I am setting up a page that promotes freeware-stuff. This is
_nothing_ commercial (I am a student doing this for our
all's benefit) so don't even bother to talk about shareware
(Shareware that also provides a fully working
freeware-version including unrestricted rights to use the
file(s) for whatever are of course welcome though).

I found some neat VBXs & Co on the net that are freeware.
You wouldn't guess how many there are... therefore I'm
trying to complete my list of links for freeware in this
field. I need some more files for that page!!!

So: If you have programmed a freeware-VBX, OCX or DLL please
tell me so. I will include it on my page (unless it is
absolutely waste).

If you use a cool freeware-extension, tell me so!

Please give answers on:

 - Link to file:
 - Size of Download in kB:
 - Link to WWW-page (if existant):
 - Type (VBX/OCX/DLL/ActX):
 - If DLL: 16 or 32bit:
 - Size of distributable:
 - Short Description:
 - Long description:
 - Freeware or PD:
 - If PD: Is source really included (Y/N):

Thanks a lot for your help. I'll post the link for my "to
come up"-page as soon as it exists. Posting it here will
also reach me (and others get to know before my page's up
which is a benefit).

If you don't want to post all the answers here (which I
recommend not to do for saving us traffic) I plead you to
send me the whole thing as an e-mail to

If you're a VBX & Co - author and can't get webspace for
your files: Contact me, I'll help you.

Let's combine what we know!

Mathias Schiffer, Germany
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that's myself ;-) wrote (Mon, 24 Mar 1997 22:34:28 GMT):

I'll give it one more shot but I guess that will produce the
same Zero-input as this one did. Anyway, let's hope (and you
guys HELP collecting! Nobody answered yet, would you believe
that?! It's not that "all the others" will do it for you:
YOU need to contribute!!!).

Mathias Schiffer, Germany
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On the constructive side, here are some addresses I have picked up
just in this session by "searching" just this meager newsgroup.

Free or nearly free stuff, descriptions appear in their respective
posts.

http://home.earthlink.net/~bananasoft
http://www.rat.de/metty/bin/vb-faq.zip
http://www.mabry.com
http://www.into.net/coolstf

not gospel, just my thoughts...

22:29:24 GMT):

Generally (this is not meaning to offend you now) it was not
my intention to make me visit thousands of pages on the net
to search and search and search for freeware (I wouldn't
have needed to post this here for that case), do all the
work completely alone and then give its result to all the
guys who haven't been willing to cooperate. Cooperation is a
thing that combines working on two sides. And if it doesn't
work, then it doesn't. No contributors, no page. As easy as
that. Well, never mind.

Mathias Schiffer, Germany
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wrote (Mon, 24 Mar 1997 22:34:28 GMT):

YOU didn't answer, so blame yourself!

Mathias Schiffer, Germany
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Just maybe..Just perhaps..PEOPLE WEREN'T INTERESTED!

Geesh! Lighten up a tad.

14:49:15 GMT):

Mathias Schiffer, Germany
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