List of files missing in action

This is a list of files that have been freely downloadable and/or freely re-distributable in the past but have gone missing from the net. There are a number of reasons why this can happen:

• They can disappear for natural reason, original site is closed, personal web page is closed etc., and no one has had the presence of mind to upload a copy to one of the common FTP sites or archives.
• File was uploaded to hobbes.nmsu.edu (long serving OS/2 FTP archive) and either not accepted or later removed, according to the hobbes rules the uploader is supposed to be contacted but that never happens, did not happen in the days before the site was called hobbes some 25 years ago and is unlikely to start now. 10 to 25% of files uploaded to the incoming directory of hobbes disappear from the site in the long term in most cases for reasons unknown^#1.
• The file was only hosted on Compuserve/LEO/Some other forgotten FTP site and disappeared . Most FTP sites of note that have closed down were mirrored, including GARBO, SIMTEL and WinSite and therefore can be accessed today even if not directly. But others were not mirrored for sundry reasons, the only LEO mirrors out there did not archive the OS/2 section because the mirror webmasters did no like OS/2, did not think it was relevant or some similar "psychological" reasons. Some sites like Compuserve considered their file archive to be their intellectual property and therefore did not allow copying and when their file areas were shut down, no archive was made.

Programming tools

• s2.zip

OS/2 Abbotsbury debugger for driver development

• gbase33.zip

OS/2 JBA Guidelines base version 3.3. Known to have existed as a free download on some OS/2 sites, Compuserve and from the company's homepage but no longer on the net. Version 3.2 has also gone missing but v 3.1 is on most OS/2 sites.

• da.zip

OS/2 Abbotsbury disassembler

• tdt.zip

OS/2 Low Level Technical Developers Toolkit for OS/2

• dtpilot.zip

DOS Taylor PILOT. Simple public domain version of the PILOT programming language complete with BNF and source, the OS/2 port is missing in action too, but no-one remembers what it was called.

• cim169.zip or cimEMX.zip

OS/2 & DOS Jon Martin Solaas's EMX Port of the Simula to C translator

Databases

• DN2WEB20.ZIP

DOS Web interface for the DN2 freeform database

• Illinois Functional Programming Intepreter (ifp)

OS/2-DOS-Unices Was supplied as a source code in the late 80's/early 90's but has disappeared altogether, it is a version of the FP/FL programming language with syntax closer to Modula-2 or other Algol like languages.

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One of the stranger things of life on the Internet is the tendency for third parties to ask for file deletes of software packages that do not belong to them in a legal sense.