site?  I guess garbo can't be blamed for making
the file public, though, as the law doesn't affect them.

I myself had no problem getting this non-export version, even though I
live in Norway.

Just wonderin'.

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From: ts@uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi)
Subject: Re: Vocabulary building programs
Organization: University of Vaasa, Finland
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 21:01:05 GMT

In article <1993Jan11.160208.19672@pool.info.sunyit.edu> upfv@pool.sunyit.edu (Paul Vieira) writes:
>Does anyone have knowledge of vocabulary building software in the
>MSDOS libraries? The software could come in the form of games or
>a quiz format to help introduce new words (college level) into the
>user's vocabulary. 

You could try WORDEXAM.EXE.  For the exact location please see

  17613 Jan  9 12:38 /pub/pc/INDEXTS.ZIP

   All the best, Timo

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Internet: ts@uwasa.fi Bitnet: salmi@finfun   ; SF-65101, Finland

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From: ts@uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi)
Subject: Re: Looking for pgm to disable certain keystrokes
Keywords: TSR keyboard
Organization: University of Vaasa, Finland
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 07:05:40 GMT

In article <V1ePwB1w165w@netlan.jpr.com> alberg@netlan.jpr.com (Al Berg) writes:
>I am seeking a program that will allow me to (temporarily) disable 
>certain keystrokes from being passed to an application (ie user presses 
>Alt-X and it goes to the bit bucket before the app gets it).  I envision 
>this being a TSR that I can load and unload as needed.

garbo.uwasa.fi:/pc/ts/tstsr15.zip Terminate Stay Resident, T.Salmi
Filename        Comment                             Date      Time
--------        --------------------------------    ----      ----
DISABLE.EXE     Disable any single standard key   01-05-93  14:34:26
:
----            ------             ------  -----
0015

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Moderating at garbo.uwasa.fi anonymous FTP archives 128.214.87.1
Faculty of Accounting & Industrial Management; University of Vaasa
Internet: ts@uwasa.fi Bitnet: salmi@finfun   ; SF-65101, Finland
From: vporguen@unlinfo.unl.edu (victor porguen)
Newsgroups: comp.archives.msdos.d
Subject: Macola accounting software
Date: 9 Jan 1993 03:28:33 GMT
Organization: University of Nebraska--Lincoln	
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: unlinfo.unl.edu
Keywords: Macola accounting Novell network GUI

Inquiring about Macola and its software, root@connect.com (Niles 
Mills)
writes:

> Does anyone have information on the quality of the Macola 
> accounting package?  In particular, we're interested in how 
> well the interface between modules works and whether or not 
> there are any major bugs.

Macola is high-end accounting software.  It's full-featured, 
reliable and flexible, well compatible with Novell, but the latest 
versions tend to be resource-demanding.  While the earlier versions 
did run acceptably on a 386 server and 286 workstations, the newer 
ones seem to run a little too slow for some people's taste, unless 
they have a fast 486 server and 386 workstations. On such equipment, 
the new Macola system loads quickly into memory and executes 
acceptably fast.

Macola has announced the introduction of a yet newer system, 
GUI-based and with many graphical enhancements such as windowed 
charts and graphs, etc.  My guess is that it will be even more 
resource-demanding than the current version but I haven't actually 
seen it yet.

VP

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