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U1-06: File Changing, Copying, and Deleting
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1997 File Cleanup Utilities Small Programs Disk
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ADDCRS
will add Carriage Returns to a downloaded file that does not appear to have
them when you try to list it using the DOS TYPE command.
AWK 2.10
Duff, Rob
$0
is a sophisticated program for scanning files for lines that match a specified
pattern. Several programs in the library perform this function on a simple
level, but AWK is more like a programming language. For example, it has
conditional statements, variables, relational operators, loops, and
concantenation of patterns. AWK is used mostly in two different ways: to
print reports by printing selected fields and extracting counts, sums and
sub-totals, and to convert data files from one format to another (eg:
rearranging fields). An example of a practical use of AWK would be to clean
up message files downloaded from a bbs.
Clean
$0
removes all control characters, except for carriage returns and line feeds,
from a text file. When prompted, supply a filename to process. The original
file is not changed.
Clean List 1.0 (CLEANL)
Lacambra, Fernando
$5
deletes duplicate lines from a sorted text file.
Clip
Lazo, Charles III
$?
clips any unwanted ^Z's, carriage returns or line feeds from the end of files.
Delchar
O'Rear, Larry
$5
deletes specified characters from a file. For example, you could use DelChar
to get rid of a word processor's control characters left in the documentation
files of some programmers.
Do 3.3 (DO-LH)
Hutton, Larrie
$?
is a utility that performs various file conversion functions stripping high
bits, converting case, adding line numbers, expanding tabs, copying by column,
finding/replacing strings, merging files, sorting files, etc. There's no
documentation, so you'll have to study carefully the examples on the program's
screen.
Fileutil (FILUTIL)
Rowley, Chris
$?
is a combination of UNWS and ADDLF with case conversion, full support for the
subdirectories and back-ups allowed.
Noblank
removes blank lines from text files.
Strip-cr
strips extra Carriage Returns.
Stripper 1.0
Rygiel, Patrick
$10
strips all non-printable characters out of text files, including all line
drawing and other characters above 127 and below 32.
Tab2Spc 1.2
converts a text file containing tabs to one containing spaces in place of
the tabs. The number of spaces to substitute may be specified by the user.
Text
Kennamer, Walter ASP
$?
alters the text within a file as specified in the command line. It allows you
to delete all "white space" (multiple blank spaces) or just leading or
trailing white space or reduce all white space to a single blank space. It
will also convert upper to lower case or vice versa. Text in quotes can be
excluded.
Top20 1.11
Bouwman, Brian
$0
finds and displays on one screen the 20 largest files on a disk, which is very
useful information when trying to regain space on a full drive. It's also
pretty fast.
Trimline (TRIMLIN)
simply removes trailing blanks from the end of lines in a text file.
Weed 2.0
Pinnacle Help
$4-$6
cleans up a text file by weeding out unwanted text, such as you might get in a
download from a bbs. It will let you specify up to 100 different bits of text
to search for and delete. In addition, you may choose to have it delete all
lines which do or do NOT contain specified text.
Wrapline 2.0 (WRAPLIN)
Nassar, Nassib ASP
$0
reformats a text file by wrapping lines of text longer than the specified line
width. This is probably of value only for rough "emergency" work, since it
chops off at the specified length without doing wordwrap. It is very fast,
however.
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END OF SMALL PROGRAMS DISK #1997
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0781 Text File Conversion Small Programs Disk
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ASC2MM
Graham, Keith P.
$0
will convert ASCII files to Multimate documents in seconds instead of hours.
Asc2Word (ASC2WRD)
Marshall, George
$?
converts a normal ASCII text file into Microsoft Word format. C source code
is included.
AsciiRef 2.0 (ASCIREF)
LePoer, Peter M.
$15
lets you reformat files of bibliographic citations into an ASCII delimited
format that other programs, such as dBase and Paradox, can import. Such
citations can be downloaded from on-line services, such as Medline, ERIC and
Paperchase. The program can be configured by the user to work with any
database format. A sample file is included.
ASCutils (ASCUTIL)
$?
$0
is a set of compact file modification utilities with assembler source code.
The utilities perform such functions as removing duplicate lines, trimming
space off the end of lines and other clean-up chores.
Baab
Gans, Ronald
$0
stands for "Binary-to-ASCII, ASCII-to-Binary". BAAB lets you convert a file
that is not all printable text to one that is so that you can TYPE it to the
screen, print it out or transmit it in ASCII format (in which case the person
receiving it must have BAAB to convert the file back to ASCII). This is not
needed for communications systems that support Xmodem, but some local
Email-type systems only allow ASCII transfers.
Cols 1.00
Dunford, Christopher J.
$0
takes single-column input (a list of names in a file, for example) and
converts it to double-column input with numerous options to control the output
format. You can specify file names or COLS can be used with DOS piping and
redirection tools.
Convdw 1.2
CrossCourt Systems ASP
$15
converts Displaywrite 3 or 4 files to ASCII. This program ignores most
formatting codes. It does recognize Indent codes, and pads subsequent lines
with enough tabs to maintain the proper indent level. It handles syllable
("soft") hyphens correctly, dropping them unless they occur at the end of a
line. It normally translates all line ends to carriage returns, but there is
an option to drop the "soft" returns.
Delimit 1.0 (DELIMIT) 09-93 CD
Grosbach, Roy G.
