University of Vaasa, Finland, Linux Pentium, node number
193.166.120.5 (garbo.uwasa.fi) has a large collection of shareware,
freeware and public domain programs which are available by anonymous
ftp (file transfer program), WWW (World Wide Web) and by mail server
(ftpmail). This information file ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/ts/0news-ts
contains news about the programs in the /pc/ts directory (in reverse
order).
....................................................................
Prof. Timo Salmi Co-moderator of news:comp.archives.msdos.announce
Moderating at ftp:// & http://garbo.uwasa.fi/ archives 193.166.120.5
Department of Accounting and Business Finance ; University of Vaasa
mailto:ts@uwasa.fi <http://www.uwasa.fi/~ts/> ; FIN-65101, Finland
Spam foiling in effect. My email filter autoresponder will return a
required email password to users not yet in the privileges database.
N e w s o f 1 9 9 8
Sun 20-Dec-98: New material and corrections have again gradually
accumulated so it is a good time for the update
158763 Dec 20 1998 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/ts/tsfaqp46.zip
tsfaqp46.zip Common Turbo Pascal Questions and Timo's answers
The package is available e.g. for linking without the version number
as ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/link/tsfaqp.zip .
+
I have added the following new items to complete the sixth
25-question section file within the FAQ package
148) I don't have the printer.tpu. Who can please email it to me?
149) How can I convert Arabic numerals into Roman ones?
150) Could someone please explain to me how I can rotate an image?
151) Is there a frequency table for the different notes (C C# D...)?
+
Essentially rewrote, with much help from comp.lang.pascal.borland
the item
9) How do I execute an MS-DOS command from within a TP program?
My thanks to all who greatly contributed to improve the answer.
+
Added a vector case along the matrix example to
14) How can I create arrays that are larger than 64 kilobytes?
+
Augmented an answer to a variant question "How can I dump the screen
into a file?" into the item
31) How does one store, and then restore the original screen?
+
Added the Val-option solution to the item
42) How do I convert a decimal word into a hexadecimal string, etc?
+
Some users prefer to have all the FAQ files as a single, big file
for an easier browsing of keywords and alike. Included a simple
ALLFAQP.BAT batch which puts all the faqpas#.txt Questions & Answers
material into such a single file in the right order.
+
Removed all email addresses (expect mine) from the FAQ because of
the worsening spam, and because email addresses can get out of date.
The numerous names of the valued contributors naturally stay. It was
only the email addresses that went.
+
Oh yes, since it is almost the time when I write this. Merry
Christmas and A Happy New Year 1999 to all the Turbo Pascal
programming friends.
Sat 12-Dec-98: I updated of my "collection of useful batch files and
tricks to be
156353 Dec 12 1998 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/ts/tsbat57.zip
tsbat57.zip A collection of useful batch files and tricks, T.Salmi
I have added to 1BATFAQ.TXT the following new items
73) How can I check the number of parameters given to a batch?
74) How can I locate and e.g. delete all *.TMP files on a drive?
75) How can I rename all files sequentially in a directory?
76) How to search all the *.txt files on a drive for a word?
77) How can I give multiple commands on one line?
I also put some new material and clarifications in a few of the old
items.
Mon 2-Nov-98: I have updated my collection of Frequently Asked
Questions about the Net. It is available from the Garbo archives at
the University of Vaasa, Finland, without the version number as
123137 Nov 2 1998 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/link/tsfaqn.zip
tsfaqn.zip Questions from Usenet and Timo's answers, linked
or with the version number as
123137 Nov 2 1998 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/ts/tsfaqn48.zip
tsfaqn48.zip Questions from Usenet and Timo's answers
I have updated some of the items, mostly by inserting interesting
WWW pointers. Furthermore, I added the following new items to
faqnews2.txt
33) Isn't English compulsory on the international Usenet news?
34) I am fed up with your FAQ postings. Why don't you lay off?
35) Please answer to my assignment to post to this newsgroup.
Added to faqprpogs.txt
27) Where can I find sorting programs for big files?
