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====[ Bulletin 1 -- New Files ]=================================== Page 1
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======================
Copyright (c) 1987, Robert S. Blacher. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. Permission
is hereby granted to reproduce and disseminate so long as: (1) No
remuneration of any kind is received in exchange; and (2) Distribution is
without any modification to the contents hereof, including this copyright
notice. Any other use is prohibited without express, written permission in
advance.
======================
Brief descriptions and reviews of new files added to the system during
April, 1987:
[04-30-87]
FBK318.ARC 173288 04-30-87 FastBucks v3.18 Home Finance Program/ltd DOC
U/L by Loren Olson. FastBucks has been reviewed here a number of times
before and the updates this time are quite minor, largely in the area of
making it easier to try and recover corrupted data files (the author seems
to be spending a lot of time on that lately -- is it a problem with this
program?). A few notes on distribution policies re this program: (1) You
only get a user manual if you register. The "doc" file that is here covers
installation and then pretty much leaves you on your own. In this case,
the program is so easy to use that I really don't see that as being much of
a hindrance --- I doubt I'd ever read the doc file if I used this program
anyway. (2) This is "commissionware" but the copy on this board is serial
number 000000 (I didn't even have to patch this one!). (3) Each time you
exit from the program, you'll get an annoying reminder to register. I wish
the author would at least reconsider (2) and (3). You may wish to avoid
the program until he does.
EGACLR.ARC 6878 04-30-87 Set selected EGA screen colors from DOS
EGACHG.ARC 28408 04-30-87 Use with EGACLR to modify EGA screen colors
U/L by Don Richardson. Sorry -- no EGA here.
TYPDRILL.ARC 26250 04-30-87 Practice your typing/increase speed w/TPas
This one showed up on USENET, and while I don't think it is by any means
the best of the typing tutor/practice programs, I'm a sucker for programs
that come with their source code and this one does.
PROSORTA.ARC 46143 04-30-87 Advanced sorter for Procomm Dialing Directory
U/L by Don Richardson. " ProSort can sort your ProComm dialing directory
by Name, Phone number, Baud rate, or Command file name in ascending or
descending order."
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Brief descriptions and reviews of new files added to the system during
April, 1987:
PRCMDATE.ARC 9414 04-30-87 Date your BBS calls in Procomm's Dialing Dir
U/L by Don Richardson. NOT AUTOMATIC -- you need to run this program
manually after each successful connect to do the date stamping. Pretty
clumsy stuff.
LESSON.ARC 61726 04-30-87 Teacher's Lesson Plan Mngr/180 days/3 classes
U/L by David Geerinck. Written by a teacher for others, " LESSON ....
will produce, maintain and print a file of lesson plans for 180 school days
with a maximum of three different preparations (classes)."
PCRGB136.ARC 51888 04-30-87 Keith Graham's PIC viewer plus v1.36,04/29/87
U/L by Bob Weinstein. 1.36 4/29/86 fix to toshiba and 1280 screens. Added
support (in the dark - no testing) of VGA....
[04-29-87]
VIDLIB01.ARC 58607 04-29-87 Store/Retrieve VIDeo images in packed LIBrary
04-29-87 Many applications including help generator
U/L and written by Rip Toren. This looks to be an excellent and valuable
collection of programs. VIDLIB creates libraries of text images (screens,
if you will). TELL can retrieve items from such a library by subject.
That's a much too simple explanation of this program, but it will give you
some idea of what's here. The most obvious application is to build your
own help system for yourself or for other users. Thus, TELL FORMAT might
bring up information on the DOS FORMAT command. More likely, you'd build a
help system for a custom application you have put together. There's really
no limit to the uses of a generic retrieval/display/library utility of this
kind. Go to it .... the author has encouraged folks to upload interesting
libraries that you construct yourself, and I'll second that notion. The C
source for the TELL utility is included.
CDISK354.ARC 134837 04-29-87 CATDISK v3.54 disk catalog/handles ARCs/4-87
Very minor bug fixes to this good disk catalog program, including:
Fixed a bug in which showing a summary report involving a disk containing
zero length files only would abort ungracefully.
Fixed a bug in which cataloguing a disk that contained a file whose name
contained all blanks (ASCII 255's) caused CATDISK to go into a continuous loop
when updating the catalog file.
Added the ability to "read" command line options from the DOS environment
area, thus eliminating the need to set up a batch file to call up CATDISK
with your favourite configuration.
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Brief descriptions and reviews of new files added to the system during
April, 1987:
GTXT.ARC 6155 04-29-87 E.Gans' convert text to COM file v1.1 pauses
This looks to be about a year old. Where's it been hiding? Anyway,
CP/M'rs will remember Eric Gans' TXT.COM program that would allow you to
convert a text file to a COM file so you could run it (to display help
messages and the like). Here it is ported to DOS, with some nice features,
including:
- zeroes high bit to read (say) WS doc mode files
- allows printing of control characters using "^"
- page breaks can be forced with "~"
- literals of "^" and "~" can be entered if preceded by "%" ("%%" gives
"%")
- Issues a "[More]" every 23 lines for text file longer than 23 lines;
when you type a character the [More] is blanked out and doesn't
waste a line on the screen. Type ^C to exit.
BIOSDOS.ARC 34392 04-29-87 Quick Reference card for BIOS & DOS
U/L by Mike Rubenstein.
TV920.ARC 43955 04-29-87 Televideo 920 term emul w/Xmodem C source/EXE
U/L by Bob Hicks. I can't really put this program to a fair test as the
only time I would ever want to emulate a TVI 920 is when accessing a Unix
system. In those instances, the quality of the emulation depends as much
on how good the Unix termcap entry is as the emulator you are using. So
... untested. The good news is the inclusion of the C source. The bad
news is that only Xmodem (checksum) is supported.
BASCOMFX.ARC 185149 04-29-87 02/23/87 IBM BASCOM2 BLOAD Fixes 632MN.
U/L by Bill Andrus. Is anyone actually using BASCOM 2.x instead of
MicroSoft's MUCH! less expensive QuickBASIC? Well, if you are, here are
some official IBM patches: Replaces existing Basic Compiler runtime module
and library with a patch version that fixed the "INPUT PASS END" problem
when the header of a BLOADed file contains 1A.
GTLOG70.ARC 88904 04-29-87 GT PowerComm logging util v7.0
U/L by Scott Pazur. Some quite minor changes to this add-on util to
Meiners' GT Powercomm program.
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April, 1987:
INLIN214.ARC 50404 04-29-87 Convert ASM to TPascal inline v2.14 D.Baldwin
04-29-87 Also includes UNINLINE 1.0 Inline disassemblr
U/L by Scott Pazur. Update notes for INLINE:
22 Vers 2.14 Change output format to better accomodate map file line numbers.
21 Vers 2.13 Allow JMP SHORT direct using symbols.
20 Vers 2.12 Allow CALL and JMP direct using symbols.
19 Vers 2.11
Fix bug in CallJmp and ShortJmp which didn't restrict short
jump range properly.
Fix bug which didn't allow CALL or JMP register. (CALL BX).
UNINLINE was still identified as 1.0, yet had different compiler directives
in it than a copy here with an earlier date. No bug deal (sic).
BAAB.ARC 4687 04-29-87 Binary <==> ASCII file conversion R.Gans
U/L by Scott Pazur. For transferring binary files overs 7-bit data lines
(very inefficiently!), you can convert binary to ascii and then back again
with these utilities. Clearly not the way to go if you can avoid it.
UNARC16.CPM 38912 04-29-87 CP/M Unarc util/Rename to UNARC16.COM & run
U/L by Kent Hauser. My old CP/M machine (beloved Morrow) is sitting
gathering dust in a closet here, so I didn't try this out. A dump of the
file indicates it is a self-extracting COM file that will give you a CP/M
de-arc util and necessary documentation. It is ARC 5.x compatible but
looks like it does not support "squash".
CT603-A.ARC 121952 04-29-87 \ J. MacEvoy's CashTrac 6.03/ main pgm
CT603-B.ARC 148267 04-29-87 / Personal Finance Manager \ config & docs
CT603-C.ARC 131819 04-29-87 \ now w/graphs & chx wrting / graph & hlp
U/L by Paul Riggs. As callers to this board know, there has been something
of a raging debate here about "crippleware" and a tightening of the policy
here re: posting programs that have some of their features disabled or
omitted. It's going to end up being case-by-case, and CashTrac is very
close to the line. You can "only" record 200 transactions per account with
this BBS version of CT. That is, in fact, a lot of transactions (do you
write 200 checks a year? I don't think I do.) And, CT allows multiple
accounts. So, in short, I'm going to make the call that what's here gives
you a fair opportunity to try the program. If you're still using
it a year later (or whatever), you really owe the authors a little support
-- CT is not a trivial programming effort. But, as I said, a close call,
and CT will be a target for extinction when disk space gets tight here.
Update notes:
1. Version 6.02 fixes a graphing problem where selection of several record
types of opposite polarities (ex: checks and interest) causes incorrect
results. 2. Version 6.03 has a fix for a problem where the computer runs
out of memory when graphing more than 2600 records.
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April, 1987:
[04-28-87]
MOLABEL.ARC 2613 04-28-87 Multiple label printing dBase III+ DOC/PRG
U/L by Loren Olson. " MOLABELS is designed to fill the void in DBASE III
PLUS that permits only one label printing for each record in the database."
EGACUR.ARC 835 04-28-87 Stop lost cursor in 43 line mode of some EGAs
U/L and written by Vernon Huang.
DESKCALC.ARC 109119 04-28-87 Programmable scientific calculator/non-res
U/L by Charles Bitterli. If you can understand all or most of the
following, this program may be for you:
"CALC allows a computer system to be used as a complete programable
scientific calculator. CALC provides the user with access to a number of
both pre-defined and user programable mathematical functions through the
use of a simple, easy to learn command format. In addition to the basic
mathematical operations such as addition, subtraction, multiplications, and
division, CACL provides a number of complex functions such as Log,
Exponent, Sin, Cos, Conversions, Summation, Integration, and many more. A
total of 47 individual functions and operators are provided by the program.
The user may use these functions and operators, along with both pre-defined
and user defined constants and arguments, to define special functions of a
complex nature. These user defined functions may then be saved into a disk
file for future use without the need for re-definition. Other commands
allow the user to delete functions and constants, define special constants
for use in a number of functions and/or calculations, show the definition
of any given function, and print out all calculation results."
NEW301.ARC 22602 04-28-87 v3.01 of A86 - update files only/sm. bug fixs
U/L by Stephen Falatko. Some bug fixes and minor enhancements to A86
v3.00. This is for those who already have that version as it's not the
complete set (which is on this board).
OLINK_32.ARC 25130 04-28-87 OPUSLink com module uses SEALink xfer protocol
U/L by Barry Gerber. This is yet another comm module to be run from
full-fledged modem programs (qmodem, pibterm, procomm, whatever) to add
SEALink protocol support to them. Fine, but what we need is one that takes
command line parms to send and receive files, not one that throws you into
a terminal mode and requires you then to manually give send/receive
commands. Oh well ...
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Brief descriptions and reviews of new files added to the system during
April, 1987:
XANADU2.ARC 20009 04-28-87 Xanadu Utils v2.0: HotDir 2.1, PCSTAT 3.2,
04-28-87 SFIND 1.02X, QuickCRT, CURSORx & DOC
U/L by Tom Drinkard. These are all good utilities. I've not done so
before so here's a complete description from the doc of what's included:
HDIR.COM - The HotDIR, colorful sorted directory program 2.1.
Displays different colors based on file extension.
Many options too! Works on Monochrome, Color, & EGA.
PCSTAT.COM - PC Status Utility 3.2 - Displays Disk/RAM statistics
and other information in a well organized format.
It is much faster than CHKDSK too! New colors added.
SFIND.COM - Super File Find 1.02X - Finds files fast anywhere on
your disk (even inside ARC files).
QUICKCRT.COM - Speeds up the time it takes to write to the screen by
your programs. Very useful! A must!
