A1_2.ZIP 216965 03-05-95 A1 DOS Utilities 2.0 is a collection of | utilities for the enhancement of batch files | and menus. Utilities include advanced text | control, attractive screen dissolves, delays, | pause with mouse reactivation, music and | sound effects, built in menus and more. | NEW: Programs have been added to fill any | area of the screen with any character of any | color, check if a particular drive is ready | and exit with an errorlevel accordingly, show | errorlevel produced from another program, | show X,Y coordinates around edge of screen, | control the mouse using area oriented program | flow to allow the mouse to activate on | sensitive areas of the screen, show scan | codes and ASCII codes for any key, test up to | two joysticks or four paddles plugged into | the joystick port, and clear any number of | lines of the screen using the current or | selected color attributes. (Eric Rodda) | (Reg.Fee: $36) BREAK13.ZIP 3122 06-06-95 Break 1.3 keeps people from breaking out of | batch files. Programs can still see | Ctrl-Break and Ctrl-C. It can be turned on | and off with BREAK ON and BREAK OFF, and only | uses about 400 bytes of RAM. (Marc Perkel) | (Reg.Fee: $95-995) DELAY.ZIP 7928 03-14-95 Delay 1.0 delays program execution from | within batch files. It can also be used to | disable warm rebooting and the CTRL-C | command. A sample batch file is included. (S. | A. Ong) (Reg.Fee: $0) DIRB16.ZIP 71469 07-10-95 Dir2Bat 3.0 creates a batch file which | performs the same commands on each file found | matching the given file specification. For | example, DIR2BAT *.TXT EDIT will create a | batch file which will call up the EDIT | program for each file that has an extension | of TXT. (Gary S. Tessler) (Reg.Fee: $19) FILEAGE.ZIP 38280 05-09-95 FileAge 1.0 sets ERRORLEVEL based on the age | of a given file. This can be useful in batch | files for file maintenance, clearing out old | versions of files, etc. C++ source code is | included. (David H. Bennett) (Reg.Fee: $0) GET27.ZIP 117793 06-15-95 Get 2.7 adds many useful commands to batch | files. It will display a prompt and get any | keypress, a yes or no response only, a string | of characters, the DOS version, the amount of | environment space left, file size, amount of | free disk space, amount of free memory, and | the name of the current directory. It will | check for a printer, for a math coprocessor, | for ANSI.SYS, and get/set video mode. It can | also display a line of scrolling text, | perform arithmetic, and more. NEW: test | for write protected diskettes, support for | international dates and times, read and | create lower case environment variable names, | sound bytes: play tones on the speaker, file | full path or true name reporting, logical | math functions, and create environment | variable strings up to 255 bytes long. (Bob | Stephan) (Reg.Fee: $15-23) HORST_2.ZIP 40796 07-12-95 Horst Schaeffer's Free Batch/DOS Utilities | 2.0 is a small set of batch file utilities, | including a replacement for ECHO with special | handling for dates, menuing system for batch | files, and more. (Horst Schaeffer) (Reg.Fee: | $0) PMENUE16.ZIP 8292 10-03-95 PMenue 1.6 lets you add menus to batch files | with moving bar and mouse control. (Horst | Schaeffer) (Reg.Fee: $0) SAFESEND.ZIP 11281 05-29-95 SafeSend 1.1a sends a text string or contents | of a file to a file or device without | generating an ABORT or RETRY message if the | device is unavailable. It will set ERRORLEVEL | based on whether or not the operation was | successful. (Douglas Bell) (Reg.Fee: $25) SETLINE.ZIP 5761 03-10-95 SetLine 1.0 creates a batch file which sets | an environment variable to be equal to a | particular line of a regular text file. | (David Roper) (Reg.Fee: $0) SPARKL41.ZIP 114169 08-26-95 Sparkle & Menu Magic 4.1 lets you create | fancy batch files. It has over 250 frame | styles, over 35 sound effects, mouse support | and more. NEW: more options including | fades, dark blue backgrounds, big scroll and | a VGA broadway font; added options to help | you debug batch files, and let you change the | text marker. (Rob W. Smetana) (Reg.Fee: $39) SSTUFF31.ZIP 308859 05-25-95 Steenburgh's Stuff 3.1 contains many useful | utilities for batch files, including a menu | creation, input system; clock display; disk | space checker; file selection, execution | system; a program that plays transcribed | sheet music on the PC; random number | generator; wide range of noise making | options; and more. (Chuck Steenburgh) (ASP) | (Reg.Fee: $20) STEPUTIL.ZIP 111364 06-28-95 Stephen's Batch File Utilities 1.0 is a | collection of batch file utilities. It | includes programs to draw a box on the | screen, put a line of text anywhere on the | screen, wait for user input for selecting | items from a menu, create menus, edit text, | and more. (Stephen, PhD Wright) (Reg.Fee: $0) WAITTIL.ZIP 15091 07-11-95 WaitTill 2.0c delays the running of any | program by a preset time. It will allow you | to schedule your batch files and run any | program at any time of the day. (Reg.Fee: $0) XSET421.ZIP 155686 10-03-95 XSet 4.21 allows you to put anything you want | into a DOS environment variable. Features | include built-in full floating-point | calculation, access to system data, access to | high-level user interface input/output and | more. It is fully compatible with DOS, | DR-DOS, NDOS and 4DOS. NEW: detects and | returns CPU type, support for PC-DOS v6.1 and | MS-DOS v6.2. (Marc Stern) (Reg.Fee: $3)