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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.

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[08-31-87]

BOSS0822.ARC   214219  08-31-87  Window Boss v08.22.87/Excellent C window pkg
                       08-31-87  Supports MS-C,CI C86, Lattice, DLC & Turbo C
U/L by Tom Drinkard.  This is one of the best of the various C windowing
packages on this system, with support for MS-C, CI C86, DataLite C and
Turbo C.  The big change was the addition of Turbo C support in the 6/87
version.  The changes this time seem quite minor, with a few bug fixes and
a couple of new routines (faster screen updates for the EGA are mentioned
in the BOSS.HST file).  Worth having if you do serious work in C, and worth
supporting if you use the package.

ZIPZAP60.ARC    43443  08-31-87  File/sector binary editor v6.01 Good doc
U/L by Jim Bready.  I thought ZipZap was the chief sponsor for Network 23
on Max Headroom ...  or something like that.  Anyway, this looks to be a
particularly versatile and flexible binary editor for both disk and/or file
manipulation (but I use DISMOD for the former and I'm too used to it to
change and Norton for the latter on those *rare* occasions ...).  The
documentation looks very good.

MF_MV102.ARC    16384  08-31-87  Unix-like MOVE util v1.2 * ? handled well
This is, as the authors state in the doc, a work in progress.  It's a good
MOVE utility that will move (copy then delete, really) across drives and do
real moves on a single drive (rename full pathname).  Wildcard handling is
very good, though the claim it beats all others is just wrong -- NMOVE586
handles the same combos of ? and *.  However, this is very well documented
and seems equally well behaved EXCEPT: It will overwrite a target file with
NO warning at all.  The authors indicate there will be a confirm switch for
this in v1.03.  So, careful!  Also, 1.03 is supposed to handle moves of an
entire subdir tree.  That would be a major addition to the arsenal of move
utils on this system.






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TIMSET20.ARC    84886  08-31-87  Call US Nav Obs & set computer's time v2
U/L by Dick Baker.  I screwed up, to put it bluntly.  I posted a note here
the other day that the US Naval Observatory had discontinued the service by
which you could call and, with a program like this, set your computer's
clock.  Wrong!  I had heard that story, come up with a phone number for a
US NAVOBS computer (which I might as well not repeat), called it, and when
I asked it for the time service, got the message that it was discontinued
because of overuse/abuse.  All well and good but the service I called is
NOT the same as the one called by this and other programs.  The fact that a
*person* I spoke to there gave me misinformation as well ....  sigh.
Anyway, thanks to Dick Baker for both the file and setting me straight.  I
have called the number used by this program and, although it's no joy
getting through, the service seems alive and well.  (Irrelevant postscript:
This was sent as a self-extracting archive inside of an ARC.  Good grief!
It's over 10K smaller now as a regular archive).

HAMLOG.ARC      68251  08-31-87  Amateur radio logging/beam heading v1.4
U/L by William Nadzam.  From the doc (I have *NO* idea what most of this
means):  "This program is intended to serve as a logging and information
providing tool for the amateur.  It is primarily aimed at DX operation and
as such provides instantaneous display of beam headings, distance to the
other station and local time at that station.  In addition an immediate
display is provided of any previous contact with the same station,
including all pertinent information, along with a summary of your history
with that country (worked, qsl'ed or confirmed) by band and by mode."

WINDOWS.ARC    132394  08-31-87  Windowing LIB for Clipper Aut '86/Eval copy
U/L by Bob Hicks.  I'm puzzled by the following statement in the doc:
"This is an evaluation copy of the library, functionally it is exactly the
same as the copy you will receive when you register, however this copy
displays a message on the screen once, and only once, during the execution
of a program."  [Punctuation is from the original so don't blame me.]  If
someone who works with this library of routines would like to enlighten me
on the practical significance of the above double-speak, I'd appreciate it.

MRIM-010.ARC    13163  08-31-87  R:Base Online Tech News - Jul '87.
U/L by Bill Behrens.

BLINE.ARC        8004  08-31-87  TPas INLINE vers. of Boyer-Moore string srch
U/L by Bill Madison.  B-M pattern matching is a fast technique for
grep-family searches.






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FCOPY.ARC        8905  08-31-87  Fast disk copy/ dual drive/TPas only Kokkonen
U/L by Bill Madison.  Over a year old, but by Kokkonen of Turbo Power
Software and I just don't recall seeing this before.  It's a diskcopy
equivalent that can use alternate floppies on dual floppy systems. Source
only.

LSTDRV.ARC      10544  08-31-87  TPascal intelligent parallel print driver v3
U/L by Bill Madison.  LST device driver and printer tab functions in TPas
and ASM.  v3, 8/2/87 by Mark Brandon.  Well documented routines.

MEMFIL.ARC       2352  08-31-87  Read/Write files to RAM from TPASCAL progs
U/L by Bill Madison.  "Creates an area in memory that can be treated like a
file by reading and writing the USR device.  As implemented here, the area
has a maximum size of MaxInt bytes."

REMIND.ARC      36682  08-31-87  Memory jogger at boot time w/TPas source
U/L by Bill Madison.  Similar in concept to Chris Dunford's MJOG, this is a
non-TSR (like MJOG) that can be run from AUTOEXEC.BAT to remind you of
things to do, upcoming events, etc.  The bonus here is that the Turbo
Pascal source is included.

DOS33PAS.ARC     2172  08-31-87  File handle manipulation DOS 3.3 only TPas
U/L by Bill Madison.  "This program illustrates how to return the file
handle for a Turbo Pascal file, how to return the DOS version currently
running, how to set the number of file handles in DOS 3.3, and how to
commit a file to disk in DOS 3.3.  Use these routines freely at your own
risk.  This program SHOULD work on any IBM (or supermega compatable)
running PC-DOS 3.3 or greater."

TURBOL.ARC      24876  08-31-87  X-REF lister for Turbo Pascal  COM/DOC
U/L by Bill Madison.  Bill's description of this when he uploaded it was
EXCELLENT!!  and as he works in Turbo Pascal and I don't ....  Source not
included.

DCBB0987.ARC    17524  08-30-87  200 + verified DC area IBM BBS #'s 9/87
U/L & compiled by Mike Focke.

BASWIN22.ARC    39131  08-30-87  Windows LIB for QuickBasic /Dave Evers v2.2
U/L by Edwin Schmerling.  A very good LIBrary for QuickBASIC programming.
See also BWTOOL01.ARC by the same author.






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PROTYMER.ARC     4221  08-30-87  Start/stop time logging of modem usage/ProComm
U/L and written by Steve Hoglund. The ansi codes drove the screen on my XT
clone bonkers when I tried this very briefly.  Hope you have better luck.

FRM2PR6A.ARC    16538  08-30-87  Convert dBase3 .FRM to .PRG v06.a Freeland
U/L by Gerhard Barth.  A beta of a program that will not be free or
shareware, but rather part of Freeland's db utility package.  I have a
conflict of interest on this one in that it also relates to a book being
worked on by Pete Olympia, a good friend, so I won't be able to comment
further.

TXT2COM2.ARC    13980  08-30-87  Convert txt to COM v2.0 w/TSR optn;072787/KPG
U/L by Bob Weinstein.  Keith Graham's excellent program for converting text
files to COM files (and back again), with full-screen paging and ansi color
controls.  Major change in v2 is a new program that can create TSR COM
files from text files.  It's very easy to use and works fine.  Hotkeys can
be altered.  One caveat and a tip (how's that!):  The TSR's don't check to
see if they're already loaded.  No big deal, though you can end up with
duplicates of these wasting memory unless you keep track of what you're
doing.  There's also no un-install from mem capability, but Kokkonen's
MARK/RELEASE programs worked fine with this when I tried it.

CTRL-P.ARC        633  08-30-87  Fake a Ctrl-PrtSc for batch files, K.P.Graham
U/L by Bob Weinstein.

QUIKTA21.ARC    81315  08-30-87  Quiktalk 2.1: Small comm program w/Ymodem
U/L by Loren Olson.  How things have changed:  My minimum standards for a
comm program used to be only that it did Ymodem (Xmodem-1k, actually).
Now, the first thing I check is how easily you can call DSZ from the
program for Zmodem transfers.  This one does have a SHELL to DOS
capability, but that's about it, and not a terribly convenient way to call
DSZ.  Other than that, the author makes a point of saying he cloned the
look and feel of Lotus' menu structure.  I'm not raising this in the
context of the legal debate -- I just happen not to love that particular
interface, though I tolerate it in Lotus because the spreadsheet is so
damned good.

ROD-PR.ARC      16827  08-30-87  TSR ProPrinter controller v1.0
ROD-FX.ARC      16723  08-30-87  TSR FX printer controller v1.0
U/L by Frank Sherwood.  Untested -- hardware not available.






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BASE.ARC        32346  08-29-87  Mathematical base conversions
U/L by Richard Campany.  I flunked new math as a kid and I'm not about to
try to rectify that deficiency now.

XFI.ARC         25896  08-29-87  Menu interface to extrnal protocls/DSZ/Mankin
U/L by Don Heckman.  Not bad.  If your program doesn't already have a way
of calling external protocols short of shelling to DOS and invoking them
manually (or via batch files), you may find this menu-driven module
convenient.  And, you won't have to learn the DSZ commands, though they're
not very complicated.

LJPR.ARC        29551  08-29-87  HP LJ page print: 2-4 per page/double-sided
U/L by Jim Chenvert.  Untested -- hardware not available.  From the docs:
"This program is a utility to print documents on an HP LaserJet Printer.
The document is divided, by the program, into pages based on FF's or line
count or a combination of both.  It will print the pages one or four on a
sheet in portrait orientation and two on a sheet in landscape.  It will
also print one-sided, two-sided, or in a booklet format.  It will handle
letter and legal size paper.  It will expand tabs, such as used by
assemblers and compilers in producing listings, with blanks."

ICPR20.ARC      60989  08-29-87  ProComm/PC Pursuit Command file generator
U/L by Hewie Poplock.

PCALL1-1.ARC    14308  08-29-87  Menu interface for Telix Zmodem xfers v1.1
Apparently, the authors plan to make this program generic.  At the moment,
it is hardcoded to DSZ.COM and TELIX.  If you use TELIX, you may find this
very handy.  It's quite fast and clean -- more so than XFI which is a bit
more generic and would be used by ProComm folks, for example.






