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├─███──███─███──███─┤ ║ D │Download Files ║ W │What's New │
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├─███──────███──███─┤ ║ S │Participate in Survey ║ H │Hangup │
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├───────────────────┤ ║ E │Expert Mode (no menus) ║ O │Options │
│ M A G A Z I N E │ ╚═══╛ ╚═══╛ │
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│ Interactive │ ║ I │Info on IRS ║ C │Comments/Subscriptions │
│ Reader Service │ ╚═══╛ ╚═══╛ │
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1. Compiled utilities (.COM files) from "Programming/Utilities".
2. Assembly code listings (.ASM files) from "Programming/Utilities".
3. BASIC listings (.BAS files) from "Programming/Utilities".
4. PC Magazine Indices.
5. Files from "PC Lab Notes" and miscellaneous files.
6. Lists of PC User Groups.
7. A list of Bulletin Boards from around the country.
8. PC Magazine Labs Benchmark Series 4.02.
9. "Exploring the EGA" Vol 5, Nos 14 and 15.
10. Many of the files in ARC form (compressed).
11. Documentation for some of the utilities.
12. Files from the latest issue in an ARC file.
13. Shareware that has been reviewed in PC Magazine.
14. Files from "Power Programming" and "Environments".
15. Change the download protocol (default is XMODEM).
Enter Directory number or press <Enter> for Main Menu: 1
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║Executable (.COM) utilities from PC Magazine's Programming Column║
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1. APPBK.COM 1712 Pop up with alarm and clock (Vol 6, No 12)