28) I need a good binary / hex editor. Where can I find it?
29) Keyfake: How can I feed keystrokes to a program?
30) How can I replace a certain text in multiple files?
For a full index of my FAQs please see
34030 Nov 2 1998 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/pd2/tspost00.zip
tspost00.zip Index for Timo's FAQs and Information email + postings
Sun 18-Oct-98: I have added the option of making a logfile of the
decisions and outcomes to the introductory management game
for business students MANAGAME.EXE.
Usage: MANAGAME [?|/?|/H] [/D] [/LOG]
: : :
"Help" -+ : :
fast machines sound Delay -+ :
make a Log of the game -+
Managame is a part of the thus updated
65149 Oct 18 1998 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/ts/tsgame15.zip
tsgame15.zip Three educational games including a management game, T.Salmi
Sat 10-Oct-98: Added three new items to make the update
151578 Oct 10 1998 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/ts/tsfaqp45.zip
tsfaqp45.zip Common Turbo Pascal Questions and Timo's answers
Best available without the version number
ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/link/tsfaqp.zip
The new items are
145) How to tell which TP version has been used to compile an .exe?
146) How can I make a directory read-only under TP, and vice versa?
147) Where can I find Turbo Pascal 7.0 compiler on the net?
Sun 27-Sep-98: Happened to need to the following filter, so I wrote
one: COLPUT.EXE "Put a column of text into a file". It is a part of
my thus updated third filter package
108140 Sep 27 1998 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/ts/tsfltc21.zip
tsfltc21.zip More filters: dump,col,concat,cut,detab,rep,rot13,undump,...
COLPUT.EXE (Ver. 1.0) Put a column of text into a file
=====================
Usage: COLPUT TargetColumn AddString [/E] [/H] [/I] [/P] [/S]
skip Empty lines -+ : : : :
Help -+ : : :
Insert mode (default overwrite mode) -+ : :
no Padding -+ :
Short lines skip -+
COLPUT is a filter that inserts (or overwrites) the assigned column
of a text file with the AddString on all the lines of the file,
starting from the TargetColumn
E.g. if you have a text file MYTEXT.TXT, apply
COLPUT 10 PlugThis < MYTEXT.TXT > MYNEW.TXT
or
TYPE MYTEXT.TXT | COLPUT 10 AddThis /I > MYNEW.TXT
Lines exceeding 255 characters are truncated.
For a black type 254 from numeric keypad holding alt down.
Sat 26-Sep-98: Update
108885 Sep 26 1998 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/ts/tsbits20.zip
tsbits20.zip Base conversions, decimal bit calculations, T.Salmi
Added TSBITS.XLS "Excel 5.0 sheets for the tasks". Of course the
programs perform the tasks much more efficiently, but the Excel 5.0
sheets can be instruction in understanding the bit, factoring and
other operations that the package can perform. The sheets contained
in the workbook are
Hex Conversions between decimal and hexadecimal numbers
Bin Conversions between decimal and binary numbers
Bits Bitwise binary operations on two decimals
Comdiv The largest common divisor
Factors Factors of an integer
Tue 15-Sep-98: Update
103971 Sep 15 1998 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/ts/tsnum14.zip
tsnum14.zip Various programs in numerical analysis, T.Salmi
Added TSNUM.XLS "Excel 5.0 solutions of the tasks".
Mon 7-Sep-98: Made an update
61612 Sep 7 1998 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/ts/ts1st22.zip
ts1st22.zip Statistics: Univariate statistical measures, T.Salmi
Added alternative, small sample skewness and kurtosis measures into
my STATMEAS.EXE statistical measures program. Added STATMEAS.XLS
"Statistics with Excel 5.0" to the package.
Fri 4-Sep-98: I have made an update
145415 Sep 4 1998 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/ts/tslin35c.zip
tslin35c.zip Friendly linear programming and linear goal programming.