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QEDIT137.ARC    92035  08-29-87  Quick text EDITor, WS-Like,Multi-file v1.37
                       08-29-87  Fully configurable, very fast/among the best!
U/L by John Jenkins.  Bless, Sammy.  In addition to writing an excellent
editor, he also provides update notes.  Here's the latest (edited a bit)
covering 1.36b through 1.37:  * Entab was putting tabs inside of quoted
strings.  Fixed.  * Added "MakeCtrOfScreen" command.  This command moves
the cursorline to the center of the screen.  * Return now "splits line" in
in insert mode or cursorline = numlines.  * Added the "InsertLine" command.
This command inserts a line "before" the cursorline (as opposed to the
"AddLine" command) and positions the cursor at the first of this newly
inserted line.  * Add "getdir" after shell command in case user changes
dirs * Add "random_name" function to return a "semi" random name based on
the current time.  * Change format of statusline.  Put up to 44 chars of
path on it.
   As you can see, the changes are evolutionary, not revolutionary, but
some nice touches on an already excellent package.  Wish Sammy could be
persuaded to work on the word-wrap a bit when inserting in an existing
line. I'd quickly switch to Qedit for this bulletin!

NU-INT24.ARC     6798  08-29-87  Revised handling of critical errs:TPas 8/87
U/L by Tom Drinkard. A 3rd approach, to add to two proposed by Bela Lubkin.
Good discussion included in the source.

PCTJ8706.ARC    18659  08-29-87  Source from IBM PC Tech Journal - June 87
PCTJ8707.ARC    11961  08-29-87  Source from IBM PC Tech Journal - July 87
U/L by Bill Wood.

JOURN104.ARC     9880  08-28-87  Record/Replay Keystrokes/Mouse in MS Windows
U/L by Ed Hopper.  Untested -- software unavailable.

VOL6N16.ARC     55035  08-27-87  PC Mag Vol 6 #16: KBX & RN ASM/BAS/COM
U/L by Mike Focke.  PC Mag no longer provides capsule docs as they did once
upon a time, and these keep showing up before my copy of the magazine!

HENON.ARC       42131  08-27-87  Henon benchmark tests w & w/o 8087 TPascal
U/L by Robert Moore.

MONYCNTS.ARC   194825  08-27-87  MONEY COUNTS 3.94b Home financial mgt/acct'g
U/L by David Geerinck.  No docs at all, but a fair amount of on-line help.
I guess a manual is sent to registered users.

GEOCHRON.ARC    55635  08-27-87  Graphic display of time around the world v1.0
U/L by Neil Erbe.





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TC130.ARC      165248  08-27-87  "Steve's LIBrary for Turbo C" v1.30 Small mdl
U/L by Richard Kinoshita.  A varied, well-documented set of Turbo C
routines for the small memory model.  Support for other models and the
source is sent to registered users.  Includes some nice utils with their
source as an example.

CLRS.ARC         3143  08-27-87  Clear screen keeping the color attribute w/ASM
U/L & written by Ray Moon.  Clears the screen without resetting colors.
EGA compatible.  ASM source included.  v1.0.

CMENU4E.ARC     34182  08-27-87  Fast menu shell by Dan Doman 4.0E 8-1-87
No update notes at all, so I've no idea what has changed (except they are
now smaller EXE files rather than COM files).  This is an excellent, fast
little DOS menu program.  It's very easy to use and setup.

DBMGR21.ARC    122273  08-27-87  Simple data base mngr v2.1: Ascii files/easy
Very reminiscent of MINIBASE, this one also is just a simple, little
flat-file database manager which keeps both its data (.MAS) and field
description (.LBL) files in ascii format.  The index file is not.  What I
like about this one is how you design the input screens -- you just move
the cursor around with your arrow keys and plunk each field where you want
it.  Makes things much more readable that way.  Only the first field is
indexed, but in fact you can search on any field.  All in all, a useful
cardfile-type database program that won't threaten Ashton-Tate.

PCCURSES.ARC    88313  08-27-87  Unix-like cursor/window control v1.0 MS-C 3/4
USENET posting, 8/24/87, of a very complete imitation of the UNIX curses
package for MS-DOS.  Files have been unshar'd and converted to DOS format.
A 'make' program is also included (which came across the net as a uuencode
inside a shar -- I'm astonished that it arrived intact <grin>).
Documentation is OK -- not great -- and assumes familiarity with the Unix
equivalent.

BIOPAT11.ARC     5231  08-26-87  Biopatch v1.1 - fix AT&T DOS 3.2 slow clocks
U/L by Scott Pazur.

DEBLIB.ARC      75338  08-26-87  Deblib v1.0 - QB library to pgm AT&T DEB
U/L by Scott Pazur.

GEMCAP.ARC       4628  08-26-87  TSR screen capture to GEM.IMG file
U/L by Melvin Douglas.  Particularly useful. I'd imagine, for those who
want to import screens into Ventura.





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PCMENU.ARC     144533  08-26-87  Sophisticated menu program/ AutoMenu DEF
                       08-26-87  compatible/quite fast/includes editor/v1.0
U/L by Neal Machtiger.  Gee, someone's trying to give Marshall Magee of
AutoMenu fame a run for it.  PC-MENU looks quite powerful.  It's written in
C and runs quickly; it's well-documented; it's colorful and pretty; it's
compatible with some AutoMenu files to make converting easier; it allows
you to assign quick commands to 26 Alt-key combos; and it has some unique
capabilities to pass some info between 2 or more programs.  Add to that an
editor (which looks to be pretty much the Borland ToolBox editor) and
you've got quite a package.  Very professionally done and this package
quickly joins the top ranks of those in the field.

MATHSHOP.ARC    65799  08-26-87  Math tutorial, ages 6-12, interactive/EXE only
U/L by Neal Machtiger.

ZCOMMEXE.ARC   139428  08-26-87  / Multi-protocol support/term emulatns v16.83
ZCOMMHLP.ARC    99314  08-26-87  \ Powerful/complex/X/Y/Z/WXmodem/Kermt 8/25/87
Recent changes (from the update notes -- yes folks, update notes!):
  16.83 adds the "kermreset" string parameter.  A string (up to 32
characters) may be sent by Pro-YAM's Kermit when it attempts to recover
from a transmission error.  The default value for this string is empty.
Two metacharacters are special:  \336 inserts a one second pause, \335
sends a break.
  16.82 Fixes the operation of XMODEM Overthruster(TM) when the "zmodem o"
parameter is 0 (for CIS XMODEM).  To use XMODEM OverThruster on CIS:
"zmodem po0; ro file1.ext".  To use XMODEM OverThruster on GEnie:  "zmodem
po30; ro file1.ext".  The optimum value for the "zmodem o" parameter must
be determined by experiment; 60 might give best results with MNP modems at
2400 bps.
  16.81 Improves the operation and error recovery of ZMODEM downloaded
commands.  Error recovery in the context of file skipping was corrected.
The "sz" command no longer allows fallback to YMODEM (this was a
reliability problem); the "szb" command does allow YMODEM fallback.

SLIC2.ARC      182397  08-25-87  Intgrated WordProc, SprSh, Filer & Comm 2.0
U/L by Loren Olson. I didn't see any update notes.  A quick run with the
program showed some fairly substantial changes.  I've said in the past that
I think this program is overly-ambitious.  The commercial integrated
packages have trouble maintaining quality across all the modules, much less
this shareware effort.  Still, a good intro to the various capabilities
for which PCs are most often used.






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TCURS.ARC        8632  08-25-87  Set cursor speed in programs/TSR/8/87
Somewhat like Revolution Software's Cruise Control (some of the commands
are even the same), this one lets you speed up your cursor within
application programs.  The speedup can be turned on/off.  There's also a
pop-up alarm clock that's pretty simple.  The problem is this program
allows cursor run-on, whereas HOTKEY11, while much simpler than this, stops
the cursor as soon as you release a key.

DBMENU28.ARC    70528  08-25-87  dBASE III + Menu Writing System v2.8 8/87
An applications menu-generator that supports  dBASE III PLUS Ver: 1.1 (or
compatible operating environment), FoxBASE or FoxBASE +, Clipper,
dBCOMPILER or QuickSilver.

PROGGEN3.ARC    19445  08-25-87  Alan Simpson's dBase applicatn genrator 8/87
Some fixes.

TPLV50.ARC      90482  08-25-87  The Private Line: DES Encryption 8/87 v5.00
DES is actually a hardward standard, but I gather this comes as close to
implementing in software as any other on this system.  v5 adds the welcome
ability to run this program from the command line as well as from menus.

GSETUP20.ARC    19900  08-25-87  Generic SETUP program for AT & clones v2.0
Does pretty much everything the AT's SETUP program does, including
configuring your system, parking the disk, etc.  The difference is this one
can run from your hard disk, rather than having to dig out your original
diagnostics floppy.  v2.0 is much prettier (you know, some windows and
stuff) and has a few fixes.

SIN.ARC         62603  08-25-87  Lalonde's Search for strings IN files v2.4a
What a name for a program!  Anyway, to quote:  "Search for a given string
in specified files down from any directory.  Skip binary files (by
extension at your choice).  Displays filename, line number and the text of
line containing the string.  Fast screen output.  This version supports
Microsoft mouse (or compatible) and works with either color and monochrome
display.  Attributes or colors configuration can be saved in code file.
Sin can send its output to the printer or a text file."
        In addition to SIN, the complete collection of utils by Jean
Lalonde is now on the system (SUB, SUBA, DDUP and FILL).  My 2 favorites
are SUB and FILL, but they all share common strengths (and weaknesses) and
are well-worth a look.

CLEANUP.ARC     34123  08-24-87  Strips IBM graphic chars. from text files 1.0
U/L by James Austin.





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FORMFIT.ARC    111129  08-24-87  Create/fill out/print pre-printed forms v2.0
U/L by Greg Nordstrom.  With EZ-FORMS having gone commercial, it's nice to
have another full-fledged forms generator in addition to FORMGEN.  FormFit
looks quite powerful yet easy to use.  v2.0 is a major update with more
features than can be listed here.  Worth a look.

POE110.ARC      49745  08-24-87  Run other programs (Zmodem, etc.) from ProComm
U/L by Neal Machtiger.