2. ASC.COM 1250 RAM-resident ASCII table (Vol 6, No 5)
3. ASPRN.COM 2320 TSR macro processor (Vol 7, No 5)
4. ATTR.COM 627 File attribute utility (Vol 5, No 11)
5. BAC.COM 1392 Backing up is made easy (Vol 4, No 17)
6. BROWSE.COM 958 Move through a file (Vol 5, No 6)
7. CALC.COM 2674 Programmer's pop-up calculator (Vol 7, No 6)
8. CAPTURE.COM 736 Save a screen to use with HELP (Vol 7, No 1)
9. CARDFILE.COM 3929 TSR address book w/autodial (Vol 6, No 17)
10. CHANGE.COM 737 Find/Replace in text files (Vol 5, No 19)
11. CO.COM 3990 Copy, move groups of files (Vol 6, No 21)
12. COPYSAFE.COM 1266 RAM-resident safety utility (Vol 6, No 6)
13. CTYPE.COM 1256 Set your own cursor shape (Vol 6, No 19)
14. DDIR.COM 796 Double column directory (Vol 4, No 20)
15. DELZ.COM 657 Delete files forever (Vol 4, No 21)
16. DIREX.COM 1987 DOS file manager (Vol 6, No 1)
17. DIREX.FIX 1150 Fix for previous version of DIREX.
18. DIRNOTES.COM 1704 Annotate directories (Vol 6, No 15)
19. DISKPREP.COM 1403 Retrofit DOS to a floppy (Vol 5, No 21)
20. DISKSCAN.COM 1005 Find bad sectors (Vol 5, No 8)
21. DOORS.COM 178 "Try a Door Not a Window" (Vol 4, No 3)
22. DOS.BAR 1402 For use with SLASHBAR.
23. DOS.BDF 3059 For use with MAKEBAR.
24. DOS-EDIT.COM 616 Memory Resident DOS editor (Vol 5, No 3)
25. DR.COM 3370 A DIR that's better than DOS' (Vol 6, No 14)
26. DRAW.COM 1589 Drawing in DOS (BATFILE.DAT) (Vol 6, No 9)
27. BATFILE.DAT 8928 BLOAD, BSAVE, STING, DRAW.DAT for DRAW.
28. DSKWATCH.COM 313 Watch for disk errors (Vol 4, No 12)
29. EXE2COM.EXE 7906 Cove Software Group EXE2BIN (Vol 6, No 14)
30. FREE.COM 286 How much disk space left? (Vol 5, No 1)
31. FREEZE.COM 497 RAM-res. password security (Vol 5, No 22)
32. HELP.COM 1848 Pop up help created by CAPTURE (Vol 7, No 1)
33. KBM.COM 363 Keyboard Mouse-like Driver (Vol 5, No 4)
34. KEEPER.COM 3148 Replay last 10 commands (Vol 4, No 15)
35. KEY-FAKE.COM 536 Extend batch file usefulness (Vol 4, No 26)
36. LOCATE.COM 517 Find phrase in files fast (Vol 4, No 10)
37. LOCK.COM 340 Encrypt/decrypt files (Vol 4, No 18)
38. LPTPORT.COM 20 Attach two printers to the PC (Vol 4, No 5)
39. MAKEBAR.COM 2079 1-2-3 menus (Use w/SLASHBAR) Vol 6, No 10)
40. MONOGRAF.DRV 528 Shade graphs on Monochrome (Vol 4, No 25)
41. MOVE.COM 430 Selective file backup (Vol 4, No 6)
42. NO.COM 736 Make exceptions using DOS (Vol 5, No 9)
43. NPAD.COM 1054 Make your own note pad window (Vol 3, No 25)
44. ONEKEY.COM 3524 Make your own macros (Vol 4, No 9)
45. PAD.COM 1432 5 page TSR note pad (Vol 6, No 13)
46. PAINT.COM 3076 Dress up CAPTURE file (Vol 7, No 2)
47. PARINT.COM 451 Detect parity errors (Vol 4, No 2)
48. PARSE.COM 816 Count words, chars, sentences (Vol 6, No 2)
49. PLAY.COM 864 Make music in DOS (Vol 6, No 8)
50. POP-CAL.COM 873 Pop up calendar (Vol 5, No 17)
51. POPDIR.COM 628 Subdir. tool(Use with PUSHDIR)(Vol 5, No 10)
52. PR.COM 1819 Formats program printouts (Vol 4, No 8)
53. PRN2FILE.COM 1386 Redirect printer output to file (Vol 6, No 22)
54. PRSWAP.COM 256 Swap Graph chars for ASCII (Vol 4, No 19)
55. PUSHDIR.COM 724 Subdir. tool(Use with POPDIR)(Vol 5, No 10)
56. QUICKEYS.COM 272 Speed up your keyboard (Vol 5, No 5)
57. RECORDER.COM 1309 Log disk file accesses (Vol 7, No 9)
58. RED.COM 1071 Redirect files (Vol 4, No 4)
59. RENDIR.COM 1139 Rename subdirs (DOS 3.0 up)(Vol 5, No 7)
60. REPEATS.COM 1253 List duplicate H/Disk files (Vol 6, No 11)
61. RN.COM 4272 Visual DOS file manager (Vol 6, No 16)
62. RUN.COM 1053 Run COM,EXE or BAT files anywhere (Vol 7, No 3)
63. SEARCH.COM 1287 Find files and text strings (Vol 6, No 4)
64. SETUP.COM 3132 Printer control codes (Vol 5, No 12)
65. SETUP.ASC 700 Customize SETUP.COM
66. SIZE.COM 640 Size of remaining disk space (Vol 5, No 1)
67. SLASHBAR.COM 2024 1-2-3 Menus (use w/MAKEBAR) Vol 6, No 10)
68. SNAPSHOT.COM 10614 Save Screen displays (Vol 4, No 14)
69. SNIPPER.COM 1648 Copy part of screen for output (Vol 6, No 18)
70. SPECTRUM.COM 1211 Set EGA color palette (Vol 6, No 12)
71. STATLINE.COM 409 Status of NUM,CAPS,SCROLL (Vol 5, No 13)
72. STAYDOWN.COM 859 Separate two-key combinations (Vol 7, No 8)
73. STICK.COM 956 Cursor control (works w/CTYPE)(Vol 6, N 20)
74. SUGGEST.COM 628 Display subliminal messages (Vol 5, No 20)
75. SWEEP.COM 591 DOS command through subdirs (Vol 4, No 23)
76. TIMEKEY.COM 736 Date and time-stamp macros (Vol 6, No 3)
77. TOGGLE.COM 338 On/Off states of Cap/Num/Scroll (Vol 7, No 10)
78. TOUCH.COM 1021 Date and time-stamp files (Vol 7, No 7)
79. UNDEL.COM 2067 Resnag deleted floppy files (Vol 4, No 7)
80. UNLOCK.COM 340 Undo LOCK: see LOCK above (Vol 4, No 18)
81. VISITYPE.COM 1070 80-character visible buffer (Vol 5, No 18)
82. VTREE.COM 512 Visual Tree hard disk utility (Vol 4, No 22)
83. WAITASEC.COM 754 Recalls scrolled info (Vol 4, No 24)
84. XDEL.COM 951 Select files to delete (Vol 5, No 16)
85. XDIR.COM 1388 Popup directory utility (Vol 6, No 7)
86. 1COM.ARC 49307 COM files A - N.
87. 2COM.ARC 41906 COM files O - X.
