=====Utilities Contents: - Disk & File Related: -----Archiving -----Anti-Virus -----Batch File Utilities -----Disk & Drive Utilities -----Directory Listers/Editors -----File Changing, Copying, Deleting -----File Cataloging -----Hard Disk Utilities -----Subdirectory Utilities -----File Viewing, Comparing, Other - System Utilities: -----Desktop Programs -----DOS Menu/Shell Programs -----Keyboard/Mouse/Joystick -----Operating System Utilities -----System Set-Up, Testing & Control -----Utility Sets -----Video Utilities -----OS/2 Programs =====Disk & File Related Utilities -----Archiving LHA Command Line Referance Guide 1.0 [LGUIDE1] (Frostbyte Software, reg. fee: $8) is a tutorial and quick reference guide for the beginner user of the LHA Archiving Utility. Displays examples for all the LHA commands. Shows you how to make, delete, add to, view, print, update LHA archives, how to make your archives self-extracting and more. Includes LHA version 2.13. Requires CGA Monitor or better. Stealth 2.1 [STLTH21] (David Smith, reg. fee: $15) is an archive converter. It converts all compressed files to any other format. It supports ARJ, ARC, LHA, HAP, SQZ, DWC, PAK, ZIP 1.1 and 2.0, ICE, LHARC, LARC, HYPER, SDN, and ZOO. It also updates PKZip 1.1 and 2.0 normal files to 2.0. Tron 1.06 [TRON] (Michael Bauder, reg. fee: $20DM) is a decompressor for files packed by such archivers as PKLITE, DIET, LZEXE, TINY, EXEPACK, PRO-PACK, COMPACK etc. Zip Chunker Pro 3.0 [ZCP300] (Scott Johnson, reg. fee: $25) is a file splitting utility for DOS and OS/2. It supports ARC, ARJ, HYP, LZH, and ZIP files. The program splits to a size to fit a specific floppy format or a user specified size. Files except archives can be rejoined. Archives can be split so that they will extract to fit on a specific floppy size. Zip20x 1.0 [ZIP20X] (The Info-Zip Group, reg. fee: $0) a file compressor which creates ZIP files compatible with PKZIP 2.0. ---Updates: Archiving (U1-01) The Norton Commander Archive Viewer 4.0 [AVIEW40] (Chris Buijs, reg. fee: $0) is a utility to view, extract and manipulate ARC, ARJ, LZH, PAK, ZIP and ZOO files. NEW: increased number of files per archive and files in file-selector, more mouse control and updated documentation. (U1-01) ExeMaster 4.1 [EXEMAS] (David Smith, reg. fee: $15) displays information about EXE and COM files, including archiver used, whether it is for DOS or Windows, whether it is a compiled batch file or self-displaying text file and more. NEW: supports LARC (LZS), NOLZEXE, Protect EXE/COM 1.1 and 2.0, CryptCOM, COMVert, COM-PAK, DOCMaker, TSRMaker, TxtMaker, Cop 1.0 & 1.4, Show v2.0, Breeze v5.2, ICE encrypted COM files, GIFEXE resolutions, BSA (Soviet archiver), PKARCK 3.5, TopSpeed C 3.0 Crunch, LH Archiver, LHA 2.10, PKLite version number, plus detection of extra compressed PKLites and advanced Breeze algorithms. (U1-01) EzCode 3.0 [EZCODE30] (Charles J. Hill, reg. fee: $30) is a compression/decompression shell. NEW: improved archive reading and more mouse control. (U1-01) SHEZ 9.4 [SHEZ] (James Derr, reg. fee: $39) is a shell program to make viewing and working with archive files user friendly. NEW: printing to HPLaserJets in landscape compressed mode shading every other line. (U1-01) Zip Chunker 3.0 [ZC300] (Scott Johnson, reg. fee: $0) will split a large ZIP file into smaller ZIP files of a user-specified size. NEW: OS/2 2.x version. (U1-01) ZDiff 1.3 [ZDIFF1] (Christophe Dubourg, reg. fee: $20) is an archive/directory comparison program. NEW: more control over comparison parameters. -----Anti-Virus Virex 2.9 [VIREX] (Datawatch Corporation, reg. fee: $50) is a virus detector. It protects you from all viruses, known and unknown. It features scanning, integrity checking, and disinfection. ---Updates: Anti-Virus (U1-02) AVScan 1.23 [AVS123] (Tjark Auerbach, reg. fee: $0) is a virus scanner. (U1-02) Clean-up ver. 1.08 [CLEAN108] (McAfee Associates, reg. fee: $15-35) is a virus scanning program. (U1-02) Net Shield 1.5 [NSHLD] (McAfee Associates, Inc. 3350 Scott Boulevard, Building 14 Santa Clara, California 95054-3107, reg. fee: $25) is the network part of McAfee's anti-virus utilities. (U1-02) VShield 5.53v108 [VSHLD] (McAfee Associates, reg. fee: $18) is part of the McAfee anti-virus package. -----Batch File Utilities Daily 1.0 [DAILY1] (Don W. Thurston, reg. fee: $0) allows you to run selected programs on once per day on boot-up. Freeboot 1.0 [FREEB] (Mike Edgerton, reg. fee: $0) allows you to specify a warm boot, a cold boot and write all data that is currently cached by SMARTDRV to disk before you reboot. KwikMenu 3.0/A [KWKMNU] (John F. Cram, reg. fee: $10) helps you easily create menu listings and batch files. Message 2.0 [MSG] (Patrick R. Rygiel, reg. fee: $15) adds sound, messages, and a graphic screen saver to batch files. ---Updates: Batch File Utilities (U1-03) A Batch View Utility Set 1.1 [ABATVIEW] (Robin R. Latham, reg. fee: $15) lets you add color pop-up menus, message windows, screen clearing functions and more to batch files. (U1-03) BatKit 5.4 [BATKIT] (Ken Hipple, reg. fee: $15) started out as a nice way to get a keypress from a user in a batch file. (U1-03) Ultra ToolBox 6.0 [ULTRA] (David Smith, reg. fee: $10) contains 200+ functions, primarily for use in batch files. -----Disk & Drive Utilities DF Utility 3.51 [DF351] (VitCom Int. Shareware Group, reg. fee: $20) is a menu-driven disk formatting utility. Double Check 1.0 [DS_TEST] (Blossom Software Corporation, reg. fee: $30) tests the fragmentation and stability of a compressed drive. It gives complete information about the status of a drive, warning of potential trouble before it happens. Other features include reporting how much disk space is really available, tells how much space is occupied by Sentry "deleted" files, helps you recover damaged files and more. DiskDup 1.05 [DSKDP105] (Roger K. Snyder, reg. fee: $10) copies floppy disks using the hard drive for virtual memory. It eliminates the task of disk swapping and allows multiple copies to be made with a single pass. Fantom Frequently Asked Questions 1.0 [FANTOM] (Paul Reid, reg. fee: $0) explains why you can sometimes get an incorrect directory listing after changing floppies, and what to do about it. FMT 1.0 [QFORMAT] (Scott Huish, reg. fee: $1) is a set of batch files which aid in the formatting of disks. ---Updates: Disk & Drive Utilities (U1-04) Disk Copy Fast 4.3 [DCF43] (DCF Software, reg. fee: $25) is a one-pass disk duplicating utility. (U1-04) Dupe 1.23 [DUPE123] (Best Technology, reg. fee: $16) allows you to copy disks faster and easier then with DOS's DISKCOPY. (U1-04) FDFormat 1.8 [FDFORM] (Christoph H. Hochstetter, reg. fee: $0) is a disk formatter with many features. (U1-04) VGA-Copy-Pro 5.2 [VGACOPY] (Thomas Moenkemeier, ASP; reg. fee: $45) is a fast one-pass disk copier and formatter for up to 2.88MB floppies, including special formats like 1.74MB. Requires EGA/VGA and mouse. -----Directory Listers/Editors Dexe 4.82 [DEXE482] (Sunil Sebastian, reg. fee: $0) is a multi-color sorted directory lister. PurgeDir 1.0 [PURGEDIR] (Strategy Software, reg. fee: $10) removes directories, subdirectories and files. ---Updates: Directory Listers/Editors (U1-05) Eddy 7e [EDDY7E] (John Scofield, ASP; reg. fee: $20) is a full-screen directory editor and general purpose disk utility. (U1-05) Handy Directory 2.9 [HD29] (James M Walters, reg. fee: $5) is a color-coded sorted directory utility. NEW: improved edit command. -----File Changing, Copying, Deleting Clean List 1.0 [CLEANL] (Fernando Lacambra, reg. fee: $5) deletes duplicate lines from a sorted text file. CleanUp 1.0 [CLNUP] (Brian D. Catlin, reg. fee: $0) cleans up your hard drive by deleting any BAK, $$$, TMP, SYD or OLD files. Also deletes files with file length of zero. DelEx 1.26 [DELEX126] (Samuel Kaplin, reg. fee: $6) allows deleting all files except the patterns that you specify. DelEx will handle 10 patterns at once, erase hidden and read-only files and keep logs of its file deletions. FED 1.6 [FED16] (Geoffrey H. Gillmer, reg. fee: $0) is a text search-and-replace utility. Up to 100 edit commands can be entered in a command file to be executed in one pass. File Search and Replace 1.0 [FSR] (Todd Osborne, reg. fee: $0) is a routine that will scan a DOS file searching and replacing matching text strings. JS-FCopy 1.0 [JS_FCOPY] (Johnathan Mark Smith, reg. fee: $18) simplifies the task of finding and making copies of files. JS-FCopy will search for files by extension or file name on one or more drives and copy them to a specified destination. JS-FDel 1.0 [JS_FDEL] (Johnathan Mark Smith, reg. fee: $18) simplifies the task of finding and deleting files. JS-FDEL can search for files by extension or file name on one or more drives at a time and delete them with or without prompting you for each file. JSReport 1.1 [JSRPRT11] (Johnathan Mark Smith, reg. fee: $25) lets you extract data from files and format the data into reports. Ron's Flexible Fast Sort 2.3 [RFFSRT23] (Ron Loewy, reg. fee: $20) is a sort utility for files with fixed sized records and text files. It allows the user to sort the files using up to 10 sort fields in ascending or descending order. RM 3.0 [RM] (Richard Cochran, reg. fee: $0) is a Unix-like command to remove one or more files or directories. ---Updates: File Changing, Copying, Deleting (U1-06) PC-Crypt 8.0 [CRYPT8E] (James T. Demberger, reg. fee: $0) features encryption and decryption of disk files using the Vernam process combined with use of random or One-Time-Pad keyfiles. (U1-06) Global File Editor 2.7 [GLEDT] (Gary C. Crider, reg. fee: $16) lets you globally search and replace a string of characters in all selected files. (U1-06) Jason's File Finder 2.0d [JFF] (RMH Computer Services, ASP; reg. fee: $10) fast, and easy-to-use DOS file finder. (U1-06) JSDDuper 3.2 [JSDDUP32] (Johnathan Mark Smith, reg. fee: $13) will read a data file and make a new file without any duplicate records on it. (U1-06) JSTake 1.1 [JSTAKE11] (Johnathan Mark Smith, reg. fee: $8) will make a new output file from a larger file with only the number of records you pick (U1-06) Parse-O-Matic 2.33 [PAR] (Pinnacle Software, reg. fee: $25) is a programmable text-file parsing utility. (U1-06) pE - The "perfect" Editor 4.02 [PE402] (John Salidis, ASP; reg. fee: $42) is a text editor with over 160 functions. (U1-06) PSEdit 3.5 [PSEDT] (Gary C. Crider, reg. fee: $24) is a full screen editor for binary/hex or text files. -----File Cataloging BobCat 3.0 [BOBCAT] (William Cravener, reg. fee: $0) is a directory and file manager that performs over 40 different operations. It includes a file viewer, file searching, a screen blanker and more. ---Updates: File Managers (U1-08) CM_Filer 5.36 [CMFLR536] (Charles F. Martin, ASP, reg. fee: $30) is a split-screen file manager with a full suite of file and dir services. NEW: a built-in diskette copier, floppy diskettes may now be formatted without leaving CMFiler, expanded support for laptop users, a new wipefile feature and more. (U1-08) File Selector 1.11 [FS111] (Tomohumi Kodama, reg. fee: $35) is a file/directory manager and DOS menu program. -----Hard Disk Utilities 4_Drive Utilities 1.0 [4DRVU100] (Dustbowl Designs, Inc., reg. fee: $0) tells you the number of cylinders, heads and sectors on IDS drives. Jobber 1.0 [JOB100] (Oliver R.Bell, reg. fee: $?) performs several different functions: executes batch files at specified times or given the presence of a specified file on