WDBFPO2.ARC      7115  08-24-87  Which .DBF goes w/ which .NDX ? P. Olympia v2
Fixes a bug in v1.0, this is a handy program to have around to associate
DBF and NDX files.  Wildcards OK.

TO.ARC           5099  08-24-87  ChDir keystroke saver: shorthand refs v1.1
Very similar to GOTO, you create a list of your subdirs and then label them
with a shorthand reference.  So, instead of CD \UTILS\OPTIM\VOPT, you can
type TO VO instead.  Written in ASM so smaller and faster than GOTO, it was
a little strangely behaved on this computer under a multi-tasker (and my
other computer has PCED which makes this kind of tool unnecessary).

SET-TYPE.ARC     6152  08-23-87  Include files C set types like in Turbo Pascal
Imitates the set type function from Turbo Pascal in C.

PCACT211.ARC   191276  08-23-87  \ Personal accounting system w/database
PCDOC211.ARC    70698  08-23-87  / & regular check printing v2.11 full version
Good for the author of this package.  2.05 was crippled; this one is not.
A very powerful accounting package for home or small business use, PCACT
also prints on regular check forms.

WSX20A.ARC      61923  08-23-87  WordStar 4.0/3.3 to/fr ascii translator v2.0A
A very good WS to/from ASCII translator, this one hits you with an annoying
reminder to pay up every time you exit from the program (it sits on your
screen for a good ten seconds).

OK201.ARC       72324  08-22-87  OPTIKS v2.01, graphics viewer,etc, K.Graham
U/L by Jim Chenvert.

GTCTL521.ARC   106387  08-22-87  GT PowerComm host mode utility v5.21 J. Davis
U/L by Raymond Wood.






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GF.ARC          18829  08-22-87  DECUS grep w/replace ported to MS-C 3.0 7/87
U/L by Rick Jones.  A pretty good imitation of Unix grep with replace
capabilities added.  Not awfully fast.

GGREP.ARC       17114  08-22-87  Fgrep & Egrep in one program/on-line help
From a USENET posting, this one has the pattern search capabilities of
fgrep and egrep built into one DOS program.

CTDESK27.ARC   122378  08-22-87  CityDesk v2.70: Simple desktop publishing
Sorry -- can't review this one as it requires an IBM/Epson type printer and
that's not what I've got.

VPT201.ARC      20021  08-22-87  VGA palette tool v2.01: Set modes for VGA
No VGA here.

UUPC-IBM.ARC    47288  08-26-87  UUPC binaries for IBM:  UU.EXE & MAIL.EXE
UUPC-DCP.ARC    24226  08-22-87  \ Unix-to-PC (and vice versa) \  Communicator
UUPC-UU.ARC     14843  08-22-87  / mail system: 8/87 USENET    /  Mailer
UUPC-DOC.ARC    16675  08-22-87  \ posting.  Provides primitive\  READMEs
UUPC-DOS.ARC    27445  08-22-87  / 'mail' program on the PC    /  DOS specific
UUPC-AMI.ARC    28137  08-22-87  \ and a uucico-type program   \  Amiga
UUPC-MAC.ARC    10143  08-22-87  / for communicating with uucp /  MacIntosh
UUPC-MCL.ARC    17616  08-22-87  \ running on a Unix system.   \  More Mac
UUPC-ST.ARC     25606  08-22-87  / Source code only/ltd docs   /  Atari ST
Makes *some* of the functions of Unix mail/uucp available on a PC, this
program is still very much in development and it's quite rough.  Still, it
does work -- sort of.  The documentation is dreadful.  If you can't read
the code to see how to operate this program, you're in trouble.  I'm not
making this sound too inviting, am I?  Well, for those who can deal with
it, the package has a lot of potential down the road.  For now, it's
generating a lot of interest on USENET but I suspect it won't be used too
often.
   If you want the DOS version, I'd suggest you take the first 5
archives.  You're on your own for the Amiga, MAC and ST versions (and I
have some doubts about the integrity of the Amiga files as they came over
the net in what looked to be a badly built shell archive).  All files have
been unshar'd and converted to DOS format with Chuck Forsberg's 'todos'
program.  A few filenames had to be truncated to make them legal under DOS,
but I think you'll have no trouble figuring out which those were.
   Thanks to Ken Brown and Richard Byrne for helping put this set together.






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WSSI320A.ARC   109110  08-22-87  \ Powerful hard disk & floppy catalog
WSSI320B.ARC   107436  08-22-87  / program / processes ARCs v3.20 8/87
The update notes go on for quite a while (see BUGLIST.DOC in the first
arc).  Suffice it to say that there are quite a few changes in this
program, one of the "BIG 3" disk catalog'rs on this system.

PCKERM21.ARC    33149  08-22-87  PCKermit v2.1, 19.2 bps & pop-up windows
New window routines designed to cure an interrupt problem that cropped up
in 2.0.

DSZ0821.ARC     48826  08-22-87  Forsberg's X/Y/Zmodem transfer module 8/21/87
                       08-22-87  Turbo C version with I/O buffering & SHARE
DSZ0821X.ARC    40987  08-22-87  Cross-compiled vrsn of DSZ/faster at 19.2 bps
                       08-22-87  Uses more memory/no SHARE or buffering 8/21/87
Three documented changes: (1) No more fallback from Zmodem to Ymodem; (2) A
fix in CRC/Xmodem fallback; and (3) Better error-handling when skipping a
file.  But, there's an undocumented change that's *very* significant: DSZ
now both reduces AND increases packet size on the fly during transfers to
maximize Zmodem efficiency.  Default packet size is 512 bytes, but it will
jump to 1K after 16K worth of clean transmission, and then turn around and
drop back to 512 and even 256 bytes if some errors occur.  And, yes, it
will turn around and upshift again if the line clears up.  It's quite
remarkable to watch and a major enhancement to this already excellent
protocol implementation.  NOTE:  If you've been forcing packet size to 1K
on your DSZ send command line with a z pL1024, take it out and let DSZ 8/21
do its thing!

RZSZ0821.ARC    64719  08-22-87  Forsberg's Unix X/Y/Zmodem source 8/21/87
No update notes this time.  Unix rz and sz do not do the up/downshift in
packet size that's in the DOS implementation.

OPTIMISE.ARC    20935  08-22-87  Find optimum interleave/reformat HD/w/ASM
U/L by David Geerinck.  NOT for AT's or 386 machines, this program will try
to determine the optimum interleave factor for a PC/XT's hard disk and then
low-level format to achieve it.  Needless to say (?), you need to backup
all files first as the entire contents of your disk will be destroyed.
Hopefully, you also have another low-level format program around that you
know works in case this one doesn't!

MAGICDIR.ARC     4720  08-22-87  Create HD directories hidden from DOS
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EEMRAM11.ARC    17380  08-21-87  Increase DOS conventional mem to 704-736K
                       08-21-87  using EEMS (e.g. AST Rampage)/C. Dunford 1.01
U/L & written by Chris Dunford.  Some changes that may allow the program to
work with earlier versions of EEMS drivers (pre 3.2).  Also includes a new
program that gives you info about what areas of display memory are
available for this program to use.  For more on this excellent program, see
discussion of EEMRAM.ARC.

SUMDOS2.ARC     85776  08-21-87  PD Sidekick work-alike w/DOS shell/comm v2
U/L by Alan Samuels.  A TSR that includes the following:  Calculator, Note
Pad, Communications, Disk Utilities, Read text Files, Phone Dialer, Screen
Saver, ASCII Table, Monthly Calendar and a Write Screen function that
allows you to Write Screens to Disk.  All in all, quite well done.  No
update notes indicate what's new in this version.

T_ENHANC.ARC   128882  08-21-87  Turbo Pascal Enhancement Toolkit 2.10/Video
U/L by Tim Conner.  Looks like a good collection of TPas routines, focusing
on screen management.

P260.ARC        32641  08-21-87  "Super Printing Utility" v2.60/Formatter
U/L by Neal Machtiger.  Very good page print util, v2.6 supports an
environment variable to point to the config file and a "script" file method
of choosing from the many options this program has.

PPRINT33.ARC    58984  08-21-87  Patriquin's Page Print util w/prntr defs v3.3
U/L by Neal Machtiger.  Recent changes include the ability to send a reset
string to your printer when finished and some diagnostic aids that will
help you see what control codes are being sent to the printer.  An
excellent, flexible page print util, with DEF files included for the HP LJ,
IBM ProPrinter and Epsons.

ARCMAS11.ARC    52726  08-21-87  ArcMaster 1.1:Front end for Katz/Buerg utils
U/L by Neal Machtiger.

STYLED20.ARC   117463  08-21-87  Text style analyzer v2.0 Good doc & examples
U/L by Paul Gorski.  To be terse: No update notes.  Reportedly faster.  OK,
how'd I score on that one?






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FC-VER2.ARC    180801  08-20-87  Stilwell's Spreadsheet v2.0 Easy/Rudimentary
U/L by James MacDonald.  I can't do any better than the description that's
in the READ.ME file:  " FreeCalc is a spreadsheet program with numerous
features.  It has been expanded from Version 1.0 and is a mature product.
While it lacks some of the features and power of a product like Lotus
1-2-3, it also lacks Lotus' high price.  It is a nice spreadsheet program
that is more than adequate for most applications.  It uses all of available
memory (up to 640K), allows installation of color if you have a color
monitor, and is command bar driven.  The disk manual is very complete, and
is 106 pages long."

PRO020.ARC     113114  08-20-87  Proteus v0.20 - MS-Windows 1.03+ comm pgm
U/L by Loren Olson.  Yes, you can have Ymodem (even batch) under Windows,
too.  The version of this program for Windows v2 will be commercial.

ISSUE37.ARC     15583  08-20-87  Micro Cornucopia Issue 37 source code
U/L by Tadas Osmolskis.

INT24-TC.ARC     9723  08-20-87  Turbo C--interrupt 24 handler (critical err.)
U/L by Marty DelVecchio.

PROBILL.ARC     13378  08-20-87  Lotus 1-2-3 time billing WKS for professionals
U/L by Tony Ciconte.

NICKL-11.ARC    31975  08-20-87  Batch-driven DOS menu system v1.1 easy/simple
U/L by Neal Machtiger.  Yikes, yet-another-menu system, this one's claim to
fame is not features but ease of use.