$15
converts fixed format files into DELIMITed files, that databases and
spreadsheets can read quickly. The program filters the file, choosing
selected fields, eliminating headers from reports, or selecting only
summary lines from reports or you can also choose selected fields from
fixed-format files easily. (Not on this disk. Ask for disk #18126.)
Filters
offers the following filters:
Upper - translate all lowercase characters to uppercase
Lower - translate all uppercase characters to lowercase
Snglspc - removes extra blank lines from a file
Unique - deletes multiple occurances from a sorted list
Trunc - truncates a line at first matching char (or space)
Fecho - echoes standard input to screen (great for debugging)
Translat - puts each word of a file onto a separate line.
Feed - reads a filespec and sends files to standard output
Forclean - takes a fortran source and deletes comments and
labels.
Modify
Software Clinic Development
$20
makes it easy to modify text files. While it can be used with any kind of text
files, it is ideally suited for small files that are subject to frequent change,
such as batch files. With Modify, you can easily change text on a specified line
or insert a line before a specified line. Lines are specified by giving word(s)
of text that appear on the line. (The authors are no longer at the address
provided in the documentation.)
MUD 2.5
JD Enterprises
$10
is a Mac/Unix DOS ASCII file translator. Coversions include DOS to Mac,
DOS to UNIX, UNIX to DOS, UNIX to Mac, Mac to UNIX, and Mac to DOS. (Not
on this disk. Ask for disk #18024.)
NUM (NUM2)
adds line numbers to the lines in text files.
Quick-ASCII (QA)
a utility to convert a file to all ASCII characters. The output will not
be pretty, but it will be readable. Thus, if you have, say, a MultiMate file,
but no MultiMate, and are curious to know what it is, just run QA.
RTrim 5.2
Keber, Bob
$0
trims blank spaces, spacebars, and nulls from the right end of all lines of text
in any ASCII text file. It can also add spaces to the beginning of each line to
create a margin.
Textcon 1.72
CrossCourt Systems ASP
$25
is a file pre-processor that does much of the necessary conversion or
cleaning-up of ASCII automatically. The ASCII files produced are in a form
that is more suitable for importation to most word processors. It doesn't
eliminate all the manual editing but makes the job much easier. Of all the
utilities we have tested over the years for converting ASCII files to the
WordStar Document file format, Textcon does the best job, even though it is
not designed specifically for that purpose.
Other features include added support for wildcard filenames, an option
to drop end-of-sentence spaces, to keep or drop leading spaces in a line that
are used to form a left margin, and more. While TextCon won't retain all
formatting codes, it will help quite a bit in converting files.
XlateIBM
will translate the line-drawing characters of the IBM extended character
set, which are used in some pd/shareware doc files but which some printers
cannot print. The characters are translated to +, -, or =. Your original file
is not changed; a new file is created instead.
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END OF SMALL PROGRAMS DISK #0781
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3791 Miscellaneous Conversions Small Programs Disk
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3791 System conversions
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NOTE: Conversion utilities designed for specific software for which we have
dedicated disks in the library, such as WordStar or WordPerfect, can be found
on those disks.
ConvDCA
Crosscourt Systems ASP
$?
converts a file from IBM's DCA/RFT format to straight ASCII text.
Com2Cmd
converts DOS files ending in .COM to CP/M 86 files ending in CMD and back.
Cutz-SDF 2.0
Roper, David
$0
will help cut and change SDF type files downloaded from a mainframe.
UnixDOS 1.0
Logical Solutions
$0
will convert files between UNIX and DOS formats.
3791 Other
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PSX 1.02c (PSX-FB)
Brown, Frank
$0
extracts ASCII text from PostScript files and stores it in a text file.
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END OF SMALL PROGRAMS DISK #3791
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1440 File Comparison Small Programs Disk
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1440 Manual Comparison
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CMP-BJB (CMP-BAL)
Ball, B. J.
$0
is a file comparison program. Intended primarily for programmers, CMP can be
set up to detect mainly those differences which afect the operation of the
resulting executable programs, ignoring matters which concern only the
appearance or readability of the source files. CMP shows the two files
side-by-side when comparing them line-by-line. You can page through the files
or press F to move forward or backward to the next set up unmatched lines.
Although CMP.EXE is designed primarily for programmers, it will work on any
ASCII file, but not binary files because of the nature of the approach used.
Compare
Mefford, Michael J.
$0
displays the differences between two text or two binary files. Files need not
be the same length, and paragraph reformatting changes introduced by word wrap
are ignored. Files are displayed in two on-screen windows. Differences are
shown in inverse video, and are preceded by several lines of matching text to
provide a context.
Compf
Payne, R.W.
$0
compares two text files, and produces a listing to indicate which lines have
been added, changed or deleted. Options let you control how the files are
compared, to ignore blank lines, to ignore characters on the left- or right-hand
side of lines, and to indicate how many changes to report before the comparison
stops.
Diff 1.0 (DIFF-KO)
Overhage, Klaus
$0
is a file comparison program with an international flavor. It will prompt you
in English or German. It will compare to files byte by byte or line by line.
`C' and assembler source code is included for customizing for other languages.
Double Lister 1.02 (DBLISTR)
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. Stephen says he plans on
changing this in a future version, but we still think the present version is
very unique and useful.
FC 2.7 (FC-MA)
Albert, Mike
$25
compares two text files and lists the differences between them line by line.
Changes to the first file to make the second are shown. The program works with
any ASCII text file. The program will always finds a minimal list of
differences (i.e. smallest number of lines deleted and added), word changes
within lines, and never misses matching lines. You can compare files of up to
16,300 lines.
