Subject: Pleas for extremely common programs

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 Q: Someone email me a .zip extractor (or something equally common)

 A: This is not a flame but a friendly piece of advice for you, and
others occasionally posting similar wishes concerning easily
available shareware and PD programs.
   Better still than making an offhand request that may end up with
several kind netters duplicating each others' efforts for your
benefit by rushing to email your request to you, how about doing the
work yourself and getting it from an ftp site, or a BBS near you. At
our site the extractors can be found in the /pc/arcers directory.
For .zip files use pkz204g.exe or unz512x3.exe.
   The wares are available by anonymous ftp from garbo.uwasa.fi,
Vaasa, Finland, or by using our mail server (use the latter if, and
only if you don't have anonymous ftp). If you are not familiar with
anonymous ftp or mail servers, I will be happy to send prerecorded
instructions on your emailed request. (If you don't get the
instructions from me within a few days, it will mean that your email
address cannot be reached by a simple email reply, and you wouldn't
be able to utilize the mail server anyway. In this case contact your
own system manager for a better mail path.)
   (If you already have /pc/ts/tsfaqn*.zip, the prerecorded
instructions are what is in the PD2ANS.TXT file.)
   If you are in North America, first try a North American mail
server to cut down the overseas traffic. Ditto for Oceania. First
try an Oceanian site.
   If you don't know what directory to look at for the program you
would like to have, first get the following garbo.uwasa.fi file
lists:
     /pc/INDEX.ZIP
     /pc/INDEXTS.ZIP
     /windows/WINDEX.ZIP
     /unix/UINDEX.ZIP

 A2: When wanting to get a program you should also take a look at
the weekly Frequently Asked Questions for comp.archives.msdos.d even
if it has some overlap with this FAQ, which you are reading now. It
is also available as ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/pd2/camfaq.zip.
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