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║ If you can't locate a certain file it may be on Download Menu 5 ║
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║ Indexes to PC Magazine -- this is not actual text ║
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1. VOL3A1 TXT 26752 PC Magazine Index to Vol. 3 (1984)
2. VOL3A2 TXT 30464 The ASCII files in these indices are
3. VOL3A3 TXT 22656 made so "A" and "B" sections line
4. VOL3A4 TXT 19456 up, line-by-line. "A" contains info by
5. VOL3A5 TXT 19328 Title, Descrip, Vol, Issue, and Page.
6. VOL3B1 TXT 9856 "B" contains Author and subject. No "1"
7. VOL3B2 TXT 3712 cover issues 1-5; "2" cover issues 6-11;
8. VOL3B3 TXT 14464 "3", 12-17; "4", 18-21; "5", 22-25. They
9. VOL3B4 TXT 9728 have been broken up to make downloading
10. VOL3B5 TXT 16768 easier in view of the time limit per call.
11. VOL3A ARC 43313 All five 1984 "A" files in ARC format.
12. VOL3B ARC 13618 All five 1984 "B" files in ARC format.
1985, 1986 and 1987 files are different. All of them have been
ARChived so you must use an ARC utility before they can be used.
The text files VOL4TXT.ARC, VOL5TXT, etc, can be imported into most
commercial database programs. VOL6DEL is an ASCII delimited
file, the delimiter is a double quote ("). VOL4DBF and VOL5DBB are in
dBASE II format and must be DCONVERTED for use in dBASE III.
VOL6DBF is for dBASE III only.
13. VOL4TXT ARC 37990 1985 in ASCII, ARC format.
14. VOL4DBF ARC 37120 1985 in dBASE II, ARC format.
15. VOL5TXT ARC 48811 1986 in ASCII, ARC format.
16. VOL5DBB ARC 48449 1986 in dBASE II, ARC format.
17. VOL6TXT ARC 57942 1987 in ASCII, ARC format.
18. VOL6DBF ARC 70102 1987 in dBASE 3, ARC format.
19. VOL6DEL ARC 64890 1987 in ASCII delimited ("), ARC format.
20. PR87_DBF ARC 76661 1987 Products reviewed in dBASE III format.
21. PR87_WKS ARC 139347 1987 Products reviewed in 1-2-3 1A format.
22. PKX35A35 EXE 70697 Self extracting ARC utility.
Note: These are indexes only, not actual text from the magazine.
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║ Files from PC Lab Notes, User-to-User and Power User Columns ║
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1. CAPSLOCK.COM 122 Turn off the CapsLock (Vol 4, No 21)
2. FDA.BAS 3564 Find file info easily (Vol 5, No 4)
3. PCMAGNDX.DB2 1920 Load PC Magazine's index into dBASE II
(Vol 4, No 23) Be sure to rename .PRG
4. PCMAGNDX.DB3 1664 Load PC Magazine's index into dBASE III
(Vol 4, No 23) Be sure to rename .PRG
5. PSET.ASM 3008 PSET takes in the decimal ASCII codes
as part of the command line and sends to
6. PSET.BAS 1045 printer. (Vol 5, Number 8).
7. dCRUNCH.BAT 768 Speed dBASE processing (Vol 5, No 13)
8. dSTRIP.INP 4019 "
9. dSTRIP.ASM 4126 "
10. dSTRIP.COM 206 "