FCdoc 2.4 (FCDOC1)
Albert, Mike
$25
is a file comparison utility similar to Albert's FC utility, but it compares
files by sentence rather than by line. The program works with any ASCII text
file containing English text. Like FC this program will always finds a
minimal list of differences (i.e. smallest number of sentences deleted and
added), and never misses matching sentences. You can compare documents of up
to 16,300 sentences.
GookLook (GOODLK)
is an unusual file comparison utility. Instead of showing the files
side-by-side, it displays them top and bottom. To make it easier to compare
them, the top file is displayed starting at the middle of the screen and works
up the screen while the file on the bottom half scrolls down.
View2 1.2
Leonard, Steve
$10
lets you view two text files simultaneously. View-Two's features include text
search, file comparison line by line, directory display and the ability to
cut-and-paste between files. Only the first 776 lines of each file can be
displayed.
1440 Automatic Comparison
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(These utilities don't require manually examining the files. They will output
the differences only or will create a third file with the differences marked,
etc.)
Beyond Compare (BC-SSS)
Stepping Stone Software
$30
is a line-by-line file comparator. In comparing two files, Beyond Compare
repeatedly looks for consecutive lines of text that are identical in both
files and then reports the lines between the matching sections as differences.
Beyond Compare is particularly useful for comparing two source code files or
text files.
Bincomp
Telemacus Software Associates
$0
is intended primarily for binary (non-text) files and shows the offset
location of any differences.
Cbin
Stern, Steven
$?
will compare each byte, to the end-of-file of the longer of the two files or
for a specified number of differences. Type "CBIN2" for command syntax.
Diff
Van Es, Peter
$0
compares two text files and puts change bars in the margin of the second one
to indicate changes.
Mrev 1.1
Van Sickle, Paul R.
$?
compares two text files, an original and a revised file, and outputs a third
text file based on the file with the revisions marked or date stamped,
optionally, with line renumbering. (Not on this Disk. Ask for disk #8110.)
PI-COMP
Pelt, Markus
$?
is really more of a directory comparison utility than a file comparer, but it
does compare the contents of files as well. Example usage would be "PI-COMP
A:*.* B:*.*" where the output would be a sorted, side-by-side listing of the
two directories showing which files match and which don't.
QCMP 1.14
The Cove Software Group
$0
compares two files or two groups of files. It is not designed to isolate file
differences, but simply to tell you whether or not files are identical. QCMP
is similar to DOS's COMP command except that it doesn't display differences;
the display is better suited for automated processing; and it returns a usable
errorlevel. Network support is also provided, and hidden files can be
compared.
Vdiff
Krantz, D. & Kim, Craig J.
$0
compares two text files and creates a third file with a "change bar" in the
margin to indicate where changes have occurred.
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END OF SMALL PROGRAMS DISK #1440
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0784 File Copy Utilities Small Programs Disk
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Arcopy 1.72
Meyer, Eric
$0
is a small, fast file copy utility. Its options include file-by-file
verification; copying only if not in the destination disk/directory or only if
already in the destination or only if changed since last backup; moving files
(copy and then delete the original); copying files listed in a text file; and
you can copy files with a time/date stamp before or after a specified
time/date.
BCMove 1.2
Campbell, Barry L. ASP
$0
is a virtually perfect file moving utility. Its command syntax is nearly
identical to the DOS Copy command, making it easy and intuitive to use. It
warns before overwriting an existing file. If you move files to a
non-existent directory, some file movers will either simply abort or, worse
yet, will conclude that you are renaming the files - all to the same file
name, causing the loss of those files. BCMove will give you the choice of
creating a new subdirectory or renaming the file. BCMove is fast, doesn't mess
up the screen with strange colors, and best of all, it's freeware.
BKU
Graham, Keith P.
$0
copies only un-archived files and sets the archive bit.
Copy Files 5.3 (COPYFIL)
Higgins, Bryan
$0
is a robust file coping utility. It allows multiple filenames to be specified
on the command line. It will create a target directory if it does not exist.
You can tell it to automatically overwrite or not overwrite files of the same
name in the target disk/directory. (Works with Move Files, below.)
Copyit 2.10
Condron, Frank J.
$15
is a file copy utility designed to be much more complete than the standard DOS
COPY command. It will optionally prompt you before copying each file, check to
make sure no files of the same name will be overwritten at the destination, use
multiple target disks when the first one gets full, delete the original when
done, copy files based on date or size or attribute, and optimize copying to
disks to fill them as completely as possible. Other features include the ability
to move files to multiple diskettes instead of just copying them, a "% complete"
indicator, the ability to exclude specified files and more.
CopySafe
Mefford, Michael J.
$0
is a resident utility that warns you when a target disk\path contains a file
with the same name as a file you are copying, to prevent accidental
overcopying. Most of the time, we prefer using MOVE (on 1-UT-273) because it
does not have to be resident and it will move file directory entries between
subdirectories without actually copying if on the same drive but it has the
disadvantage of not giving you the option to overwrite the file without
entering the command again with a "/D" appended.
DCopy 4.11
McKay, Doug
$0
is an improvement on the DOS Copy command. This program provides more
feedback, shows bytes copied while copying, time elapsed, total bytes
copied, appends files together, copies from subdirectories, copy only
different file, resumes copying if interrupted, checks free space before
starting to copy, and more. (Not on this disk. Ask for disk #8947.)
FC 1.3
is a fast file copying utility. It speeds things up by reading all the
files to be copied at once and then writing them all to the target disk,
unlike COPY, which reads then writes one file at a time.