Version 3.5c: Linear programming (but not goal programming) problems
can also be solved with Microsoft Excel's "Solver" which is located
in the "Tools" menu (at least in version 5.0). I have added two
Microsoft Excel 5.0 spreadsheets DEMOLP.XLS and DEMOLP2.XLS to the
TSLIN35C.ZIP package to demonstrate this feature. If you have
Microsoft Excel, study the sheets and invoke the Solver to see how
an LP problem is formulated in Excel.
Tue 1-Sep-98: Made available
978329 Sep 1 13:29 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/ts/tsfair10.zip
tsfair10.zip Some scientific Publications in HTML Format, T.Salmi+al.
Contains:
Salmi - Martikainen (1994), A Review of Financial Ratio Analysis
:
Salmi - Virtanen - Yli-Olli (1990), On the Classification of
Financial Ratios
:
Salmi - Luoma (1981), Deriving the Internal Rate of Return from the
Accountant's Rate of Profit: Analysis and Empirical Estimation.
:
Ruuhela - Salmi - Luoma - Laakkonen (1982), Direct Estimation of the
Internal Rate of Return from Published Financial Statements.
:
Salmi - Virtanen (1997), Measuring the Long-Run Profitability of the
Firm; A Simulation Evaluation of the Financial Based IRR Estimation
Methods. (Includes Turbo Pascal programs.)
Sat 8-Aug-98: I have made an update of an old collection to be
87514 Aug 8 10:00 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/ts/tsfima14.zip
tsfima14.zip Programs of financial mathematics, T.Salmi
- PCs faster than 200Mhz have brought along a new problem with some
old programs. Turbo Pascal's Crt screen handling cease to work
because of a "divide by 0" initialization error. The update
hopefully remedies the situation for this package. I have not been
able, however, to test this since I only have sub-200Mhz PCs
available.
- Added Windows icons for four of the programs.
Mon 3-Aug-98: I have made an update of an old collection to be
73075 Aug 3 02:30 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/ts/tsmatr13.zip
tsmatr13.zip Standard matrix calculations. Product, inverse, etc.
- PCs faster than 200Mhz have brought along a new problem with some
old programs. Turbo Pascal's Crt screen handling cease to work
because of a "divide by 0" initialization error. The update
hopefully remedies the situation for this package. I have not been
able, however, to test this since I only have sub-200Mhz PCs
available.
Sun 2-Aug-98: I have made an update of an old collection to be
83029 Aug 2 1998 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/ts/tsbits19.zip
tsbits19.zip Base conversions, decimal bit calculations, T.Salmi
- PCs faster than 200Mhz have brought along a new problem with some
old programs. Turbo Pascal's Crt screen handling cease to work
because of a "divide by 0" initialization error. The update
hopefully remedies the situation for this package. I have not been
able, however, to test this since I only have sub-200Mhz PCs
available.
- Made some minor adjustments and corrections.
Sun 19-Jul-98: Added six new items to make the update
ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/ts/tsfaqp44.zip
Common Turbo Pascal Questions and Timo's answers
Best available without the version number
149061 Jul 19 1998 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/link/tsfaqp.zip
tsfaqp.zip Common Turbo Pascal Questions and Timo's answers, linked
The new items are
139) How do I get a random number from 1 to 49 instead of 0 to 49?
140) How do I get a list of numbers from 1 to 52 in a random order?
141) How can I disable/re-enable a drive from within a TP program?
142) How can I write a filter for ROT13 encryption in Turbo Pascal?
143) Why does writing the value of r := 104.50; give a false result?
144) What is the quickest way to find a word from an ordered array?
Sun 12-Jul-98: I have updated my Frequently Asked Turbo Pascal
Questions collection by adding
136) Is there a bug in Turbo Pascal's set operations?
137) How can I output 1000000 as 1,000,000?
138) How can I write text to the printer from a TP program?
