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- Documentation for IDCUTILS
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- Authors : Gary Conway / Chuck Crumpton
- Created : 1986-89
- Notice : Copyright 1988-89 Infinity Design Concepts
- : All Rights Reserved
- : 1052 Parkway Drive Louisville, Kentucky 40217
- : (502) 636-1234
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- These programs are distributed under the SHAREWARE concept.
- They are copyrighted material and all rights are reserved by
- the copyright holder. They may be used and distributed as long
- as no fee is charged and they are not used in any manner
- whatsoever for commercial purposes. Businesses that would like
- to use these programs MUST purchase a registered copy of the
- utilities package. Government and site license pricing also
- available.
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- If you continue to use any of the programs in this package,
- you are expected to purchase a copy of the software.
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- Table of Contents
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- STATS.EXE.................................................... 1
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- DUMPINTS.EXE................................................. 1
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- FREERAM.EXE.................................................. 2
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- SPACE.EXE.................................................... 2
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- FINDASCI.EXE................................................. 2
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- LETTER.EXE................................................... 2
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- BOOT.COM..................................................... 3
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- DTROFF.EXE................................................... 4
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- Q.EXE........................................................ 4
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- IDC-KEYS.EXE................................................. 4
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- IDCTREE.COM.................................................. 4
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- FILE FINDER.................................................. 5
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- DISK.EXE..................................................... 6
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- SOUND.EXE.................................................... 6
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- CGRAPHIC.COM................................................. 6
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- CRC.EXE (CRC-16 and CRC-32 check)............................ 7
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- DD.EXE....................................................... 7
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- JOYTEST.EXE................................................. 8
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- ALARM.COM.................................................... 8
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- YESNO.COM.................................................... 8
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- IDCCOPY.EXE.................................................. 9
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- SETNUM.COM.....................................................9
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- REGISTRATION FORM........................................... 10
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- Copyright 1989 Infinity Design Concepts, All Rights Reserved
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- " STATS.EXE "
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- Stats.Exe will give the Machine statistics of any IBM
- Compatible Computer. The information displayed is as follows;
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- BIOS SIGNATURE - as read from the ROM BIOS in your machine
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- BIOS DATE - date of your ROM BIOS
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- OEM NUMBER - name of OEM DOS supplier
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- DOS VERSION - version of DOS currently running
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- MICROPROCESSOR type - 8086,8088,80188,80286,80386,V20,V30
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- MACHINE CLASS - PC,XT,AT,PCjr
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- NUMBER OF LOGICAL DRIVES reported by DOS
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- ANSI DRIVER INSTALLED (YES OR NO)
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- MATH COPROCESSOR (YES OR NO)
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- MOUSE DRIVER INSTALLED (YES OR NO)
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- SERIAL PORTS ATTACHED (NUMBER)
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- PARALLEL PORTS ATTACHED (NUMBER)
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- EXTENDED MEMORY (TOTAL)
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- EXPANDED MEMORY (FREE TOTAL USED)
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- CONVENTIONAL MEMORY (FREE TOTAL USED)
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- VIDEO ADAPTER (MONO CGA EGA VGA) and video mode COLOR/MONO
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- VIDEO RAM (EGA/VGA only)
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- To run the program type:
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- "Stats" <Enter>
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- " DUMPINTS.EXE "
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- Dumpints is a programmer's aid and will display a list of
- interrupt vectors and their meanings on the screen. To run
- the program type:
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- "DUMPINTS" <Enter>
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- If you choose to stop the scroll use Control-S, this will
- pause the screen. Press enter to resume the scroll.
- If you choose to divert the information to your printer type:
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- " DUMPINTS >prn "
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- " FREERAM.EXE "
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- Freeram will display conventional ram, total, free and used in
- your system. To run the program type:
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- "Freeram" <Enter>
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- " SPACE.EXE "
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- Space.Exe will tell show disk space statistics on ALL
- available disk drives. To run the program type:
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- "Space" <Enter>
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- " FINDASCI.EXE "
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- This program will find strings of 2 or more ASCII characters
- in any file and dump them to the screen. This program is
- intended to be used to locate copyright messages in files
- that have been uploaded to bulletin boards to help avoid
- legal problems. You may give a drive and path designation for
- the file to be checked. To run the program type:
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- "Findasci" <Enter>
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- " LETTER.EXE "
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- This program will print envelopes on the HP LASERJET+
- series II or compatible printer. NOTE that the envelopes will
- be fed thru the manual tray and printed in the landscape
- mode.