FCopy 1.01
Christensen, A.
$5
is similar to DOS's Xcopy, but it prompts you for a new disk if the destination
disk runs out of space.
Kopy
Davis, Stephen R.
$0
lets you batch copy files with prompting for each file and warns you if a file
of the same name already exists in the target drive\directory. Other options
include the ability to delete the original after copying, copying files (using
wildcards) from ALL subdirectories, prompting to change floppies when one
fills and then keep going. The latter feature can also be used to search for
files on a hard disk without copying them.
Kopy 1.8 (KOPY-CV)
Veltsos, Christophe
$10
compares files in two disks/directories and copies any file with a later date
over the other one. This is an excellent utility for backing up directories on
the fly. If you specify a nonexistent subdirectory to copy to, KOPY will
create it.
Master Copy (MCP-MJ)
Johnson, Michael Paul
$15-$20
is a replacement for XCOPY that allows conditional overwrites of only older
files and moving of entire directory structures on the same or different
disks. (Not on this disk. Ask for disk #8948.)
Mcopy
lets you copy multiple files that cannot be covered with wildcards. You
simply specify them on the DOS commnad line. Eg: MCOPY ABC.EXE XYZ.BAT B:
Move Files 4.2 (MOVEFIL)
Higgins, Bryan
$0
is a file moving utility. Its only drawback is that when "moving" a file to
a different drive, it requires the presence of COPY FILES, above, which slows
things down and seems like an unnecessary nuisance anyway. Otherwise, this is an
excellent file mover and COPY FILES is an excellent file copier.
Move It Over Here! 3.0 (MOVHERE)
Smith, David
$5
searches your hard disk for a specified file and then moves it to the current
directory. This can save you having to type in long path names, but it is many
times slower than using a regular Move utility, and if more than one file on
your hard disk has the same name, it may move the wrong one, though it shows
which path it came from so that you could move it back.
MV 2.6
Eyer, Bob
$0
is a near-perfect file moving utility. This provides a couple of niceities
that BCMOVE does not have, such as being able to use "." in place of "*.*"
(well, every keystroke counts). The only mild drawback is that it is a hair
slower than BCMOVE, but the author says that's because MV does some additional
safety checks.
XFile 1.04
Van de Winckel, Eddy
$0
is an enhancement of DOS's Copy and Xcopy commands (except that it does not
support copying subdirectories like Xcopy). You may optionally copy only those
files not already in the destination directory. You may also update only those
files present in the destination. XFile's syntax is consistent with standard DOS
syntax, which makes it easier to use.
Zcopy 0.1
Pazur, Scott M.
$5-$10
is a file-copying utility that warns you and asks for verification before
copying over an existing file of the same name. It also displays file
directory information for each file to make it easier to see if they really
are the same file. A nice option would have been to allow renaming either the
source or target file and continuing the copy, but maybe another day...
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END OF SMALL PROGRAMS DISK #0784
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1441 File Deletion Small Programs Disk
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Cleanup 1.2 (CLNUPRL)
Litt, Robert F.
$10
is a handy utility. It displays the first 10 lines of specified files and
allows you to delete the file if you wish.
Date Filters (DATEFLT)
Mitteldorf, Josh
$0
EraseOld lets you erase all files older than a specified date. WithDate
lets you execute any DOS command or program on files within a specified
date range.
Delbut 2.1
deletes all files in the specified drive and directory EXCEPT files
specified on the command line. It does not delete hidden or read-only files.
Assembler source code included.
DateDel
Roberts, Michael
$0
deletes files within a given range of dates. From the DOS command line, you
enter the name of the file(s) to delete. DOS wildcards such as *.* are allowed.
Then DateDel prompts you for beginning and ending dates and deletes files
matching the filespec with file dates within the specified range. C source code
included.
DelX
Wallengren, Ernie
$0
deletes everything in a directory except the filenames you specify, optionally
with file-by-file verification.
DLT 1.6 09-93 CD
Meyer, Eric
$0
is an enhanced file deletion utility. In addition to verify-delete, it can
delete lists or groups of files, even in different directories, including
hidden, system or read-only files. It also allows selection of files by time and
date (DLT /E(arlier than) or /L(ater than) MMDDYY:HHMM. It will delete all files
EXCEPT specified files.
Elim
Eyer, Bob
$0
deletes files not accessible to DOS's DEL command (eg: hidden or read-only
files) and avoids the "Are you sure?" prompt you get when doing DEL *.*. There
are other ways to do these things, but this is a convenient way.
Hunter (HUNTR)
Smith, David
$10
is a merciless and quick file deletion utility. It will hunt through all your
drives, find all instances of specified files and delete them. Wildcards are
supported. You might want to consider using Trash-It (disk #1411 in U1-05) with
this, then deleting the files from the Trashcan directory when you are sure
nothing important has been accidentally deleted.
KillFile 1.0 (KILLFIL)
Loy C.
$2
is a pop-up utility that will display a directory and let you delete or rename
files without leaving the program you are in. This utility can be handy just as
a pop-up directory lister, but if you find you are out of disk space and need to
save an important file, it will be even handier. (res:36k)
Mdel
lets you delete multiple files at once that cannot be covered with
wildcards. You simply specify them on the DOS commnad line. example:MDEL
ABC.EXE XYZ.BAT B:
QDel
Moorhead, Chuck
$0
is a mass delete utility. It displays files that will be deleted and file info.