The update is best available as
145423 Jul 11 1998 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/link/tsfaqp.zip
tsfaqp.zip Common Turbo Pascal Questions and Timo's answers, linked
and also
145423 Jul 11 1998 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/ts/tsfaqp43.zip
tsfaqp43.zip Common Turbo Pascal Questions and Timo's answers
Sun 12-Jul-98: I have made an update of my "collection of useful
batch files and tricks:
151504 Jul 11 1998 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/ts/tsbat56.zip
tsbat56.zip A collection of useful batch files and tricks, T.Salmi
adding to 1BATFAQ.TXT
70) How can I give more than the nine parameters to a batch? '
71) How can I update copy files from one directory to another?
72) How can I best clear all the files from my TEMP directory?
and to 1DOSTRIK.TXT
D9) What does "Out of environment space" mean? How do I get more?
Sat 11-Jul-98: I have updated my collection of trivial spreadsheet
templates by adding Excel 5.0 versions besides the As-Easy-As
versions.
METRIC.XLS Excel 5.0 to/from metric
STAT.XLS Excel 5.0 stat.meas. + draw plot
TIMEADD.XLS Excel 5.0 for timeadd + timedif
The updated package is
31400 Jul 11 1998 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/ts/tsaea11.zip
tsaea11.zip Timo's templates for the As-Easy-As spreadsheet program
Sat 11-Jul-98: I have made an update
40854 Jul 11 1998 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/ts/tsjog18.zip
tsjog18.zip A simple calculator and pacer for a jogging enthusiast.
- PCs faster than 200Mhz have brought along a new problem with some
old programs. Turbo Pascal's Crt screen handling cease to work
because of a "divide by 0" initialization error. The update
hopefully remedies the situation for this package. I have not been
able, however, to test this since I only have sub-200Mhz PCs
available.
- Added JOGSUM.XLS "Jogging as Excel 5.0 spreadsheet"
Sat 20-Jun-98: I have made a major update
148464 Jun 20 1998 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/ts/tsbat55.zip
tsbat55.zip A collection of useful batch files and tricks, T.Salmi
To begin with, corrected the fatal errors in the item
41) Getting the last replaceable parameter
Replaced an old, duplicate item by
56) Could you please solve this problem for me with a batch?
Added the new items
67) How can I extract the first two characters of a file name?
68) How can I compare two numbers with batch commands?
69) All these solutions are for wimps. Why not rather use 4DOS?
To emphasize the FAQ nature of the batch tricks, I renamed within
the package the text files. At the same time I put them first in the
archive package to separate them from the individual batch files.
New name Description Old name
-------- ----------- --------
1BATFAQ.TXT Assorted batch tricks and tips BATRICKS.TXT
1DOSTRIK.TXT Assorted MsDos tricks and tips DOSTRICK.TXT
1PATH.TXT How to beat the 127 byte limit PATH.TXT
1PROMPT.TXT Tips on prompt usages with ansi PROMPT.TXT
Since the items in 1BATFAQ.TXT (the former BATRICKS.TXT) are batch
FAQ-type of items, I have converted most of the item titles into the
form of batch users' questions. In going through the items I have
added a lot of further explanations and done extensive editing.
Tue 2-Jun-98: The other day I needed to filter material from upper
to lower case inclusive special characters, so I wrote two little
programs
LOWER.EXE Convert to lower case incl spec
UPPER.EXE Convert to upper case incl spec
I included them in the consequently updated
101056 Jun 2 19:17 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/ts/tsfltc20.zip
tsfltc20.zip More filters: dump,col,concat,cut,detab,rep,rot13,undump,...
Tue 26-May-98: The nature of the Internet and the Usenet news has
changed a lot since I started my FAQ collection of Frequently Asked
Usenet Questions. Most importantly the World Wide Web has become
almost synonymous to the Internet. The information on the net is in
these days often much more readily available on WWW pages than in
downloadable files such as this. Search engines have become an
important part of finding information on the net. Despite these
developments, much of the information I have gathered in an earlier
era still is current and of relevance. Therefore, after almost a
year, I have prepared an update
115853 May 26 1998 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/ts/tsfaqn47.zip
tsfaqn47.zip Questions from Usenet and Timo's answers
This file is now also available without the version number as
ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/link/tsfaqn.zip
I have included a number of WWW URLs in this new edition. Note,
however, that it is typical of the volatile WWW scene that some of
the URLs may have moved or vanished altogether.
