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=====Utilities - Disk & File Related, Section 1 of 2
-----Archiving
ArcTool 8.0 [AT800] (GDSoft, reg. fee: $30) is an archive manager and shell
for ZIP, ARJ, ARC, PAK, and ZOO. It also recognizes EXE archives. ArcTool
can handle up to five layers of archives inside of other archives. It
allows you to view, print, extract, and convert archives to any format;
view ANSI files; associate any program with any file extension and edit the
FILE_ID.DIZ inside of archives. Requires 512K memory.
DIZDIR 1.8a [DIZDIR18] (GDSoft, reg. fee: $15) creates an ASCII file
listing of all ZIP, ARJ, LZH, ARC, and SFX files in a directory on your
system and uses the FILE_ID.DIZ, or FILE.DES included in the archive as a
description for the file. It will list files files that do not have
FILE_ID.DIZ, or only files that do. It can develop one-liner listings. It
also handles listings for Wildcat and PCBoard.
Sqwez 1.0 [SQWEZ] (JM Software, ASP; reg. fee: $) is a multi-file
compression package. It outputs a self-expanding program.
---Updates: Archiving
(U1-01) ACzar 2.10 [ACZAR210] (CZAR Software, ASP; reg. fee: $45) is an
archive shell. NEW: added several environment variables, updated support
for PKZip, support for SQZ and HYP files, better detection of ZIP, ARJ,
LZH, ARC, PAK, ZOO, SQZ, and HYP files, and more.
(U1-01) ArcMaster 10.2 [AM102] (New-Ware, reg. fee: $35) is designed to
make it easier to work with archive files. NEW: added color configuration
of message line and status lines, minor enhancements and bug fixes.
(U1-01) DIZEdit 4.9g [DIZED49G] (GDSoft, reg. fee: $15) allows you to edit
the description files found in archives NEW: ability to convert archives to
a default format, repack archives to minimize size, recognize most
ARJ/ZIP/LZH SFX files, strip or add archive comments for ARJ and ZIP,
automatic virus scan using popular scan programs, update archive date with
today/newest/oldest file date, add BBS files to the archive such as ADS
etc, and included an INI file which can be edited interactively to save
setup information.
(U1-01) Shez 9.8 [SHEZ] (California Software Design, ASP; reg. fee: $39) is
a shell program to make viewing and working with archive files user friendly.
(U1-01) Stealth 5.0 [STEALTH5] (David Smith, reg. fee: $15) is an archive
converter. NEW: supports the LIMIT archiver.
-----Anti-Virus
ThunderByte Anti-Virus Utilities 6.12 [TBAVX612] (Dick Geheniau, reg. fee:
$?) is an addition to the ThunderByte Anti-Virus program. It contains the
processor optimized versions of the resident TBAV utilities which take
advantage of processor dependant features and are therefore slightly faster
and smaller than the generic versions.
---Updates: Anti-Virus
(U1-02) AVScan 1.47a [AVSCAN] (H+BEDV GmbH, reg. fee: $0) is a virus
scanner. NEW: cosmetic changes of screen output during MBR scan, new
signatures added, XMS usage fully implemented.
(U1-02) Clean-Up 1.13 [CLEANUP] (McAfee Associates, Inc., reg. fee: $35)
fixes virus problems. NEW: identification of all viruses detected by the
current version of VirusScan, removers for the Arusiek and Tamper viruses.
(U1-02) ViruScan 9.24/1.13 [SCAN] (McAfee Associates, Inc., reg. fee: $25)
scans diskettes or entire systems and identifies any pre-existing PC virus
infection. NEW: adds detection of 13 new viruses and 15 variants, fixed
problem with false report of DiskWasher virus on PCs with Phoenix ROM-BIOS.
(U1-02) ThunderByte Anti-Virus 6.12 [TBAV612] (Dick Geheniau, reg. fee:
$99) is a toolkit designed to protect against computer viruses and to
recover from them. NEW: a description of all viruses in the signature file,
their behavior, what kind of damage they perform, how to clean them, etc.
uses low-level routines to locate a virus on an unreadable disk,
unregistered version of TbScan now supports just 1 user defined signature,
support to immunize the secondary hard disk, added signatures.