CURSORC.COM - Resets cursor to original cursor after it has been
changed by another program. (Color version).
CURSORM.COM - Same function as CURSORC, except that this is the
monochrome version.
XANADU.DOC - This documentation file
HDIRCOLS.BAS - A program that lets you customize HDIR.COM so that
you can define the color you want displayed for each
type of file.
Note that QUICKCRT and the 2 CURSORx programs are new to release 2.0.
QUICKCRT looks a lot like ZENO (based on it?) and like ZENO may cause
problems with some multi-taskers and other screen-oriented utilities.
[04-27-87]
HBMS211.ARC 96187 04-27-87 Home Budget Mgmt Sys v2.11 Chkg,GL,COA,& more
U/L by David Geerinck. One of the better programs of this ilk on the
system (and there are many more than I can review adequately), HBMS does
checking and some simple general ledger functions, yet isn't overwhelming.
Still, read the docs -- you won't get very far without them, and plan to
spend some time learning this one. Update notes for this version (changes
don't look major but the bug about beginning a new year is not trivial!):
"Fixed bug ... in Begin New Year section when trying to start a new
budget from scratch. Also added a warning about how to begin a new year.
Added record # to the source account screen display to avoid confusion.
Added an underline separator in the printed Transaction report to
separate each screenful of information.
Added a feature to select either the Income and Expense Report, the
Balance Sheet, or both.
Added a year designation to the Chart of Accounts Report."
QPURSU.ARC 7319 04-27-87 Autodial scripts for PCPursuit (Qmodem 3.0)
U/L by Mark Elengold. Sorry -- I don't use PC Pursuit.
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April, 1987:
GRAB13.ARC 51097 04-27-87 Grab address from letter and print it/TSR/1.3
There's a new configuration utility to tell GRAB whether you're using an HP
LaserJet and also to have it print your return address (I use labels, but I
wondered what others were going to do!). Nice touches. See 4/23/87 review
of GRAB.ARC for more info on this program.
NSWPPC19.ARC 43447 04-27-87 D. Rand's NSWP (sweep) util for DOS v1.019
U/L by Tadas Osmolskis. Very minor changes to Dave Rand's still-in-progress
port of his CP/M sweep utility to DOS. See earlier review of NSWPPC18.ARC.
Changes: (1) Bug fix in arc decompression routine; (2) Y command now
correctly sets file attributes.
GETINPUT.ARC 8810 04-27-87 QBasic subprog/build def length input string
U/L & written by Lee Bernbaum. "QBINPUT is a Quikbasic SUB-PROGRAM that
can be called to handle input in a reasonably controlled manner, returning
a string of a predefined length. The input field is filled with whatever
character you specify. You can control whether or not a CR is required
when maximum length is reached, thus providing rudimentary word wrapping
(until you backspace all the way to the beginning of the string...previous
line's X,Y values are not saved). The cursor is always blinking where the
next character will go."
[04-26-87]
MONEY.ARC 22754 04-26-87 Very simple checkbook and budget program
U/L & written by Greg Gray. A first release, this one was designed to be
the kind of program you could use without reading a doc. Fine, but it may
not meet the needs of those of you who are looking for more sophisticated
capabilities and the interface is a bit rudimentary at this point.
ZDOC0425.ARC 9067 04-26-87 Additional Documentation for DSZ/Steve Shelton
U/L by Paul Kopit. I've put a READ.ME file in this doc to try to bring it
somewhat up to date. Forsberg's DSZ program is a moving target and some of
Steve Shelton's info was out of date. But, it's useful. NOTE: DSZ
supports Xmodem, Ymodem and Zmodem -- period. Steve's doc may lead you to
think it supports Telink, SEAlink, CIS B, etc. Pro-YAM and ZCOMM do (and a
whole lot more, actually); DSZ does not.
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April, 1987:
GALXY210.ARC 159218 04-26-87 Galaxy editor v2.1/WS-like w/pop-up menus
U/L by Loren Olson. This editor has received some negative comments from
me in the past, mostly because of the way it has been marketed. It is
clearly based on the Borland editor toolbox, yet fails to acknowledge that
fact (alas, still true). Each release has also been accompanied by the
statement that this was the last shareware release with updates only going
to those who registered. That seems to be gone this time. And, there are
enough enhancements to the editor that it's origins in the toolbox are
becoming less obvious. Still....
Anyway, it's a good WS-like editor but with pop-up menus. New features
in 2.1 include right justification, headers and footers, fixed or automatic
tab stops, optional ruler line, shell to DOS, zoom windows, and more. The
speed is very good. For those looking for an inexpensive word processor
(no competition with full-fledged products like Word Perfect, etc. but
pretty good), Galaxy is worth a closer look.
OKSHOW10.ARC 9358 04-26-87 Basic BLOAD file resident viewer/K.Graham
U/L by Bob Weinstein. " OKSHOW.COM is a memory resident BLOAD file viewer
for CGA displays. It is triggered by a combination of information on the
display and a hot key. OKSHOW.COM can be used to view databases of
graphics information and is useful for security and sales applications."
This is a test version of what will eventually become part of a commercial
package.
UNDOC21H.ARC 3754 04-26-87 Undocumented INT 21h calls from USENET msg
U/L by Michael Pechnyo.
DBCNTACT.ARC 123848 04-26-87 Track personal/business contacts (EXE/PRG)
U/L by Bobby Mangoba. " Contact Tracker is a program designed to provide
the important function of organizing and tracking business and personal
contacts. Contact Tracker is written in dBASE with Clipper enhancements
and compiled. Without much effort, the code could be adapted to the dBASE
environment." The source code IS included, so you can modify this one to
your heart's content. Looks good.
DSPDBFEK.ARC 1527 04-26-87 dBase PRG to display dbf info
U/L by Bobby Mangoba.
DBCHDATE.ARC 1680 04-26-87 Date routine for dBase/start & end dates
U/L by Bobby Mangoba. "Program to get starting and ending dates for
reports, searches, etc. Creates public variables 'start' and 'end'."
TABLADDR.ARC 771 04-26-87 Finds memory address of dbase3+ symbol table
U/L by Bobby Mangoba. "Finds the memory address of the dBase III Plus
symbol table (how esoteric can you get?!). It does not work with
FoxBase+." BIN & DOC only.
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April, 1987:
DD20.ARC 14158 04-26-87 Grunin's DoubleDir 2.0 dual dir and file util
U/L by Mike Focke. Update notes from v1.5 (edited):
1) A new Sort function - sort by size, date, extension, name. 2) A new
Reverse function - reverses sort order. 3) Will use whatever screen colors
were current on startup. 4) Move is much more powerful, and easier to use.
5) The two directories are compared, and files with identical entries are
marked with a vertical bar. Files with the same name but differing in
other aspects are marked with a horizontal bar. 6) The input handling
(where you are prompted for filenames) is now much better. Pressing Esc
will cancel any input function. Unfortunately, DOS command line enhancers
(like DOSEDIT) are now bypassed. As partial compensation, F3, PgUp, and
UpArrow all recall the previous command line for editing. 7) The EGA mode
is not reset to 25 lines on exit unless it was 25 lines on entry. 8) The
cursor behaves itself better. It is still not perfect (alas). 9) Dump
Strings no longer skips blank lines. 10) Various cosmetic changes - the
menu is in reverse video, etc.
This is a nice program but I still wish it had a tag function like most
sweep utils do. Without it, entering each command still takes too much
typing!
ARCAID13.ARC 25857 04-26-87 Shell for ARC building/tag files v1.03
U/L by Ronald Schwartz. Well, I like this one better than FETCH -- it's
cleaner and easier to use. But, I still see precious little advantage to
wrapping this kind of menu shell around ARC programs. Just my own bias,
folks ....
MDM7.ARC 29057 04-26-87 W.Christensen's Modem.Asm (fixed) w/asm/com
U/L by Bill Gibson. A relic, really, this version of Christensen's modem
program was originally for CP/M and then ported -- sort of -- to DOS. The
COM file is really not worth anyone's time. The ASM source is interesting.
Bill Gibson has done some cleanup of it to get it to compile properly.
[04-25-87]
LIBMGR.ARC 69984 04-25-87 QuickBASIC LIBrary manager EXE/DOC
U/L by Tadas Osmolskis. This is a shell for the QB 2.0x BUILDLIB program,
giving the program a more visual, friendly interface. If you prefer the
command driven approach of the QB util itself, you can pass on this one.
PAGEBRK.ARC 12287 04-25-87 Put page breaks in text file v1.2
U/L by Tadas Osmolskis. Not a new program (and I have a feeling it may
have been on this system before under another name) this one just inserts
page breaks in files at after xx number of lines.
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April, 1987:
ARC520S.ARC 53059 04-25-87 C Source for ARC 5.20 from SEA
U/L by Tadas Osmolskis. Contains the CI C86 source for SEA's ARChive
utility, version 5.20 (the current version). There were some other SEA
utilities in this archive but they have been removed, at least until some
confusion over whether SEA intends all of these to be distributed on BBS
systems is clarified.
CPRINT44.ARC 39242 04-25-87 Source code/ascii file print util v4.4
U/L by Tadas Osmolskis. Probably not worth taking this version if you have
4.3, the changes are minor: (1) A fix for use with some versions of DOS
2.x; and (2)"added CPRINTS.EXE to the archive. This is CPRINT.EXE with
the full screen editor input feature removed so that users with non IBM
compatible pc's won't crash their system trying to use the full screen
mode." CPRINT is a good utility for printing source code (particularly C,
of course) and other ascii files.
DEARCSRC.ARC 53111 04-25-87 TP src, DOS, CP/M-86 exec for un-arc util
U/L by Tadas Osmolskis. This is an ARC 5.12 compatible extract only
utility implemented in Turbo Pascal for DOS and CP/M-86. The source is
included and that's what's useful. PKXARC and ARCE are MUCH! faster. Note:
"Squash" is not supported (it's not part of the SEA archive standard).
EDIT-C.ARC 59127 04-25-87 Editor in C fr Dr. Dobb's source & EXE
U/L by Tadas Osmolskis. This is a fairly rudimentary editor that I gather
was later enhanced and released as a commercial program. It's kept here
for the sake of the source. Other programmers' editors (QEDIT and EDWIN)
are much more sophisticated.
OKIPRINT.ARC 1634 04-25-87 TSR print util for OKIdata ML 192/193
U/L by Tadas Osmolskis.
SCPGEN1Q.ARC 0 04-25-87 Script generator for Qmodem SST & PCBoard
04-25-87 DELETED: Limited use demo : Do not upload
This program stops working after being used an unspecified number of times.
It has been erased. Please do not upload crippleware or demos to this
system.
SUP107.ARC 7384 04-25-87 Suppress color on mono monitors w/ASM 1.07
U/L by Henning Close. Traps all screen writes at the BIOS level and
suppresses the color. Will not work on programs that write directly to the
video buffer. v1.07, 3/12/87 by Dana Nowell, with ASM source.
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FCON200H.ARC 50184 04-25-87 Fansi-CONsole 2.00H /DEV & HST 3/26/87
U/L by Bill Wood. Edited update notes:
2.00H 03/26/87 FCONBETA.DEV Beta Test Version
Fix mode limiting to allow mono to be used inspite of
equipment flag setting.
Fix to initialize correctly with DOS 3.3 instead of
not linking in FCON device.
Add limited support for F11 and F12.
Chg for bug in AST keyboard ROMs.
Fix test to find old Hercules Mono Cards and some poor clones.
Add EGAFAKE.PCH to fake EGA returns on CGA.
Add IBMBIO.320 for bugs in IBM DOS INT 19H handler.
Fixes Quadram QM2 and other programs needing INT 19H.
[04-24-87]
RZSZ1ET2.ARC 60507 04-24-87 Unix RZ/SZ source 04-17-87 (rz 1.19/ sz 1.27)
God and Chuck Forsberg may know what's new in these versions of the
latter's Unix file transfer programs. I don't. They compiled just fine on
the Unix system I access so, being a slave to the latest, they're what I'm
using. But, darned if I noticed any differences.