It can also delete read-only files and directories.
RelDel
Tardis DP Consultants
$5
is the computer generation's version of the paper shredder. Normal deleting of
a sensitive file is not secure enough, since the data remains on the disk to
be read by sector editors or even undeleted. RelDel writes garbage over the
data on the disk (twice, optionally) before deleting the directory entry.
Naturally, this calls for greater than usual caution by the user.
Remove 1.0
TriSoft Technologies
$0
will delete all files specified by wild cards with the option of being able to
list addition files to delete and to list files in the set to be left alone.
Safe Erase 1.61 (SAFERAS)
Williams, Tom
$15
is a file deletion utility that ensures that files are 100% recoverable if
necessary. DOS 5 has added this feature, but Safe Erase works more efficiently.
Search and Destroy 1.31 (SND)
Getman, Steve
$5
will scan your whole hard disk for specified files (wildcards allowed)
and delete those files.
TC-Kill
is a utility for batch deleting files with file-by-file verification. There
are similar utilities around, but this one draws a cute little Trash Can
(TC-Kill, get it?) on the screen to make sure that even a six-year old idiot
with two heads will understand what's about to happen. We already know that
some of you absolutely hate this cutesy stuff, but others love it, so give us
a break on the cards and letters.
TErase 1.3
cBase Technology
$0
will delete specified files by date or number of days. For example, TERASE
*.BAK 10 would delete all files with an extension of BAK that are more than
ten days old.
TrashIt 1.8
RSE Incorporated
$11
is the world's safest way to delete files. In September's PsL News, we described
a method of deleting files the safe way by using a batch file and a MOVE utility
to Move files into a \TRASH subdirectory. The problem with Undelete utilities
such as Norton's is that the accidentally deleted file may be written over by
another file before you get a chance to undelete, and then it can never be
recovered. With the \TRASH approach, all you have to do is copy the file back
out.
Chaney expanded on our basic concept beautifully. His program is a 1k TSR that
will save files written by any program that uses DOS function calls to delete
files, which most programs do.
Trash-It also improves on the concept by handling multiple files with the same
name. (The name of one is "incremented".) And while we have a policy against
describing features not included in shareware versions, we will make an
exception to tell you that people who register for the very reasonable $10 fee
will get a TSR that will automatically clean out \TRASHed files older than a
user-specified date, plus a utility that will let you delete all Trashed files
with the touch of a key, and of course you get a Free Disk coupon from PsL.
If you are low on hard disk space or if you frequently use programs that
create and delete temporary work files, you can run out of space in a hurry.
Two utilities that can help are Patriquin's Palert (disk #1329), which warns
you when free disk space drops below a specified level, and a verify-delete
utility (disk #1441) to put in your AUTOEXEC.BAT file that will let delete
files just selected files from \TRASH.
Our only concern about Trash-It was that your hard disk could quickly fill up
with junk files that you really have no interest at all in safeguarding, such
as temporary work files created by some programs. You can, however, configure
Trash-It to let files with specified extensions or those below a specified
size be deleted. If you see junk files with extensions like .TMP or
.$$$ in your TRASH subdirectory, you can configure Trash-It to not save those in
the future.
XDel 1.05
Unique Software ASP
$0
does a really secure job of deleting files. First it writes over the file's
data, then it changes the file's name to a non-displayable ASCII character, then
it truncates the file to a length of zero, then it deletes the file through DOS.
No way is Norton's going to bring that one back. (And it does all this in only
282 bytes!)
ZDel
Hanlin, Thomas
$?
is a multiple-file deletion utility. You may use wildcards, specify as many
filenames as will fit on the command line, and ask for confirmation before
deleting files.
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2000 File Merge/Split Small Programs Disk
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Chop 3.1
Kennamer, Walter J. ASP
$?
chops big files into more easily managed small files. Several options are
offered to control where and how often the chopping takes place. Another
feature allows you to extract a portion of a file. There are other utilities
that split files, but CHOP is the most powerful and flexible.
COL
will convert a file's lines that are longer than 80 characters to a shorter
(user-specified) length. It locates the first blank space beyond the column
number you give it and breaks the line in two at that point. We have had
requests for a utility to split such a file into shorter lines for printing such
that the excess prints out on a separate page which can then be taped onto the
edge of the first page for an extra-wide report. COL does not work that way.
It just moves the excess down to the next line.
Comb 2.2
Eyer, Bob
$0
is a convenient way to combine files into one is a specified sort order. For
example, to combine all the Utilities files on the PsL Reviews Disks, you would
say COMB U*.* and the files would be combined into one and (NOTE:) the original
files deleted.
Cut
cuts out selected fields of each line of a file. You could use this to
remove columns from a table, etc. The fields can be the same length on each
line or can be a specified field number in a line marked by delimiters, such
as those exported by most database and spreadsheet programs.
Dbmerger 1.1 (DBMERGE)
Trees
$50
will allow you to merge delimited database export files.
Divide 2.0
Eyer, Bob
$0
extracts into a file blocks of text from a file based on a user-specified
search string and user-specified characters that indicate the start of blocks.
For example, to extract all messages about "hard disks" from a file of
messages downloaded from CompuServe, you would indicate that messages start
with the characters "#:", which can be seen by looking at the file. Blank
lines can also be specified as the start of blocks.
Optionally, the program will create a third file containing any blocks
NOT extracted. This results in dividing the original file into two. Blocks can
also optionally be restricted to text within specified columns. This is a fast
and powerful utility with many possible applications.