- To run the program type:
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- "Letter" <Enter>
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- BOOT.COM
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- Boot.Com very simply does a cold boot on your machine.
- To run the program type:
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- "Boot" <Enter>
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- This program is very useful for setting up a batch file that
- causes DOS to boot with or without your TSR programs, since
- many applications find conflict with TSR's. An example batch
- file for this follows;
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- REM This batch file is called NOBOOT.BAT
- echo off
- cls
- cd\
- REM if autoexec.OLD exists, then we need to reinstate
- REM the original AUTOEXEC.BAT with TSR's etc.
- IF EXIST autoexec.old GOTO autoboot
- REM autoexec.OLD does not exist,
- REM therefore copy autoexec.BAT to autoexec.OLD
- COPY autoexec.bat *.old
- COPY config.sys *.old
- COPY config config.sys
- COPY autoexec autoexec.bat
- GOTO done
- :autoboot
- COPY autoexec.old autoexec.bat
- COPY config.old config.sys
- DEL config.old
- DEL autoexec.old
- :done
- REM now reboot the machine
- BOOT
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- The system is set up to use the following files.
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- AUTOEXEC.BAT - your normal autoexec file
- AUTOEXEC - the autoexec you wish to use when booting
- virgin DOS without TSR's etc.
- CONFIG.SYS - your normal config file
- CONFIG - the config file you wish to use when booting
- virgin DOS, without TSR's etc.
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- The AUTOEXEC.OLD and CONFIG.OLD files are automatically
- created and deleted by the above batch file as needed.
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- The NOBOOT.BAT file causes the machine to toggle its boot
- state. The first time NOBOOT is run, it will set DOS up to
- boot from your AUTOEXEC and CONFIG files, the second time, it
- will cause DOS to boot with the original AUTOEXEC.BAT and
- CONFIG.SYS files.
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- " DTROFF.EXE "
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- Dtroff.Exe drops the DTR line on your modem ( hangs up )
- To run the program type:
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- "Dtroff" COMPORT (1 or 2) <Enter>
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- " Q.EXE "
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- Q.Exe is a programmers aid which dumps the PSP (Program
- Segment Prefix , if you don't know what that is, you won't
- need the program )
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- To run the program type:
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- "Q" <Enter>
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- " IDC-KEYS.EXE "
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- IDC-keys is a TSR which will speed up cursor key action. This
- program should be entered in your Autoexec.Bat or if you are
- using DOS 4.0 you may use the Install Command in your
- Config.Sys file.
- To run the program type:
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- "Idc-keys" <Enter>
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- " IDCTREE.COM "
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- IDCtree.Com is a stand alone directory tree which will scan
- any disk and display the directory of that disk in a visual
- tree structure.
- To run the program type:
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- "Idctree" <Enter>
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- IDCtree has several options, they are as follows;
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- (S) Scan disk will ask you which disk you want a directory of.
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- (M) Make Directory will allow you to create a new directory
- on the current drive.
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- (R) Remove Directory will allow you to remove the highlighted
- directory from the current drive (as long as that directory
- is empty).
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- (Enter) Hit the <Enter> key in order to go the highlighted
- directory and exit.
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- (Esc) Esc will exit the program.
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- " FILE FINDER "
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- FILE FINDER is designed to locate files on your harddisk. You
- may supply a drive and/or a wildcard filespec and FILE FINDER
- will locate and display all files that match the given
- filespec. Optionally, you may tell FILE FINDER to search ALL
- drives in your system.
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- This program will accept arguments on the command line as
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- FF [drive:] [filemask] [switches]
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- drive: - represents the drive that you wish searched
- if no drive is specified, the current drive is
- searched
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- filemask - this is the file specification that you are
- trying to find. The wildcard characters "?"
- and "*" are permitted.
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- switches - there are five optional switches that may be
- used.
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- /h - displays a help screen
- /p - pause after each find
- /a - search all drives in the system
- /w - displays the located filenames in a wide format
- /j - prompt for directory when match is located
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- EXAMPLES:
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- FF *.bat - will locate all batch files on the
- current drive.
- FF /h - will display a help screen
- FF a:*.exe - will locate and display all
- .EXE files on drive A: that match *.EXE
- FF - will display all files in all subdirectories
- on the current drive.