DSZ0422.ARC 41834 04-24-87 Forsberg's X/Y/Zmodem xfer module 4/22/87
There are some significant differences in this latest version of DSZ.
First, the doc has been revised to explain the new syntax that showed up in
the 4/17 release. To set Zmodem parms, a 'z' must be added to the command
line first. Thus:
DSZ port 2 speed 2400 z pL1024 sz filenames
is the syntax for a Zmodem send with 1K blocks instead of the default
(which is now 512 bytes instead of 256).
Second, CTS handshaking is now supported. For those of you with
modems that support internal error correction and CTS flow control, you can
use DSZ for Ymodem-G transfers. For PCBoard, where the Ymodem-G is really
Xmodem-1K-G (never mind), the syntax would be:
DSZ port 1 speed 9600 handshake on rc -g filename.ext (receive)
DSZ port 2 speed 4800 handshake on sx -kg filename.ext (send)
NOTE: Don't use Ymodem-G on this BBS as the modems do NOT support internal
error correction.
MSC4ADD.ARC 13977 04-24-87 Insert for MS-C manual/functns groups/WS & WP
U/L by Ed Dougherty.
[04-23-87]
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ADVC11.ARC 14068 04-23-87 v1.1 routine library for (Microsoft) C/Hanlin
U/L and written by Tom Hanlin. A good collection of routines for C
programmers, some are generic and some require MS-C. Update notes: ADVC
v1.1, 04/22/87: DRIVESPACE returns the amount of free space on a given
disk drive.
INSTINFO.ARC 21740 04-23-87 Instant Info:TSR/9 topics/20 notes per/1.01
U/L by Loren Olson. Interesting idea. This is a mem-res notepad that
allows you to divide your entries into up to 9 topics with 20 notes per
topic. All entries are time and date stamped. It's useful, but swallows a
whopping 80K+ and the notepad editor is very primitive. The hotkey is
Alt-F9 and cannot be changed. The program can be removed from memory.
ALARM114.ARC 4546 04-23-87 C. Dunford's alarm clock v1.14 / needs PCED
U/L by Loren Olson. This is Chris Dunford's nifty little alarm program
that works only with PCED (the commercial version of Chris' Command
EDitor). v1.14, 4/22/87 release, fixes a bug in the CANCEL command (the
old version wouldn't let you cancel the "last" alarm set).
HGCBSAVE.ARC 2200 04-23-87 BSAVE 16k PICs from Herc. card even if >16k
U/L by Joe Nazzaro.
ARCALL.ARC 8187 04-23-87 ARC all HD subdirectories to floppys w/BAS
U/L by Joe Nazzaro. BASIC programs that create batch files to ARC entire
hard disk to floppies or to restore archived files back to the hard disk.
As provided, requires either SEA's ARC or Katz's PKARC.
CRIT_ERR.ARC 2816 04-23-87 Critical error handling/Clipper PRG/OBJ
U/L by Bobby Mangoba.
CREFCARD.ARC 10346 04-23-87 Quick reference card for Lattice C
U/L by Bobby Mangoba.
SHOOT11.ARC 11804 04-23-87 Select & extract routine for Clipper
U/L by Bobby Mangoba. "Program to 'Point and Shoot' from database file -
After locating record in file, user can select the record in the file to
pass any or all record information to calling program."
GRAB.ARC 33505 04-23-87 Grab address from letter and print it/TSR/1.1
U/L by Loren Olson. A mem-res program that allows you to point to the
address in a letter you are editing and immediately print an envelope with
that address. Hotkeys (hard coded) are Alt-Z and Alt-X, which may pose a
problem with some word processors. If you have an HP LaserJet, the program
can take advantage of the envelope feeder. The program can be removed from
memory.
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SHOW28.ARC 3242 04-23-87 Display Int 28h Usage w/ASM/com files - TSR
U/L by Bill Gibson. "Display asterisk at top-left corner of text screen
during INT28 activity. Blank top-left char at every keyboard make code."
[04-22-87]
MINIXFX1.ARC 13952 04-22-87 Msgs & fixes about Minix from USENET
U/L by Jack Velte and John Limpert.
BANKRUPT.ARC 7472 04-22-87 1-2-3 WKS to judge corporate finances/Z score
U/L by Hewie Poplock. " The Bankruptcy Predictor Formula for publicly
traded manufacturing corporations (Z Score) is a simple equation.... This
model uses five financial ratios that, when combined in a specific way,
produce a single number. This number, called a Z Score, is a general
measure of corporate financial health."
IOLITE2.ARC 4626 04-22-87 See your I/O devices on your CRT in color/ASM
U/L by Stacy Hornstein. Shows disk activity on the screen. Includes
versions for both color and mono monitors, with source.
DEADMAN.ARC 7502 04-22-87 PC deadman switch by K.P.Graham, 04/21/87/ASM
U/L by Bob Weinstein. A special purpose program, DEADMAN prints a message
on the screen every X seconds, preceded by a warning tone. The code for
this TSR should prove interesting.
AUTOCARO.ARC 4928 04-22-87 Autoexec CAROUSEL startup by D.Lewis/04/22/87
U/L by Bob Weinstein.
ATPARAM.ARC 12785 04-22-87 Check AT HD Controller Drive Parameters/COM
U/L by Jerry Zeller. Just shows you the parameter table of your AT
controller and the types currently in use. No doc.
ZDOC.ARC 6127 04-22-87 Documentation of DSZ Zmodem-Batch & Ymodem-G
U/L and written by Steve Shelton. A valiant effort to cull from the ZCOMM
and Pro-YAM docs the info that is needed to understand all of DSZ's
parameters. But, some of the info is already out of date (this doc was
prepared for the 4/6/87 version of DSZ and we're up to 4/22/87 as I write
this) and some of the parms are not implemented in DSZ (.e.g. DSZ does not
do SeaLink or Telink transfers as this doc might lead you to think).
Still, there's some useful info here.
CLEAN104.ARC 45526 04-22-87 Fill unused clusters on disk w/characters 1.04
U/L by George Introzzi. Another program that attempts to foil those who
would unerase files or examine clusters formerly occupied by erased files
by filling all unused clusters with characters.
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RPNCALC.ARC 26326 04-22-87 HP-11 calculator emulator w/8087 version v1.2
U/L by Fred Bauer. Allows input of numbers in scientic notation, emulating
an HP-11C calculator. Versions included for those with and without a math
coprocessor.
[04-21-87]
EZS.ARC 58444 04-21-87 Easy Spell/PD spelling checker w/TPas source
U/L by Fran Horvath. Not new, but includes the complete Turbo Pascal
source for this spell checker and a pretty decent dictionary file. The COM
file is not included as I think this file will be most useful for its
source and the dictionary.
CNVRT300.ARC 11881 04-21-87 Convert Qmodem 2.3 FON dirs to 3.0
U/L by Dave Klein. John Friel accidentally left this one out of the
initial Qmodem 3.0 release. All it does is make room for the new password
field if you are using a QM 2.3 directory. You may not even have that
problem (it depends on how long your existing FON entries were). Anyway,
the conversion program is here if you want it and has also been added to
QMSSTINS.ARC.
RESTPRT.ARC 828 04-21-87 Re-enable PrtSc in Programs that disable it
U/L and written by Rod Renner. A TSR that will stop programs from
disabling print-screen. I've never run into a program that does. I gather
from the doc that some games are culprits in this regard.
SRCH78.ARC 33769 04-21-87 Search text files for multiple phrases v7.8
U/L by Mark Rapp. Will search file(s) for up to five strings. No doc but
type the name of the program for its syntax.
BRPR100.LBR 29696 04-21-87 Braille print utility/TP src, CP/M & DOS exec
U/L and co-authored by Tadas Osmolskis. "The Braille Printing Utility
(BRPR, version 1.00) is designed to split a file produced for an 80-column
printer so it can be printed on a 40-column braille printer and bound to
allow braille to be read logically across facing pages." CP/M and DOS
compiled versions are included as well as the Turbo Pascal source. Posted
as a library, rather than an archive, as the ARC format is less well
supported in CP/M (though, in fact, there are ARC 5.1 compatible CP/M arc
programs).
PCRGB135.ARC 45963 04-21-87 Keith Graham's PIC viewer plus v1.35,04/20/87
U/L by Bob Weinstein. Update notes:
1.35 4/20/87 to test Gemini 10, 15 printers.
1.34 3/31/87 Testing of PC Paintbrush Files, Released to
Ed Shoemaker for evaluation and distribution.
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LARC16.ARC 54656 04-21-87 Re-ARC files,ARCA,PKARC &/or ARC/*.*/QB/Buerg
U/L and written by Vern Buerg.
4/15/87
Version 1.6 adds more checks to insure that the temporary
directory is empty. Also, you may now press ESCape while
LARC is running to cancel it. A check was added to stop
processing if an error occurred creating a new ARC file
[04-20-87]
CLIPWHAT.ARC 41127 04-20-87 Link SAYWHAT! screens into Clipper EXE w/TPas
U/L & written by Bob Hicks. Rather than having to include separate SQZ
files with programs that are designed with SAYWHAT!, this program allows
all the screens to be included in the EXE itself. VIDPOP still must be
distributed along with the executable.
FW.ARC 47990 04-20-87 Filewatch-file activity monitor/C.Dunford/1.0
U/L and written by Chris Dunford. If you're a tinkerer who is always
trying to speed up your system (I'm an addict), you'll have all sorts of
fun with this one. FileWatch is a little TSR that logs all disk read and
write requests by filename (you can limit the logging to executables only
or have it log everything). A separate program will then generate a report
by filename telling you, for each file, how many sectors DOS requested, how
many were actually read, and the % of read requests that resulted in
physical disk reads. It provides the same info for writes. The purpose of
all this is to help you figure out which files might be best placed on a
RAM disk. Or, you could use it to measure the efficiency of your current
cache program. Or, even help you decide on the best scheme for disk
optimization for those programs that allow you to choose where the files
will be placed on your disk.
The FileWatch system takes very little memory and runs unobtrusively
in background (it got along with all the other TSRs installed on my work
machine). The documentation is excellent and the program is quite easy to
use, with a good batch file provided to help you collect/merge data and
generate reports.
FASMEN40.ARC 69797 04-20-87 Fast Menu Devlpt Systm 4.0 12/86 Menu shell
U/L by John Sawyer. A 2 level batch-oriented menu system, with up to 10
options on the main menu (called by F1 through F10), any of which can be
submenus. This one looks fast and pretty and the documentation is quite
good.
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QFONE300.ARC 112336 04-20-87 QFONEDIT v3.00, QMODEM.FON editor /Crippled
U/L by Bob Weinstein. Qfonedit is a very powerful program to manipulate
Qmodem's phone directory file (QMODEM.FON). If you maintain a directory
with a great many numbers (I don't, and consequently have never had any
need for this program), you'll probably find it useful. Unfortunately,
Karl Brendel has decided to try encouraging more registrations by omitting
2 capabilities from the BBS version --- (1) The ability to read and save
Qfonedit configuration options; (2) On-line help.
While the crippling here really amounts to nothing more than making it
less convenient to use the program, I still think it represents an
unfortunate decision on Karl's part. Frankly, I doubt this is the kind of
program that's going to produce many registrations, with or without this
type of inducement. That's not a judgment on the value of the program, but
rather an observation based on watching what seems to succeed as shareware
and what doesn't. I see no indication that add-on products like this
generate much in the way of financial returns. Do it for the fun of it,
Karl, and for the recognition your good programming and hard work will
achieve, not for the money. If you're in it for the latter, don't bother.
TPSTRING.ARC 5372 04-20-87 TPascal String routine package /inline code
SCOUT27.ARC 124742 04-20-87 TSR sweep-util and DOS shell v2.72 4/18/87
U/L by Loren Olson. An update to the SCOUT TSR sweep and shell program,
but no update notes. See earlier review of SCOUT.ARC.
