FTP Sites and Searching

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This section provides places and pages that provide access to shareware, freeware, and software patches.

Software Lists and Searches:

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• ZDnet Hotfiles Library provides access to top rated freeware and shareware. From ZD Net.
• shareware.com provides combined access to many popular Internet archive sites. This is a part of the Virtual Software Library.  A service of c|net:.
• download.com provides access to c|net:'s large library of freeware, shareware and commercial software.
• File Mine from CMP TechWeb.
• Stroud's Consummate Winsock Application List. Contains network  and Internet related programs, reviews, and also contains many helper utilities.
• TUCOWS links to winsock, networking, and Internet application software.
• TheFreeSite.com provides links to freeware.
• WinFiles.com 32 bit shareware, Drivers, Tips, and Info.
• FileFarm 32 bit shareware, Drivers.
• WinPlanet 32 bit shareware, Drivers, Tips, Info, and news items.
• Beverly Hills Software 32 bit shareware, Drivers.
• Virtual Software Library (San Francisco) allows searches of some popular archives, by name or by words in the file description. For Microsoft Windows platforms, select CICA, sim-win3, garbo-pc, ms-softlib. A service of c|net:.
• TechData FTP includes drivers and updates for hardware and software products.
• ExecNet File Library - Main Index
• Pass The Shareware Please provides pointers to some of the best.

Popular FTP (File Transfer Protocol) sites:

• FreeSoftware Archive.  Provided by Walnut Creek CDROM Web Site. (dead? 12/30/04)
• The WinSite Archive via WWW or ftp.winsite.com. Very large resource for Windows shareware and updates! Previously was CICA Windows Archive. Mirrors: California: gatekeeper.dec.com [16.1.0.2]
• WUARCHIVE (via WWW).
• Garbo.  Dos, Windows, Unix, Astronomy.
• Microsoft FTP site.
• Sunsite FTP, SunSolve Patches, FAQs, Service info, from SunSite at Chapel Hill (home page with searches), SunSite at Mtn View. (dead? 5/6/08)
• Jumbo Freeware and Shareware site. Covers a multiple hardware and software platforms.
• Download.Net reviews and provides a few quality games and applications.  Not the place to find the obscure stuff, but a good place for some "must have" items.

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