Program name: DOS EXTENSIONS  Version 1.2
 
Author name:  Daryll Shatz
Address:      Box 3282
              Redondo Beach, Ca 90277
 
Suggested Donation:  

$35.00 gets an unregistered copy of version 2.0. Registration fee for version 
2.0 is $55 or $20 if a contribution of $35 has already been made.  Registered 
users receive the following additional items: User ID number, IBM style printed
Reference Manual, one year of free updates and bug fixes, one year's subscrip-
tion to the "EXTENSIONS" newsletter, and the option to purchase a copy of the 
source code whenever it becomes available.
 
Program Description:  

This DOS EXTENSIONS package has been designed to enhance the features and flexi-
bility of DOS by adding over twenty new commands.  All the original DOS commands
remain available, but the extensions allow the user to eliminate redundancies
and thus do more work in less time.  Through a technique called 'prefixing', 
data from multiple files can be sent through a pipe, all on one line with one
command.  

The capabilities of this extension package are impressive. The CP command re-
quires only one command to copy files with multiple selection criteria. Like-
wise, the LS (List Directory) command also allows multiple selection criteria
to locate several different file or subdirectory names at a time, and the
output of the LS Command can be piped into many other commands to add greater
control over the files being processed.  

The five additional file handling commands, MV, ATT, CAT, DIRSRT, and WHEREIS 
provide the ability to view and change file attributes, concatenate files,
extended directory sorting, and the ability to locate files across subdirec-
tories. The task control commands, SLEEP, CMD, and CLK are useful to control or
time the execution of either DOS commands or programs.

The commands INP and TEE are used to start and end a pipe and the four powerful
file editing commands, SED, TXLAT, UNIQ, and MERGE can be used to edit multiple
items among multiple files.  Finally, there are four miscellaneous commands:  
ALARM simply produces a tone under the user's control; PRNT outputs selected 
lines from files; STAT provides a useful statistical report on text files, 
and SELECT is a Filter allowing  multiple input choices, making DOS file hand-
ling much friendlier.

Disk number one has the two documentation files, which can be sent out to the
printer, and are pre-formatted to print out as useable manuals.  This disk also
contains one of the utilities. Disk number two has the rest of the utilities.
The User's manual contains instructions on installation and use. The Reference 
Manual is organized by command, with examples.

System requirements are MS or PC DOS 2.1 or better.  A system with at least 
256K is recommended.