VEMM.ARC 36153 04-20-87 Virtual Expanded Mem Mngr 1.10/emulate LIMs
Supports a subset of the LIM/EMS expanded memory standard, using your disk
drive as the swap area. Thus, allows some emulation on EMS capabilities
even if you don't have an EMS memory board in your system, but at a cost --
speed. Some interesting source code is included in the arc. I doubt the
program itself will perform well enough to be satisfactory in most
applications.
CLIPASC.ARC 19070 04-20-87 Access 'flat files' from within Clipper
U/L by Bob Hicks. "CLIPASC is a set of User Defined functions, programmed
in Assembler which allow a program written in Clipper to access and
manipulate information contained in flat ASCII files." Version 1.1.
QKWRITE.ARC 1740 04-20-87 UDF in ASM / quick-write to screen in Clipper
U/L by Bob Hicks.
MEMOLINE.ARC 6108 04-20-87 UDF in "C" to improve memo output in Clipper
U/L by Bob Hicks. Allows you to display or print a selected section of a
memo field.
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[04-19-87]
QMSSTCOM.ARC 150737 04-19-87 Qmodem 3.0 COM, overlay and QMODEM.HLP
QMSSTINS.ARC 74824 04-19-87 Qmodem 3.0 install program & sample scripts
QMSSTDOC.ARC 116724 04-19-87 Qmodem 3.0 documentation
EXTERNAL.ARC 118728 04-19-87 External file transfer modules & bat files
04-19-87 for use with Qmodem 3.0
John Friel has produced a major revision to his already excellent
communications program. Qmodem 3.0 (now called Qmodem SST -- oh well) has
become more than just a program to call BBS systems with. It is truly a
full-fledged, professional communications package with more capabilities
than are available in most (all?) commercial programs. The list of new
features/changes in 3.0 would go on for a very long time, so I'll highlight
but a few:
--- Terminal emulation has been added. Qmodem emulates a DEC
VT-100 and a Televideo 925 terminal. The VT-100 is really excellent.
While I wish it were a bit faster, it's incredibly accurate and it's doing
a lot of work to emulate a DEC terminal so well.
--- Support for many new file transfer protocols has been added via
execution of external comm modules. John's method for doing this is really
very clever. You tell the QINSTALL program the names of batch files that
will be executed to perform the transfers. Qmodem passes to those files
parameters including baud rate, com port and (if necessary) file names. It
works very smoothly and gives Qmodem the ability to execute any external
module, including DSZ (for Ymodem batch and Zmodem), PCKermit, WXModem and
SeaLink.
--- The script language has been vastly enhanced. It is very
powerful and yet quite easy to use. I am not one for using script
capabilities much, but I finally wrote a few for Qmodem 3.0 a month or two
ago during beta testing and have been very impressed. Even if you don't
want to write your own, some good ones will undoubtedly show up.
I could go on, but most of you will download Qmodem no matter what
I say and it's a big package. So, get to it. A couple of housekeeping
notes: (1) I was a beta tester for Qmodem 3.0 so the normal caveats apply.
(2) EXTERNAL.ARC contains programs that, for the most part, were already on
this system. It will quickly get out of date (indeed, it contained an
older copy of DSZ than is current so I have updated it). I will probably
pull the executables out of that file soon and list those that weren't
already here separately, but it's available as is for the time being.
DSKVR44B.ARC 59277 04-19-87 Disk Cover program v4.4B/expands ARC/LBR
U/L by Francis Sullivan. This happens to be my favorite of the disk cover
programs. But, there's no indication of what's new in this release which
is 4.4B as opposed to plain old 4.4. I hope the only difference wasn't a
new serial number as part of the commission scheme as I've patched that out
anyway.
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QBCRYPT.ARC 3153 04-19-87 QuickBASIC encrypt/decrypt functions OBJ/ASM
U/L and written by Jack Kilday. " Designed for use in QuickBASIC programs,
EDCRYPT.OBJ provides an assembler-based, called subprogram for string
encryption and decryption. The encryption algorithm is based on one
contained in an old PC Magazine utility, LOCK.COM ...." ASM source
included.
SETCOLOR.ARC 5294 04-19-87 DB3+/Clipper Set Color procedure PRG/DOC
U/L by Neal Machtiger.
BCB.ARC 56681 04-19-87 Batch Commander/Menu Builder v1.0 6/86
U/L by Philip Stults. Egads, I just can't keep up with all the menu
programs that seem to be floating around. This one looks well executed and
documented, with the following features:
-Memory is allocated dynamically.
-Each data file is capable of up to 16 pages.
-Each page is titled.
-Each page is capable of up to 14 options.
-Up to 30 commands per option.
-Compatible with floppy, fixed or ram disks.
-Supports full directory commands.
-Windows.
-Help for option using Display command.
-User Input may be passed to program on command line.
-Small data files.
-More than one data file allowed.
-Fast load time.
PEII.ARC 10622 04-19-87 IBM Personal Editor II help file and PROfile
U/L by Phillip Stults. A help file that's better than IBM's (what isn't)
and a sample PE2.PRO file which contains a few nice macros.
BASEBALL.ARC 37555 04-19-87 Keep track of players' stats on your team
U/L by John Horneff.
[04-18-87]
POLYCOPY.ARC 23400 04-18-87 Read disk once/copy to 2 floppies fast
U/L by Mike Focke. If you have 2 floppies, this program claims to be able
to cut your time in making multiple floppy-copies in half. 360K format is
the only one supported.
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MSTRKY17.ARC 127564 04-18-87 Master Key v1.7C, Norton-like utils including
04-18-87 unerase and unformat / powerful & easy to use
U/L by Pete Olympia. MasterKey has been reviewed here several times
before. It is an excellent "clone" of some of the commercial utilities
packages such as Norton's, PC-Tools and Mace. In addition to an unerase
that works on large hard disks formatted under DOS 3.x, MasterKey will
allow file and disk editing, changing attributes, times and dates, and much
more. This latest version has an "unformat" (a la Mace) for recovering
from an accidental format of your hard disk, a wipefile type program (erase
a file with no hope of unerasure) and one that fills empty parts of your
hard disk with random strings, again for security to prevent recovery of
sensitive, erased data.
DBA0387.ARC 11496 04-18-87 Data Based Advisor source/demo's 3/87
U/L by Bob Hicks. Several files have been omitted from this arc to save
space, including 2 excellent packages from Pete Olympia that were already
here and the executable of the Quick program (the source remains).
DBWIND.ARC 13557 04-18-87 Window module for dBase3+ v1.0 /ASM/BIN/PRG
U/L by Bob Hicks. A module to be loaded into dbase .prg files to open a
variable sized window.
CLFUNC01.ARC 1999 04-18-87 Alternate to pict - $ format UDF for Clipper
U/L by Bob Hicks.
XC_PATCH.ARC 2093 04-18-87 Patch PC-DOS XCOPY 3.2 to run with DOS 3.1
U/L by Paul Kopit. Patches PC DOS XCOPY 3.2 to run under any DOS version
by elimination the version check. It seems to work fine under PC DOS 3.1.
I'd be very wary of trying it under any version of DOS 2.x.
EXE2COM.ARC 12730 04-18-87 Replaces EXE2BIN, with C source, C. Dunford
U/L and written by Chris Dunford. Wonderful. In all its wisdom (ahem),
IBM decided that only techies needed EXE2BIN so it is not included on the
DOS 3.3 system disk. Rather, you have to buy it separately as part of the
Tech Ref materials. Chris Dunford has come along and written his own EXE
to COM (or BIN for you dBase folks) converter and made a few improvements
on the program's syntax while he was at it. C source is included (CI C86
v2.2, but looks quite portable and Chris suggests a solution for the one
function that may cause problems).
LPTCHK01.ARC 2071 04-18-87 Check printer status w/BAT file, v1.0, 04/87
U/L by Bob Weinstein. Checks to see if the printer is on-line, ready, etc.
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XEQ112.ARC 9312 04-18-87 COM file library & executor saves space,v1.12
Latest update notes:
1.10 2-APR-87 Under DOS 3.x updating writes to original file. Also updates
command name in environment for MAP, added wildcard, fixed yet another
space computation bug, used local stack for external run only
1.11 13-APR-87 Revised space saved compute, see note above
1.12 16-APR-87 Fixed bug in load_run module which did not initialize stack
correctly. Bug manifested itself when MODE was run internally. Returned
bad parameters message
FILL12.ARC 28190 04-18-87 Optimize copies HD ==> floppies 1.2/recursive
This is a very clever program to enable you to make best use of floppies
when copying more files to them from your hard disk than will fit on one.
The program sorts through the files that match your spec and copies them in
the order that will be most optimal (or nearly so). When pausing between
disks, you can format another floppy, do a dir on it, erase it, etc. v1.2
adds the ability to do a recursive copy down a subdirectory tree. All in
all, a very useful utility.
MINIXFIX.ARC 18084 04-18-87 Unofficial patches for Tannenbaum's MINIX
U/L by Steve Hite. Various patches to Tannenbaum's low-cost Unix clone.
BOOST.ARC 26998 04-18-87 Change speeds on Turbo clones
U/L by Bill Seawright.
[04-17-87]
DM22.ARC 50903 04-17-87 \ Directory Master v2.2 sweep-util 4/11/87
DM22DOC.ARC 34019 04-17-87 / Documentation for Directory Master v.2.2
U/L by James Bach. Really an excellent file manager/sweep util that has
been marred in the past by no documentation and a pyramid commision scheme
that I find offensive. The latter remains (but this copy is serial #1,
i.e. from the author's BBS and thus not yet registered by one with false
hopes of getting rich). However, there is now quite adequate documentation
which should help you explore all of this program's many capabilities.
Update notes 4-11-87:
First release of version 2.2. This version uses direct video I/O in
some areas and updates the screen several times faster than older
versions. Several minor improvements to the VIEW command including
the ability to view READ-ONLY files.
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CLM22.ARC 31551 04-17-87 Custom Label maker, best w/Okidata printers
U/L by Cleve Corlett. "The program CUSTOM LABEL MAKER was written to help
make fancy labels for disks, return address, and other label needs." Two
programs are included:
CLM-OKI.COM which prints the labels three-up on the
Okidata m92/m93 printer. It makes use of four type sizes and
near letter quality printing.
CLM.COM prints one-up labels in standard data quality
10 cpi. print on most any printer.
CBOOT20.ARC 4104 04-17-87 TSR freezeup controller/rebooter v2.0, 041687
U/L by Bob Weinstein. "CBOOT is a very simple memory resident program
which watches the keyboard interrupt. waiting for someone to press the
Left Shift, the Alt key and the "B" key all at the same time. When this
happens a small menu appears on the screen. The menu allows you to re-boot
your PC in one of two ways. It allows you to issue a control-break and it
allows you to attempt an exit of your program. A new item, restoring
interrupts, is new with version 2.0."
[04-16-87]
IFDEF.ARC 15992 04-16-87 "Ersatz" conditional compiles for TPascal
"Turbo-Pascal does not yet support conditional compilation. IFDEF is a
simple filter that may be used to comment in and out sections of the source
code, so that one single source may be used to produce object code for
different environments." PAS & DOC included.
PASPP.ARC 37966 04-16-87 Pretty print & debugging aid for TPascal
U/L by David Seidman, who was kind enough not only to upload this program
but also to supplement its dismal documentation. PASPP is yet another
source code beautifier but has the additional, quite useful ability to add
DEBUG procedure calls to the source code.
PCTJ0287.ARC 57116 04-16-87 IBM PC Tech Journal Routines - Feb 87
U/L by Bill Wood.
LQ_TO_FX.ARC 5120 04-16-87 Convert Epson LQ to FX line spacing
U/L and written by Tom Frank. " This program allows an EPSON LQ (or
compatible) printer to more closely emulate an FX-80 class printer. This
allows most graphics and word processing programs to work properly. The
main symptom is that pages printed are longer than 1 page. This is due to
the fact that the LQ uses the same escape sequences as the FX but
interprets the spacing codes differently." ASM source for this TSR is
included and could easily be modified for other substitution tasks.
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PROI209.ARC 81825 04-16-87 Portfolio management program v2.09/Subset
U/L by Jeffrey Heynen. A pretty good investment portfolio package with
concentration on determing return on investment (ROI). v2.09 but no update
notes.
