News on TSUTLF, Sixth set of Utilities, in reverse order
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University of Vaasa, Finland, Linux Pentium garbo.uwasa.fi has a
large collection of Shareware, Freeware and Public Domain PC
programs available by anonymous FTP, WWW (World Wide Web) and mail
server. The file ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/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
and the Usenet news.

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Prof. Timo Salmi  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
Useful script files and tricks ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/link/tscmd.zip
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Thu 11-Dec-2003: Updated CHOOSE.EXE "Ask questions in batch/script
files". It is a part of
 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/ts/tsutlf17.zip
 Timo's 6th utility set (advdate,choose,deledir,strings,strmemo,)
Where necessary, the other programs in the package now notify about
detecting a Windows_NT OS environment variable. However, the other
programs in the package are irrelevant from the main point this
update (i.e. the generic CHOOSE).

Tue 1-Feb-2000: I have made a routine information update
 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/ts/tsutlf16.zip
 Timo's 6th utility set (advdate,choose,deledir,strings,strmemo,)
Functionally, the programs are unchanged.

Thu 27-Jul-95: The ordinary MS-DOS commands mkdir, rmdir and chdir
cannot handle directory names with blanks in them. I have added
 GOTODIR.EXE Generalized change directory
to complement
 DELEDIR.EXE Generalized delete directory
 MAKEDIR.EXE Generalized create directory
It is part of the updated
 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/ts/tsutlf15.zip
 Timo's 6th utility set (advdate,choose,deledir,strings,strmemo,)

Thu 24-Feb-94: Wrote the following two programs and added them to
the update garbo.uwasa.fi:/pc/ts/tsutlf14.zip.
 DELEDIR.EXE  Generalized delete directory
 MAKEDIR.EXE  Generalized create directory
Contrary to the MsDos rmdir and mkdir these programs allow using
blanks.

Sat 7-Aug-93: Programmed "CHOOSE.EXE Ask questions in batch files".
MsDos 6.0 finally included a CHOICE command for making user choices
in batches. CHOOSE simulates CHOICE for the earlier MsDos versions
reasonably accurately. The idea is that if you have obtained a batch
that uses CHOICE, but you don't have MsDos 6.0, you can still
utilize the batch. The syntax is naturally based on MicroSoft's,
except for the addition of the help switch. The actual CHOOSE
program is a Turbo Pascal 5.0 program based the author's own,
earlier ASK program for making choices in batches. Contrary to
CHOICE, CHOOSE handles also the /t:c,0 timeout correctly.
   There is also a companion batch file "CHTEST.BAT An example of
using CHOOSE.EXE".
   These files are available in garbo.uwasa.fi:/pc/ts/tsutlf13.zip.

Fri 16-Apr-93: I have written
 ADVDATE.EXE "Advance system clock's date"
Usage: ADVDATE [[+/-]numberOfDays]
If you have MsDos 3.3+ also the CMOS date is updated.
The program is in the updated garbo.uwasa.fi:/pc/ts/tsutlf12.zip.

Sun 7-Feb-93: Peter Weighill (stuce@csv.warwick.ac.uk) noticed that
my STRMEMO.EXE "Find strings in your PC's memory" has the bug of not
allowing an E as part of the hexadecimal starting address or the
ending address for the memory string search. This kind of feedback
is very useful to me. I have corrected this bug, and consequently
update the relevant collection to be garbo.uwasa.fi:/pc/ts/
tsutlf11.zip.
   While I was at it I noticed another bug myself which concerns
both STRMEMO.EXE and STRINGS.EXE "Find a file's embedded strings".
If the output was redirected, the beep belonging to the error
message went to the redirected destination istead of the standard
output.  This has been corrected.

Mon 16-Nov-92: I have started the sixth utility assortment of mine.
It is garbo.uwasa.fi:/pc/ts/tsutlf10.zip.
   The new collection includes STRINGS.EXE for finding the embedded
strings from a text or a binary file. It also gives the hexadecimal
offset of each string found.
   The second program in the new collection is STRMEMO.EXE which can
be used for scanning your PC's memory for strings. You'll probably
find some interesting information in there.
   An optional switch to use the Scandinavian string definition in
the search is provided.