11. SCANDIR COM 1040 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
12. SCANDIR BAS 4864 From PC Lab Notes Jan 27, 1987
13. SCANDIR ASM 20594 (Vol 6, No 2)
14. DIRCOMP COM 880 "Making DIR Do Double Duty"
15. DIRCOMP BAS 4212
16. DIRCOMP ASM 12882 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
17. CHECK COM 1080 From PC Lab Notes Feb 10, 1987
18. CHECK BAS 10454 (Vol 6, No 3)
19. CHECK ASM 24840 "Adding Power to Batch Programs"
20. POSARRAY PAS 1990 From Turbo Power User- March 10, 87
21. TESTENV BAT 2359 - - - - - - - - - - - - -
22. ENVCOUNT COM 189
23. ENVCOUNT ASM 3023 From PC Lab Notes - April 14, 1987
24. ENVCOUNT BAS 1698 (Vol 6, No 7)
25. READENV C 9933 "Expanding the DOS Environment"
26. READENV COM 429
27. READENV ASM 11107 - - - - - - - - - - - - -
28. COPYSAFE COR 1380 ASM fix for COPYSAFE.ASM (fixed 3/17/87)
29. STATUS COM 1793 - - - - - - - - - - - - -
30. STATUS BAS 9286 From PC Lab Notes - April 28, 1987
31. STATUS ASM 24576 "A System Board Analyzer"
32. MOUSEKEY COM 280 - - - - - - - - - - - - -
33. MOUSEKEY BAS 3158 From PC Lab Notes - July 21, 1987
34. MOUSEKEY ASM 6498 "Mouse Software"
35. INSTALL COM 1366 - - - - - - - - - - - - -
36. INSTALL BAS 2668
37. INSTALL ASM 5146 From PC Lab Notes - August 25, 1987
38. REMOVE COM 545 "Popping Out Your Pop-ups"
39. REMOVE BAS 5636
40. REMOVE ASM 11273 Use these files to load and remove
41. PCMAP COM 469 memory resident programs on the fly.
42. PCMAP BAS 4904
43. PCMAP ASM 9455 - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
44. DOSKEY COM 1644
45. DOSKEY BAS 15658 From PC Lab Notes - September 15, 1987
46. DOSKEY ASM 35030 "Expanding DOS at the Touch of a Finger"
47. KBTEST COM 129
48. KBTEST BAS 1859 Function key macros, buffer last 15
49. KBTEST ASM 810 commands and more.
50. KBX COM 1207 - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
51. KBX BAS 11638 From PC Lab Notes - September 29, 1987
52. KBX ASM 29760 "More Characters from Your Keyboard"
53. QP-GW BIN 110 - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
54. QP-GW BAS 785 From PC Lab Notes - October 13, 1987
55. QP-GW ASM 4108 "Fast Screen Writing in BASIC, Part 1"
56. QP-QUICK BAS 174
57. QP-QUICK OBJ 158 QP-GW is for GW-BASIC
58. QP-QUICK ASM 3657 QP-QUICK is for QuickBASIC
59. QP-TURBO COM 108 QP-TURBO is for Turbo BASIC
60. QP-TURBO BAS 241
61. QP-TURBO ASM 3946 - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
62. SAVE-INT ASM 3825 From PC Lab Notes - October 27, 1987
63. SAVE-INT BIN 115 "Fast Screen Writing in BASIC, Part 2"
64. REST-INT ASM 3689
65. REST-INT BIN 109 -INT is for the BASIC interpreter
66. DEMO-INT BAS 1092
67. SAVE-QB ASM 3484
68. SAVE-QB OBJ 168 -QB is for QuickBASIC
69. REST-QB ASM 3517
70. REST-QB OBJ 170
71. DEMO-QB BAS 593
72. SAVE-TB ASM 3197 -TB is for Turbo BASIC
73. SAVE-TB BIN 97
74. REST-TB ASM 3135
74. REST-TB BIN 97
76. DEMO-TB BAS 595 - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
77. SLOWDOWN COM 81 PC Advisor, Oct 27, 1987, page 27
78. SPEEDUP COM 15 Jim Seymour's column, Nov 10, 1987
79. SAFARI COM 1351 - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
80. SAFARI BAS 12957 From PC Lab Notes - November 10, 1987
81. SAFARI ASM 15231 "Internal Error Handling in PC-DOS"
82. SHOWVECT COM 54
83. SHOWVECT SCR 719 - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
84. FASTWR PAS 24225 From PC Lab Notes - November 24, 1987
85. INLINE ARC 51257 "Optimizing Turbo Pascal: A Primer"
86. PROFIL ARC 70337 (FIGURES.ARC contains Figures 1-11, A)
87. FIGURES ARC 5827 - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
88. SAMMAC EXE 48995 Samna Word IV Macros - November 24, 1987
89. MAINPROG BAS 1332 - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
90. SUBPROG1 BAS 1961 From PC Lab Notes - December 8, 1987
91. SUBPROG2 BAS 2530 "Creating and Using Program Libraries"
92. EGAINFO ASM 5153 - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
93. DBHEAD C 2677 From Power User - December 8, 1987
94. DBHEAD EXE 9036 - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
95. TP4 ARC 9729 From PC Lab Notes - January 26, 1988
96. LANDPAGE 5130 From PC Lab Notes - February 16, 1988
97. PORTPAGE 5809 "Learning to Live With Lasers, Part 1"
98. LANDPAGE 6 2239 From PC Lab Notes - March 29, 1988
99. PORTPAGE 6 2413 "Custom-Designing Your Own Fonts"
100. LG709 ARC 3310 From Languages - May 17, 1988
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║ PC LABS BENCHMARK TEST SERIES, RELEASE 4.02 ║
║ The Benchmarks consist of 24 files. The five listed below, ║
║ Bench4A through 4E contain all 24. Download each file and ║
║ expand with an ARC utility. Download the Bench402.ARC only if ║
║ you have perfect line conditions. ║
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║ In order for the Benchmarks to run you MUST download all 5. ║
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║ FILE NAME BYTES ║
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1. BENCH4A ARC 46353
2. BENCH4B ARC 47202
3. BENCH4C ARC 53953
4. BENCH4D ARC 43942
5. BENCH4E ARC 60532
6. BENCH402 ARC 244480 The entire Benchmark Series (Bench4A - 4E)
7. 402UPGR ARC 60490 Upgrade from 4.0
8. BENCH4 DOC 15563 This is a script file for SOME of the tests.
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║ Exploring the EGA ║
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1. EGAMODE SCR 896 These files are from the