[04-15-87]
WINEGA.ARC 50440 04-15-87 650X480 Drivers for MS Windows and Hardware
U/L by Vernon Huang. "This package of Windows drivers includes several
high-resolution drivers for Enhanced Graphic Adapters with various
monitors. Most of the drivers require a 24mhz adapter card to be installed
in the feature connector of the EGA. Brief instructions for building this
card are given ...."
ADVBAS33.ARC 111538 04-15-87 Hanlin's asm LIBrary v3.3 for QuickBASIC
U/L and written by Tom Hanlin. I have long since run out of superlatives
to describe Tom's ADVBAS package. The bottom line simply is that if you
program in compiled BASIC, you ought to have this collection of routines.
An astonishing number of programs that are uploaded to this system have
been written using Tom's library. Update notes:
ADVBAS 3.3, 04/14/87:
A new modem status routine, CARRIER, lets you check the Carrier
Detect. To ease those data-entry woes, STRIPBLANKS allows you to
strip the blanks (and control characters) off either the left or
right side of a string, or both. A bug in MAKEWINDOW dealing with
shadowed windows has been fixed. A cross-reference listing of where
ADVBAS routines are located inside source and object files is now
included (ADVBAS.XRF). The manual, ADVBAS.DOC, has been reformatted
to allow binding.
SUPERV21.ARC 66450 04-15-87 Turbo PASCAL Comm. drivers v2.01 PAS/COM/DOC
U/L by Kwanghyan Kim. "SUPERCOM is a replacement for the normal BIOS
interrupt 14, which handles asynchronous communications. The support
through BIOS is so pitifully inadequate that it is almost impossible to
write secure, reliable communications software using the four functions
they give you. SUPERCOM gives you 16 useful functions and a variable
length receive buffer. It has been designed with interface to high level
languages in mind, and in fact includes Turbo Pascal procedures to utilize
all of SUPERCOM's functions."
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UUSLAVE.ARC 52187 04-15-87 Link PC to Unix via 'uucp'/ MS-C 4.0 source
U/L by Van Gale. In essence, this program mimics the 'uucico' package in
Unix so that your PC can be setup to receive a call from a Unix computer
running uucp. Well, ok, but once you've answered the call, now what do you
do? Transfer files? X/Y/Zmodem and Kermit are probably faster and more
reliable. Exchange messages? Oh really. Do you have Unix mail on your
PC? In short, I'm not sure of the practical application for this package,
but the code is fascinating. It's uucp packet compatible yet the arc
contains a certification from AT&T that the code is noninfringing. For
those of you who bought Minix, Tannenbaum's Unix subset, which came without
uucp, I gather, maybe you can put this code to good use.
[04-14-87]
D86V222.ARC 74444 04-14-87 D86 debugger v2.22/Use with A86 and alone
U/L by Stephen Falatko. A screen-oriented debugger than can be used with
the authors A86 assembler (see below) or as a stand alone.
FORM272.ARC 99316 04-14-87 Form-Gen v2.72 /Draw Business Forms
U/L by Jay Emerson. A good business forms generator. Latest changes:
- The help system has been expanded to include a quick reference to
the control keys.
- The printer now moves to the beginning of the next page after
printing a form.
- A small gap left in a joint when drawing a double line down from
horizontal single line has been fixed.
- The horizontal line drawing routines have been changed ...
- A form to be loaded can now be specified on the command line:
FORM KEYS - will load the form "KEYS" on startup
- Problem leaving "@" on printer at exit has been fixed.
- [Alt] [F] for directory display now shows all files.
UUNET.ARC 4110 04-14-87 Low cost access to USENET & uucp network
There has been increased interest expressed in the message system here
about access to USENET (an international, Unix-based message system). One
of the Unix user groups (USENIX) has just announced a non-profit,
relatively low cost service for gaining access to USENET news, UUCP mail,
ARPAnet mail, and various source archives. This archive contains the
announcement and an address to write to for further information. No
endorsement implied by posting this message -- but, FYI.
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INLINE21.ARC 29543 04-13-87 Convert ASM source to TP inline code v2.1
U/L by David Seidman. This is an update to an indispensable tool for Turbo
Pascal programmers. David Baldwin's program is an assembler that takes an
ASM source file and converts it to inline code suitable for inclusion in
Turbo Pascal programs. The archive includes the TP source for the inline
assembler and a doc (presumably, if you have need of this tool, you also
can compile it yourself). Update notes for 2.1:
2.1 Add NEW pseudo-instruction. Fixed bug which occurred with
filenames having no extension. Other bugs fixed, notably
those effecting IN and OUT.
See also UNINLINE.ARC by the same author.
FETCH21.ARC 85909 04-13-87 Menu shell for ARChive utilities v2.1
U/L by Francis Sullivan. I'm really not the right one to review this. I
hate menus when they can be avoided so the idea of wrapping a menu shell
around various archive functions doesn't appeal to me personally at all. It
also seems to me that if you can configure this program, you already know
enough about archives that you don't need it (but, I suppose, you could
configure it for someone else who knows less). Oh well, as I said, not for
me. A couple of gripes: (1) There's heavy use of configuration and menu
routines from PibTerm in this program, yet no acknowledgement that I found.
As this is "try it and then buy it" software, a note of thanks is the least
the author could do (assuming this is permitted under Phil Burns' license
in the first place). (2) The default program for typing a file inside an
ARC is "ARCTYPE" which the author attributes to Vern Buerg. Wrong.
ARCTYPE was a hack on an early version of Vern's ARCE but wasn't done by
him and is buggy (it will declare valid arcs invalid). You can configure
the program to use something else.
UPDATE56.ARC 97093 04-13-87 Backup New|Changed|Old files; v5.6 R.Holmgren
U/L by Francis Sullivan. Minor changes to this release: " 5.6 includes a
configuration menu (UPDATE T `S'et Technical Switches menu) to define
colors, set the Archive attribute bit, and Set Verify." Use the InfoDoor
to see earlier reviews.
PUTPASS1.ARC 18492 04-13-87 Password protect a .COM file v1.0
U/L by Gerhard Barth. Modifies a COM file (EXE not supported) to require a
password before it can be run. Seemed to work just fine on the couple of
files I experimented with. Apparently, the author is distributing the
source but it's not included in this arc.
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KWMENU.ARC 61207 04-13-87 Batch-driven menu system w/paswrd prot v3.0
U/L by John Sawyer. With all the menu programs on this system, each new
one faces tough sledding and I don't think this one makes it. It's awkward
to configure, not particularly attractive, and doesn't seem to have any
features not found in others. I'll admit I got off on the wrong foot with
this one: THE DOCUMENTATION IS ALL IN CAPS AND THAT DRIVES ME CRAZY!
A86V300A.ARC 75159 04-13-87 \ Powerful, fast Macro Assembler now w/
A86V300B.ARC 104798 04-13-87 / OBJ file support/not MASM compat v3.00
U/L by Stephen Falatko. The author of this package, once dubbed by Phil
Burns as the "Howard Cosell of programming" because of the immodesty of
A86's docs, continues to refine and add features to this program. It has
become an excellent assembler and now and again some programs are popping
up written in it. The chief "problem" remains incompatibility with MASM
and it's awfully hard to buck the IBM/Microsoft standard.
In any event, v3.00 adds support for linkable OBJ files and many
other new features, plus a substantially revised and improved sets of
documentation files. Worth a look if you don't have MASM (but for less
than $100 mail order ... oh well, let's not start that again).
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PICNIX21.ARC 55700 04-12-87 \ cat chlabel chmod cp cpdir & DOC \ Unix-
PICNIX22.ARC 49095 04-12-87 / df diff du / like
PICNIX23.ARC 45805 04-12-87 \ fgrep grep ls ntime \ DOS
PICNIX24.ARC 46800 04-12-87 / more mv mvdir ncd / utils
PICNIX25.ARC 47174 04-12-87 \ ndate necho nset unset pwd rm \ v2.0
PICNIX26.ARC 53184 04-12-87 / show strings switchar tee touch wc/ 1/87
U/L by Yuan Liu. This is version 2.0 of an excellent set of utilities that
emulate in DOS capabilities that are available on Unix systems. The
programs are all quite good, and what's most important is that they share a
similar command structure. Thus, while you might find another 'chmod' or
'tee' program on this system that has the same functions, the 2 would
likely be by different authors and have different syntax. The PICNIX
package shortens the learning curve by making the syntax uniform. Almost
all of the programs also allow you to set environmental variables for their
options so you can pre-set them to your needs (assuming you don't run out
of environment space!).
The doc file is not great, but all of the programs tell you their
syntax if you simply type their name and /? (e.g., CAT /? ). Source code
is not included, but it is available ($30 brings you a meg of DeSmet C).
These programs are shareware and a $15 registration is requested.
Version 2.0 has many bug fixes and enhancements to the programs
that were included in v1.0, plus some new ones (ndate: show/set date &
time; nset: show/set the environment; unset: delete a string from the
environment; ntime: time a command; and strings: print ascii in a binary
file).
All in all, an excellent package.
BAR.ARC 1492 04-12-87 Generate status bar for dBASEIII/+ PRG
U/L by Bobby Mangoba. Put a status bar on the screen to keep the user
informed when an operation is going to take a long time.
2SCREEN.ARC 2764 04-12-87 Browse for dBASE w/out edit PRG/DBF/DOC
U/L by Bobby Mangoba. Based on 4/31 PC Mag but with added doc. A
BROWSE-like capability to be made available to users when you don't want
them to be able to change anything.
MEMRES.ARC 5104 04-12-87 TSR technique/C & ASM/by Lattice Tech Support
U/L by Jeff Corey. Routines for writing mem-res programs in Lattice C from
the Lattice folks themselves. Supports the small mem model. Dates from
May '86 but should be useful with newer version of the compiler as well.
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RINGBACK.ARC 29977 04-12-87 Make comm prg answer on 2d call only/DTR cntrl
U/L and written by Jeff Green. The idea is to allow you to hook a package
like pcANYWHERE to a non-dedicated phone line and only have it answer after
a ringback (i.e. you call, ring a specified number of times and then call
back -- it should only answer on the 2d call). Some packages have ringback
capability built-in. This is for those that don't.
[04-11-87]
FASTFOUR.ARC 1671 04-11-87 Fast Fourier transforms in DeSmet C
U/L by Mike Rubenstein.
PCBFIL31.ARC 74121 04-11-87 PCBoard Dir Maintenance/ PCB 10&11 / v3.1
From John Wulff's notes: "A couple of minor screen display annoyances are
addressed in PCBFile version 3.1 which pertain to the Output section.
These problems were display oriented only and did not affect the output
selection and you may not have ever had any problem, but they popped up on
me often enough that they were fixed."
PMAP121.ARC 19282 04-11-87 Memory mapper v1.21 shows TSRs & EMS/C.Dunford
U/L and written by Chris Dunford. An excellent, fast memory map program
that shows what's sitting in RAM (TSR's, etc.) and also gives a summary
report of LIMs memory usage. v1.21 has some bug fixes. See review of
PMAP120.ARC for more details about this program.
FGREP140.ARC 6165 04-11-87 Small/Fast 'grep' for DOS/C.Dunford/v1.40
Chris Dunford's FGREP program (grep is to the DOS FIND program what a BMW
733 CSI is to a bike with training wheels -- OK?) is one of the fastest,
smallest grep programs on this system. Although it has less options than
some other, more complete imitations of Unix grep, I tend to use it the
most because it has the options I need and it's so darned fast. v1.40 adds
a new, very useful, capability, explained in the doc as follows:
"The -v switch provides a reVerse or negative search. That is,
all lines that do NOT contain the specified string are
displayed. This provides a handy way to get rid of lines
containing specified text. Suppose, for example, that you have
a file containing a list of file names, and you are interested
in all files EXCEPT those that contain a '$' in the name
(perhaps they are temporary files): fgrep -v "$" filename."
