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DOS S/W Archives Still Active?
Name: mac57 Date: November 8, 2005 at 08:24:28 Pacific OS: DOS 6.2/WFWG3.11 CPU/Ram: Pentium II, 384M
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I have just finished porting my VE Text Editor from Linux to DOS, and would like to submit it to a still active DOS archive. Does anyone know of DOS archives that are still accepting new software? Garbo is closed, SimTel fails with web page errors, and Tucows' section for Editors is so far down in its hierarchy that I am sure no one would ever see this new software. Anyone posting on this group these days must be a "vintage PC hobbyist" - where do you go for software?
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