disk; creates an audit trail of files passing through a directory; and prunes shared directories down to a specified size. Last Access Directory 1.0 [LACCES] (Patri-Soft, ASP; reg. fee: $23) is a TSR which keeps track of the files that are accessed on a system. Qic-Bat for CMS 1.1 [QICBAT] (Douglas R. East, ASP; reg. fee: $20) is a batch file generator for CMS tape backup units. It's an easy way to launch your backups. Features include multi-drive backups, tag file generator, mouse support, scheduler support, group drive, batch file verification reports and more. ---Updates: Hard Disk Utilities (U1-09) PC-Vault 4.6 [PCV46] (Johnson Computer Systems, Inc., ASP; reg. fee: $35) asks for a user name and/or password when you boot your computer. (U1-09) PC-Vault Plus 4.6 [PCVPLS46] (Johnson Computer Systems, Inc., ASP; reg. fee: $95) is a hard disk protection program. (U1-09) TSUtil 1.2 [TSUTIL] (George Tihenea, reg. fee: $25) lets you create partitions or format existing partitions on your hard drive. Cluster size is selectable. -----Subdirectory Utilities HiDir 1.26 [HIDIR] (Samuel Kaplin, reg. fee: $6) makes directories invisible to normal DIR commands (but not to common sorted directory utilities and file managers). -----File Viewing, Comparing, Other Bigtext 2.4 [BIGTEXT] (Kevin Solway, reg. fee: $30) can turn text files of 700k or more into self-scrolling files which will fit on a 360k disk. Features include menus, fast text search, a text paint program and a TSR screen capture utility. CDXF 1.0 [CDXF] (Joseph V. Gagliano, reg. fee: $25) is a 2-dimensional Drawing Interchange File viewer. Requires VGA and a mouse. JSEdit 1.1 [JSEDIT11] (Johnathan Mark Smith, reg. fee: $25) is a ASCII/HEX file editor. NumLines 1.0 [NUMLINES] (SoftCircuits Programming, reg. fee: $0) counts the number of lines in text files. Sear 1.0 [SEAR] (Christopher T Skinner, reg. fee: $0) looks for a string in a file or files. ---Updates: File Viewing, Comparing, Other (U1-11) EZView 5.3 [EZVIEW53] (Charles Hill, reg. fee: $20) is a file viewing utility. (U1-11) File Finder Pack 4.4 [FFF] (ASP; reg. fee: $25) will find files and directories on your hard disk and present them in a scrollable list. (Formerly a small program.) (U1-11) Fview 2.2 [FVW22] (Chris Gordon, reg. fee: $0) is a text file viewer. NEW: horizontal and vertical scroll bars. (U1-11) JSField 2.2 [JSFILD22] (Johnathan Mark Smith, reg. fee: $18) aids in the process of extracting and formatting data. (U1-11) JSPick 2.2 [JSPICK] (Johnathan Mark Smith, reg. fee: $18) checks ASCII files, such as those exported from mailing list programs, for duplicate entries. (U1-11) JSRec 2.1 [JSREC] (Johnathan Mark Smith, reg. fee: $15) attempts to tell you what software created a specified file. (U1-11) Sherlock 2.7 [SRLK27] (Gulf Sierra, ASP; reg. fee: $25) compares two ASCII (text) files line by line. =====Utilities - System Related -----Desktop Programs Cal 2.0 [CAL20] (Paul Wienckowski, reg. fee: $0) is a command line floating point calculator. Fraction 1.0 [FRACTION] (M. Cooper, reg. fee: $0) is a command line driven calculator. It can handle fractions, mixed numbers, decimals, or combinations of these. Solve 1.1 [SOLV11] (C. Kenneth Curtis, reg. fee: $0) is a DOS command line mathematical expression solver for engineers and scientists. Expressions like 2.15 + 6 * sin(pi / 2) are evaluated and the result displayed. SOLVE contains many built in functions including decimal-hexadecimal conversions.. ---Updates: Desktop Programs (U2-01) PCClock 3.00c [PCCLK300] (Michael J. Sadaway, ASP; reg. fee: $20) is a digital alarm clock that displays the date and time in big characters and will optionally set your system's time and date automatically by calling the National Institute of Standards and Technology. (U2-01) RamDesk 2.4 [RAMDESK] (Richard