EX2BIN33.ARC 737 04-11-87 Patch DOS 3.2 EXE2BIN for DOS 3.3
Never fails. IBM decided to leave EXE2BIN off of the DOS 3.3 system disk
and make you buy it with the Tech Ref diskette. So, surprise, surprise,
here's a patch to DOS 3.2's EXE2BIN so it will run under DOS 3.3. The
patch presumably works with other DOS 3.x versions of EXE2BIN as well (none
tested here).
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TC810.ARC 156372 04-11-87 Meiners' TurboCalc spreadsheet/editor 8.10
U/L by Larry Bevil. From the update notes:
"1. New feature. Fixed column import. Users may now import data that
is fixed length fields. This is handy when the DIF format is not
available. The field lengths should match the column widths in Turbo
CALC, in this manner Turbo CALC will know how wide each field is.
2. Whenever a wide area, greater than 80 columns, of blank space preceeded
a group of numbers, in printed output, the numbers would shift to the
left by a random number of columns. This has been fixed."
EM38FDOC.ARC 72296 04-11-87 \ MicroEmacs 3.8f DOCumentation for all
EM38FIBM.ARC 50444 04-11-87 / MicroEmacs 3.8f: IBM-PC CGA and MONO EXE
EM38FEGA.ARC 50130 04-11-87 \ MicroEmacs 3.8f: IBM-PC EGA EXE
EM38FANS.ARC 50199 04-11-87 / MicroEmacs 3.8f: MS-DOS ANSI EXE
EM38F110.ARC 45785 04-11-87 \ MicroEmacs 3.8f: HP110 portable EXE
EM38F150.ARC 63615 04-11-87 / MicroEmacs 3.8f: HP150 EXE
EM38F520.ARC 50594 04-11-87 / MicroEmacs 3.8f: Atari ST version
EM38FSRC.ARC 224677 04-11-87 \ MicroEmacs 3.8f: C source for all
U/L by David Page. Daniel Lawrence's MicroEmacs has been reviewed here
(very favorably) several times before, so I'll limit this to quoting the
update notes since v3.8b which was the last on this system:
2-feb-87
- added ATARI 1040 support...runs in all three modes right now
- added $palette var with palette value in it
- undefined "register" in bind.c and input.c for ST520 & LATTICE
to get around a nasty lattice bug
4-feb-87
- added, debugged code for switching all 1040ST color modes, added
code for HIGH monochrome mode as well, DENSE still pending
5-feb-87
- with John Gamble, found and corrected the infamous bad matching
fence problems.
- added error return check in various add/delete mode commands
10-feb-87
- re-arrange code in docmd() so that labels are stored in
macro buffers
- fixed !RETURN to only return if (execlevel == 0) [If we are
currently executing]
14-feb-86
- added to outp() calls in the EGA driver to fix a bug in the BIOS
- adding code for 1040ST 40 line DENSE mode
In short, while 3.8 was a major revision, the changes between b and f may
well not be significant to you. NOTE: I can't believe I'm ending up with
an ATARI program on this system (EM38F520.ARC contains the executable for
the Atari). It may not be here for long.
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QBMENU.ARC 53763 04-11-87 Menu/window routines for QBASIC 2.0/ v0.9
These look to be decent QuickBASIC menu and window routines but they're a
bit short of documentation in this first release. Hopefully, the demo
program gives you enough to go on. You'll also need Tom Hanlin's ADVBAS
routines as they're used by the demo.
DSZ0406.ARC 39272 04-11-87 Z/Y/Xmodem module/run f other comm prgs 040687
Got me. This is straight from TeleGodzilla (Forsberg's board) but he had
not posted new documentation or otherwise indicated what's changed. I see
some cosmetic changes when using it but no new capabilities. Bug fixes
too?
REBOOT15.ARC 11857 04-11-87 Reboot system w/alternate CONFIG/AUTOEXEC v1.5
A way of switching CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT files before rebooting.
This one requires that the files all be kept in a special subdirectory. I
change configurations so often on my work machine that I actually use one
of these (RECONFIG.ARC) which is similar to this one without the special
subdir requirement.
DLCXREF.ARC 53446 04-11-87 C cross-reference prog w/DataLite C source
Yet another C xref program, but DLC code is popular here so here you go ...
[04-10-87]
BAWK21.ARC 29543 04-10-87 UNIX-like DOS text processor,v2.1/good doc
U/L by Scott Pazur. This looks to be a very good implementation of the
Unix 'awk' program. Alas, no source code (it's written in Lattice C 3.0)
but an excellent doc file and some sample "awk" files. See also BAWK1.ARC
for an implementation in MS-C 4.0, including source.
STATUS.ARC 12566 04-10-87 System status report/ASM/BAS/COM PC Mag
U/L by Michael Cohen. Not nearly as good as a number of other programs
that tell you what's installed on your system, but the ASM source is
included.
NECP6&P7.ARC 102645 04-10-87 NEC P6 & P7 printer setup/many features/beta
U/L by Loren Olson. Menu-driven program to control the listed NEC
printers. A "prototype" version written in Clipper (source not included)
which explains why it's so darned large. The author says a version written
in assembler "is in the works."
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RESPRO12.ARC 10341 04-09-87 Disable/Reactivate TSR's/E.Gans v1.2
U/L by James Bach. A worthy competitor to Kokkonen's MARK/RELEASE
programs, Gans' RESPRO also allows you to disable temporarily a TSR and
then start it up again. Prior versions of RESPRO have been entirely menu
driven. v1.2 adds the ability to do some of its operations via a command
line, useful for batch files (and also to those of us who just prefer
command line driven programs when at all feasible!). Update notes:
"Version 1.2:
Enabled command-line operation. Fixed bug that allowed
loading a second copy of RESPRO. RESPRO now checks specifically
for the presence of SideKick; it disables itself if there are
over 24 memory-resident programs loaded."
Note: The doc erroneously says this is v1.2, 3/19/86. It's really
3/19/87. And anyone who has gotten a check from Eric Gans lately should
make sure of its date (grin).
[04-08-87]
NEWFNT31.ARC 15074 04-08-87 Text fonts on EGA/25&43 lns/supports NANSI/3.1
U/L by Tom Cochran. No EGA here, so from the doc:
"The programs in NEWFNT.ARC will provide owners of most EGA systems a new
set of text fonts in both 25 and 43 line modes. In addition, they make it
a simple task to switch between the ROM-based 8x14 font and the two new
fonts. Included with the NEWFONT system are alternate font-switching
programs to use with the NANSI.SYS console driver. The NEWFONT system also
provides a simple method for users to load the EGA pallette registers, and
make them resident throughout almost every application program. Two
programs are included that will allow the NEWFONT system to be used with
MARK/RELEASE, and with 'EGA-dumb' programs like Microsoft's CodeView."
TSHELL10.ARC 40809 04-08-87 TPascal preprocessor (C-like), for v.3.01A
U/L by David Seidman. "This program allows you to use a number of C-like
preprocessor statements in a Turbo Pascal source file. It interprets the
statements and passes the processed text on to the Turbo compiler for
further processing.
The TSHELL program will load TURBO.COM into memory, install the
preprocessor shell, and enter the Turbo main menu. At this point, Turbo
Pascal can be used as always, except that the new preprocessor commands can
be used in any source file."
There is also a command-line driven version of the pre-processor that
does not load TURBO.COM and which will work with versions of the compiler
other than 3.01A. The author indicates that full support of more recent
versions of the compiler is forthcoming.
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SETRTC.ARC 19670 04-08-87 Set/get AT battery clock time/C source 4/87
U/L and written by Mike Rubenstein. "SETRTC sets the AT battery clock to
the current MSDOS time and date. GETRTC sets the current MSDOS time and
date to the AT battery clock. Neither program uses any command line
arguments.
Both programs check for an environment variable DST. If it is present,
the time is adjusted by an hour (forward for GETRTC, backward for SETRTC).
This allows the battery clock to be kept on standard time and adjusted with
John Snyder's DAYLIGHT program." (a copy of DAYLIGHT.COM, somewhat
modified, in included).
Nice programs for us AT folks (wish I had this one last weekend when we
switched to DST) and portable-looking Aztec C source is included.
EZMENU3.ARC 41917 04-08-87 EZ-Menu 3.0 3/87 -- application menu system
U/L by John Sawyer. A nice looking, easy to use menu system with lightbar
type menus, submenus and optional password protection. I had a little
trouble with this one when fiddling with it briefly as I made a mistake in
the subdir location field and it wouldn't seem to let me edit that field
(mind you, this was a brief test of the program and it may have been my
fault). There is also no provision for deleting a menu entry which is a
bit of a pain. But, if you're into menu systems and want a very easy to
setup one, this is worth a look. It's no competition for programs like
AUTOMAXX but they're a good deal more complicated.
FERS.ARC 153649 04-08-87 Fed Retiremnt Benefit Anlysis v2.0 w/DOC 1/87
U/L by Chuck Furfine. I take it this is the official program to be used to
calculate benefits under the Civil Service Retirement System (CSRS) vs.
the new Federal Employee's Retirement System (FERS), developed under
contract for the government. This archive, containing v2.0, contains full
documentation which was produced with an OCR (the agencies have been
getting printed manuals).
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TRG.ARC 138958 04-08-87 Desk manager & menu program v1.0 TI & IBM 1/87
U/L by Loren Olson. The best way to give you a quick idea of this program
is to show you a copy of its screen (taken from the doc):
January 1987 DESK MANAGER ~ TRG 9:38:35a
Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa ENGINEERING
1 2 3 1 - ENGINEERING 1 - Autocad
4 5 6 7 8 9 10 2 - ANALYSIS & WRITING 2 - Triangle
11 12 13 14 15 16 17 3 - COMMUNICATIONS 3 - TK!Solver
18 19 20 21 22 23 24 4 - FINANCES & SCHEDULES 4 - Areas
15 26 27 28 29 30 31 5 - PROGRAMMING 5 - Statistics
6 - SYSTEM UTILITIES 6 -
A)ppointments C)alculator7 - DOS UTILITIES 7 -
D)ialer, phone E)ditor 8 - GAMES 8 -
F)ile manager I)ndex 9 - MENU ITEM 9 (OPEN) 9 -
L)ock 0 - RETURN TO SYSTEM 0 -RETURN
In short, TRG is a combination DOS menu shell and SideKick program (though
not a TSR). It all looks quite well implemented and the documentation is
OK as well. You'll need a graphics monitor and, according to the docs, the
IBM version only runs on a PC-AT. I can't imagine why that is and a brief
trial of it on an XT clone here seemed fine. But, given that it puts the
screen in graphics mode, it's pretty darned slow on an XT, so ... There's
also a version for the TI in this archive which I'm very tempted to delete
and may do so eventually.
[04-07-87]
BASTIPS4.ARC 8235 04-07-87 BASIC tips 4th edition
TURBTIP2.ARC 24678 04-07-87 Turbo Pascal tips 2nd edition
DOSTIPS6.ARC 56180 04-07-87 DOS tips 6th edition
LTSTIPS7.ARC 43120 04-07-87 Lotus 123 tips 7th edition
DB3TIPS4.ARC 11122 04-07-87 dBASE III tips 4th edition
U/L, compiled and edited by Dean Wood. These are the latest editions of
Dean's excellent TIPS series, all Jan-Mar '87. If you're not familiar with
this collection, Dean compiles and edits "tips" found in a variety of
computer magazines and then collects them in these archives. If you're
like me -- a whole lot less organized than Dean, apparently -- you'll find
these collections invaluable.
FREE402.ARC 5563 04-07-87 Report free conv/extnded/expanded mem 4.02 ASM
Nicely done. Reports the total amount of conventional, extended (hmm... AT
only or does this work on the new 286 and 386 PS/2's as well?) and expanded
memory installed in your system and the amount of each that is available.
ASM source included.
