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Tessler's Nifty Tools (TNT) Release 3.4
<<< SHAREWARE >>>
Copyright (c) 1987-1993
All Rights Reserved.
TNT is a collection of over 25 useful SHAREWARE MS-DOS programs. Many TNT
programs are featured in COMPUTE, INFOWORLD, and COMPUTER magazines. The
latest versions of TNT programs are posted in Compuserve's IBMSYS, IBMCOM, and
IBMHW areas under the common keyword of TNT. Registered users of any program
will receive the complete collection for review.
Each program is individually priced at $19. Special prices with substantial
savings exist for partial and complete collection purchases. Contact me for
more information. Monetary contributions and any ideas for enhancements may be
sent to:
Tessler's Nifty Tools (TNT) Release 3.4
430 Canyon Woods Place Suite A
San Ramon, Ca. 94583
CompuServe: 71044,542
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** Summary of programs: **
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CAPSTAT.EXE Sets DOS ERRORLEVEL to 0 if your local printer is NOT being
captured to a Novell printer. Sets it to 1 if it IS being
captured.
CHEK4DUP.EXE Generates a list of files that exist in both .EXE and .COM
form. This usually occurs when software is upgraded from a COM
format to an EXE format and the old COM version is
accidentally left on the system when the new EXE form is put
onto the system. DOS will always invoke the COM form before
the EXE form program so you should delete the older COM program
if required. Useful to avoid having old versions of software on
your system.
CONTROLP.EXE Allows the user to turn on screen to printer echoing as if the
user had pressed Ctrl-P or Ctrl-PrtSc. DesqView compatible.
Status mode too. Great for use within batch files.
COMSPEED.EXE Returns the actual baud rate that a COM (serial) port is set
to. With today's high speed modems that can adjust their phone
line and data rate (speed) automatically, it is often very
difficult to determine if your line is operating at the proper
rate. Use COMSPEED to check your COM port's data rate after
establishing a data connection.
COPYWA.EXE Copies files while preserving the source file's read-only
attribute. Does it the way XCOPY should have done it.
CRTDUMP.EXE Copies the contents of either a color or monochrome monitor to
a specified file.
DIR2BAT.EXE Will write a listing of drive_path_file specs matching the
user's entered file specification to the file DIR2.BAT. Each
file specification found may be prefixed and suffixed by
user provided strings. This batch file will then be able to
perform actions to the files.....
For example, if your C: disk contains the following files:
README.DOC TESTME.DOC LIST.DOC PRINTER.DOC
Then the command:
DIR2BAT C:*.DOC /S /A "ATTRIB -R ! /S" "DEL !"
will append the following lines to an existing DIR2.BAT file:
ATTRIB -R C:\README.DOC /S
DEL C:\README.DOC
ATTRIB -R C:\TESTME.DOC /S
DEL C:\TESTME.DOC
ATTRIB -R C:\LIST.DOC /S
DEL C:\LIST.DOC
ATTRIB -R C:\PRINTER.DOC /S
DEL C:\PRINTER.DOC
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DVCPU.EXE is a DesqView utility program that is meant to be run right
before running a program that requires full usage of the CPU's
computing power. It pops up the DesqView window and sets
'Share CPU when in Foreground' to 'Y' or 'N' depending on the
parameter entered. It useful for programs that insist on
running in a non-multitasking environment such as voice
sampling and digitization programs.
DVPROMPT.EXE Facilitates naming of DOS windows under DesqView. For example,
upon opening and using several DOS windows with command line
programs, the user often finds it difficult to remember
which window he/she was doing what task in. Since each window
has the same DOS prompt, DOS gives him/her no visual clue to
the identification of the current window.
This program will change each DOS window's DOS prompt into the
typical form of:
1 C:\>
2 C:\>
3 C:\> etc.
PROMPT n <user_string>
where n is the counter value of this DesqView window in
DesqView's 'switch' window and the user_string is a PROMPT
string (typically $P$G). If the user_string contains spaces,
enclose it with double quotes.
A useful example is as follows: Assume that DesqView invokes
AUTOEXEC.BAT as "AUTOEXEC X" whenever it opens a DOS
command shell. Let AUTOEXEC.BAT contain:
VERIFY OFF
PATH = C:\;C:\DOS;C:\WPROC
IF %1Y==Y GOTO NOT_UNDER_DV
REM INVOKED BY DESQVIEW
DVPROMPT $P$G
TEMP <- DOS jumps to this batch file to set the prompt
:NOT_UNDER_DV
REM INVOKED BY PC UPON POWER-UP
DEL DVPROMPT.DAT <- reset the counter to 1.
PROMPT $P$G
DVRUN.EXE A DesqView utility program that returns ERRORLEVEL = 0 if
DesqView is running or 1 if it is not.
EXPNDTAB.EXE Copies the file matching the source filespec to the
destination filespec with any source file <tab> characters
expanded into space characters into the destination file.
Great for printers that can't handle tabs but you still want
the formatting/alignment preserved.
