BESTWIND.TXT                   Copyright (c) by Timo Salmi 1991-1999
Sat 9-January-1999

Timo's subjective choice of best PD, FW & SW Windows 3.1x material
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There is a huge number of very worthwhile shareware and other
material that is not on this list. Please note that this list is
subjective reflecting my own, special usages. Hence one cannot
"submit" to this list, as some users and authors have done after
this list has become fairly widespread. Comments and views are
naturally welcome, nevertheless.

Although one cannot submit to the list at hand, the gentle authors
might be interested to see http://www.uwasa.fi/http/banners.html for
a page of banners.

You are free to quote brief passages from my text provided you
clearly indicate the source with an acknowledgment. Please do not
distribute any part of this package separately.

cm16_426.zip    ClipMate Clipboard Extender by Chris Thornton. This
                a real find and the most recent addition to the
                list. This program enhances one of Windows' most
                useful features: the ability to transfer data
                between applications. Since I got this program in
                1998, it has been in use every single session.

cshww320.zip    CompuShow GIF viewer from Bob Berry. Like its MS-DOS
                counterpart displays images from several alternative
                picture formats. It can also be used to process the
                images. CompuShow can make transparent colors, alter
                the number of colors, and display and embed text
                comments into gif files.

ewan1052.zip    To make a terminal connection with a modem one can
                use a suitable telnet client program. I used this
                excellent, free program from Peter Zander from
                Sweden. The only clear usage drawback I have noticed
                is that the scrollback feature can confuse the
                terminal settings and make reconnecting necessary at
                worst. Requires Winsock or some other connection
                program. Later, for security reasons, I have given
                this program up. I now use F-Secure SSH from Data
                Fellows Ltd. in order to have encrypted connections
                over the net and over the modem lines.

g16e301.exe     We are living in an era of science fiction coming
                true. It is hardly on exaggeration to say that the
                World Wide Web and the Netscape viewer are making an
                unprecedented change in global communication. At
                this very moment they are a part in Alvin Toffler's
                visions of the global village becoming everyday
                reality. - Despite the keen competition from
                Microsoft, Netscape Navigator is at the very least
                at par or has the edge in all major features and
                usability over its mighty rival. - I have listed
                here the Gold version 3.01 of Netscape which
                includes in some respects an unfinished home page
                editor. Netscape is a complicated product and
                occasionally experiences stability problems and
                strange crashes, but less than in the earlier
                versions. Yes, I have also Netscape 4.03/4.08 on my
                PCs, but I use 3.01 more frequently. For one thing
                3.01 does not have the printing problems which the
                4+ versions have.

lviewp1b.zip    Image file editor for Microsoft Windows 3.1 by
                Leonardo Loureiro. This is not a drawing program but
                an image processing program. Among other things it
                can be used to convert image formats. It also has
                the useful ability to display multiple images as a
                slide show. Especially since I bought a digital
                camera, I have used the slideshow feature a lot.

i_f3016d.zip    Cursor Arts' Icon Editor. A nifty drawing program
                with a fairly complete set of tools for preparing
                Windows 32x32 pixel icons. The icons that I have in
                my own program packages have been prepared with this
                program.

nsv11a.zip      NeoSoft Viewer. This is a very good file and content
                search tool for locating material on one's harddisk.
                You can locate files, file contents and view the
                files in ascii and in hex.

ntspad16.zip    The problem with Windows' own notepad utility is
                that it cannot handle very large or multiple files.
                This has given a rise to several good notepad
                replacements. Among these my preference has become
                Notespad, a very nice freeware program from Bremer
                Corporation. Another one which I'll mention, though,
                is notebk24.zip CT Software. There is one snag which
                is common to the original notepad and all the
                replacements I have looked at so far. Notespad
                cannot handle MS-DOS upper ascii. For a Finn often
                needing letters like  and  this is a major
                drawback. Hence I occasionally have to use Microsoft
                Word for simple ascii text file processing.

psp311.zip      Paint Shop Pro image authoring, JASC Inc. A very
                fine program whose arrival to Garbo has one of its
                most tempestuous histories.

snagit42.zip    SnagIt from Chris Wheeler and TechSmith Corporation.
                This useful Windows utility captures the screen or
                portions thereof to a file or directly to the
                printer. A program I often use to print and
                sometimes capture images from the Windows screen.

winsock.zip     Trumpet Winsock from Australia. A necessity, at
                least for me, for making the Windows connection from
                my home PC to the office main frame. Nice automated
                dialing and other scripting from Peter R. Tattam &
                Trumpet Software International.

wsftp450.zip    FTP file transfer client, limited license version
                for universities, J.Junod. This is a robust FTP
                transfer program for the Windows environment.
                Requires Winsock or some other connection program.
                Shows a sense of humor in the selection of the event
                sounds.

wz16v63.exe     WinZip for Win 3.1 w/Built-in ZIP, TAR, gzip,
                compress. The versatile achiever shell for Windows
                3.1. Does in the Windows environment many things
                that Shez does on the MS-DOS side. An absolute
                necessity for a Windows FTP site user to view the
                material downloaded.

Why are there so relatively few Windows 3.x programs on this
somewhat skewed list? Because the accessories that already belong
with Windows 3.11, the fully commercial Microsoft Office Suite and
the MS-DOS programs listed in the MS-DOS part take well care of what
I currently need on my PC. Not surprisingly many of the programs I
have chosen are image related, since graphics and image processing
is why I started using Windows 3.11 in addition to MS-DOS.

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