- FF *.bat /w - will display all batch files on the current
- drive in a wide format.
- FF *.com /a/w/p - will search all drives in the system for
- .COM files and display them in a wide format
- and pause after each match.
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- As you can see, the switches can be "stacked" together on the
- command line, but note that the /H switch for the help screen
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- takes precedence over all other options.
- Note that control-C will abort the program at any time and
- the SPACE BAR may be used to toggle pause mode on or off.
- When pause mode is ON, the display is paused after each
- matching file is located and displayed. In wide mode, the
- display is paused after printing the current line.
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- " DISK.EXE "
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- Disk.Exe is a programmers aid which will display the BIOS
- Parameter Block of a given drive. The BPB is read from both
- DOS and the boot record of the disk itself. The program also
- supports DOS 4.x BPB calls and demonstrates the differences
- in the boot record BPB's, e.g. the extended signature and
- information.
- To run the program type:
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- "Disk [drive:]" <Enter>
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- Where the drive designator is optional.
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- " SOUND.EXE "
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- Sound.Exe was thrown in just for fun, it doesn't do anything
- fantastic, just makes sound. It's nice to put in a batch file
- to let you know when an operation is finished or you might
- add it to the end of your Autoexec.Bat to tell you when the
- machine has booted.
- To run the program type:
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- "Sound"<Enter>
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- " CGRAPHIC.COM "
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- This program was created for those of you who have Citoh
- Prowriter 1550,8510 etc. series or NEC 8023 printers
- connected to your IBM or compatible. The graphics.com program
- supplied with your DOS will dump graphics characters and
- screens to an EPSON compatible printer, but this doesn't do
- either of us any good. This program will nestle itself into
- DOS and intercept characters going to the printer and
- translate them into graphics that the Citoh can understand.
- The PrintScreen function of DOS is also replaced so that any
- of the graphics screens may be printed as well. To install
- the program, simply enter "cgraphic" and the program will
- install itself into DOS.
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- " CRC.EXE "
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- This program will calculate the CRC values for any file.
- If the original CRC value of the file is known, then it
- is possible to determine if the file has been altered
- e.g. determine the possibility that the file has been
- trojanized.
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- Examples of the command line are as follows:
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- CRC c:\utils\*.asm
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- CRC *.bat
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- The CRC-16 algorithm used by CRC.EXE is compatible with the
- CRC calculations used in .ARC files and may therefore be
- compared with the CRC information contained there. The CRC-16
- algorithm is not XMODEM compatible.
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- The CRC-32 algorithm used by CRC.EXE is compatible with the
- algorithm used by ZIP files.
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- " DD.EXE "
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- This program will scan a directory and display the unsorted
- filenames matching a user supplied mask, along with their
- size, date, time and file attributes. It's not super-duper
- terrific, but we had need of it in-house and just thought
- that others might find it useful at times as well.
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- DD is invoked via any of the following options,
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- dd - shows all files in the current directory
- dd c: - displays all files in the root on C:
- dd c:\idc - shows all files in the idc subdirectory
- dd *.asm - displays all files with the .ASM extension
- dd d:\idcshell\*.bat - displays all .BAT files in the
- idcshell subdirectory
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- The command line switches are,
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- dd /h - displays a listing of the command line switches
- dd /np - disables output pagination (doesn't stop with
- each screen full)
- dd /43 - formats output for 43 screen lines (EGA and up)
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- Note that only one of the switches can be used at a time and the 43
- line mode ALWAYS paginates the output.
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- The program can be aborted with ^C at any time.
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- " JOYTEST.EXE "
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- This program is designed to help you evaluate joystick performance
- and linearity. The numbers displayed should change smoothly as you
- move the joystick around. Even good joysticks will demonstrate
- some jitter, but poor ones will show a great deal of jitter.
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- This jitter is caused by the resistors inside the joystick. Good
- joysticks will contain very good linear potentiometers and will
- show a very smooth number change, and hence demonstrate
- better playability.
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- " ALARM.COM "
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- This program will allow you to set an alarm which will beep
- four times once the set time is reached. ALARM will beep once
- at the top of every hour and as a side benefit will display a
- window in the upper right hand corner of your monitor screen
- which displays, the day, and time in standard format. To set
- the alarm to the time you choose enter:
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- ALARM HH:MM <ENTER>
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- To turn off Alarm and remove the time window enter:
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- Alarm - <ENTER>
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- Although the window is displayed in standard notation, you
- MUST supply the alarm time in MILITARY time !