2. EGAPAGE SCR 563 August 1986 issue and allow
3. EGACOLOR SCR 637 you to explore the many
4. EGAPALET SCR 2252 features of an EGA monitor.
5. EGABORD SCR 566
6. EGATIME SCR 862 To create the .COM files
7. EGAPRMOV SCR 623 using the .SCR files use
8. EGACOSET SCR 383 DEBUG <filename.SCR
9. EGABOSET SCR 601
10. EGASCR ALL 7367 (These are all the .SCR files)
11. EGAMODE COM 87
12. EGAPAGE COM 58 Instead of downloading the
13. EGACOLOR COM 40 .SCR files, just download
14. EGAPALET COM 129 the .COM files directly,
15. EGABORD COM 28 or download EGACOM.ARC and
16. EGATIME COM 190 use ARC.EXE to extract.
17. EGAPRMOV COM 60
18. EGACOSET COM 43
19. EGABOSET COM 64
20. EGACOM ARC 931
21. EGAITAL SCR 921 The following files are from
22. EGA8X14 SCR 130 the September 16, 1986 issue.
23. EGA43 SCR 315
24. EGA35 SCR 745
25. EGA50 SCR 737
26. EGA12 SCR 690
27. EGA25 SCR 277
28. EGAPRTSC SCR 120
29. CS SCR 688
30. WS43 SCR 372
31. EGA512 SCR 465
32. TEST512 SCR 434
33. FONT2DB SCR 698
34. 120COLS SCR 696
35. WS120 SCR 194
36. WS43X120 SCR 270
37. WRITEDOT SCR 418
38. EGASCR2 ALL 8154 (Files # 21 through 37 in ASCII)
39. EGASCR2 ARC 7796 (Files 21-37 compressed. Use
40. FONTLOAD ASM 640 an ARC utility to extract)
41. EGADEMO C 2259
42. EGAITAL COM 89
43. EGA8X14 COM 9
44. EGA43 COM 40
45. EGA35 COM 82
46. EGA50 COM 80
47. EGA12 COM 76
48. EGA25 COM 40
49. EGAPRTSC COM 8
50. CS COM 66
51. EGA512 COM 43
52. TEST512 COM 71
53. FONT2DB COM 72
54. 120COLS COM 108
55. WRITEDOT COM 38
56. EGADEMO EXE 2960
57. EGACOM2 ARC 3405 (Files 41 thru 54 in compressed
mode, extract with ARC)
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║ ARChived files. These MUST be downloaded using XMODEM, or ║
║ Kermit then restored by using an ARC utility. XMODEM ║
║ transfers are 128 bytes per block, so a 30,000 byte ║
║ file will take 235 blocks to download. ║
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1. VOL4TXT ARC 37990 Index for 1985 in ARC format.
2. VOL4DBF ARC 37120 Index for 1985 in dBASE II, ARC format.
3. VOL5TXT ARC 48811 Index for 1986 in ARC format.
4. VOL5DBB ARC 48449 Index for 1986 in dBASE II, ARC format.
5. 1COM ARC 49307 .COM files A - N.
6. 2COM ARC 40269 .COM files O - Z.
7. BAS1 ARC 24564 BASIC files: ATTR, BACOPY, BAR1, BAR2,
BAR3, BAR4, BAR5, BAR6, BROWSE
8. BAS2 ARC 24439 BASIC files: CACHE, DATAMKR, DDIR, DELZ,
DISKSCAN, DSKWATCH, DOORS, DOS-EDIT,
ELDORADO, FRACTELS, FRACELDO, FREE
9. BAS3 ARC 34039 BASIC files: KEEPER, KEY-FAKE, LOCATE,
LOCK, LPTPORT, MONOGRAF, MOVE,NO,NPAD,
ONEKEY,POP-CAL,POPDIR,PR,PRSWAP,PUSHDIR
10. BAS4 ARC 33117 BASIC files: QUICKEYS, RED,
RENDIR, SETUP, SIZE, SNAPSHOT,STATLINE,
SWEEP, UNDEL, VTREE, WAITASEC, XDEL
11. ASM1 ARC 53150 Assembler files: ATTR, BAC,BOOT,BROWSE
CACHE,DDIR,DELZ,DISKSCAN,DOORS,DOS-EDIT.
12. ASM2 ARC 52764 Assembler files: FREE,KBM,KEEPER,
KEY-FAKE,LOCATE,LOCK,LPTPORT,MONOGRAF,
MOVE,NO,NPAD,ONEKEY.
13. ASM3 ARC 47363 Assembler files: PARINT,POP-CAL,
POPDIR,PR,PRSWAP,PUSHDIR,QUICKEYS,
READONLY,READWRIT,RED,RENDIR.
14. ASM4 ARC 50925 Assembler files: SETUP,SIZE,SNAPSHOT,
STATLINE,SWEEP,UNDEL,VTREE,WAITASEC,XDEL.
