PC Software

PC Software collected from various places

Note also the MS Windows archive at Indiana and The Consummate Winsock App List

This archive is organised (somewhat) into

Basic comms
FTP, archie, etc
HTML Editors, etc
Mail tools
News readers, etc
Viewers
Web browsers, etc
HTTP servers, etc
Other assorted things

The DOS-Internet Kit can be found in the directory Internet_kit.

The UiTø Communications kit is in the directory UiTo_comms_kit (Jan '95)

pkunzip.exe can be used to unzip all these files; it can also be used from a Windows based shell.

Basic comms
- Trumpet Winsock Vn 2.0 rev B 941103. Also an automatic installer for Windows 3.11 (Windows for Workgroups) 950216. See also Word for Windows 3.11 TCP/IP (32 bit) 950217
- Winsock applications that were previously bundled with Trumpet Winsock 931201
- Windows 3.11 TCP/IP (32 bit), works with Samba server. 950217
FTP, archie, etc
- NCSA ftp and telnet for use with the network adaptor at Tromsø see Cookbook entry on connecting laptops to the network.
- Windows archie client
- Winsock FTP Daemon (FTP server) for Windows 3.1 and NT 950806
HTML Editors, etc
- HTML editor for MS Windows 950223
- HTML version of Windows Notepad 951104
- Internet Assistant for MS Word 6 960805
- Word for Windows template, etc, for HTML
Mail tools
- PC Eudora 1.44 WinSock API 1.1 POP3/SMTP mail client (self extracting archive) 950218
- Windows 3.1 and NT SimpleMailTransProtocol Daemon 931027
- Windows Sockets GMAIL (with SMPTP and POP)
News readers, etc
- Free Agent: News and mail reader from Forté 950715
- Trumpet Newsreader NNTP for Windows Sockets API 931002
Viewers
- Ghostview Vn 1.11 beta for Windows. First create a directory c:\gs, transfer the gs.zip file (about 3.8 MByte) to it and use pkunzip -d gs.zip to uncompress the files; a subdirectory, c:\gs\fonts, will be created for the font files.
- MPEG player for 32bit MS Windows 940819
- Viewer for .gif and .jpeg files 941006
Web browsers, etc
- NCSA Mosaic v. 2.0.0 (32bit) for MS Windows NT, Win95. For Windows 3.1 the installation of win32s is necessary! Do not install win32s on Windows NT and Win95. 951201
- Get yourself a bigger machine and check out Netscape Navigator Gold 3.0 960925
- Use WebWatch to keep track of changes to selected www documents (see also the Web Watch product information page). 9500813
HTTP servers, etc
- NCSA HTTPD server vn 1.4 for MS Windows and the associated statistics package (local copies with a link to the latest source); extract with pkunzip.exe -d whtpd14.zip. 950211
- World Wide Web Server for Windows 3.1 and NT 931209
Other assorted things
- Change your program manager icons with PC Magazine's mygroups tool. Copy files to \windows and add mygroups.exe to your startup group 941001
- NCSA Collage for Winsock [203k] 940311
- Pretty Good Privacy, Vn 2.6 unofficial international edition: only the NSA should be able to help you if you lose your private key here (you can use the associated signature to convince yourself that the distribution is genuine, but it only really helps if you _trust_ the owner). There is also a hypertext version of the documentation distributed with pgp26ui. This is a DOS application. 950308
- Programmers File Editor for Windows. 950314
- Scheduler for Windows and DOS programs from PC Magazine 941219
- Win32s Vn 1.1.5a, allows 32-bit Windows applications 940809
- Win32s Vn 1.25 with OLE, self extracting archive (refer to the instructions!) 950108 (Win32s only updated 951026)
- Win32s Vn 1.30.172 (necessary for latest version of NCSA Mosaic)
- Winsock application to set your PC's clock to match a remote host 940119
- WLPRSPL v4, a Windows Sockets based print spooler 940318

Note: All network software requires either Windows 3.11 TCP/IP, Trumpet Winsock or similar....

Updated by Reinhard, May 31, 1996.