Bamboo Utilities as of 1-Mar-1998

All of the files listed below are shareware.  Tech support is available by purchasing a license from:

Bamboo Software
1402 N. 46th #5
Seattle WA 98103

Send email to bamboosoft@halcyon.com to request license prices and terms.  Copyrights for all of the Bamboo Utilities are held by Bamboo Software as identified by running the individual programs, with the exception of TCOPY and FIP which are copyright by Frank Brown and the Seattle Fire Department.

Help for all of the command-line utilities is available by passing /? as an argument (for example, COMPUTERNAME /?).

ComputerName: Command-line utility to view or change the computer name. (NT)
DATEDIR: Command-line utility to display file listings by date. (sample: "DATEDIR /SINCE=YESTERDAY *.DOC") (MS-DOS)
DE-HTML: Creates ANSI or ASCII text files from HTML files.  (MS-DOS with Win95 long file name support).
DI: Disk Information command-line utility lists all disks on the computer, and their characteristics. (Win32)
DIRO: Displays a directory listing with file owners on an NTFS volume (NT).
DMPHISTORY: Command-line utility to dump URLs from MSIE 3.0 history files. (Win32)
DS: Directory Size utility reports total number of bytes used by all files (including any subdirectories) in a directory. (Win32)
DSFMX: Directory Size utility implemented as a Windows NT File Manager extension.  Displays total directory usage by clicking on a File Manager toolbar button. (NT)
DU: Disk Usage command-line utility reports bytes used, free, or total capacity for a disk in kb or MB. (Win32)
EVENTCNT: Console utility reports the number of entries in an NT event log. (NT)
EXPORTEVENTS: Command-line utility exports entries from an Event Log to a CSV file; optionally clears the event log. (NT)
FIP: Find IP utility for Win32 systems (Windows 95 & NT). Finds NetBIOS computer name for specified IP address or vice versa; also checks a range of IP addresses.
FTPB: Add FTP commands to your batch files with FTPB. FTPB also reads input from command files for added flexibility and speed. (Win32 console utility; requires WININET.DLL.)
GETACCESS: Query MSACCESS database files (.MDB) from the command line, using SQL. (Win32)
HEAD: Command-line utility displays the first n lines (default=6) of a text file. (MS-DOS)
HTMLizer: The functionality of DE-HTML & MKHTML combined into one Win32 program. This (and the utilities it sprang from) is for mass conversion of multiple files. If you want a cool HTML editor, look elsewhere. If you want fast assembly-line conversion of lots of files, try the HTMLizer. (Win32)
ICONVIEW: Win32 utility to view all of the icons in a file. (Check out SHELL32.DLL.) (Win32)
LOGOFF: Logs off the current user on an NT workstation from a command prompt. (NT)
MCR: Command-line utility to add or remove carriage returns (CRs) to/from an ascii text file. Also reports whether a file contains CRs. (MS-DOS)
MKHTML: Command-line utility creates HTML files from ascii text files. (MS-DOS)
MKLNK: Command-line utility which creates a Windows shortcut (.LNK file); use '/desk' to place on desktop. (Win32)
MODDATE: Command-line utility to modify a file's date. (MS-DOS)
MOTDW: Windows message utility for LAN administrators; displays a text file in a read-only window for reading and/or printing.  Intended to be called from network users' login script. (Win16)
MTCOPY: Multithreaded command-line utility for copying file(s) to multiple computers across a MS network. Orders of magnitude faster than a script because it does simultaneous copies using multiple threads. (Win32)
NETGROUPS: Command-line utility lists the global groups an NT domain network user belongs to. (Win32)
NOLINES: Command-line utility reports the number of lines in a text file. (Win32)
PCINFO: Command-line utility reports PC configuration info to a file or the screen. (MS-DOS)
PRUNE: Deletes a specified folder (and contents) from all subdirectories in a given directory. Note this utility is case-sensitive. For instance, suppose you wanted to remove all instances of the Accessories folder in every user directory under winnt\Profiles... (Win32)
SHOW: VMS-like SHOW utility displays assorted system, disk, memory, process, boot and user information for Windows NT systems. (NT)
SOUNDTASTER: Listen to your sound files by clicking them from a list, and store/display associated descriptive text for each file. (Win32)
TCOPY: Tape copy program. Console utility to copy tapes on NT systems with two tape drives. (NT)
TFORMAT: Command-line utility to format tapes; only works on NT 3.5 and 3.51. (NT)
WS2TEXT: Got any old WordStar files lying around? Convert them to ascii text with this Win32 utility. (Win32)