SUB33A.ARC      48946  08-20-87  Find & apply DOS commands to files v3.3a 8/87
Now allows an exclusion list in the files spec, and you can also "J"ump to
the directory of a file found by SUB.  There a lots of other changes in
this excellent utility, including the fact that it will respond to a
control-c during a search (yay!).  This is a great program for looking for
files, even across multiple hard disks, and then deleting, renaming, moving
them, etc.  A big help on this system from time to time.

MPMDEF.ARC       8252  08-20-87  MPM/Citizen Printer defs for WordPerfect 4.2
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DOCKT-EX.ARC   107011  08-20-87  Clipper-compiled version of PRG in DOCKET.ARC
U/L by Ted DeCastro.  Don't think we want to make a habit of compiling the
dBase programs that show up or we're gonna run out of room here fast, but
... here for a little bit.  DOCKET is an attorney's docket
tracking/suspense program.

SPEEDER.ARC      2230  08-19-87  Speed PC (chng DMA to RAM refresh)/ASM/Hanlin
U/L & written by Tom Hanlin.  May give you a 5% or so speed boost on your
PC by changing the DMA to RAM refresh rate.  Untested on ATs (and I'm not
brave enough to run it on this one with everything else that's running
here.  Volunteers?).  Seemed to work fine on my XT clone but I'm not sure
how you would benchmark the performance gains.

FASTVI2.ARC     34724  08-19-87  Turbo C video/windows LIB 1.01 Tiny/Small mdls
U/L by Marty DelVecchio.  Includes a demo program and sufficient info to
make use of the LIBrary.

ADIR.ARC        10858  08-19-87  Sorted DIR; exploded ARC & LBR files; ANSI
U/L by Dave Blevins.  The capabilities of this program are fine, but it
leaves my screen in the colors chosen by the program.  Yuk.  A /P helps.
The doc is terrible but the on-line help is quite good.  Type ADIR /H.

ONEACH.ARC     211199  08-19-87  Virtual scrn programmer's editor v1.03 64K max
U/L by Dave Blevins.  This is written in Turbo Prolog which explains its
size and the fact that it can only handle files 64K or smaller.  It looks
like a competent editor, but ... is this really the right language for a
project of this kind?

TSR-TC.ARC      25835  08-19-87  TSR clock and dir programs in Turbo C 5/87
U/L by Marty DelVecchio.  Neither of the programs is very exciting, but
they're meant as demonstrations of achieving TSR in Turbo C.






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FE400-1.ARC    120674  08-18-87  \ FILE EXPRESS: Shareware data base system
FE400-2.ARC    121430  08-18-87  / v4.00 8/1/87  Easy to use, yet powerful
FE400-3.ARC    119352  08-18-87  \ Now includes 26 page "Evaluation Guide"
FE400-4.ARC    121348  08-18-87  / rather than complete documentation
   Shoot.  The programs from Expressware have always been examples of
shareware at its best.  With this version of File Express, they have
decided to include very limited documentation and send the full 300+ page
printed manual to registered users only.
   That being said, the program is very easy to use and I honestly can't
imagine what would justify such a long manual.  But, what you do get here
is *VERY* limited, just barely enough to evaluate the program.
   The FE.DOC file is non-ascii and must be printed with the supplied
PRINTDOC program.  But, I did grab the update notes out of it by
redirecting printer output to disk and I've put those in the first arc
under the name WHATS.NEW.  The changes are, indeed, quite substantial and
will necessitate converting all your old FE files with the supplied CONVERT
program.
   FE used to have it's own bulletin on this system.  With the omission of
full documentation from the FE shareware package, that bulletin will be put
to other uses.
   My thanks to Mark Rapp for letting me tie up his MicroSellar BBS in New
Jersey much too long in downloading these 4 large files.  Mark obtained the
files on disk from Expressware.  He also tells me that 4.01 with a few bug
fixes is due in a couple of weeks.  It's up to you whether you want to
wait.

XLISP20S.ARC   111082  08-18-87  XLISP 2.0 source in C, 7/19/87 update notes
U/L by Winston Llamas.  Update notes are in XLISP.2 which can be viewed via
one of the DOORs here.  Assumes you already have an earlier edition of
XLISP for complete documentation.  A sample init file is also included.

OPT10BLD.ARC     4948  08-18-87  HP LaserJet Optima 10 PS Bold Font
OPT10ITL.ARC     6042  08-18-87  HP LaserJet Optima 10 PS Italic Font
U/L by Gerald Price.

SETMODEM.ARC    13893  08-18-87  Setup program for Hayes-compat modems w/TPas
U/L by Gerald Price.  Pretty simple program to send AT strings to a modem.

QLIB.ARC        36666  08-18-87  Fast Screen LIB for Turbo C large model 3.0
U/L by Richard Kinoshita.  The documentation, such as it is, is in
QWELCOME.COM, but there's also a demo program showing use of the routines
and all in all, I suspect there's enough info here to make use of the LIB.
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SD32.ARC        45329  08-18-87  Enhanced ChDir v3.2/can link to [P]CED w/A86
U/L & written by Stephen Falatko.  A very useful CD program, best when made
part of CED or PCED, Chris Dunford's Command EDitors.  New in 3.2 is a
directory "stack" feature that can maintain an internal stack of up to 10
drive/path specs, referred to by typing numbers.  This new feature is only
available when the program is enqueued to [P]CED.  Source in A86 included.

MEALMATE.ARC    74581  08-17-87  Nutrition database, food/recipe/meals v2.01
U/L by [ ??? Lost Record].  A pretty complete database of foods for meal
planning, etc.

CDISK360.ARC   133958  08-17-87  CATDISK v3.60 excellent disk catalog/R.Hillier
U/L by Scott Pazur.  One of the best disk catalog programs, edited update
notes:  " Added support for 32 levels of subdirectories and a total of 128
subdirectories per disk.  Added a new report that allows you to select a
list of files based on the file comments (or a portion of a comment).  For
example:  searching for GAME would match "Game", "GAME", or "Arcade Game".
Fixed a small cosmetic error occurring upon completion of editing file
commments at certain times."






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EEMRAM.ARC       8705  08-17-87  Increase DOS conventional mem to 704-736K
                       08-17-87  using EEMS (e.g. AST Rampage)/C. Dunford 1.00
   This is really a break-through program.  When I first got my AST Rampage
for this AT over a year ago, I wondered whether there was some way to use
part of the EEMS memory for DOS conventional memory.  My XT has a special
card and driver to do just that and has 704K of RAM available to all my
programs.  It seemed to me that the same just *had* to be possible with an
EEMS card, but no program was around to allow it.
   Well, now there is.  Interestingly, for the past few weeks, I have been
using a program just like EEMRAM (but with fewer options, actually) that's
a beta of a commercial program not yet released.  That program brought this
machine up to 704K conventional memory and is the reason why shells to
external protocols are available on both nodes here.  But, the program I've
been using isn't out yet, and as I mentioned, will be commercial.  Chris
Dunford has released this excellent program for free.
   OK -- here's what you need.  An Enhanced Expanded Memory Standard card
(EEMS, *NOT* plain old EMS).  AST and Quadram cards are EEMS, as are
others.  That's it.  Just run EEMRAM first in AUTOEXEC.BAT and presto --
64-96K of EEMS memory will become DOS conventional memory and CHKDSK will
now tell you that your machine has 704-736K of memory installed.  The
amount of EEMS that can be converted to conventional memory depends on the
display adapter you are using.  If you have an EGA, it's unlikely that this
program will work for you as the display memory it needs is probably in use
by the EGA.  But, no matter what your adapter, give it a try and see if it
works.
   This program is a joy for EEMS card users, and the unique feature of
EEMRAM is that it can be uninstalled to give you back your EEMS memory
should you wish it for another purpose.  All in all, truly a gem if you
have the hardware that makes this all possible.  Thanks, Chris.

DDUP11.ARC      30340  08-17-87  Delete or rename duplicate files: LaLonde 1.1
Another search your whole hard disk for dupe files program, I found this
one a bit strange on syntax and all in all, not as good as other excellent
programs by this author, including FILL and SUBS.

FILL15.ARC      34529  08-17-87  Efficient copying from HD to floppies v1.5
The changes aren't major, but this is just a super program for copying
files from your hard disk to floppies when it's going to take more than 1
floppy to hold the files.






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OV150.ARC       78954  08-17-87  OverView File/Disk Management Utility v1.50
U/L by Charles Kleis.  The changes to this excellent sweep utility aren't
major, but it's worth the update.  Alas, the author has decided to stop
distributing the source code in order to "maintain ...  control over the
program." That's a shame as the source was an invaluable learning tool.
The source for v1.43 will remain on this system.

QF23-F.ARC      72609  08-17-87  Qfiler 2.3F Sweep util/file manager K.Flee
A very good sweep utility, v2.3F solves a problems with creating subdirs
with a space in their name.

Z_VS_ML.ARC     32515  08-16-87  "Discussion" of Zmodem vs MegaLink/CIS thread
This is a capture of the recent series of messages between Chuck Forsberg,
Paul Meiners and others on CompuServe about the relative merits and
demerits of Zmodem and MegaLink.  I debated about whether to post this but,
in the end, decided that there's enough useful info in here to warrant
making it available, even if the tone of the debate seems to have
degenerated into personalities and irrelevancies from time to time.  Also,
as I had heard about "Modemgate" and had some prurient curiousity but no
access to CIS, I guess others will be in the same situation.  With that
introduction, it's here for a bit so you can read the messages and come to
your own conclusions.

CCUR26.ARC      17044  08-16-87  Lundin's Counting Cursor (ruler) v2.6 / TSR
Adds the ability to blank the screen on demand.  That strikes me as
somewhat non-germane to this excellent program and not worth issuing an
update for so soon.  Oh well, it's a small file.

XTAB.ARC        12949  08-16-87  Expands tabs/takes ambig file specs/Turbo C
U/L & written by Mark Thomas.  "XTAB expands tab characters to spaces as
determined by TABSTOP.  If, TABSTOP is not specified, a default value of
eight is used.  One or more files can be specified using a valid DOS
ambiguous filename.  Original file backups are kept with filename
extensions of "TBU".  If the optional switch -B is specified, backup files
will not be made."

PCL105.ARC      69102  08-16-87  Windows 1.05/PageMaker HP LJ+/Series II drvrs
U/L by Joseph Collins.