FEEFIFO.EXE Enables the FIFO of a 16550A serial UART chip at the COM port
specified by the user. Also sets the FIFO depth to 1,4,8, or
14. Use in status mode to determine what type of serial chip
you have.
GROWP.COM Unique TSR gives visual indication of shelled process via C:>
prompt to avoid turning off PC when a program is suspended and
is shelled to DOS. Any time you have a master program
(including Windows) running in the background, GROWP changes
your prompt. Only program of its kind in industry. Avoids DOS 6
disk corruption. This resident program requires about 1400
bytes of resident RAM to add a default '>' or user
entered growth character to the environment's 'PROMPT'
string each time another copy of COMMAND.COM is shelled
and to remove the growth character when the copy
of COMMAND.COM is terminated. GROWP requires DOS version
3.0 or higher. Each growth character represents a
suspended program in RAM and gives you a visual warning
that you should not turn-off your PC before returning to
the suspended program and gracefully exiting it.
IFONSCRN.EXE IFONSCRN will examine the video screen for the appearance of up
to three case-sensitive trigger (search) character strings.
Great for programs that don't return errorlevel (like
compilers) but you need to know if they terminated with an
error condition. Also runs as TSR with sound/beep/dialog box
alert modes. Can control parallel port devices too. IFONSCRN
may be run as a TSR (RAM-resident) or as a non-TSR program
(CL mode). If IFONSCRN is running in the command line (CL
-non-resident) mode, and it finds one of the trigger strings,
it sets the DOS ERRORLEVEL to 0 (zero) , else if it is not
found, it will be set to 1 (one).
In either TSR or CL mode, after finding the trigger string, an
optional window may pop up with the user's message. Different
types of beeps may be associated with the window, including
the ability to control an external parallel port device.
After pressing any key to clear the window, optional keystrokes
may be automatically sent to the foreground program (TSR mode
only).
IFWAIT.EXE Controls a speaker and/or parallel port device including the
TNT IFBUZZ buzzer device. Makes the speaker and/or device buzz
or beep so that you can add buzzer indications to your batch
files. Great for batch files that need loud buzzing noises to
attract your attention back to the PC.
PARKHEAD.EXE Parks up to 2 hard (fixed) disk's heads over the disk's
shipping area where user data doesn't reside. Runs on IBM
PC/286/386/486/pentium and most compatible clones. One of the
first head parkers ever written.
PDEL.EXE PERMANENTLY deletes with verification, your specified filename.
You will be prompted to press 'Y'<cr> to delete the specific
file. The deleted file can not be recovered.
PLAYER.EXE Plays a WAVE or VOC formatted sound file on a Sound Blaster or
Sound Blaster Pro or Pro or Audio 16 card.
PRTSCRFF.EXE Appends a form-feed (paper eject) command to your printer
whenever you press the PrintScreen key. Very useful to
keep your printer always at its top-of-form position. For
laser printers, this saves you from taking the printer
off-line, and pressing the PageEject button.
RLIST.EXE Prints a range of lines from a file to the console or printer.
Useful to view a portion of a file's contents.
RWDIR.EXE Generates a list of non-read-only files. Useful to keep track
of the few files on your system that are read-writable since
the cautious user will have the majority of his/her files
marked as read-only. Certain applications require their files
to read-writable so not every file may be set to read-only.
SETBEEP.COM Installs itself as a RAM-resident program that will set the
beep character's (ASCII decimal 7 or control-G) duration to a
user specified value. The default beep tone duration is 1
second which is too long and annoying for many people. The
beep can even be disabled to provide for a truly silent PC.
This program intercepts BIOS interrupt 10h WRITE_TTY.
TUNE4DAY.EXE Plays a voice file(s) upon invocation. TUNE4DAY uses
TUNE4DAY.INI to control its operation. It maintains a pointer
in this file to control which file(s) it will act upon
during its next invocation. It runs a command on this
file(s). Even though TUNE4DAY is meant to traverse down a
directory of sound files and play the next sequential
file(s), it can be used to perform any command on a directory
of any type of files. Displays a random saying each time it is
run. User can add his/her own 'sayings' to the data file.
Package includes pseudo-Murphy's computer laws. Uses TNT's
PLAYER program.
VDEL.EXE Will delete with verification, files that match your filename
specification. You will be prompted to press 'Y' to delete the
specific file. 'Read-only' files will prompt you for an
additional 'Y' to be deleted.
VERS.COM Installs itself as a RAM-resident program that will set the DOS
versions to a user specified value. This is useful when running
programs that require a specific DOS version for no useful
reason. (Many DOS supplemental programs require specific
versions for no reason. For example, if you are running DOS 3.1
but like DOS 3.2's ATTRIB.EXE '/S' sub-directory search option,
you could set VERS to 3.2, then run ATTRIB and then reset it
back to 3.1). TSR lets you set DOS' two versions - the TRUE and
FAKE versions that applications may ask for... Works better
then SETVER. Fool programs on what version they're running
under. You read about this in INFOWORLD!
ZDIR.EXE Reports the sizes of files specified in a format appropriate
for managing large disks.
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