A. Kelly, reg. fee: $50) a 7k+ pop-up schedular/alarm, work/expense log, address/phone directory, infobase, and calculator. (U2-01) SmartPhone 1.32 [SP] (Timothy Campbell, reg. fee: $17) is a database of information that can prove useful when making telephone calls. (U2-01) Ultimate Calculator 1.8 [UCALC18] (Daniel Corbier, reg. fee: $25) is an 18-digit scientific calculator. NEW: user functions now accept multiple parameters, and output can be sent to the printer. -----DOS Menu/Shell Programs C-Menu 4.0 [CMENUV4] (Mark J. Finocchio, ASP; reg. fee: $29) is a DOS menu program. Features include a screen blanker, password protection, zero memory usage when other programs run, and more. Condor 4.1 [CONDOR41] (Larry Mears, reg. fee: $15) controls escape sequences for use with the ansi graphics program, Condor 4.0. This is for online services that filter out the escape character, thus allowing you to place your graphics created by Condor on BBS systems. Dynamic Menu System 1.0 [DYMENU] (Modern Solutions Corporation, reg. fee: $28) is a menu system that allows up to 676 entries. It includes a programmer's editor, graphics screen saver, and much more. Menu Program 1.01 [MENU101] (Tomohumi Kodama, reg. fee: $25) is a program menu shell that will allow you to execute any DOS or Windows program with a few keystrokes or with a mouse. DOS Tools and Automation 1.0 [TOOLS] (Dan Bosworth, reg. fee: $8) is a colorful menu for performing many of DOS' more popular commands such as copying, formatting, diskcopy, and more. ---Updates: DOS Menu/Shell Programs (U2-02) ezPopMaker 4.0 [EPM40] (Ernest R. Hunter, ASP; reg. fee: $28) is a TSR that allows you to create other TSR pop-up menu programs without programming. (U2-02) HDM IV 4.61 [HDM461] (Jim Hass, reg. fee: $39-54) is an excellent, flexible DOS menu shell. -----Keyboard/Mouse/Joystick KBSet 1.0 [KBSET] (Scott Johnson, reg. fee: $0) allows you to set the keyboard toggles, such as the Numlock or Caps lock key, to a desired state under DOS or OS/2 2.x. KeyCount 2.1 [KEYCOUNT] (Rob Cosgrove, reg. fee: $49) is a TSR which keeps a running count of keystrokes entered and periodically logs the result with dat, and time into a file, one file per workstation. KeyCount can be used to track the work of stenographers, typists, and data entry people in a network or on stand-alone PC's. Wedge 2.0 [WEDGE20] (Rob Cosgrove, reg. fee: $49) is a TSR which intercepts characters at the serial port, and redirects them to the keyboard buffer. You can use WEDGE to have serial barcode scanners send data to applications without specifically programming your app for a scanner. ---Updates: Keyboard/Mouse/Joystick (U2-03) In The Beginning 1.3 [ITB] (JFH Soft Systems, reg. fee: $35) records and plays back key strokes used to start programs. -----Operating System Utilities Tessler's Nifty Tools 3.4 [TNT34] (Tessler, reg. fee: $19 ea.) is a collection of over 25 useful programs that control printers, modems, screen output, prompts, ports, floppy drives, sound cards and more. Time-Pro 1.0 [TPSHW] (Promedia Concepts, reg. fee: $18) allows unattended operation of almost any type of DOS program by scheduling routines to be performed at a pre-specified date and time. ---Updates: Operating System Utilities (U2-04) VMiX 386 2.90 [VMIX] (Anthony J. Borras, ASP; reg. fee: $59) is a multi-tasking system for advanced users. NEW: support for COM3 and COM4 at baud rates above 9600, support for network or communications drivers that use IRQ7. -----System Set-Up, Testing & Control ComPort 2.5 [COMPRT] (Open Systems Resources, Inc., reg. fee: $15) allows users to manipulate and display COM and LPT Port Info. CPUTest [CPUTEST] (Tony Doimeadios, reg. fee: $0) measures memory moves, register-to-register operations and finally memory location to register operations. DSTime 1.0 [DSTIME] (Nathan