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ExtraDOS Toolbox Professional■ is a compilation of powerful and sophisticated
tools for MS-DOS users. The programs offer functionality; some enhance programs
already found in MS-DOS, other tools were familiar to the Unix world and are
now available in MS-DOS. ExtraDOS also compliments PC Tools and Norton
utilities by offering many features not found in these packages. The quality of
our tools will allow you to work faster, smarter and better.
Paul Somerson, former Executive Editor of PC Magazine, has selected over 30 of
ExtraDOS' utilities for his Bantam Books publication, DOS Power Tools, 2nd
Edition, Revised for DOS 5.0.
Features Of ExtraDOS Toolbox■
ADDCOMM* allows you to define the actual address of your communications ports
in the DOS lower memory segment allowing older machines to support
COM3 and COM4.
ALARMCLK* provides a simple alarm clock for MS-DOS machines.
ALLSUB* Allows any command or program to be run on the current directory as
well as all on subdirectories of the current directory. This is
useful for deleting groups of files or performing tasks with
programs that don't normally allow for subdirectories.
AREA* AREA is a utility that will help you locate the region to which an
area code applies or to locate the area code for a specific region.
BANNER* Create a large banner using a standard ASCII printer.
BOOT Reboot PC from within a batch file or from the DOS command line.
BOOTLOCK* Locks out the [CTRL]C, [CTRL][BREAK] and [CTRL][ALT][DEL] keystroke
functions. Disable one or any combination of these functions.
BOOTPAST Boot system on hard drive even with a non system floppy disk in the
A: drive.
BRKBOX* Software version of a serial port breakout box. Displays the status
of the DTR, DSR, RTS, CTS, DCD, and RI pins as well as the data
rate, parity, number of data bits, and number of stop bits on the
top right hand corner of the screen.
CALENDAR* Display monthly or yearly calendar
CAT* Unix like CAT utility for displaying, printing, and combining files.
CHIMES* Quarterly hour clock chimes. Westminster, Saint Michael, or
Whittington chimes.
CLEANFL Makes the task of cleaning floppy drive heads much easier and more
thorough. Moves the head of the floppy drive to travel the entire
span of the cleaning floppy rather than just using a small portion
of the cleaning diskette.
CLEANUP Cleanup allows you to recover valuable space that is eaten up by
unused or duplicate files on your hard and floppy drives. Quickly
isolates unused and duplicate files and removes them.
COUNT Counts the number of characters, words and lines in a file.
CURLOCK* CURLOCK locks the cursor shape (optionally set with CURSOR) so
that no matter what software you use the cursor will not be changed.
CURSOR* Let's you change the size and shape of the DOS cursor.
CUT* Unix like utility for displaying and printing text files in
different formats by eliminating columns and other formatting
options.
DELAY* Sets a user defined delay in batch files or CONFIG.SYS.
DETAB* Strips any tab characters from an ASCII text file and converts them
into spaces. This is especially useful when working with old
formatted files that you would like to work with in an editor which
treats fixed tabs differently.
DISKINFO Reads the boot sector of a disk and then makes a DOS call to find
out the information that DOS has for that disk. It will then list
out the information in a side by side format so that you may compare
the reports from DOS and the boot record.
EDIT SuperEdit full screen editor many features including multiple
windows, text formatting options and pull down menus.
EVAL* DOS command line calculator that evaluates mathematical expressions
input on the command line.
FILEATTR Allows you to set or change the attributes of a group of files.
FILEINFO Alleviates the problem that DOS has created by only allowing 8
characters to describe a file. FILEINFO provides a way of adding
comments to files in any directory.
FILESIZE* Displays a list of files and their respective sizes with summary
that gives total sizes, number of files, totals space on disk and
space available both in bytes and percentage.
FILETREE* Scans the directory structure of a disk and gives a top down tree
listing of the entire disk's directory structure.
FINDFILE* Will locate files by searching the entire disk for a specified file.
Also searches within compressed files to searchfor filenames. When
it finds a matching file it will display the directory the file was
found in, the complete file name, the file size, creation date and
time, and any attributes associated with the file.
HELP HELP prints out help messages on some of the more useful and popular
DOS commands.
HEXDUMP* Provides you a quick dump of the contents of any file. The advantage
of HEXDUMP is that you can quickly dump the contents of any file to
the screen without having to load the overhead of a shell program.
HUSH* A utility that can eliminate a majority of the sounds generated by
the PC's internal speaker.
KILLDIR* Makes eliminating a directory and all of it's contents a lot easier.
It displays information about the directory that includes the number
of files and their sizes as well as any subdirectory information.
LASER Helps you set your laser printer's mode and also makes it easy for
you to send control codes to it.
LS* Unix like file listing utility. It has many advanced features beyond
that of the DIR command found in DOS.
MOVE Moves any file from one place to another.
NAMEDIR* Renames directories without emptying or modifying their it's contents.
PATHFIND* Allows you to search the file path for any files. Will display the
files that it finds in order of appearance within the path. This is
handy when you are trying to locate a similar program or file that
could exist in multiple places in your path statement.
PSPRINT Allows you to print DOS ASCII Text files on a PostScript device without
the usual conversion.
SCRNATTR* Sets the foreground, background and border colors at the DOS prompt.
SPEEDRAM* Increases the speed of your system CPU by changing the refresh rate
of your system's 8253 timer chip. SpeedRam should increase your CPU's
performance from 2% to 10%.
TEXTSRCH* Searches for all occurrences of a given string inside of a specified
text file.
TOUCH* A unix like utility used to stamp a file's attributes with the
current system date and time.
TURBOBAT* Compiles batch files into .COM binary programs. This will greatly
increase the speed of large batch files by allowing them to run in
machine code rather than interpreted DOS commands.
USEMOUSE Gives any DOS application the ability to use the mouse.
VOLLABEL Allows you to view and modify the volume label on any disk.
* denotes utilities included in DOS Power Tools.
ExtraDOS Toolbox Professional is available at your local computer dealer or
directly from Foley Hi-Tech Systems for $59.95.
MasterCard, Visa and COD orders are accepted. xdosfly 7/23/91