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I need such and such a program. Would you advise me?

I am interested to know if there exists a program for such and such purpose. Having often seen you on the net I think you must have much experience with programs. Would you point me in the right direction? (This question also often occurs in the news postings, especially in the comp.archives.msdos.d, alt.comp.freeware and alt.comp.shareware newsgroups. Note, however, that by the time you read this, the newsgroups may already have been discontinued.)

A1: Most often the best answer is to look through file lists. We have several such lists which should together have quite a good coverage of the shareware, freeware and public domain programs that used to be in circulation. The lists and files to see include

Also see Furthermore, we carried some file lists for the other FTP sites, but since 2001 we no longer retrieve updates of those files: A2: There is more advice on finding files in the Frequently Asked Questions collection tsfaqn.zip in the /pc/ts/ directory), and the Garbo feedback files tspost00.zip. Also see the Frequently Asked Questions for the newsgroup comp.archives.msdos.announce. That FAQ collection is available as camfaq.zip.

A3: Try Garbo's grep search engine.

A4: Utilize general search a service like Google's Advanced Groups Search for news announcements about program uploads to FTP sites. If you are looking for general material (and why not also the programs), there are very useful general search engines on the net. I have links to some of them at "Timo's collection of http links, Part 2 ". I recommend e.g. Yahoo, Hotbot and InfoSeek.

A5: Please do not email "looking for a program" questions to Garbo's moderators. We are pleased to try to help, and your email is welcome, but we are extremely pressed for time. We simply cannot afford the effort to find programs for the users on an individual email consultation basis. Please post these questions to the Usenet news. E.g. comp.archives.msdos.d is a proper newsgroup for looking for shareware, freeware and public domain MS-DOS programs. Another useful option is alt.comp.shareware. The advantage with asking on the newsgroups is that they have more readers with potential answers. Another advantage about using them is that then also the other users might benefit from those potential answers. For a fuller set of newsgroups please see "Timo's selection of Usenet newsgroups ".

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