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U1-11: File View, Compare, Other
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1550 File View Utilities Small Programs Disk
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Head2
Della, Marcos R.
$0
displays a specified number of lines from either the beginning or end of a file
or alternatively, all but the specified number of lines from the beginning or
end of a file. If a file has a few lines of garbage at the beginning, you can
redirect the output of HEAD to a new file while deleting those garbage lines.
Pascal source code is included.
display modes and much more.
List 9.0e [LIST90E]
Vernon D. Buerg
$20
[February 1994 CD]
is the premier file viewing utility. New: additional command line switches
that disable the mouse, toggle beeps and bells, and place LIST into 43/50
display mode. New commands are available from the File Selection including
commands to edit the selected file, refresh the directory display, toggle
the date format between US and European styles, and more.
List 9.0e (LIST)
Buerg, Vernon D.
$20
[Feb. 1994 CD]
is a must have utility. It lets you read files on-screen, using the cursor keys
to move back and forth through the file. That one-line description is like
saying "The space shuttle is an aircraft." This is a powerful, multi-featured
program in a small package. The DOC file is over 100k, and it contains no fat.
Rather than take up a lot of space trying to describe all the features, we will
just say "GET IT!"
Look120
Doctor Debug
$0
allows viewing files of up to 120 columns wide with a standard CGA or EGA.
Naturally, the text will be less legible, but we found it readable. Note that
this does not leave your system in a 120-column mode, it only lets you read text
files in that mode.
Man
Rick, David L.
$?
is a utility for searching for and reading documentation files on a hard disk.
You can optionally specify a subdirectory or search path in the DOS environment.
Example: You are running a little DOS utility program named XYZ and need to
refer to the documentation, you just type MAN XYZ and MAN will search the hard
disk for the file XYZ.DOC and when found, display it, optionally using Vernon
Buerg's LIST program.
Mouse Lister 2.1 (MOUSLST)
Yoder, Y. G. ASP
$6
is a simple text lister with mouse support.
Note 1.1
Kaye, Bob
$0
is a pop-up program that lets you scroll through a text file without leaving the
program you are in. Because it uses video RAM, it will not work on monochrome
systems or other systems that lack the extra video RAM, as do some Tandy
computers. It did work fine on a VGA system at the PsL. (res:3k)
Readme
Albanowski, Kenneth
$0
is a simple utility for viewing those README files that come with software. It
will show you a scrollable list of any files whose names start with READ. When
you pick one, it will invoke an external file viewer, such as Vernon Buerg's
LIST, to display the file on screen.
Scan
displays only the portion of a disk file made up of printable
(alphanumeric) characters. We have a similar utility named FILTER in the
library, but the fact that SCAN ignores sequences of less than four printable
characters means that a lot more garbage is screened out for you. The purpose
of SCAN is to search through downloaded programs for embedded messages like
"Copyright IBM. Violators will be squashed." or "Arf. Arf. Got you."
Strings
Sampson, Steve and Lyall, Peter W., Jr.
$0
displays all strings in a file consisting of a user-specified number of
consecutive printable characters. This could be useful in looking for
copyrights, version numbers or other text in program files.
TwoFiles (TWOFILE)
Smith, David
$0
allows you to view two files at the same time and scroll the files up and down
independently.
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END OF SMALL PROGRAMS DISK #1550
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2246 File View Utilities #2 Small Programs Disk
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DblListr 1.03 (DBLLIST)
Bates, Stephen S.
$15
lets you scroll and page through two files simultaneously. The files will be
displayed initially in two horizontal windows, each taking half the screen.
Pressing V changes the screen to two vertical windows. The display can be
toggled to let either of the two take up two-thirds of the screen in either
the vertical or horizontal display. Other features include a Hex display and
a text search function. Note that the amount of each file displayed is
limited to available memory, so you may get an ``End of File'' message when
you know you are not at the end of the file.
Head
Simonson, John
$?
is a UNIX-like utility that will display the first 5 lines (by default) of
specified text files. There are several switches that allow you to control the
output.
NG_Clone 1.1 (NG_CLON)
Pederson, J. P.
$0
reads, decrypts and displays the contents of database files in Norton Guide
format. It can be run as either a resident program or non-resident file viewer.
Pascal source code is included.
Ralph the Reader 2.0 (RALPH)
Kansys, Inc.
$10
is a text file lister. It is not about to dethrone Vern Buerg's LIST, but it
does have two distinctions: it will read WordPerfect and WordStar files without
conversion and it is designed to work for the blind user using a speech
synthesizer.
Ram-Man 2.5
Smetana, Rob W.
$20
is a 31k pop-up file viewer. It will let you view any length text file while
running other text-based programs. In addition to moving through a file with
the cursor keys, it will search for text.
Show
is a bare-bones file viewer. It has none of LIST's numerous features
except the ability to page or scroll back and forth through text files. Show's
advantages are that it only takes 2k of disk space, and it is public domain.
Assembler source code is included.
Tail
prints the last 10 lines of a file, by default, or you can specify as a
positive integer the number of lines, characters or "blocks" from the start of
the file to begin printing, or as a negative integer, the distance from the
end of a file to print. The documentation refers to a "-f" option for which we
could not figure out a use, but which didn't work anyway.
View 2.1 08-93 CD
Dibble, David M.
$0
is a very small (1k) file viewing utility, ideal for inclusion on
distribution disks. In fact, we include View on most of our disks.
Assembly source code is included.
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END OF SMALL PROGRAMS DISK #2246
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3410 Self-Displaying File Makers Small Programs Disk
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AutoCom
REXXCOM Systems
$14
converts text into self-scrolling COM files complete with multi-colored,
animated (ascii) graphics.
MakeScroll (MAKESCR)
Gans, Eric
$0
is a very simple utility to convert text files into self-displaying files.
Unlike TXT2COM and ASC2COM, it has no screen scrolling features other than
displaying "[More]" when the screen fills with text, but on the plus side, it
adds less than 150 bytes to the file and it is free.
TEXE 2.0
Panda Studio Inc.
$30-$52
converts any text file into a self-scrolling EXE file. It can convert files up
to 2000 pages long. It provides support for Windows and for a mouse. It adds 15k
to the text size. Also included is TEXEPOP, a pop-up text file viewer.
Txt2Com
Graham, Keith P.
$5
lets you create self-scrolling COM files out of text files. Features include
printing the text, converting the COM file back to a text file and the ability
to use colors and to display a title on each screen. Function keys can be used
to branch to parts of the file from an opening menu screen. The ability to
make the file stay resident and to be able to pop it up while in other
programs make this an easy way to create your own help files. Txt2Com also
lets you search the file for specific text.
TXTRun
Sawada, Dr. Masaaki
$10-$20
turns text files into COM fi