Filmerge (FILMERG)
Irwin, James
$?
lets you merge two sorted files by a specified field.
Include
Graham, Keith P.
$0
will dynamically merge files, including graphics files created with OPTIKS,
with text.
Merge (MERGEDH)
Haberle, Dave
$?
is a program which merges ASCII data files with ASCII text files. This allows
you to do mail-merge, ie: to merge address files with letters to produce form
letters. Note: the files INVIT.* go with MERGE.
Resize
lets you truncate or expand a file to a new specified size. If the new
size is larger, more space is allocated as needed from the disk's free space.
This could be used to recover data lost by accidental deletion or truncation
of files.
Shred and Glue (SHRED)
Gruson, Matt
$0
allows you to break large files into smaller files for easier management on
floppies. It will work with 360k disk to 1.4mg disk. Glue allows you to
combine the files back together into one large file. Shred and Glue has more
features than similar programs.
You can tell Shred a maximum file size to create or simply let it
automatically split a file into chunks to fit on floppies until done.
Split 6.0e (SPLITMD) 08-93 CD
Dingacci, M.
$0
divides a file into smaller files at specified points. Three auto-split
options are to split the file into files of equal size, to specify the number
of bytes in each new file, or to specify the number of lines in each new file.
Other features include the ability to split a file manually, as well as
automatically.
Superbreaker 3.1A (SBREAK)
Lundin, Thomas A.
$10
splits large files into smaller files through a variety of options: by size, by
match string, or by line count. Works on text files or binary files (such as
large ARC files). Files are recombined by using DOS's COPY x+y command. Files
can be split at every Nth occurrence of a break string, or can be split to a
certain size up to the next occurrence of a break string.
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2461 Rearrange Data in Files Small Programs Disk
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CutEm 1.6
Mentor Systems
$10
extracts records from text files based upon key values you supply. This is
useful for mailing lists, log files, or any file you want to clean up based upon
any given string.
Filetalr (FILETAL)
LB Software
File Tailor allows you to reformat a file with records up to 1500 bytes long
each. The process allows you to shorten a long record, put a blank between
fields, comma-delimit a file, enclose text fields in quotes, strip dollar signs
and commas from numeric fields, and skip records at the beginning or end of a
file.
Paste
merges the same lines (by line number) of several files or subsequent lines
of one file into one continuous line. This could be used, for example, to
merge comma-delimited data files output by some programs into one file with
longer records containing the data from two or more files.
QAD 1.2
Gash, Kenneth B.
$15
converts straight text files, such as those downloaded from mainframes, and
break down each line into a standard "delimited" file which can be imported into
most spreadsheet and database programs. QAD can also do some data conversion as
it goes, such as converting all uppercase words to uppercased first letters
only. BASIC source code is included.
Quick Extract 1.10 (QEXSHAR)
Olsen, J. W.
$10-$20
extracts marked passages from a text file. Files can be created and passages
marked with virtually any text editor. One code starts the capture, another
stops it, and a third stops the whole process, so marking sections is quick
and easy. The program will optionally remove the marking codes from the
original file when done.
Slyce 1.1
MorganSoft
$15
is a general purpose file conversion utility for text and database files. You
can overwrite fields, delete, insert, encrypt and decrypt them, make upper or
lower case, or even lower case all except first letters of sentences. You can
convert WordStar programs, strip ASCII control codes, expand tabs, and filter
out or substitute selected characters.
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ASCII-PRO 4.5ES
Hell-Turler, Konrad
$20
#4115
will allow you to change, transform, search, replace, eliminate, sort, format,
list, ASCII files is a wide variety of ways. It will eliminate some or all
printer codes, search/replace up to ten text strings simultaneously, add line
numbers to text, and remove or add spaces in front or end of every line. This is
just a partial list of the programs capabilities which is surprisingly very easy
to use with its menu-driven interface and the amount of things it will allow you
to do.
Cutzit
Roper, David
$0
#1737
cuts up files into smaller files, as well as allowing several other cutting,
trimming, and pasting chores. One of the main uses for a file chopper is to
get a large file onto several disks. That one task can be done by several of
the utilities on disk 1-UT-2000, File Merge/Split Utilities, but if you want
most of the separate functions on that disk rolled into one program, get
Cutzit instead.
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1190 File Sorters Small Programs Disk
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AlphaSort 1.0 (ASORT)
Arrow Connection
$20
is a menu driven program that sorts text files, comma delimited files, and
WordPerfect mail merge files. It will send output to the screen or disk. It can
print mailing labels. You can sort on any field, select any fields for output,
and output fields in any order. Up to 8000 records can be processed, with up to
10 fields per record and each field up to 30 characters long.
Nifty James' Famous Sort Tool 1.11 (NJSORT)
Blaszczak, Mike
$10
is a fast and powerful sorting tool capable of sorting very large lists.
Options include stripping out blank or duplicate lines, case-insensitive sorts,
ignoring leading blanks and tabs, and sorting in reverse order. It will sort
variable-length with user-specified delimiters or fixed-length fields and up to
five key fields can be specified. However, it does not appear that
ascending/descending sort selection can be specified differently for each field
(ie: all fields will be sorted in either ascending or descending order).
NJSORT will also sort binary files with fixed-length records. NJSORT allows
skipping a specified number of lines at the start of a file when sorting to
allow for headings, etc. C and assembler source code is included.
Qsort 3.12
Baker, Ben
$20
is a file sorting utility which uses the very fast Quicksort sorting algorithm.