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SCOUT.ARC 123843 04-07-87 TSR sweep-util and DOS shell v2.7x 4/1/87
U/L by Loren Olson. If you're into memory-resident sweep utils (I'm not),
this looks like one of the best I've seen. It's relatively memory
efficient (seemed to take about 64K in its default configuration) and clean
to use. It also has some unique features, including:
+ Format and print a text file from SCOUT
+ Reset all file archive bits in a directory
+ Batch copy all files updated since re-setting archive bits
+ Set a file's time/date
+ Automatically tag files for move, copy, or delete
+ Print a high/medium resolution CGA screen
+ Save the current screen to a text file
+ Strip WordStar file while copying
+ Temporarily disable activation key combination
+ Show ASCII character table
+ Display directory listing of .ARC files
+ Call Sidekick directly from SCOUT
You can also uninstall this one from memory quite easily. The BBS version,
while complete, loads in conventional memory. There is also a version for
registered users that loads part of itself into expanded memory.
[04-06-87]
FREEMACS.ARC 108896 04-06-87 EMACS editor w/full prgrmmng lang. \ EXE/DOCS
FREMACSR.ARC 113158 04-06-87 IBM & Z-100 versions, 16K EXE, Fast/ ASM
I am not an EMACS guru so I'm not prepared to compare this to other EMACS
implementations that are available on this system or to the full Gosling
EMACS. But, this is the first I've seen that was written for DOS in ASM!
making it both fast and small. The EXE is all of 16K. Included is a full
programming language called MINT and the editor itself is largely written
in MINT, making it easy (for EMACS gurus) to modify. The full ASM source
is also available. Finally, the docs look quite good, including a decent
tutorial, making this one of the more accessible implementations of EMACS
for those who are not experienced with implementations on other operating
systems.
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ZDEL30.ARC 6695 04-06-87 Multifile deletion w/confirm/ASM/Hanlin v3
U/L and written by Tom Hanlin. O.K., I need to admit a bit of bias here. I
really liked ZDEL20 (see 4/2/87 review) but mentioned to Tom that I'd love
to see the program give a file's date, time and size when it asks
you to confirm deletion of the file. That's exactly what's added to ZDEL
v3.0 and, as far as I'm concerned, it makes this program perfect. In a COM
file of 1,095 bytes, Tom handles multifile deletions on one command line,
and allows wildcards, drive and subdir specs to be mixed in. On a machine
like this one where thousands of files are spread across 3 hard disks and
many subdirectories, the ability to give the command:
ZDEL C:\TMP\*.BAK E:\PROG\ZDEL20.ARC D:\WORK\*.ARC
is just invaluable. The program defaults to asking you to confirm each
deletion and to giving you datestamp and size info on each file, but you
can turn either or both of those off if you wish to live dangerously via a
command line switch. Finally, full ASM source is included. Several other
delete-with-verify utils have been erased from this system (using ZDEL, of
course). They can't compete with this one.
MONKEY12.ARC 31991 04-06-87 Examine/modify file(s) time/date/attr w/QB src
U/L and written by Tom Hanlin. From a comment left by Tom describing the
upload: "This corrects a cosmetic error in the last version of MONKEY, and
adds handling for the Read-only file attribute (which will be vital for
anyone fiddling with the system files!)."
CHGPATH.ARC 15104 04-06-87 Change the PATH string on the fly/C/EXE/DOC
U/L and written by Scott Mason. Allows you to change your PATH setting
from the DOS command line without having to retype the entire PATH command
string. Thus CHGPATH +C:\WP will add that drive/subdir to your current
PATH (at the end) and a -D:\LOTUS would take that one out of your existing
path. DeSmet C88 (v2.51) source included.
LITEBA27.ARC 6342 04-06-87 Freeland's dB3+ LiteBar/now QS,Fox,Clip 2.7
U/L by Tom Drinkard. " 4/3/87--rev. 2.7 (2.6 got lost??)--fixed bugs that
manifested in compiled environments, including uncompiled FOX, also added
OBJ code for Clipper."
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ARCE30E.ARC 11110 04-06-87 Extract ARC files/ Buerg, Chin/v3.0e 040287
04-06-87 /Test & /G (password) options/imprvd handling
04-06-87 of bad archives;ignores "Squashed" files
I think Vern is determined to make ARCE so indestructible that it would
recover from being run against anything, no matter how totally screwed up
the target ARC was. Alas, we Sysops do seem to get some pretty bizarre
ones uploaded. Latest changes:
3.0d, 3/29/87 - correction to unsqueeze
3.0e, 4/02/87 - correct loop with invalid archives
- insure errorlevel non-zero if any errors
- correct loop in command line processing
JARGON.ARC 137718 04-06-87 On-line manual for dBase & Clipper v1.0
U/L by Lewis Dozier. Looks very good (too bad the source wasn't included).
From the docs:
"This program is the DBASE and Clipper manual as a database on a
disk....
Commands/functions can be retrieved by "NAME" or "TYPE" using the
"Home"=NAME key and "End"=TYPE key. The MOVE keys access the database
in sequence of the last-used key used for retrieval."
You can modify the "manual" (JARGON.DBF) and the program re-indexes, etc.
AMORTIZ3.ARC 57039 04-06-87 Amortization Scheduler v3 J.Davis/EXE only
U/L by Lewis Dozier. A very flexible program for calculation amortization
schedules. No doc is included but there's sufficient information in the
program itself.
[04-05-87]
ASMTUTOR.ARC 35728 04-05-87 Tutorial on assembly language programming
U/L by Matt Pollock. An intro to programming in ASM, this apparently dates
from Feb '86 and a talk given by Joshua Auerbach of the Yale University
Computer Center.
OMEGA103.ARC 58950 04-05-87 Omega-Term v1.03, small comm pgm w/X & Ymodem
U/L by Loren Olson. The program does sign on as 1.03 but the doc file
appears to be from 1.02 and I saw nothing obvious that was different.
OMEGA, written in assembler, is a small, fast and remarkably capable comm
program.
USEMOVS.ARC 9943 04-05-87 Build your own surge protectors --- cheap
U/L by Jim Oxford.
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DELARC11.ARC 11749 04-05-87 Delete a file if it exists in an arc v1.1
U/L by Jim Oxford. See review of DXARC. This program does the exact same
thing (and the same as DARC, for that matter) but DXARC comes with its C
source and this does not. Also, DXARC has some options (confirm, force a
delete for a non-perfect match and don't delete, just report) that are
lacking here. In short, I prefer DXARC.
[04-04-87]
REMOVE.ARC 16889 04-04-87 Unix-like 'rm' (del) with recursive option
U/L by Bill Schwartz. The Unix 'rm' command has some options that are
lacking in the DOS file deletion command, including the ability to delete a
subdirectory with files (even one with nested subdirs). Here it all is
brought to DOS and with the ability to set some parms via an environmental
parameter so you don't have to always type the command line switches. Well
done.
FOREACH.ARC 14466 04-04-87 Unix-like command repetition w/new variables
U/L by Bill Schwartz. " Foreach will repeat a series of commands
substituting the current value of the variable during each pass. The
variable is accessed by placing a '$' in front of the choosen letter. For
example, if the variable if f than $f would be used in the command line."
COPYMOVE.ARC 37914 04-04-87 Unix-like Copy/move w/options incl. recursive
U/L by Bill Schwartz. There are other 'move' programs that are smaller and
faster than this one and other copy programs that have more features, but
both of these programs are quite capable and will be particularly of
interest to those looking for command-similarity to their Unix
counterparts.
DARPC.ARC 41966 04-04-87 DARWIN/Adaptation of CLM arena 'game' C/ASM
U/L and written by Larry Himes (based on sources from Computer Language
Magazine, Vol 4, No. 4 (April 1987). Yes, yes, a game, in apparent
violation of this board's normal policy. But, DARWIN isn't likely to be of
much interest to those who look for "regular" games on BBS systems. Based
on the article "Darwin: A survival game for programmers", Darwin is a
Lattice C 3.10 (mostly) implementation of the Umpire program for those
wishing to learn, or sharpen their skills, in C and ASM programming.
Similar in some respects to CROBOTS and ARENA, this looks excellent and, of
course, the full source is included, with some nice MASM macros. The CLM
article is needed for details on the rules of the game.
[04-03-87]
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ALTER23.ARC 3097 04-03-87 Change file(s) dates and/or attributes v2.3
U/L by Pete Olympia. This is the utility I use most often when I want to
change the time and date of a file. It also can change file attributes.
The program takes wildcards and is fast and small. v2.3 but no real
indication of what has changed and I didn't notice any new features. (The
display that is given when you type the name of the program has been
cleaned up considerably -- there was a mistake in 2.2).
DRMAIL.ARC 146178 04-03-87 Directed Mail:Mailing list management v2.11
U/L by Loren Olson. This program is much too involved for me to review
adequately and I don't do mass mailings (ahem), so from the docs:
* Data input monitoring.
* Intelligent upper/lower case monitoring.
* Punctuation monitoring on specified fields.
* Data integrity checking for state, ZIP code and phone numbers.
* 25 user defined codes per entry. Over 900 codes per database.
* Code definitions stored and displayed.
* Duplicate monitoring.
* Multiple report formats.
* One touch printing for envelopes, roledex cards, and reports.
* User defined defaults, such as prefix, city, state and ZIP.
* Number of data records limited only by disk space.
* Allows selection of data based on user defined codes, city, sex,
state, ZIP, last name, company, date entered or modified date.
* Merge files that are compatible with WordStar, WordStar2000,
MultiMate, DisplayWrite III, and many other word processors.
Registered users get extended print options and "a much better manual with
more 'inside information'", plus the right to purchase additional modules
such as bulk mail sorting, support for laser printers, etc. In short,
what's here is useful but there's more to buy if you decide to use the
program.
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[SPECIAL]
The files listed below contain the April 2, 1987 announcements by IBM of
new hardware and software products. Also listed is a Microsoft press
release of the same date and 2 BIX articles providing some evaluative
material.
=== IBM 4/2 Releases 04-05-87 Complete Set of Announcements & More =====
IBMOVER.ARC 114904 04-05-87 Overview of all new IBM Products as of 4/2
IBMPS2.ARC 90065 04-05-87 IBM Personal System/2 computers
IBMOS2.ARC 84950 04-05-87 IBM DOS 3.3 and Operating System/2
IBMMISHW.ARC 41935 04-05-87 IBM Miscellaneous hardware products
IBMMISSW.ARC 69479 04-05-87 IBM Miscellaneous software products
IBMSOL.ARC 60236 04-05-87 IBM SolutionPac prorgrams
IBMNET.ARC 63198 04-05-87 IBM Network products
IBMSTATN.ARC 37214 04-05-87 3270 Workstation prgms & Hi-Levl Lang API
IBMDOS33.ARC 20045 04-05-87 Info on DOS 3.3 & Upgrade Order form
04-05-87 (Also included in IBMOS2.ARC)
MS-OS2.ARC 3106 04-05-87 MicroSoft Release: MS Op Sys/2, Windows,LANs
NEW-OS2.ARC 23606 04-05-87 BIX (BYTE) articles on OS/2 & PS/2
= = =
===>>> NOTES: These files will not stay on the system for very long
(probably 30 days at most), so please take the ones you want soon. Also
note that the material in IBMDOS33.ARC is contained in IBMOS2.ARC as well
(though in a slightly different format) and that both have the upgrade
order form for those who wish to upgrade earlier versions of DOS to 3.3.
IBMOS2.ARC has additional info on Operating System/2 and related products.
Finally, please note that these files are showing up on BBS systems under
many different names (.e.g. IBMOVER.ARC is often seen as NEWOVER.ARC,
etc.). Please use the several capabilities available to you on this and
other systems -- the built-in arc [V]iew function and the DOORs -- to avoid
duplicative downloads and uploads.
Some of the above U/L by Loren Olson, Mark Stevens and Mike Focke.
============================
[04-02-87]
TURBOKEY.ARC 1791 04-02-87 Speed keyboard response rate on AT only
U/L by Mike Miller.
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ZDEL20.ARC 4262 04-02-87 Multifile deletion w/confirm/ASM/Hanlin v2
U/L and written by Tom Hanlin. Now handles full pathname specs on the
command line. With that addition, this is one of the best of the delete-
with-verify utilities on the system. I know of no other that will handle
ZDEL *.BAK D:\OLD\*.TXT F:\NEW\COMP.OBJ etc.