Tue 26-May-98: I have again updated
143222 May 26 1998 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/link/tsfaqp.zip
tsfaqp.zip Common Turbo Pascal Questions and Timo's answers, linked
The identical, version-number format is
ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/ts/tsfaqp42.zip
Common Turbo Pascal Questions and Timo's answers
Corrected the item
130) How can I write an array to a text file in Turbo Pascal?
Added material to the item
126) How do I detect if my program is running under Windows?
Included the solution of "How to subtract dates?" into the item
119) What is the Pascal code to add a number of days to a date?
Added the following new items
131) Where do I get ASCII and scan codes for the different keys?
132) How do I define and use records? How do I give initial values?
133) What real numbers types are there? How do I use them?
134) How do I find out the default status of the compiler switches?
135) Anyone know where I can download Pascal source codes?
Sun 17-May-98: Take cover, all literary folks. I have released on the
scampering news:rec.humor readership the update
32530 May 17 1998 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/ts/tspun19.zip
tspun19.zip Timo's nauseating groaners (a collection of puns).
On a serious note. Since I am not a native English speaker, this is
one of my methods to strive at fluency.
Sun 17-May-98: Made the following update of my collection
148195 May 17 1998 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/ts/tsutil44.zip
tsutil44.zip Timo's 1st utility set (sysinfo,dirw,dtetimal,timelog,...)
Corrected to include getting also a CD-ROM label right the programs
DIRD.EXE Directories, different files
DIRS.EXE Directories, same files
DIRW.EXE As dir/w, recursive, file status
SYSINFO.EXE Information about your gadget
The batch "SYSINF.BAT Put your system info into a file" should not
be run under Windows. Added the detection of that status into the
batch file.
Sun 10-May-98: Released the update
138632 May 10 1998 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/ts/tsfaqp41.zip
tsfaqp41.zip Common Turbo Pascal Questions and Timo's answers
better available as
ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/link/tsfaqp.zip .
Corrected to include getting the CD-ROM label the item
104) How can I get/set a disk volume label?
New items
129) How can I find out if a date is a valid date?
130) How can I write an array to a text file in Turbo Pascal?
Sun 10-May-98: Made an update
139146 May 10 1998 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/ts/tsbat54.zip
tsbat54.zip A collection of useful batch files and tricks, T.Salmi
Added the following new items to BATRICKS.TXT
59) How get today's date into a six-character environment variable?
60) How can I find and copy the files updated today in a directory?
61) How can I test in a batch whether a TSR program has been loaded?
62) Putting the current drive letter into an environment variable.
63) How can I extract the drive letter from a full file path?
64) How can I write a "SLEEP" command to pause for a certain time?
65) How can put comments into a batch file?
66) How can I echo just the word "off" in a batch file?
Rewrote
TESTANSI.BAT "Has ANSI.SYS been loaded?"
Sun 19-Apr-98: I have made an update
375603 Apr 19 1998 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/ts/tsgifs17.zip
tsgifs17.zip Timo's free collection of GIF labels for World Wide Web
The collection now contains 733 gif images.
Tue 14-Apr-98: I wrote a very simple reaction game, in fact, to test
some Turbo Pascal mouse programming. You are show a number and you
have to find its pair as quickly as possible with the mouse. The new
games package is available as
27404 Apr 14 21:12 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/ts/tsgmef10.zip
tsgmef10.zip A simple reaction game w/mouse, T.Salmi
Sat 28-Mar-98: I have updated my collection of TSR programs. It is
now
103199 Mar 28 06:49 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/ts/tstsr22.zip
tstsr22.zip TSR programs (noboot,reslock,sordino,timedown,timeup ...)
- PCs faster than 200Mhz have brought along a new problem with some
old programs. Turbo Pascal's Crt screen handling cease to work
because of a "divide by 0" initialization error. The updates
hopefully remedy the situation for those of the tsr programs that
use the Crt unit. I have not been able, however, to test this
since I only have sub-200Mhz PCs available.