A86CNVRT.ARC    49507  08-16-87  Example of converting MASM to A86/Isaacson
U/L by Lewis Paper.  Describes how to convert PC Mag's SETUP.ASM (printer
setup util) to A86 as an example of the conversion process.






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TOPBRD3.ARC      5910  08-16-87  Top BBS list 8/87: Excellent taste! (ahem)
U/L & written by Jim Robeson.  One user's reviews of "top" boards.  8/11/87
edition.  See comments on TOPBRD.ARC.

REGIST21.ARC   130236  08-15-87  Teachers' grading program/jr/sr HS/college 2.1
U/L & written by Denis Latkowski.  Not crippled, but there is a newer
version that goes to registered users ($25) "which has been greatly
rewritten" and has a sort option on printing the final grades.

123LRN22.ARC    44221  08-15-87  Generate Lotus macros automatically v2.2
U/L by Melvin Douglas.  A macro learn facility (watches what you type) for
Lotus 1-2-3 Rel 2.0 and up.

SORTF223.ARC     5683  08-15-87  Buerg's excellent SORT replacement v2.23
                       08-15-87  Sorts on up to 16 key fields/very fast
Two new options in this version:  You can sort individual fields in reverse
order, and you can produce an output file with the sort keys only.  I won't
bore you with a review raving about this program that would end up taking
more time to read than to download the file -- if you haven't tried SORTF,
you should!

PROFIL.ARC      19477  08-15-87  Symbolic execution profiler v1.01 6/86
U/L by Eric Sass.  There have been so many "profile" type programs I
honestly can't remember whether this one was already on the system at some
point.  Anyway, this one is by John Navas II, v1.01 and looks like it was
released about a year ago.  Beyond that .... this kind of program is much
too techie for lil' old me.

DSZ0811X.ARC    40808  08-15-87  DSZ.EXE/no SHARE or buffer/faster at 19.2
                       08-15-87  8/11/87 version/most should use DSZ.COM
This is the special version of DSZ for higher throughput at 19.2 bps and
above.  It's posted for the sake of completeness, but most of you will do
better with DSZ0811.ARC, the Turbo C version which supports I/O buffering
and takes less memory.

ZCOMMEXE.ARC   137209  08-15-87  / Multi-protocol support/term emulatns 8/13/87
No new docs or help processor.  And, no update notes.  But, if you set the
string variable "plog" to a file name (e.g. set plog c:\comm\plog), ZCOMM
will now log detailed data about each transfer, similar to the new DSZLOG
info (see DSZ0811.ARC description) but with even more data.






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RZSZ0815.ARC    63759  08-15-87  Unix Zmodem source 08-15-87 (rz 1.24/sz 1.34)
The send zmodem program, sz, has been updated to implement tx backchannel
garbage count and ZCRCW after ZRPOS in accordance with the 7/31/87 Zmodem
protocol specs.  Needless to say, I didn't come up with that mouthful by
myself.  There's actually an update note in SZ.C!!!!

D86V309A.ARC    63095  08-14-87  \ D86 Debugger v3.09: Use w/A86 or alone
D86V309B.ARC    54925  08-14-87  / Major update w/complete set of new docs
U/L by Stephen Falatko.  Looks like a lot of changes to "Howard Cosell's"
debugger <grin>, this is, in fact, a very powerful assembly language
programming tool, especially when used in conjunction with A86 by the same
author.

DSZ0811.ARC     48670  08-14-87  Forsberg's X/Y/Zmodem transfer module 8/11/87
                       08-14-87  New DSZLOG format w/more info incl error rate
The new log gives total number of errors, flow restraints, and packet size
info, all in addition to that which was already provided.  The Zmodem -Y
parm (send newer files only) now works as documented.  When sending, DSZ
displays on the local screen the size of the file being transferred.  All
in all, some nice touches.

TSRDIAL.ARC     61440  08-14-87  TSR Phone & FAX dialer 11/1/86 w/QBasic source
U/L Gray Maddry.  The source should prove interesting.  I didn't try the
program.

QDISK313.ARC    14711  08-14-87  Enhanced/TSR vrsn of PCMag DR (sweep) > 64K
Adds some nice features to PC Mag's DR.COM, a nifty little sweep utility,
and makes it a TSR.  The problem is that the program swallows a whopping
64K of RAM.  Chips may be cheap, but available memory -- at least on my
machines -- isn't!

TOOL-INC.ARC    74615  08-14-87  TPas INClude files written/used by Sam Smith
                       08-14-87  Some require TSHELL12.ARC / as of 8-13-87
An assortment of Turbo Pascal include files, you'll need some of them to
re-compile NETARCV and NETCPY30.  Some also must be processed first by
TSHELL12, also by Sam Smith.  Sam updates this "tools" arc almost as often
as he updates PCBPro and I'll never be able to keep up with him, but here's
the current set as of this morning (at around 11 am our time -- means there
must be a new version by now!).

SYSTEM34.ARC    14552  08-14-87  PC/AT System Analyzer v3.4 JJ Seither
U/L by Jim Davis.  COM file only.  Gives the normal info about what's
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CARSIGN.ARC     39613  08-14-87  Make "BABY ON BOARD" type signs w/computr
U/L by Jim Davis.  Written by Mustang Software, they've done better than
this in the past.  This is kind of silly, but I'll keep it on the board for
a bit.  "Baby on Board" is baby on bulletin board, right?  Or is that
motherboard?  How about keyboard?

TOPBRD.ARC       4992  08-14-87  Top BBS list 6/87: Excellent taste! (ahem)
U/L by Barbara Beckham, and written by Jim Robeson, a caller here.  He, uh,
happens to mention this board rather favorably.  There's some nice info
about other boards as well.

TCDEBUG.ARC     56358  08-13-87  Turbo C source debugger/Baldwin/v0.00 (test)
U/L by Roger Jack.  A first, test release of David Baldwin's Turbo C source
debugger, this looks pretty powerful.  The TPascal debugger by Baldwin is
excellent, so the development of this program should be interesting to
watch.

PPEPS4.ARC       8037  08-13-87  Epson print drivers For AutoCad-2 (Rev 4 2/87)
U/L by Craig Smith.  Untested -- hardware and software unavailable.

XMSAMPLE.ARC    28040  08-13-87  Xmodem/Ymodem checksum & CRC examples in C
U/L by Richard Kinoshita.  The code looks Lattice-y, but the general ideas
are portable.

TCOMM21.ARC     49483  08-13-87  LiteComm Comm Toolbox v2.1/Turbo C small model
U/L by Richard Kinoshita.  A very good set of routines for Turbo C, source
code for the library is sent to registered users as is more info on
implementing Xmodem family file transfers.

WINFO.ARC        9421  08-13-87  [MS-Windows] Dump Windows Parameters Utility
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WORDPAL1.ARC    89973  08-13-87  \ WORD PAL full-featured word proc \ EXE & DOC
WORDPAL2.ARC    92507  08-13-87  / v1.3 7-8-87 w/mail-merge and     / MAIL
WORDPAL3.ARC    42948  08-13-87  \ spell checker (dictionary seems  \ MERGE
WORDPAL4.ARC    85227  08-13-87  / to be missing from these ARCs)   / SPELL
U/L by David Geerinck.  This looks to be an easy to use, but quite
powerful, word processor, complete with mail merge and a spell checker.
The docs are less than wonderful, but the program puts its commands up on
the top of your screen, depending on the context, and you can pretty well
take it from there.  As best I can tell, Epson printers are supported and
not much else (other than a "generic" nothing fancy option).  Note: The 4th
archive apparently should have included a dictionary but does not.  Yet,
WORPAL.DIC is created when you run the program and the spelling checker
does seem to work.  More important, there is a brief mention in the manual
that this is a trial version (use-limited) and an ascii string in the EXE
saying "I don't work for free."  No indication how many times the program
can be used before it dies.  It will not live long on this system under
those circumstances.

MLINK14.ARC     35726  08-12-87  Meiners' MegaLink protocol module v1.4 w/DOC
U/L by Loren Olson.  A module that can be used by BBS systems for adding
Meiner's MegaLink protocol to their arsenal.  This release supports
"share"d files (networks) so could theoretically be put on-line here.  I'll
think about it, but at the moment, the program won't send batch as it's
supposed to.  If you give it the command line, MLINK PORT 1 SPEED 2400 SM
C:\UP\FIRST.ARC C:\UP2\SECOND.ARC, it only sends the first file.  Plus,
when I tried to abort it on the receive side with a control-break, it put
my computer to sleep (reboot time).  In short, this module is getting
there, but ....  With this release, Meiners has added Forsberg's method of
32-bit CRC calculations.  Now the question is:  Is there any advantage to
MegaLink over Zmodem?  I don't see any from the protocol specs themselves
and it's missing some very valuable Zmodem features, like the ability to
resume an aborted transfer and the fact that Zmodem implementations are
available for several operating systems, from DOS to Unix to VMS.  Anyway,
I'm open to feedback.

BIOPATCH.ARC     5565  08-12-87  Patch AT&T DOS 3.2 to fix slow clock problem
U/L by Ed Hopper.

PNH.ARC         24569  08-12-87  PhoNe Handler:name/address/phone/dialer v1.0
U/L by Gray Maddry.  I couldn't get the dialer to work (this always happens
to me, so ignore it -- I'm all thumbs with communications programs <grin>
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NETCPY30.ARC    12305  08-12-87  Share compatible Unix-like COPY w/TPas v3.0
I really like this one.  First, it's network compatible so it can be used
safely on this system (yay!).  Second, even for folks who don't care about
file sharing, the Unix 'cp' command does something DOS' won't -- e.g. cp
file1 file2 file3 c:\destdir.  What you lose is the ability to concatenate
files as that's done by a different utility in Unix (cat).  By Sam Smith,
author of PCBPro door.

NETARCV.ARC     16701  08-12-87  Share compatible ARC Verbose dir w/TPas
Also by Sam Smith, extracted from PCBPro, here are the ARCV routines he is
using in that door.  I wonder if Sam realized that Vern Buerg's ARCV
(written in ASM and source is available) also supports SHARE?

TSHELL12.ARC    93215  08-12-87  Turbo Pascal Preprocessor v1.2 Sam Smith
A very powerful looking tool for Turbo Pascal programmers, this program is
needed to compile NETCPY and NETARCV (and other programs written by Sam).
TSHELL is a full-fledged environment to wrap around Turbo Pascal's compiler
bringing to it some of the capabilities more commonly found in C
pre-processors.