15. EGACOM ARC 931 Explore your EGA (August 1986)
16. EGACOM2 ARC 3405 Explore your EGA (September 16, 1986)
17. USBBS ARC 39936 List of Bulletin Boards across the USA
18. UGALL ARC 15526 List of PC user groups across the USA.
19. DOCFILE ARC 106336 Documentation for some of the utilities.
20. PKX35A35 EXE 70697 Self extracting ARC utility.
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║ ASCII text .DOC files for some of the utilities featured in ║
║ PC Magazine's Programming Column. For more information go to ║
║ the original article (see Vol and Issue number) ║
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1. APPBK DOC 6300 Pop up with alarm and clock (Vol 6, No 12)
2. ASC DOC 2036 RAM-resident ASCII table (Vol 6, No 5)
3. ASPRN DOC 2425 TSR macro processor (Vol 7, No 5)
4. ATTR DOC 3772 File attribute utility (Vol 5, No 11)
5. BAC DOC 2579 Backing up is made easy (Vol 4, No 17)
6. BROWSE DOC 4181 Move through a file (Vol 5, No 6)
7. CALC DOC 1793 Programmer's pop-up calculator (Vol 7, No 6)
8. CAPTURE DOC 1643 Save a screen to use with HELP (Vol 7, No 1)
9. CARDFILE DOC 3283 TSR address book w/autodial (Vol 6, No 17)
10. CHANGE DOC 2250 Find/Replace in text files (Vol 5, No 19)
11. CO DOC 2811 Copy, move groups of files (Vol 6, No 21)
12. COPYSAFE DOC 2134 RAM-resident safety utility (Vol 6, No 6)
13. CTYPE DOC 1422 Set your own cursor shape (Vol 6, No 19)
14. DDIR DOC 1608 Double column directory (Vol 4, No 20)
15. DELZ DOC 3839 Delete files forever (Vol 4, No 21)
16. DIRCOMP DOC 2596 Compare two directories (Vol 6, No 2)
17. DIREX DOC 1809 DOS file manager (Vol 6, No 1)
18. DIRNOTES DOC 1443 Annotate directories (Vol 6, No 15)
19. DISKPREP DOC 2653 Retrofit DOS to a floppy (Vol 5, No 21)
20. DISKSCAN DOC 1005 Find bad sectors (Vol 5, No 8)
21. DOORS DOC 2515 "Try a Door Not a Window" (Vol 4, No 3)
22. DOS-EDIT DOC 3430 Memory Resident DOS editor (Vol 5, No 3)
23. DR DOC 2365 A DIR that's better than DOS' (Vol 6, No 14)
24. DRAW DOC 8702 Drawing in DOS (BATFILE.DAT) (Vol 6, No 9)
25. FREE DOC 1139 How much disk space left? (Vol 5, No 1)
26. FREEZE DOC 2533 RAM-res. password security (Vol 5, No 22)
27. HELP DOC 1848 Pop up help created by CAPTURE (Vol 7, No 1)
28. INSTALL DOC 5586 Works with Remove (Vol 6, No 14)
29. KBX DOC 1978 Extended keyboard characters (Vol 6, No 16)
30. KEEPER DOC 2235 Replay last 10 commands (Vol 4, No 15)
31. KEY-FAKE DOC 3492 Extend batch file usefulness (Vol 4, No 26)
32. LOCATE DOC 2749 Find phrase in files fast (Vol 4, No 10)
33. LOCK DOC 2352 Encrypt/decrypt files (Vol 4, No 18)
34. LPTPORT DOC 2018 Attach two printers to the PC (Vol 4, No 5)
35. MAKEBAR DOC 13356 1-2-3 menus (Use w/SLASHBAR) Vol 6, No 10)
36. MONOGRAF DOC 1907 Shade graphs on Monochrome (Vol 4, No 25)
37. MOUSEKEY DOC 882 Mouse utility (Vol 6, No 13)
38. MOVE DOC 1548 Selective file backup (Vol 4, No 6)
39. NO DOC 4598 Make exceptions using DOS (Vol 5, No 9)
40. NPAD DOC 3712 Make Your own note pad window (Vol 3, No 25)