(U1-02) TranScan 4.11 [TSCN411] (Craig E. Dunstan, ASP; reg. fee: $30) is a
compressed file virus scanner and converter. NEW: corrected problem with
QEMM 7+ compatibility, RIP graphics support for Wildcat BBSs, detects SDN
files.
(U1-02) VShield 5.58V113 [VSHIELD] (McAfee Associates, reg. fee: $25) scans
programs as they are run for virus signatures and validation codes added by
ViruScan. NEW: detection of viruses added in Version 113 of ViruScan,
options to check the boot sector of floppy disks whenever a diskette is
accessed, and disable the boot sector checking of floppy disks.
-----Batch File Utilities
OneADay 1.1 [1ADAY11] (Gray Software Development, ASP; reg. fee: $17)
allows you to execute as many as 10 commands from your AUTOEXEC.BAT file
only once a day or on specified days.
AtBat 1.01 [ATBAT101] (Softwest, ASP; reg. fee: $15) creates and executes
batch files which consist of a specified list of files, each associated
with the same DOS command or other text. The files may be selected by size,
file dates, attributes, or contents.
CompDate 1.04 [COMPDATE] (Radiodetection Corp., reg. fee: $0) is a program
intended for use within batch files which will compare file dates. It could
be used to allow a batch process to determine whether or not to execute a
file export procedure. Pascal source code is included.
Fr. John's Shareware Batch File Tutorials [FJTUTOR] (John Robinson, reg.
fee: $33-45) consists of 10 lessons and 50 odd examples of writing batch
files, from simple to complex. These tutorials will guide you in writing
any sort of batch file and any sort of information screen in a combination
of colors or in a simple batch file format. Requires 720K disk space.
Wistar Daily Reminder 6.2 [WDREMIND] (Wilstar Software, reg. fee: $12) is
used in the autoexec.bat file to remind you of important events that are
happening on today's date.
---Updates: Batch File Utilities
(U1-03) Fdate - SF 8.4a [FDATE_SF] (Stephen Ferg, reg. fee: $0) lets you do
date and time arithmetic in batch files. NEW: additional string-handling
functions, a function to convert numbers to extended hex format, added
output formats "ddmmccyy" and "ddmmyy".
(U1-03) Internal Commands 2.2 [IC] (Geoff Friesen, reg. fee: $15) is an 18k
TSR that adds many additional commands to DOS, most of which are mainly of
use in batch files.
(U1-03) Menu-Man 1.3 [MENU_130] (MicroMetric, ASP; reg. fee: $25) displays
menus in batch files.
-----Disk & Drive Utilities
CHKFree 1.01 [CHKFREE] (N.A.M. Enterprises, reg. fee: $5) will check all
drives, including network drives, for a specified amount of disk space.
DrvSpc 2.0 [DRVSPC] (Wayne E. Birch, reg. fee: $6) is a disk drive space
and resource reporting utility.
DTR 4.0 [DTR40] (Chris Buijs, reg. fee: $0) copies a disk to files and vice
versa. It also formats disks.
Floppy Drive Clean 1.0 [FDCLEAN] (Kevin H. Murphy, reg. fee: $9) is
designed for use with diskette drive cleaning programs. It will keep a
maintenance log of each cleaning, along with dates and any additional comments.
FMat 6.5 [FMAT65] (Chris Buijs, reg. fee: $0) is a does-it-all diskette
formatter. It allows maxi-formats that, for example, format a 1.2MB
diskette as a 720K and much more. Requires DOS 4.0+.
FMT [FMT] (Fred Howard, reg. fee: $5) formats any disk in any drive in
which it fits. A couple of keystrokes will format any disk with a normal
format or a with a quicker format. Requires DOS 5+.
Mac-ette 3.01u [MACETTE3] (Acute Systems, reg. fee: $34) will read, write,
format and duplicate Macintosh HFS format 1.4 Meg diskettes on a PC
equipped with a 3.5 inch high density diskette drive.
QCopy - UF 4.0 [QCOPY40] (Ulrich Feldmueller, ASP; reg. fee: $22) is a disk
copying and format utility which will allow you to copy and format any size
disk. Fragmented files on the source disk will be written in one block on
the target disk.
WDAT_IDE 3.3 [WDAT_IDE] (Western Digital, reg. fee: $0) scans the media and
remaps any grown defects on a Western Digital drive. It also provides
performance data such as seek times and data access ties.
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