- Tried a new algorithm on "SORDINO.EXE Turn sounds off, shorter in
fact".
- Some of the address and similar information has been brought up to
date.
Fri 6-Mar-98: I have updated my collection of useful batch files
and batch tricks. It is now
138498 Mar 6 1998 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/ts/tsbat53.zip
tsbat53.zip A collection of useful batch files and tricks, T.Salmi
Added the following new items to BATRICKS.TXT
56) How can I test if a batch is running in a Windows dosbox?
57) How can I make a loop that is repeated a preset number of times?
58) How can I display the contents of the memory?
Added alternative methods or additional information to the items
4) Checking whether a directory exists
38) Echoing the redirection symbol
and made some minor adjustments to some other items.
Added the missing
REPEAT.BAT Repeat command to several files
Fri 6-Mar-98: I have updated my collection of Frequently Asked
Turbo Pascal Questions. It is
135915 Mar 6 1998 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/ts/tsfaqp40.zip
tsfaqp40.zip Common Turbo Pascal Questions and Timo's answers
and also
135915 Mar 6 1998 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/link/tsfaqp.zip
tsfaqp.zip Common Turbo Pascal Questions and Timo's answers
Added three new items:
126) How do I detect if my program is running under Windows?
127) How do I set errorlevel in Turbo Pascal and test it in a batch?
128) How do I get started with mouse programming?
Sat 21-Feb-98: Made an update
75856 Feb 21 1998 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/ts/tsfunc16.zip
tsfunc16.zip Calculates, tabulates, and plots your functions, T.Salmi
Added Windows 3.1x icons and PIFs for the three programs in the
package.
Sun 8-Feb-98: I have updated my fifth educational games package. It
is now
77751 Feb 8 1998 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/ts/tsgmee13.zip
tsgmee13.zip Classic Hangman and Towers of Hanoi, T.Salmi
containing
"HANGMAN.EXE The classic guess a word"
"TOWERS.EXE Towers of Hanoi, arrange disks"
- PCs faster than 200Mhz have brought along a new problem with some
old programs. Turbo Pascal's Crt screen handling cease to work
because of a "divide by 0" initialization error. The updates
hopefully remedy the situation for these games. I have not been
able, however, to test this since I only have sub-200Mhz PCs
available.
- Added to the package a Windows icon for each of the games.
Sat 7-Feb-98: I have updated my educational games package which
teaches flags as games. I consider it the best game package I have
managed to write. It is available from the Garbo program archives at
the University of Vaasa, Finland, as
89615 Feb 7 1998 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/ts/tsgmed14.zip
tsgmed14.zip Learn national flags as educational games (good), T.Salmi
It contains
"FLAGGAME.EXE Memory game with flags"
"FLAGQUIZ.EXE Learn national flags by a quiz"
- PCs faster than 200Mhz have brought along a new problem with some
old programs. Turbo Pascal's Crt screen handling cease to work
because of a "divide by 0" initialization error. The updates
hopefully remedy the situation for these games. I have not been
able, however, to test this since I only have sub-200Mhz PCs
available.
- Added to the package a Windows icon for both the flag games.
Thu 22-Jan-98: I have updated my third educational games package. It
is now
108436 Jan 22 20:48 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/ts/tsgmec13.zip
tsgmec13.zip Timo's educational games: ascigame,linegame,wordexam, T.Salmi
containing
"ASCIGAME.EXE Memory game with an ascii twist"
"LINEGAME.EXE Line fitting game"
"WORDEXAM.EXE Learn foreign words for exams"
"WORDQUIZ.EXE Multiple choice learn words"
- PCs faster than 200Mhz have brought along a new problem with some
old programs. Turbo Pascal's Crt screen handling cease to work
because of a "divide by 0" initialization error. The updates
hopefully remedy the situation for these games. I have not been
able, however, to test this since I only have sub-200Mhz PCs
available.
- Added to the package a Windows icon for each of the games.