UNBUND.ARC       9092  08-12-87  Unbundle Unix shell archives in DOS/Turbo C
With Turbo C source included, another little gem from Sam Smith, this one
will extract *most* Unix shar files (except those that rely on the Unix
stream editor 'sed', the functions of which would be a lot less easy to
imitate than cat, echo, etc.).  Seems to convert the files to DOS format
while it is at it -- that is, newlines become CR/LF, etc.

TC-CRC.ARC       6288  08-12-87  Turbo C source for CRC calculations inc table
Two ways of calculating CRC in Turbo C: the hard way and by table lookup.

PMTOUCH.ARC      5570  08-11-87  Chg file date to now/paths/*.* w/ASM/A86 src
Nicely done, just a quick and dirty "touch" util that takes both path and
wildcard specs.  Used with 'make' by C programmers, but useful for anyone
who wants to change a file's date to the current system time and date.

NAVIG2.ARC      76516  08-11-87  Celestial Navigation Aid for boaters,etc. 1.2
U/L by Ken Hunt.

HDTST313.ARC    76736  08-11-87  Exhaustive test  of HD for bad clusters v3.13
Very unclear what's changed in this release versus 3.12, HDTEST is a very
through tester of your hard disk for bad clusters.  But, it gives your disk
a heck of a workout and takes a LOOOOONG time.  Not something you'd want to
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TREESURG.ARC    17982  08-11-87  Find/Compare/Delete/Rename dupe files 1.0
Scans the entire hard disk for files by the same name and then gives you
the ability to COMP, REN, or DEL the dupes.  I like QDUPS1-0 a little
better, I think, but they're both competent programs.

FBR161.ARC      14948  08-11-87  Buerg's File Backup /Restore v1.61 8/04/87
Update notes for this test version (Vern's still working on this one,
making improvements all the time):
        1.60 - Aug 1, 1987
                - FB: add display of file count, total bytes, and
                      count of disks required
                - FB: improve file selection routines
        1.61 - Aug 4, 1987
                - FS: add filespec command line option
                - FR: replace file selection routines
                - FR: correct abort if wrong disk mounted
                - FR: correct restore of file after replying Y to
                      "already exitts" message

NARC12.ARC      48050  08-11-87  Mouse/menu-driven point/shoot unarc util v1.2
U/L by Tom Drinkard.  The major change is the claim that this version
extracts files from archives up to 70% faster than the prior release.  If
you're looking for a menu or mouse driven arc browse/extract util, this one
deserves a serious look.  And, the doc is excellent, containing one of the
best discussions available of the various compression algorithms used by
archive utilities, including "squashing."

NMAKE.ARC       52296  08-11-87  PD 'make' utility (MS-C 4.0 source & EXE)
U/L by Tom Drinkard.  Yet another one, this one for MS-C 4.

L-BROKER.ARC    73537  08-10-87  Loan Broker v5.0 / Loan & interest calculator
U/L by Tom Weyer. No doc, but there's sufficient info in the program.
Looks like a fairly powerful financial calc utility, though we're not
exactly short of programs of this genre.  A caller to this BBS indicates
there's a mistake in the TIL calcs in this program.

GTCTL45.ARC     93945  08-10-87  GT PowerComm host mode utility v4.5
U/L by Raymond Wood.

QBFIXJR.ARC      5641  08-10-87  Patch to run Quickbasic v3.0 on PCjr
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SFM.ARC         67410  08-10-87  'Super File Manager' 1.0 Sweep/Undelete
U/L by Neal Machtiger.  Designed to look somewhat like Neidert's PC Filer,
this one adds some Norton-like capabilities including an unerase (untested
here).

CCUR25.ARC      17706  08-10-87  Lundin's Counting Cursor (ruler) v2.5 8/8/87
U/L by Paul Gorski.  Mr.  Lundin seems to be on quite a roll lately with
lots of revisions to this excellent program.  The 2 separate versions for
color/mono monitors have been combined into one, and various changes have
been made to make it a better behaved TSR.  CCUR can also be run from DOS.

LASER.ARC       49615  08-10-87  Laser Master:TSR HPLaserjet font select util
U/L by Melvin Douglas.  Untested -- hardware unavailable.

PCSTOCK.ARC    118780  08-10-87  Stock Tracking/Trends analysis v1.4 (1984)
U/L by Melvin Douglas.  This dates back to 1984, but has apparently been
recompiled with Quick Basic 2.0.  It's not bad as BBS-distributed stock
analyzers go, but ...  The sample price data included is way out of date.

UNITCONV.ARC    43895  08-10-87  Universal unit measure conversions v1.3
U/L by Melvin Douglas.  As soon as I can remember how many ounces are in a
pint, then I'll consider whether I want to deal with conversions to other
systems!

SETTYPE.ARC     40610  08-10-87  Setup util for Epson-LQ printers/choose type
U/L by Melvin Douglas.  Untested -- hardware unavailable.

PCD2.ARC        15940  08-10-87  Pop-up (non-res) directory change util v2.0
U/L by Charlie Slavin.  Not great.

ADD_BOOK.ARC   144052  08-10-87  Personal Address Book 1.1/Labels disabled
U/L by Melvin Douglas.  Clipper-compiled, so huge. Looks pretty functional
but the author has crippled it's ability to print address labels to
encourage registrations.

ASMPOP.ARC      29341  08-09-87  TSR assembly language reference guide v1.05
U/L by Gerald Price.  A pop-up helper for ASM programmers.

BBSQRF.ARC       2947  08-09-87  TSR / Quick Reference for PCBoard BBSs
U/L by Jim Robeson.  I'm not persuaded that PCBoard is complicated enough
to justify a TSR help util, but it's here if you want it.  A fair amount of
this will be wrong when PCBoard 12 is released any day/real soon now.






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NANNWS14.ARC    10366  08-09-87  Nantucket Newsletter #14
U/L by Bob Hicks.

CLIPTC.ARC       1545  08-09-87  Use Turbo C with Clipper/R. Freeland 7/24/87
U/L by Bob Hicks.

RZSZ0805.ARC    63303  08-09-87  Unix Zmodem source 08-05-87 (rz 1.24/sz 1.33)
Update notes from Chuck Forsberg?  Ya gotta be kidding (not really fair,
actually, as DSZ.DOC has included some lately) .  But, I noticed some bug
fixes and the code now reflects the latest Zmodem specs.

CASLBL20.ARC    48881  08-08-87  Audio cassette tape labeler for Epsons
U/L by Melvin Douglas.

PUBUTILS.ARC    24002  08-08-87  Convert MacPaint to PFS Personal Publisher
U/L by Denis Latkowski.

EBL308A.ARC     76825  08-08-87  SeaWare's Extended Batch Language v3.08a
U/L by Lewis Paper.  The complete BBS distribution package of this
excellent batch language extension.  There's even more if you register but
what's here is complete and powerful.  Update notes are included and the
changes are significant enough to warrant an upgrade.

ERRLVL11.ARC    11429  08-08-87  Print ERRORLEVEL of child process w/Lattice C
U/L & written by Lewis Paper.  8/7/87 release adds support for DOS paths.

TINYLST2.ARC    16937  08-08-87  Print file 2cols/condensed/subscript v2 /TPas
U/L by Doug Hunt.  Source included so you can customize for your printer if
need be,

STATUS2.ARC      9794  08-08-87  Disp Mother Bd Switches/Reg/Ext/Exp Mem PCM v2
U/L by Doug Hunt. A mod to PC Mag's motherboard switch display program,
this one works fine on my clone that has no such switches!

LARN12AS.ARC   232121  08-08-87  PC LARN v12: DOS adventure w/complete C source
U/L by Rip Toren.  Naw, this isn't a game, right?  Kept for the C source. I
took NDMAKE out of the arc as a newer version is here in its own file.
This is by the author of that excellent 'make' utility and worth a look.






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VOL6N15.ARC     34861  08-08-87  PC Mag Vol 6 #15/ DIRNOTES/DOSKEY/KBTEST
U/L by Mike Focke.  These keep showing up before my copy of PC Mag arrives.
Not fair!  (9/1/87 Update:  OK, by now my copy of PC Mag has arrived.
DIRNOTES is a bit like XPANDIR and other similar programs for annotating
your DIRs, but much simpler.  DOSKEY is a very simple command editor).

EM39ANSI.ARC    53508  08-08-87  MicroEmacs 3.9: Generic ANSI EXE
U/L by David Page.  For not-so-compatibles.  Most others should use the EXE
in EM39IBM.ARC

PC-GL30A.ARC    50279  08-08-87  Medlin's General Ledger 3.0 (7/87 release)
U/L by Loren Olson.  The COM file is exactly 3 bytes different from the one
that was already here, and both sign on as PC-GL v3.0.  Yet, the author
apparently sent this "updated" version to Compuserve, so ...

CSAP208B.ARC    39381  08-08-87  Sort & Pack dirs/2.08b 7/30/87 Turbo C compact
U/L by Bill Walsh.  Ported from DataLite to Turbo C (compact model).

INTERCEP.ARC    39051  08-08-87  Monitor DOS & BIOS calls of programs w/C
U/L by Mike Rubenstein.  Very powerful, very techie program, for you
techies!

DOCKET.ARC      11067  08-07-87  dBaseIII+ attorney's docket/suspense prgms
U/L by Arnold Grant.  Looks pretty good.  A compiled version of this
program is also on the system.

CCONFIG.ARC     10491  08-07-87  Show characteristics of C compilers/Unix/DOS?
U/L by Ken Brown, who reports no luck with this one under Turbo or MS-C.
The info it provides on a Unix system is very valuable.

FRACTAL3.ARC    11511  08-07-87  BYTE fractals for QBASIC3.0
U/L by David Cassidy.

ZCOMMDOC.ARC   198967  08-06-87  \ Shareware subset of Pro-YAM/C.Forsberg
ZCOMMEXE.ARC   136794  08-06-87  / Multi-protocol support/term emulatns 8/4/87
ZCOMMHLP.ARC    97711  08-06-87  \ Powerful/complex/X/Y/Z/WXmodem/Kermit/more
I didn't see any update notes (but I could have missed them).  Presumably,
the changes in Zcomm reflect those made recently in DSZ.  The Zcomm doc
files are not light reading -- which may qualify as the understatement of
the year -- but they constitute the reference manual for DSZ as well to the
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ANS0887.ARC      7375  08-06-87  Report on the ANSForth Technical Comm. Mtg
U/L by Jerry Shifrin.