41. ONEKEY DOC 2810 Make your own macros (Vol 4, No 9)
42. PAD DOC 1254 5 page TSR note pad (Vol 6, No 13)
43. PAINT DOC 3607 Dress up CAPTURE file (Vol 7, No 2)
44. PARSE DOC 1470 Count words, chars, sentences (Vol 6, No 2)
45. PLAY DOC 4444 Make music in DOS (Vol 6, No 8)
46. POPCAL DOC 2668 Pop up calendar (Vol 5, No 17)
47. PR DOC 1154 Formats program printouts (Vol 4, No 8)
48. PRN2FILE DOC 2090 Redirect printer output to file (Vol 6, No 22)
49. PRSWAP DOC 1153 Swap Graph chars for ASCII (Vol 4, No 19)
50. PUSHDIR DOC 2588 Subdir. tool(Use with Popdir)(Vol 5, No 10)
51. QUICKEYS DOC 1765 Speed up your keyboard (Vol 5, No 5)
52. RECORDER.DOC 1467 Log disk file accesses (Vol 7, No 9)
53. RED DOC 1921 Redirect files (Vol 4, No 4)
54. RENDIR DOC 2025 Rename subdirs (DOS 3.0 up)(Vol 5, No 7)
55. REPEATS DOC 1549 List duplicate H/Disk files (Vol 6, No 11)
56. RN DOC 2343 Visual DOS file manager (Vol 6, No 16)
57. RUN DOC 1806 Run COM,EXE or BAT files anywhere (Vol 7, No 3)
58. SAFARI DOC 2395 Make error handling easier (Vol 6, No 19)
59. SCANDIR DOC 2471 Scan 2 dirs at one time (Vol 6, No 2)
60. SEARCH DOC 2722 Find files and text strings (Vol 6, No 4)
61. SETUP DOC 5506 Printer control codes (Vol 5, No 12)
62. SIZE DOC 2293 Size of remaining disk space (Vol 5, No 1)
63. SLASHBAR DOC 6555 1-2-3 Menus (use w/MAKEBAR) Vol 6, No 10)
64. SNAPSHOT DOC 2505 Save Screen displays (Vol 4, No 14)
65. SNIPPER DOC 2387 Copy part of screen for output (Vol 6, No 18)
66. SPECTRUM DOC 2889 Set EGA color palette (Vol 6, No 12)
67. STATLINE DOC 2096 Status of NUM,CAPS,SCROLL(Vol 5, No 13)
68. STATUS DOC 1841 System status (Vol 6, No 8)
69. STAYDOWN DOC 2019 Separate two-key combos (Vol 7, No 8)
70. STICK DOC 2655 Cursor control (works w/CTYPE)(Vol 6, N 20)
71. SUGGEST DOC 2165 Display subliminal messages (Vol 5, No 20)
72. SWEEP DOC 2414 DOS command through subdirs (Vol 4, No 23)
73. TIMEKEY DOC 1684 Date and time-stamp macros (Vol 6, No 3)
74. TOGGLE DOC 2062 On/Off Cap/Num/Scroll (Vol 7, No 3)
75. TOUCH DOC 1460 Date and time-stamp files (Vol 7, No 7)
76. UNDEL DOC 2327 Resnag deleted floppy files (Vol 4, No 7)
77. VISITYPE DOC 1662 80-character visible buffer (Vol 5, No 18)
78. VTREE DOC 977 Visual Tree hard disk utility (Vol 4, No 22)
79. WAITASEC DOC 3815 Recalls scrolled info (Vol 4, No 24)
80. XDEL DOC 1352 Select files to delete (Vol 5, No 16)
81. XDIR DOC 3274 Popup directory utility (Vol 6, No 7)
82. DOCFILE ARC 108599 Contains all of the above .DOC files in an
ARC form. Extract using an ARC utility
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║ This menu has all the files, in every format (.COM, .BAS, .ASM),║
║ from the most recent PC Magazine in an ARChived format. ║
║ Use an ARC utility to extract the files. ║
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║ File Name Bytes Issue Date Files ║
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1. VOL6N8 ARC 24208 April 28, 1987 STATUS, PLAY, STING.DAT