- Reversed in Ascigame the /g switch to MS-DOS graftabl loaded
checking on. Earlier the graftabl was on by default (for older
machines).
Thu 15-Jan-98: I have updated my second educational games package. It
is now
87897 Jan 15 02:14 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/ts/tsgmeb17.zip
tsgmeb17.zip Timo's educational games: typevade, revegame, witpin
containing
"REVEGAME.EXE Arrange numbers by reversing"
"TYPEVADE.EXE Game for learning fast typing"
"WITPIN.EXE Solitaire adaptation of draughts"
- PCs faster than 200Mhz have brought along a new problem with some
old programs. Turbo Pascal's Crt screen handling cease to work
because of a "divide by 0" initialization error. The updates
hopefully remedy the situation for these games. I have not been
able, however, to test this since I only have sub-200Mhz PCs
available.
- Added to the package a Windows icon for each of the games.
- Added as an example "REVEGAME.PIF Windows 3.1x PIF for Revegame"
Sun 11-Jan-98: I have updated my first educational games package. It
is now
61211 Jan 11 1998 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/ts/tsgame14.zip
tsgame14.zip Three educational games including a management game, T.Salmi
containing
"HEXAGAME.EXE Guess the hidden number"
"MANAGAME.EXE One person management game"
"MLTIGAME.EXE Multiplication table as a game"
- PCs faster than 200Mhz have brought along a new problem with some
old programs. Turbo Pascal's Crt screen handling cease to work
because of a "divide by 0" initialization error. The updates
hopefully remedy the situation for these games. I have not been
able, however, to test this since I only have sub-200Mhz PCs
available.
- Added to the package a Windows icon for each of the games.
Sat 3-Jan-98: I have prepared Windows icons and PIF files for my
user-friendly MS-DOS statistics packages
ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/ts/ts1st21.zip statistical measures
ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/ts/ts2st23.zip OLS regression analysis
ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/ts/ts3st18.zip transformations
ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/ts/ts4st18.zip correlation analysis
ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/ts/ts5st17.zip LAD regression analysis
The icons/PIFs collection is available as
8757 Jan 3 1998 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/ts/ts6st10.zip
ts6st10.zip Windows Icons+PIFs for Timo's statisctical MS-DOS packages
Thu 1-Jan-98: New year, new update
125141 Jan 1 10:16 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/ts/tslin35b.zip
tslin35b.zip Friendly linear programming and linear goal programming.
:
Version 3.5b: The LINSOLVE.EXE (the normal mode C80) program is
unchanged, and thus is still version 3.5. Corrected a small stylistic
over-flow error in the header of LINSOL40.EXE (the mode C40 classroom
version). Added for Windows 3.1x users the .PIF and .ICO files. If you
are running LINSOLVE in vanilla MS-DOS or the Windows Dosbox you do not
need the .PIF and .ICO files. For using these files, please see your
Windows manual and/or help.
Version 3.5: Over four yeas have passed since I last updated my
LINSOLVE linear programming and linear goal programming program. A lot
has happened on the PC scene in between. Windows programs have taken
over from MS-DOS as the main operating system. This means a diminishing
potential for the MS-DOS updates. Therefore I decided to make available
for the private users the full scale version of 120 decision variables,
80 constraints, and 10 objectives.
Another development is the faster and faster machines. Unfortunately,
when the 200Mhz limit is reached the programs written with Turbo
Pascal's Crt screen handling cease to work because of a "divide by 0"
initialization error. Version 3.5 hopefully avoids this bug in Borland's
Turbo Pascal compiler. I have not been able, however, to test this since
I only have sub-200Mhz PCs available.
For better or worse rewrote the LINSOLVE.DOC to be a Microsoft Word
6.0c document. Admittedly it is less generic than an ASCII file, but it
is better formatted especially for printing.
Thu 1-Jan-98: The older news about the files in the /pc/ts directory are
available as
:
ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/ts/0news97.ts
The news announcements of 1997 about ts-programs, T.Salmi
:
and so on, backwards.