It will sort files with fixed-length or variable-length records of any record
size. QSORT has several special purpose compare routines, and it selects the
most efficient based on the combination of parameters you use on the command
line. It will sort files whose size is limited only by disk space. Multiple
key fields may be specified. Files with binary data can also be sorted as long
as only straight text fields are used as key fields.
QuikSort 3.10 (QUIKSRT)
Omniware Corp.
$20-$40
is a file sort and merge utility. Features include the ability to sort an
unlimited number of files and merge up to 16 files; process files up to 32
meg; to have an unlimited number of key fields of many different data types;
to have fixed or variable length records of up to 32k; to use wild card
characters in file names; to use simple or complex record selection
conditions; to use extensive output record formatting; to sort Btrieve and
dBase III files; and support for Pascal and C string key types.
Sorter
works from 2 to 20 times faster than IBM's SORT depending on amount of
records in the file and will sort files up to 40 megabytes, comapred to IBM's
limit of 64k. It will sort either random or sequential files using the
Quiksort algorithm.
SortF 2.35
Buerg, Vernon D.
$15
is a powerful file sorting utility. Sortf lets you specify up to 16 key fields
to sort on; allows you to sort fields in reverse order and to produce an output
file of key fields only; allows case-insensitive sorts and to be able to specify
the length of the sort key field. QB4-linkable OBJ file is included.
Sorts (SORTSWP)
Parke, William C.
$?
is a file sorting utility with many nice features. It is written in assembler
for speed, it can handle files up to 7.5 megabytes or 30,000 records, it can
perform multiple field sorts, and more.
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LSort 3.41 08-93 CD
London Computing
$20-$35
#7476/433 [2 disks]
will sort and merge ASCII (straight text) dBase files. (dBase III databases
cannot be sorted if they contain memo fields.) dBase databases may not be
merged. The program accepts scientific notation of the form x.xxxExxx. LSMenu
allows you to select dBase fields to sort by name and allows you to mark sort
fields in type F and type V files. LSRT will sort up to 16,000,000 records or
the maximum file size that will fit in memory. The program will run under OS2
as a Family Mode Application, with filenames up to 256 characters.
Object code is provided, which you can use to create a customized version. A
Visual Basic front end to LSRT and a version that runs under Microsoft Windows
is also included. VBRUN is required for the VB version. 600K of disk space is
also required.
Fast Sort
Hernandez, David A.
$25
#7476/2297
is an extremely powerful, general purpose file sorting and handling utility.
Features include the ability to sort-merge up to 32 input files into one. Files
can have fixed or variable length records, carriage return delimited records, or
even be relative (COBOL) files or special files like .DBF (dBase). Up to 32 sort
fields may be specified, and in ascending or descending or user-specified order
(eg: EBCDIC or lexical)
It will sort normal text, binary fields, BCD, fixed point, floating point
(single or double precision), LO-HI and many more. Up to 32 select/exclude
parameters may be specified, as well as ranges of records from each input
file.
You can have it convert among file types: uneven length to fixed length, dBASE
III to relative, etc. It will generate special files containing sorted keys,
record numbers, selected fields or even byte offsets into the original file.
You can put commands into a text file to be executed at any time. It will use
all available memory to maximize sorting speed.
EditRand
Whitehead, Scott
$20
#2371
allows you to browse and edit random access data files. Features include search
and replace, cut and paste, absolute and relative record gets and puts, and the
ability to edit records in text, hex, or BASIC-type MK$ conversions. Records can
be copied, moved, deleted, appended and sorted. Values of numbers stored in
compacted binary are normally shown in compacted form, but the value of such a
number can be displayed at the press of a key.
Ounce Of Prevention
Maclean, Pete ASP
$35
#3188
allows deleted or overwritten files to be restored, as well as trapping
attempts to format the hard disk. Up to eight generations of a file can be
recovered. It also offers file security, write protection, the ability to free
up disk space when the drive gets full, and critical disk error handling.
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0435 File/Sector Editors Small Programs Disk
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Note: These are byte-level editors. Regular text editors are in the Word
Processing Section.
Disked
is a sector editing program but could be used as just a "snooping" device.
Unlike many others, it can read the "special" sectors that various programs use
in their copy protection schemes. Diskette Editor can undelete files like many
utilities, except it is not automatic; but this gives you more power.
Dump
Argan Software
$5
allows you to search through data, modify the file and presents information to
you in an easy to understand display unlike many text processors or TYPE.
Dwalk
Telemacus Associates
$0
(formerly TRAXXON) lets you salvage data from a damaged disk by viewing
sectors and optionally copying them to a filename on a different disk. While
Traxxon did not work properly on some machines, Dwalk worked fine during
testing on the same machines.
Edit3
Babyok, Al
$15
is for editing files, disk sectors or memory segments. This is not a text
editor. It allows changing of bytes, but not inserting or deleting bytes.
Editing can be done in ASCII or Hex.
FAUXdBUG 07-92 (FDB)
Roper, David
$10
lets you edit EXE, COM and text files. HEX values, words and strings can be
changed. Unlike DOS Debug, FAUXdBUG is not limited to 64k files.
FM (for File Modify)
Schafer, Doug
$?
is a little utility which allows you to easily edit files at the individual byte
level. It is especially useful in situations where one might use DEBUG to
modify a byte in order to patch a program, to change the wording of messages in
your programs which bother you (its search capabilities are useful for this) or
to change color attributes in a program.
Hexedit 3.0
REM Software Inc.