A wonderfully useful tool, compact and clean, with complete ASM source
included. Needless to say, with power comes risk, so turn off the confirm
option at your own peril when using wildcard file specs, especially across
drives!!!
ASK-YN.ARC 3353 04-02-87 Insert query in batch file w/Lattice C
U/L by Jeffrey Heynen. A simple yes-no batch file util that sets
errorlevels, with C source.
[04-01-87]
REVW0387.ARC 58368 04-01-87 Bulletin 1's New File Comments Mar '87
Reviews of programs added to the system during March have been collected in
this archive and will be deleted from this bulletin. The reviews have also
been added to the database of reviews available via InfoDoor (Door 2),
which now contains descriptions of files from 2/1/86 through 3/31/87.
ARCUNX11.ARC 64469 04-01-87 ARC 5.1 ported to Unix Sys V / v1.1 3/20/87
The latest port of SEA's ARC v5.12 to Unix, with lots of bug fixes and an
attempt to bring even more of the features of the PC version over to Unix.
According to the author of the mods, the code has been compiled and tested
on AT&T 3B5, 3B15, 3B2/300, and 3B2/400, running SYS V release 2 and
release 3. As for portability:
"I tried to keep things fairly portable, though I am not that familiar with
BSD. I imagine that most things should work (I did change all the 'rindex'
calls to 'strrchr', sorry BSD), but I imagine that the setstamp() function
is fairly System V dependent. In any event, I will cheerfully listen to
any reports of bugs and/or fixes, and will try to maintain the code as well
as I can." The author can be reached on UseNet, from which this source
came. The arc contains 3 shell archives in their original Unix format
(because of the newlines, they won't type properly under DOS but will LIST
with Vern's wonderful program) and a README file that I extracted and
converted to DOS format so that it can be read here via the door.
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XEQ103.ARC 6039 04-01-87 COM file library & executor saves space,v1.03
U/L by Vern Buerg. This program allows COM files to be stored inside XEQ's
code and executed by the command: XEQ command. Update notes:
1.03 1-APR-87 Fixed bug if in list if file
was longer than 9999 bytes.
Fixed error in saved space
computation
See earlier reviews of this program for more info.
CCWIN.ARC 30486 04-01-87 Simple window routines for DeSmet but w/ASM/C
U/L by Michael Rubenstein. Not new, but it's one of the few windowing
packages that has shown up with the assembler source for its routines.
Meant for DeSmet C, given the source it should be possible to modify and
improve on it for other compilers.
PRODIA44.ARC 48868 04-01-87 DIAGS v4.4 (optimzd)Ser/Par/Video diagnostics
U/L by Bob Weinstein. This is Joan Riff's excellent DIAGS program (v4.4)
with the documentation cleaned up a bit and the program "optimized" by
another person (identified only as 'dwr' -- got me). There's been no
attempt to hide the fact that this is Joan's program and the executable
(now a COM file rather than an EXE) is both smaller and missing some of
Joan's distracting messages (e.g. the suggestion that you vote for Eldridge
Cleaver for CA Senate????). Given that, I'm willing to post this revision,
but note that it does nothing different than DIAGS 4.4 and isn't really
worth taking if you already have that one. DIAGS gives detailed info on
your serial and parallel ports, your video adaptors, and even on the disks
attached to your system. It can also perform very sophisticated tests on
the ports and adaptors. An excellent program, whether the original or this
modified version.
PCRGB133.ARC 49584 04-01-87 Keith Graham's PIC viewer plus v1.33,03/29/87
U/L by Bob Weinstein.
1.33 3/29/87 Unofficial release to test Amdek 1280
monitors and Scanner hooks. Checks for color in
PC-PAINT files. Added file extension support for most file
types (except text, fonts and DGI. DGI will be dropped in OPTIKS).
Fixed picture sizing bug in HP and Canon Laser printers.
1.32 3/28/87 Unofficial release to test RLE graphics.
1.31 3/23/87 Unofficial release to Ed Shoemaker for testing
Toshiba printers.
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QHELP135.ARC 10237 04-01-87 TSR pop-up help for QEDIT 1.35 w/A86 ASM
U/L by Bill Walsh. Qedit lacks an easy way to get on-line help and this
little TSR (a mod to Kurt Schelin's original by another author who has
translated it to A86 assembler) makes up the deficiency. Source provided
and can, in fact, easily be modified to make a pop-up helper for almost any
program.
PLAY.ARC 10517 04-01-87 Emulate BASIC PLAY statemnt/PCMag ASM/BAS/COM
U/L by Paul Cox.
PASCSEM.ARC 34578 04-01-87 Intro to Turbo Pascal/fr a seminar/B.Feist
U/L and written by Bruce Feist, taken from a seminar he conducted some time
ago on programming in Turbo Pascal. A good intro and some nice tips.
======================
For reviews of files added to the system during March, download
REVW0387.ARC.
======================
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2SCREEN .ARC 26 CRIT_ERR.ARC 12 EZS .ARC 14
A86V300A.ARC 25 CT603-A .ARC 4 FASMEN40.ARC 15
A86V300B.ARC 25 CT603-B .ARC 4 FASTFOUR.ARC 27
ADVBAS33.ARC 22 CT603-C .ARC 4 FBK318 .ARC 1
ADVC11 .ARC 12 D86V222 .ARC 23 FCON200H.ARC 11
ALARM114.ARC 12 DARPC .ARC 36 FERS .ARC 31
ALTER23 .ARC 37 DB3TIPS4.ARC 32 FETCH21 .ARC 24
AMORTIZ3.ARC 35 DBA0387 .ARC 19 FGREP140.ARC 27
ARC520S .ARC 10 DBCHDATE.ARC 8 FILL12 .ARC 20
ARCAID13.ARC 9 DBCNTACT.ARC 8 FOREACH .ARC 36
ARCALL .ARC 12 DBWIND .ARC 19 FORM272 .ARC 23
ARCE30E .ARC 35 DD20 .ARC 9 FREE402 .ARC 32
ARCUNX11.ARC 39 DEADMAN .ARC 13 FREEMACS.ARC 33
ASK-YN .ARC 39 DEARCSRC.ARC 10 FREMACSR.ARC 33
ASMTUTOR.ARC 35 DELARC11.ARC 36 FW .ARC 15
ATPARAM .ARC 13 DESKCALC.ARC 5 GALXY210.ARC 8
AUTOCARO.ARC 13 DLCXREF .ARC 29 GETINPUT.ARC 7
BAAB .ARC 4 DM22 .ARC 20 GRAB .ARC 12
BANKRUPT.ARC 13 DM22DOC .ARC 20 GRAB13 .ARC 7
BAR .ARC 26 DOSTIPS6.ARC 32 GTLOG70 .ARC 3
BASCOMFX.ARC 3 DRMAIL .ARC 37 GTXT .ARC 3
BASEBALL.ARC 18 DSKVR44B.ARC 17 HBMS211 .ARC 6
BASTIPS4.ARC 32 DSPDBFEK.ARC 8 HGCBSAVE.ARC 12
BAWK21 .ARC 29 DSZ0406 .ARC 29 IBMDOS33.ARC 38
BCB .ARC 18 DSZ0422 .ARC 11 IBMMISHW.ARC 38
BIOSDOS .ARC 3 EDIT-C .ARC 10 IBMMISSW.ARC 38
BOOST .ARC 20 EGACHG .ARC 1 IBMNET .ARC 38
BRPR100 .LBR 14 EGACLR .ARC 1 IBMOS2 .ARC 38
CBOOT20 .ARC 21 EGACUR .ARC 5 IBMOVER .ARC 38
CCWIN .ARC 40 EM38F110.ARC 28 IBMPS2 .ARC 38
CDISK354.ARC 2 EM38F150.ARC 28 IBMSOL .ARC 38
CHGPATH .ARC 34 EM38F520.ARC 28 IBMSTATN.ARC 38
CLEAN104.ARC 13 EM38FANS.ARC 28 IFDEF .ARC 21
CLFUNC01.ARC 19 EM38FDOC.ARC 28 INLIN214.ARC 4
CLIPASC .ARC 16 EM38FEGA.ARC 28 INLINE21.ARC 24
CLIPWHAT.ARC 15 EM38FIBM.ARC 28 INSTINFO.ARC 12
CLM22 .ARC 21 EM38FSRC.ARC 28 IOLITE2 .ARC 13
CNVRT300.ARC 14 EX2BIN33.ARC 27 JARGON .ARC 35
COPYMOVE.ARC 36 EXE2COM .ARC 19 KWMENU .ARC 25
CPRINT44.ARC 10 EXTERNAL.ARC 17 LARC16 .ARC 15
CREFCARD.ARC 12 EZMENU3 .ARC 31 LESSON .ARC 2
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LIBMGR .ARC 9 PRCMDATE.ARC 2 UNDOC21H.ARC 8
LITEBA27.ARC 34 PRODIA44.ARC 40 UPDATE56.ARC 24
LPTCHK01.ARC 19 PROI209 .ARC 22 USEMOVS .ARC 35
LQ_TO_FX.ARC 21 PROSORTA.ARC 1 UUNET .ARC 23
LTSTIPS7.ARC 32 PUTPASS1.ARC 24 UUSLAVE .ARC 23
MDM7 .ARC 9 QBCRYPT .ARC 18 VEMM .ARC 16
MEMOLINE.ARC 16 QBMENU .ARC 29 VIDLIB01.ARC 2
MEMRES .ARC 26 QFONE300.ARC 16 WINEGA .ARC 22
MINIXFIX.ARC 20 QHELP135.ARC 41 XANADU2 .ARC 6
MINIXFX1.ARC 13 QKWRITE .ARC 16 XC_PATCH.ARC 19
MOLABEL .ARC 5 QMSSTCOM.ARC 17 XEQ103 .ARC 40
MONEY .ARC 7 QMSSTDOC.ARC 17 XEQ112 .ARC 20
MONKEY12.ARC 34 QMSSTINS.ARC 17 ZDEL20 .ARC 39
MS-OS2 .ARC 38 QPURSU .ARC 6 ZDEL30 .ARC 34
MSC4ADD .ARC 11 REBOOT15.ARC 29 ZDOC .ARC 13
MSTRKY17.ARC 19 REMOVE .ARC 36 ZDOC0425.ARC 7
NECP6&P7.ARC 29 RESPRO12.ARC 30
NEW-OS2 .ARC 38 RESTPRT .ARC 14
NEW301 .ARC 5 REVW0387.ARC 39
NEWFNT31.ARC 30 RINGBACK.ARC 27
NSWPPC19.ARC 7 RPNCALC .ARC 14
OKIPRINT.ARC 10 RZSZ1ET2.ARC 11
OKSHOW10.ARC 8 SCOUT .ARC 33
OLINK_32.ARC 5 SCOUT27 .ARC 16
OMEGA103.ARC 35 SCPGEN1Q.ARC 10
PAGEBRK .ARC 9 SETCOLOR.ARC 18
PASCSEM .ARC 41 SETRTC .ARC 31
PASPP .ARC 21 SHOOT11 .ARC 12
PCBFIL31.ARC 27 SHOW28 .ARC 13
PCRGB133.ARC 40 SRCH78 .ARC 14
PCRGB135.ARC 14 STATUS .ARC 29
PCRGB136.ARC 2 SUP107 .ARC 10
PCTJ0287.ARC 21 SUPERV21.ARC 22
PEII .ARC 18 TABLADDR.ARC 8
PICNIX21.ARC 26 TC810 .ARC 28
PICNIX22.ARC 26 TPSTRING.ARC 16
PICNIX23.ARC 26 TRG .ARC 32
PICNIX24.ARC 26 TSHELL10.ARC 30
PICNIX25.ARC 26 TURBOKEY.ARC 38
PICNIX26.ARC 26 TURBTIP2.ARC 32
PLAY .ARC 41 TV920 .ARC 3
PMAP121 .ARC 27 TYPDRILL.ARC 1
POLYCOPY.ARC 18 UNARC16 .CPM 4