INTLEAVE.ARC    14458  08-06-87  Steve Gibson's Guide to HD Interleaving 5/87
U/L by Gene Pronko.  This file kept making the rounds several months ago
but without any documentation.  Now, the docs are here and provide good
info on interleave factors in hard disks.  They also give a sales pitch for
a product Gibson is selling to optimize the interleave on your hard disks
without a low-lever format.  As of this writing (9/1/87), that product is
vaporware.

BPRT200A.ARC    14240  08-06-87  Print files w/2 preceeding banner pp for ID
U/L & written by Bill Madison.  A good program for printing files (wildcard
specs OK) with 2 preceeding banner pages to identify the file(s).

STYLED17.ARC   118118  08-06-87  Text style analyzer v1.7 Good doc & examples
U/L by Bill Madison.  One of the better style analyzers on this system,
this comes with lucid, humorous documentation, and some nice utils.

XC3.ARC         28887  08-05-87  Xref for Turbo C w/source (compact model)
U/L by Tom Drinkard.

ZDF.ARC          3594  08-05-87  Displays free space on drive(s)/ASM/Hanlin
U/L & written by Tom Hanlin.  Tells you the amount of free space on the
default drive if invoked with no drive specs, or will take multiple drive
specs (e.g. ZDF c: d: e: f: ).  ASM source included.

ZD11.ARC        26624  08-05-87  'Zinger of a Dir List Util'/configurable/color
U/L by Charles Bitterli.  What a name!  Oh well, it's fast, versatile and
kind of pretty if you're into that stuff.

TCWIND16.ARC   106606  08-05-87  Window routines for Turbo C 1.6 Daniel Evans
U/L by Scott Pazur.  It is astonishing how fast the BBS community has
rallied around Borland's Turbo C and provided extremely useful add-ons to
it.  What does that tell other language publishers about pricing?  Anyway,
here's another TC LIB package to look at and perhaps add to your arsenal.

GIZLIB11.ARC    85982  08-05-87  Misc QBasic 3.0 subroutines/field editor v1.1
U/L by Scott Pazur.  Very good routines.  See review of first release of
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YZMODEM.ARC     87545  08-05-87  Official Y & Zmodem protocol specs rev 8/4/87
The changes in the protocol docs are mostly for clarification, though the
recent change to how Zmodem handles a CRC error near the end of a file is
also documented.

DSZ0802X.ARC    40448  08-05-87  DSZ.EXE/no SHARE or buffer/faster at 19.2
                       08-05-87  8/2/87 version/most should use DSZ.COM
This is the so-called "special order" version of DSZ.  Chuck decided to
post it on his system.  But, most of you will do better with DSZ.COM which
has I/O buffering and takes less memory.  DSZ.EXE, due to the use of a
different compiler, is capable of greater maximum throughput, relevant only
at 19.2 bps and up.

NDP_TYPE.ARC    11264  08-05-87  Determine type of math coprocessor (ASM/EXE)
U/L by Stephen Falatko.

PCKERM20.ARC    33067  08-05-87  PCKermit v2.0, 19.2 bps & pop-up windows
U/L & written by Jan Vandereyk.  Already updated.  See PCKERM21.ARC.

TCOMM16.ARC    328704  08-05-87  TCOMM BBS system, shareware version 1.6
U/L & written by Jan Vandereyk.

ASEASY30.ARC   139006  08-04-87  ASEASY v3.0 LOTUS 1-2-3 clone / no docs
U/L by Loren Olson.  Very limited documentation in the read.me file tells
you just barely enough to load this program.  There's also some on-line
help.  But, the full doc is only sent to registered users.

ERRORLVL.ARC    10835  08-04-87  Print ERRORLEVEL of child process w/Lattice C
U/L & written by Lewis Paper.

CHECKVOL.ARC    10757  08-04-87  Rtrn ERRORLEVEL for wrong diskette/Lattice C
U/L & written by Lewis Paper.

GATEWAY2.ARC     7536  08-04-87  CTTY replcmt allows host scn/kb active v2
U/L by Jack Kilday.  Reports are that this one works with multi-taskers
like DoubleDOS et al. that have problems with CTTY itself.






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DSZ0802.ARC     47346  08-04-87  Forsberg's X/Y/Zmodem transfer module 8/2/87
                       08-04-87  Receive buffer now works; resets UART on exit
The only change documented is that DSZ now resets the comm port's parity on
exit.  There are a few hints in the doc on using DSZ with ProComm's host
mode.  The docs also explain the deal on the "special order" version of DSZ
first mentioned in the 8/1 version doc file:  You may request that version
when you register DSZ ($20).  However, while faster (maximmum throughput of
1700 CPS -- good grief!), the cross-compiled version of DSZ takes more
memory, does not support bufferred I/O or file sharing.

MH08017B.ARC   143299  08-04-87  Don Mankin's MiniHost BBS system 08/01/87
U/L by Ted DeCastro.  MiniHost now supports Zmodem via shells to DSZ.
You all know what a fan I am of the Zmodem protocol so I consider this a
*major* enhancement to an already very good mini-BBS package.

DIRDAT12.ARC    39704  08-03-87  Log call dates in ProComm dialing dir v1.2
U/L & written by Bill Baer.

CLEANTXT.ARC    34059  08-03-87  Remove ctrl chars/graphics frm text files 1.0
U/L by William Nadzam.

BOYAN-D3.ARC   190975  08-02-87  Justin Boyan's excellent comm program v.D-3
                       08-02-87  Full docs, many protocols, & more 08/87
The update notes indicate Justin has fixed problems with the ANSI mode (no
more flashing colors, I hope) and with use of external protocols.  Those
were exactly the 2 areas that needed a bit of attention.  BOYAN is a very
good comm program.  It lacks some features I personally need (terminal
emulation, for example), but it ranks among the best for BBS calling.
Reports are that the Ymodem-G implementation needs work, especially at 9600
bps and up.

DSZ0801.ARC     49178  08-02-87  Forsberg's X/Y/Zmodem transfer module 8/1/87
                       08-02-87  Receive buffer now works; takes < 66K RAM
Three cheers!  The receive buffer, which has been "fixed" in the last few
versions, is fixed for real in this one.  You can set how often DSZ both
reads AND writes to disk by putting pBxxxx in your command line, where xxxx
is the number of bytes (e.g. pB8192 for an 8K buffer).  The docs also
mention a special order version of DSZ compiled with a Xenix cross-compiler
and capable of greater throughput (at the cost of more memory).  I've asked
Chuck for more info on that one and will post it here when/if available.

PKEXE20.ARC     14792  08-02-87  PKEXE 2.0: enhances PKARC 3.5 self-xtrct util
U/L by Bill Kelsey.





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US_CONS.ARC     46986  08-02-87  US Constitution: Full text / corrected versn
U/L by Bill Kelsey.  I think the "corrections" are not to the mistakes made
by our Founding Fathers but rather to the accuracy of the transcription in
another electronic edition of this that is making the rounds.  I have *NOT*
done a word-for-word compare to verify the claims!

WDSPBIOS.ARC     3033  08-02-87  Details of the WD "super BIOS" w/autoconfig
U/L by Jim Bready.

DC-TEMPS.ARC     3577  08-02-87  Average annual monthly temperatures in DC/BAS
U/L & written by Steve Hoglund.

CRYPT2.ARC      11883  08-02-87  Encryption program; tutorial included v1.02
U/L by Steve Hoglund.  And, yet another encrypt program.  Do folks really
have this much to hide? <grin???>

MODEMLOG.ARC     9086  08-02-87  Batch run modem use, log time/modify for yrslf
U/L & created by Steve Hoglund.

PASSKEY.ARC      4138  08-02-87  Create .COMs to stop action in BAT/wait key v1
U/L & written by Steve Hoglund (adapted from PC Mag's STOP.BAS).

5000.ARC        24706  08-02-87  Timed scroll of 5000 consecutive integers
U/L & written by Steve Hoglund.

SAYITRIT.ARC    40591  08-02-87  CBS News how-to-pronounce guide/simultd speech
U/L by Steve Hoglund.

COOLER10.ARC    24350  08-02-87  64K TSR help utl for Turbo Pascal v3.xx, v1.0
U/L by Bob Weinstein.

FIXDZDOC.ARC    31738  08-02-87  Clean up DSZ.DOC file/removes backspaces & _s
U/L by Bob Weinstein.

DWC-A49.EXE     84992  08-02-87  Dean W. Cooper's DWC archiver rel A4.9;072187
U/L by Bob Weinstein.  A not-ARC compatible archiver, DWC is quite fast,
but ... SEA's ARC is the BBS standard.  Check this one out for your own
storage needs only.






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CODE.ARC        15114  08-02-87  Quick encode utility for text files v1.1
U/L by Ed Steinberg.  A quick and dirty encoder, see TPL (whatever version
is current by the time you read this) for a more complete, but cumbersome
and time consuming, encryption package.

DELINE.ARC       7808  08-02-87  Removes #LINE commands from C source file/EXE
U/L by Bob Weinstein.

REMOBACK.ARC    12079  08-02-87  Removes backspaces in text files;TP;R.Casey
U/L by Gerhard Barth.

GT-CISB.ARC     20580  08-02-87  Compuserve B protocol module for GT & others
U/L by Vernon Huang.  The module is generic, but the batch files are for
GT. Contrary to the read.me, the TPas source is not included.

RINGER10.ARC    18432  08-02-87  Activate BATch on 2nd phone call/start BBS 1.0
U/L & written by Vernon Huang.  Useful for those of you who put a comm
program in host mode and only want it to answer on the 2nd call.  See also
RNGBAK12.

GALXY22C.ARC   172201  08-01-87  Galaxy editor v2.2C/WS-like w/pop-up menus
U/L by Loren Olson.  The changes from 2.2B look non-trivial.  This is
becoming a very good program.  It's quite fast -- even if I'm skeptical of
some of the benchmark tests included in the arc -- and would be a cinch for
a WS user, or most anyone else, to learn this in a few minutes.  It
certainly doesn't have all the formatting capabilities of WS, but it's
quite powerful and pleasant to use.

LBAR42.ARC      49530  08-01-87  Quick menus fr dBase3+ v4.2;7/25/87;Freeland
U/L by Gerhard Barth.