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- " YESNO.COM "
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- This program will execute a command line and then return an
- errorlevel that can be read by a batch file errorlevel function.
- Useful in batch files when the user needs to respond to some
- question and would like access to the users response.
- The response returned is an ASCII char in decimal, i.e.
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- .... a portion of a batch file
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- YESNO RESP "Do you want the money ? " ( YESNO gets users
- answer)
- IF ERRORLEVEL 59 ECHO I will give it to you then
- IF ERRORLEVEL 78 ECHO Ok, then don't take it
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- .. 59 and 78 above are the ASCII chars Y and N
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- For more examples of how to use YESNO, see the FLOPPY.BAT
- file, included in the IDCutils set.
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- " IDCCOPY.EXE "
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- IDCcopy makes copying large list of files repeatedly much
- faster than copying with the DOS copy command in BATCH files.
- To use IDCcopy set up a list file called IDCCOPY.LST using
- your favorite editor that will create plain ASCII files, with
- the file format as follows:
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- File1.ext
- File2.ext
- File3.ext
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- Note that the filenames MUST begin in the first column and
- end with a carriage return and linefeed.
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- Then enter the following command line:
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- IDCcopy drive:\path
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- The program will then copy all files listed in the
- IDCCOPY.LST file in the CURRENT directory, to the destination
- drive:\path. The list file MUST contain the filenames of the
- files to be copied to the destination.
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- Entering IDCcopy /h will display a help screen
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- "SETNUM.COM"
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- Setnum.com will turn off the annoying num lock light that
- comes on when AT's boot up. Setnum should be placed into your
- Autoexec.bat and then reboot.
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- REGISTRATION FORM
- Copyright (c) 1987,88,89
- Infinity Design Concepts, Inc.
- 1052 Parkway Drive
- Louisville, Kentucky 40217 USA
- (502)-636-1234
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- (Please Print Clearly)
- (orders cannot be processed unless the following information is supplied)
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- Name.........________________________________ Age..______
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- Address......________________________________
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- City,State..._________________________________ Zip..___________
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- Country......_________________________________
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- Phone........_________________________________ (MUST for credit card)
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- Computer Description...._____________________________________________
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- NARC/IDCshell version.._______ Where you got them ..________________
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- DOS version..____________ Video Card... MGA CGA EGA VGA PGC
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- Date...________ Mouse brand ...______________________________
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- Mouse driver version ..._____________________
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- Check Services/Products Desired
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- Disk Only: NARC $20.00 US ______
- (includes manual on disk)
- NARC with manual $35.00 US ______
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- Disk Only: IDCshell $30.00 US ______
- (includes manual on disk)
- IDCshell with manual $45.00 US ______
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- Disk Only: IDCshell/NARC combination $45.00 US ______
- (includes manuals on disk)
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- IDCshell/NARC with manual $65.00 US ______
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- Site License: Please Call
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- IDCUTILS Collection of useful utilities $25.00 US ______
- IDCKILL global file deletion utility $7.50 US ______
- IDCLOG TSR time logging util $25.00 US ______
- IDCLBL diskette labeler $20.00 US ______
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- Outside North America add for airmail $5.00 US ______
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- Postage and handling inside USA add $3.50 US ______
- Add 5% to total for credit card orders ................... ______
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- Total Enclosed (U.S. dollars) : _____________
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- Specify media format: 5.25" (360KB) ....................... [ ]
- 3.50" (720KB) ....................... [ ]
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- Customers residing outside the United States of America should
- send payment in the form of a check drawn in U.S. dollars.
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- MasterCard [ ] Visa [ ] (check one)
- Account Number __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __
- Expiration Date __ __ / __ __
- Cardholders signature _______________________ all sales are final.
- (Be sure to include your phone number)
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- IDC incentive plan !!
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- If you recommend any IDC product to a friend and your friend purchases
- any IDC product, have him send your name and address -OR- your
- registration number along with his order. YOU will be given
- a $5.00 credit toward your next IDC purchase/upgrade. If ten of
- your friends each register and mention your name, you will have
- $50.00 worth of credit with IDC, there is no limit.
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