Alan King, reg. fee: $8) automatically adjusts your system's time for Daylight Savings Time changes. IfWait 1.1 [IFWT11] (Gary S. Tessler, reg. fee: $19) controls a speaker or parallel port device such as the TNT IFBUZZ buzzer to allow sending audible feedback to users. -----Utility Sets Eagle Utilities 1.0 [EAGLE] (SoftCircuits Programming, reg. fee: $22) is a set of utilities to set screen colors, clear the screen, display information found in the BIOS parameter block in the boot sector of a disk, run a disk drive for cleaning diskettes, turn the keyboard NumLock off, set the number of text rows on EGA/VGA monitors, reset various parameters on VGA displays, view text files, report and optionally set the video mode and video page, create batch files to ask a question and act according to the response given plus more. ---Updates: Utility Sets (U2-06) Patriquin's Hard Disk Utilities [PCOPY93] (Norm Patriquin, ASP; reg. fee: $45/set) This is an update to PCopy 9.3, which is one of several utilities in this set. (U2-06) See 3.0 [SEE] (Timothy Campbell, reg. fee: $0) lets you view or print text files. -----Video Utilities ANSIPLUS 3.01 [ANSIPLUS] (Kristofer Sweger, reg. fee: $25-39) is an ANSI driver which provides full color control, screen saver, scrollable screen, ANSI support, a key buffer, utilities, configuration menu, and more. MegaClip 2.2 [MCLIP22] (Blueview Software, reg. fee: $20) can load, clip and save PCX, BMP, and RIP in any of the formats. Requires a mouse and EGA/VGA. SPEEDUP! 1.0 [SPEEDUP1] (Nicola Baattista, reg. fee: $3) allows you to speed up and slow down programs by controlling the speed with which they write to the screen. For example, on a 286 directory listings will flash up on the screen, or on a 386, you could slow down (some) games. Text Magic 1.0 [TMAGIC10] (Kevin Solway, reg. fee: $0) is a TSR that captures text screen images from other programs. Full color images can then be viewed and edited with the program "Text Paint" (by the same author). Text Magic can capture screens in ansi format and plain ascii format. ---Updates: Video Utilities (U2-07) Condor 4.0 [CONDOR40] (Larry Mears, reg. fee: $15) is an ANSI.SYS replacement. (U2-07) Desert Frog Screen Scenes 3.2 [DFROG] (William P. Mann, reg. fee: $15) are TSR (15k) screen blankers/savers with a twist. (U2-07) EZVideo 1.1 [EZVIDEO] (Eric Jarrett, reg. fee: $8) is a data-tracking program for your video collection. (U2-07) IfOnScrn 2.1 [IFON21] (Gary S. Tessler, reg. fee: $19) is a TSR which watches the screen for any of three different text strings to appear, at which point it can pass specified keystrokes to the underlying application, display a text windows, or sound an alert signal. (U2-07) Screen Saver 5.14 [SCSV] (Tom Donnelly, reg. fee: $23) blanks the screen on demand or after a specified period of system inactivity. -----OS/2 Programs Mem 1.0 [MEM100] (Scott Johnson, reg. fee: $0) displays memory statistics for OS/2 2.x. SIO.SYS and VSIO.SYS 1.10 [SIO115] (Raymond L. Gwinn, reg. fee: $28,48) are OS/2 device drivers. SIO.SYS provides an interface between application programs and the serial communications hardware. VSIO.SYS is a Virtual Device Driver that provides services for DOS programs executing under OS/2. ---Updates: OS/2 Programs (U2-08) INIMaint 2.1k [INMNT21G] (Carry Associates, reg. fee: $30) makes it easy to display and manage INI files. (U2-08) Little Black Book/2 1.20 [LBB2_120] (James E. Johnson Jr., reg. fee: $10) is a personal information manager for OS/2 2.0 PM. NEW: Formerly small program. Adds exporting to both comma-delimited files and in columns, dialing initialization and prefix strings, several new print options, 2-line street addresses, work phone number extensions, email addresses, ability to print index cards, and the address book can now be printed on paper.