$20
lets you edit a file in hex.
JAZ ("Just Another Zapper")
is a file/sector editor.
Look12
Gruenke, G. B.
$?
lets you examine and edit any sector on their floppy drives. The author said
that he wrote this one because he could not find a similar utility that would
work on his 1.2meg drives.
Traxxon
lets you view disk sectors and optionally copy the contents into a
specified disk file on the same or a different drive.
TxtBin 1.0
Ecclesine, Peter
$0
will convert a binary file (such as an EXE or COM file) to a text file that can
be edited with any text editor. It will then convert the edited text file back
to binary. This is intended only for the technically oriented user, as mucking
with EXE and COM files is not like editing your AUTOEXEC.BAT file.
ZipZap 7.0
KeyStrokes Computer Works and Chuvala, Keith G.
$15
is a disk file and sector editor.
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Parse-O-Matic 2.33 [PAR]
Pinnacle Software
$25
#4957 (12-93 CD)
is a programmable text-file parsing utility. It converts text files into
formats which can be converted into other programs.
You use a simple programming type format in configuration files to tell POM
how to convert a file. This provides the maximum in flexibility and
configurability while still being relatively easy to use. Requires 500K RAM.
PC-Zap
Pelt, Markus
$35
#283
is a utility program which allows easy modification of any DOS file (typi-
cally a .COM or .EXE file) without the use of the DOS DEBUG command. The
program can dump a file in hexadecimal and ASCII dump format, verify data in
a file, and replace data in a file.
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1713 File Encryption Small Programs Disk
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Cdes
Melnick, Arthur
$?
is a file encryption program that is sophisticated, fast and easy to use.
Cipher 1.0 (CIPR-RI)
Ivie, Rex B. III
$0
is a file encryption program. Designed to encode files so they can be securely
stored or sent and then later decoded. It has some special features which make
it unique. Among these features is the ability to encode files in such a way
that the receiver can be certain who sent the file (no bogus messages) and the
sender can be certain that no one but the intended recipient can decode the
file. The program uses several complex encoding algorithms which makes its
encryptions quite secure and it is written in "C" which makes it quite fast.
Crypt
Vass, Garry J.
$0
is a simple, general purpose encryption/decryption utility. An often-asked
question is how to lock a subdirectory to keep people from getting into files
that they should see. An easier approach is to use a file encryption program
such as this one to encrypt sensitive data. Our feeling is that despite this and
other file encryption programs in the library being fast and simple to use, few
people ever bother to take the steps to protect their data, and frankly, we are
no different. Maybe one day when we come back from the grocery store to find our
hard disk full of credit card info and steamy letters to Bo Derek stolen, we
will at last see the error of our slovenly ways.
Crypt (CRYPT2)
$0
is a very quick and easy file encryption program. You simply enter
CRYPT SOMEKEY <FILE1 >FILE2
to either encrypt or decrypt a file. "SOMEKEY" is whatever key or
password you want to use. "FILE1" is the name of the file to
encrypt/decrypt and "FILE2" is the name of the output file. C source code
is included.
Cryptf
Blum, Christopher
$?
is a file encryption program. It's a good idea to stop and consider what data
you have stored on floppies or your hard disk that you really wouldn't want to
be read by a thief, much less your co-workers (or even your spouse - I mean, it
could be a shopping list for your anniversary, right?). A file on my hard disk
contains my credit card numbers in case I lose my wallet, but I never gave any
thought to a someone stealing my computer.
Be forewarned that forgetting the keyword or losing power during use of Cryptf
is fatal to the file, so MAKE BACKUPS FIRST. For example, if you encrypt a file
with a keyword of MYKEY and try to decrypt it with MYKY, Cryptf will instead
encrypt the file a second time. You can still decrypt the file completely by
running once again and entering MYKY and then one more time to enter MYKEY, but
it's obvious you could get balled up easily.
DataCrypt 2.5 (DCRYPT)
Borris Technologies
$24
is an encryption program that offers several different types of file security.
Super Encryption is fast encryption with moderate security. DES Encryption is
the Government Standard encryption, slow, high security. Decryption has Auto
mode detection and is password sensitive. The Range will allow you to specify
starting/ending encryption/decryption range.
DataLock 2.6 (DTALOCK)
Borris Technologies
$24
is an easy, menu-driven program for encrypting your sensitive files. You can
select a fast encryption method or one that is slower but more secure. If you
keep lists of passwords, credit card numbers, bank account numbers or other
confidential information on your system, you should use an encryption program.
ICE
Graham, Keith P.
$0
Intrusion Contermeasure Electronics Security Program is a program which
scrambles and compresses COM files (not EXE files) yet allows them to be fully
functional. The program makes it difficult to alter the orginal program and it
has the added bonus of compressing COM files without detracting from their
usefulness. ICEd COM files still run as they did before except that they are
usually smaller and disk load times are shorter. ICE offers protection against
viruses in that ICE can scramble COMMAND.COM and make it difficult for viruses
to attach themselves to the scramble program. If you are a programmer, ICE can
help protect your work from being altered by others.
Playfair (PLAYFAI)
Shapiro, Charles
$0
encodes or decodes an input file into an output file using the Playfair cipher,
a cipher system invented in the nineteenth century.
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File Encryption MegaDisk
#27249 [5 disks]
contains five different file encryption programs including Confidant &
DES Module (#297), Digital Crypto Programs (#1938), Encryption (#1756),
PC-Code (#298), and Private Line (#1294).
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