2. VOL6N9 ARC 18567 May 12, 1987 DRAW., BLOAD, BSAVE,
CONMEN.DAT
3. VOL6N10 ARC 52216 May 26, 1987 MAKEBAR/SLASHBAR/DOS
4. VOL6N11 ARC 12632 June 9, 1987 REPEATS
5. VOL6N12 ARC 35257 June 23, 1987 SPECTRUM, APPBK
6. VOL6N13 ARC 19237 July 21, 1987 PAD, MOUSEKEY
7. VOL6N14 ARC 48162 August 27, 1987 DR,INSTALL,REMOVE,PCMAP
8. VOL6N15 ARC 34861 Sept 15, 1987 DIRNOTES, DOSKEY, KBTEST
9. VOL6N16 ARC 55035 Sept 29, 1987 RN, KBX
10. VOL6N17 ARC 46826 Oct 13, 1987 CARDFILE, QPRINT
11. VOL6N18 ARC 18220 Oct 27, 1987 SNIPPER
12. VOL6N19 ARC 23550 Nov 10, 1987 CTYPE, SAFARI, SHOWVECT
13. VOL6N20 ARC 147190 Nov 24, 1987 STICK,FASTWR,INLINE,PROFIL
14. VOL6N21 ARC 45237 Dec 8, 1987 CO,SUBPROG,MAINPROG,EGAINFO
15. VOL6N22 ARC 18128 Dec 22, 1987 PRN2FILE
16. VOL7N1 ARC 30930 Jan 12, 1988 CAPTURE, HELP
17. VOL7N2 ARC 47214 Jan 26, 1988 PAINT, MODENV, PUTENV, TP4
18. VOL7N3 ARC 21726 Feb 16, 1988 RUN, LANDPAGE, PORTPAGE, PP703
19. V7N05 ARC 30119 Mar 15, 1988 ASPRN, Version 1.2
20. V7N06 ARC 36859 Mar 29, 1988 CALC,LANDPAGE,PORTPAGE
21. V7N07 ARC 25001 Apr 12, 1988 TOUCH
22. V7N08 ARC 24573 Apr 26, 1988 STAYDOWN,WAKEUP,MEM512,BITTEST.C
23. V7N09 ARC 29545 May 17, 1988 RECORDER,DUMP,TRYTD.C,TD.C
24. V7N10 ARC 22049 May 31, 1988 TOGGLE,INFO,RHCTRL,TD,TRYTD
25. PKX35A35 EXE 70697 Self extracting PKXARC utility.
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║PC Magazine and may be difficult to locate. Shareware is not free,║
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1. PROCOMM ARC 26304 ProComm Version 2.4.2
2. PROCOMM1 ARC 116792 ProComm is a versatile communications
3. PROCOMM2 ARC 46467 program that was reviewed 1/27/87.
4. PROCOMM3 ARC 31558 Download all 5 files and expand with
5. PROCOMM4 ARC 41702 the ARC utility.
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MARK/RELEASE, Version 2.5,
RAM-resident memory manager
6. TSRCOM25 ARC 47104 (Contains .COM and .DOC)
from 11/25/86, p200
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7. DOG101 ARC 46592 Disk Organizer, Version 1.01
Speed disk access: 9/16/86, p276
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8. LIST ARC 22153 A fast file search utility.
From 6/23/87, p286
9. XEQ115 ARC 10112 Compress, store and run .COM files
From 6/23/87 p306
10. BOYAN-D3 ARC 122163 Boyan, Version D3, communications program
11. BOYANDOC ARC 71359 rev'd Oct. 27, 1987, page 43
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1. PP621 ARC 1187 Power Programming (December 12, 1987)
2. PP622 ARC 18609 SHOWARG1,2,3; SHOWARGS, ARGC,V (12/22/87)
3. PP701 ARC 3964 SHOWENV, GETENV, DUMPENV (1/12/88)
4. PP702 ARC 5622 MODENV.C, MODENV.ASM, PUTENV.ASM (1/26/88)
5. PP703 ARC 4394 ATOI.ASM, ATOL.ASM, ATOX.C, TRY.C, TRYTOI.ASM
(2/16/88)
6. PP704 ARC 6995 ITOA.ASM, LTOA.ASM, TRYITOA.ASM, TRYXCVT.C,
TRYXTOA.C, MACDEMO.C (2/29/88)
7. PP705 ARC 2204 SHOWTIME.C, XTYPE.C (Environments 3/15/88)
8. PP706 ARC 4048 CALLPRTF.ASM, FPDEMO.C, QUADRANT.C, ALPHSOUP.C
(3/29/88)
9. PP707 ARC 10504 HTOL.ASM, LCVT.ASM, TRYLCVT.ASM (4/12/88)
10. PP708 ARC 8252 WAKEUP (Environments 4/26/88)
11. PP709 ARC 10015 TD.C,TRYTD.C,DUMP.* (5/12/88)
12. PP710 ARC 5555 TD.ASM, TRYTD.ASM (5/31/88)
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As of April 27, the most recent files uploaded to the
PC Magazine Interactive Reader Service are from
Volume 7, Number 10, dated May 31, 1988.
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║ ALERT ** ALERT ** ALERT ║
║ April 20, 1988 ║
║ ASPRN, as printed in the magazine and the version previously ║
║ available on the IRS, listed as Version 1.0, has a bug. The bug has║
║ been corrected and all versions of ASPRN available here reflect ║
║ the fix. You must have Version 1.2, available for the first ║
║ time here on April 20. We apologize for any inconvenience. ║
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Utilities: "Staying in Sync with Your Keyboard"
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TOGGLE.COM is on Download Directory 1
TOGGLE.ASM is on Download Directory 2
TOGGLE.BAS is on Download Directory 3
TOGGLE.DOC, the documentation file for TOGGLE, is available on
Download Directory 11.
Power Programming: "MASM Time and Date Formatting Routines"
PP710.ARC is on Download Directory 14
V7N10.ARC, on Download Directory 12, contains all of the files from
the issue in an ARC file. Be sure to unARC before using.
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