REBOOTHD.ARC     2554  08-01-87  Auto Reboot till HD's up and on line w/ASM
U/L & written by John Dove.  Quite specialized, but if you have a hard disk
in your system that's slow in waking up ....

SAMPLGIF.ARC    30852  08-01-87  CIS Graphics Interchange Format samples/doc
U/L by Don Doyle.

QBX300A.ARC     53282  08-01-87  Buerg's QuickBASIC xref/lister v3.00a 6/21/87
In progress, but adds keywords for QuickBASIC v3, QBX is *THE* QuickBASIC
XFEF utility.






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PLUG12.ARC      34803  08-01-87  Free-space defragmenter w/Lattice C v1.2
U/L by Larry Himes.  Code modified to be more portable.

TICKLE12.ARC    33448  08-01-87  Command line tickler/reminder system v1.2
U/L by Bill Harrington.  Pretty simple, but that's really all you need for
this kind of program.  Command-line driven, which I happen to prefer, and
it makes it suitable for batch file or P/CED usage to save keystrokes.

DCBB0887.ARC    16636  08-01-87  200 + verified DC area IBM BBS #'s 8/87
U/L & compiled by Mike Focke, who clearly has not chosen measured telephone
service to save money!

DMP111.ARC      20338  08-01-87  Disk based print spooler (not RAM), ver 1.11
U/L by Gerald Chatlos.  Includes a program missing from DMP110.ARC.
Otherwise, the same.

QBSCRGEN.ARC    85248  08-01-87  QuickBASIC Screen Generator w/BAS/No doc v1.02
U/L & written by Roy Barrow.  Something of a demo for the QBTOOLS package.

BB725.ARC      150036  08-01-87  BlackBeard editor/macros/windws/TSR opt/v7.25
U/L by Loren Olson.  A very good editor with the option to run it as a TSR.
Still *hate* the name.


======================

For reviews of files added to the system during July, download
REVW0787.ARC.

======================







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                                     INDEX


123LRN22.ARC      20          DBMGR21 .ARC       7          GATEWAY2.ARC      30
5000    .ARC      32          DC-TEMPS.ARC      32          GEMCAP  .ARC       7
A86CNVRT.ARC      19          DCBB0887.ARC      34          GEOCHRON.ARC       6
ADD_BOOK.ARC      26          DCBB0987.ARC       3          GF      .ARC      11
ADIR    .ARC      15          DDUP11  .ARC      18          GGREP   .ARC      11
ANS0887 .ARC      29          DEBLIB  .ARC       7          GIZLIB11.ARC      29
ARCMAS11.ARC      13          DELINE  .ARC      33          GSETUP20.ARC       9
ASEASY30.ARC      30          DIRDAT12.ARC      31          GT-CISB .ARC      33
ASMPOP  .ARC      26          DMP111  .ARC      34          GTCTL45 .ARC      25
BASE    .ARC       5          DOCKET  .ARC      28          GTCTL521.ARC      10
BASWIN22.ARC       3          DOCKT-EX.ARC      15          HAMLOG  .ARC       2
BB725   .ARC      34          DOS33PAS.ARC       3          HDTST313.ARC      24
BBSQRF  .ARC      26          DSZ0801 .ARC      31          HENON   .ARC       6
BIOPAT11.ARC       7          DSZ0802 .ARC      31          ICPR20  .ARC       5
BIOPATCH.ARC      23          DSZ0802X.ARC      30          INT24-TC.ARC      14
BLINE   .ARC       2          DSZ0811 .ARC      21          INTERCEP.ARC      28
BOSS0822.ARC       1          DSZ0811X.ARC      20          INTLEAVE.ARC      29
BOYAN-D3.ARC      31          DSZ0821 .ARC      12          ISSUE37 .ARC      14
BPRT200A.ARC      29          DSZ0821X.ARC      12          JOURN104.ARC       6
CARSIGN .ARC      22          DWC-A49 .EXE      32          L-BROKER.ARC      25
CASLBL20.ARC      27          EBL308A .ARC      27          LARN12AS.ARC      27
CCONFIG .ARC      28          EEMRAM  .ARC      18          LASER   .ARC      26
CCUR25  .ARC      26          EEMRAM11.ARC      13          LBAR42  .ARC      33
CCUR26  .ARC      19          EM39ANSI.ARC      28          LJPR    .ARC       5
CDISK360.ARC      17          ERRLVL11.ARC      27          LSTDRV  .ARC       3
CHECKVOL.ARC      30          ERRORLVL.ARC      30          MAGICDIR.ARC      12
CLEANTXT.ARC      31          FASTVI2 .ARC      15          MATHSHOP.ARC       8
CLEANUP .ARC       9          FBR161  .ARC      25          MEALMATE.ARC      17
CLIPTC  .ARC      27          FC-VER2 .ARC      14          MEMFIL  .ARC       3
CLRS    .ARC       7          FCOPY   .ARC       3          MF_MV102.ARC       1
CMENU4E .ARC       7          FE400-1 .ARC      16          MH08017B.ARC      31
CODE    .ARC      33          FE400-2 .ARC      16          MLINK14 .ARC      23
COOLER10.ARC      32          FE400-3 .ARC      16          MODEMLOG.ARC      32
CRYPT2  .ARC      32          FE400-4 .ARC      16          MONYCNTS.ARC       6
CSAP208B.ARC      28          FILL15  .ARC      18          MPMDEF  .ARC      14
CTDESK27.ARC      11          FIXDZDOC.ARC      32          MRIM-010.ARC       2
CTRL-P  .ARC       4          FORMFIT .ARC      10          NANNWS14.ARC      27
D86V309A.ARC      21          FRACTAL3.ARC      28          NARC12  .ARC      25
D86V309B.ARC      21          FRM2PR6A.ARC       4          NAVIG2  .ARC      24
DBMENU28.ARC       9          GALXY22C.ARC      33          NDP_TYPE.ARC      30





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NETARCV .ARC      24          QBSCRGEN.ARC      34          TCURS   .ARC       9
NETCPY30.ARC      24          QBX300A .ARC      33          TCWIND16.ARC      29
NICKL-11.ARC      14          QDISK313.ARC      21          TICKLE12.ARC      34
NMAKE   .ARC      25          QEDIT137.ARC       6          TIMSET20.ARC       2
NU-INT24.ARC       6          QF23-F  .ARC      19          TINYLST2.ARC      27
OK201   .ARC      10          QLIB    .ARC      16          TO      .ARC      10
ONEACH  .ARC      15          QUIKTA21.ARC       4          TOOL-INC.ARC      21
OPT10BLD.ARC      16          REBOOTHD.ARC      33          TOPBRD  .ARC      22
OPT10ITL.ARC      16          REGIST21.ARC      20          TOPBRD3 .ARC      20
OPTIMISE.ARC      12          REMIND  .ARC       3          TPLV50  .ARC       9
OV150   .ARC      19          REMOBACK.ARC      33          TREESURG.ARC      25
P260    .ARC      13          RINGER10.ARC      33          TSHELL12.ARC      24
PASSKEY .ARC      32          ROD-FX  .ARC       4          TSR-TC  .ARC      15
PC-GL30A.ARC      28          ROD-PR  .ARC       4          TSRDIAL .ARC      21
PCACT211.ARC      10          RZSZ0805.ARC      27          TURBOL  .ARC       3
PCALL1-1.ARC       5          RZSZ0815.ARC      21          TXT2COM2.ARC       4
PCCURSES.ARC       7          RZSZ0821.ARC      12          UNBUND  .ARC      24
PCD2    .ARC      26          SAMPLGIF.ARC      33          UNITCONV.ARC      26
PCDOC211.ARC      10          SAYITRIT.ARC      32          US_CONS .ARC      32
PCKERM20.ARC      30          SD32    .ARC      17          UUPC-AMI.ARC      11
PCKERM21.ARC      12          SET-TYPE.ARC      10          UUPC-DCP.ARC      11
PCL105  .ARC      19          SETMODEM.ARC      16          UUPC-DOC.ARC      11
PCMENU  .ARC       8          SETTYPE .ARC      26          UUPC-DOS.ARC      11
PCSTOCK .ARC      26          SFM     .ARC      26          UUPC-IBM.ARC      11
PCTJ8706.ARC       6          SIN     .ARC       9          UUPC-MAC.ARC      11
PCTJ8707.ARC       6          SLIC2   .ARC       8          UUPC-MCL.ARC      11
PKEXE20 .ARC      31          SORTF223.ARC      20          UUPC-ST .ARC      11
PLUG12  .ARC      34          SPEEDER .ARC      15          UUPC-UU .ARC      11
PMTOUCH .ARC      24          STATUS2 .ARC      27          VOL6N15 .ARC      28
PNH     .ARC      23          STYLED17.ARC      29          VOL6N16 .ARC       6
POE110  .ARC      10          STYLED20.ARC      13          VPT201  .ARC      11
PPEPS4  .ARC      22          SUB33A  .ARC      14          WDBFPO2 .ARC      10
PPRINT33.ARC      13          SUMDOS2 .ARC      13          WDSPBIOS.ARC      32
PRO020  .ARC      14          SYSTEM34.ARC      21          WINDOWS .ARC       2
PROBILL .ARC      14          T_ENHANC.ARC      13          WINFO   .ARC      22
PROFIL  .ARC      20          TC-CRC  .ARC      24          WORDPAL1.ARC      23
PROGGEN3.ARC       9          TC130   .ARC       7          WORDPAL2.ARC      23
PROTYMER.ARC       4          TCDEBUG .ARC      22          WORDPAL3.ARC      23
PUBUTILS.ARC      27          TCOMM16 .ARC      30          WORDPAL4.ARC      23
QBFIXJR .ARC      25          TCOMM21 .ARC      22          WSSI320A.ARC      12





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WSSI320B.ARC      12
WSX20A  .ARC      10
XC3     .ARC      29
XFI     .ARC       5
XLISP20S.ARC      16
XMSAMPLE.ARC      22
XTAB    .ARC      19
YZMODEM .ARC      30
Z_VS_ML .ARC      19
ZCOMMDOC.ARC      28
ZCOMMEXE.ARC
           8, 20, 28
ZCOMMHLP.ARC   8, 28
ZD11    .ARC      29
ZDF     .ARC      29
ZIPZAP60.ARC       1