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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.
---Updates: Disk & Drive Utilities
(U1-04) Disk Copy Fast 4.6 [DCF46] (DCF Software, reg. fee: $25) is a
one-pass disk duplicating utility. NEW: enhanced video and mouse routines,
added small file manager to access image files.
(U1-04) Double 1.1 [DOUBLE] (John De Palma, reg. fee: $0) tells you if a
drive is DoubleSpaced. NEW: additional option for searching across all
drives without being prompted.
(U1-04) File Description Editor 1.20 [FDE120] (Earl R. Davidson, reg. fee:
$10) is a 4DOS compatible editor for file descriptions of up to 200
characters long.
(U1-04) ForMenu 4.0 [FORMENU] (Jeff Camino, reg. fee: $10) is a menu-driven
program for formatting disks.
(U1-04) What Floppy Format? 1.7h [WFF17H] (Angel Babudro, reg. fee: $0) is
a menu shell for Christophe Hochstatter's FDFormat (which is on PsL disk
#2459 and on the PsL Utilities CD.).
(U1-04) EZ-DisKlone YDK500c [YDK500C] (EZX Publishing, reg. fee: $20)
performs single pass disk duplications.
-----Directory Listers/Editors
Dynamic Directory 1.0 [DD_JLC] (JLC, reg. fee: $0) is a simple directory
utility program which lists files in two columns. Files can be sorted by
name, extension, size or date, and are color coded for easy identification.
DD - Cohen 4.0 [DD400_KC] (Conquest Software, reg. fee: $12) will display a
sorted directory using various sorting criteria. It also allows you to
configure colors for each file extension, control types of files to
display, and direct output to a printer.
DD 4.01a [DD401A] (Conquest Software, reg. fee: $12) is a replacement for
the DOS DIR command. It displays files in one, two, three, four, or six
columns, sorted, and in user-configurable colors.
-----File Changing, Copying, Deleting
DelAll 1.10 [DA110] (Omer Yalhi, reg. fee: $13) will delete all files with
the same extension in the current directory and all subdirectories. It can
also remove a subdirectory after performing deletions.
D/CRYPT-IT 1.0 [DCI100SW] (DataTek Computer Services, ASP; reg. fee: $19)
is a file encryptor which encrypt files first with the user supplied
password and then again using the program password.
Command Line Text Editor 1.8 [EDTEXT] (Herman R. Willett, reg. fee: $0) is
a replacement for the DOS Edlin utility. It allows you to make line changes
to any small batch file or text file using a variety of switches from the
command line.
Global Security 1.1 [GLBSEC] (MacGregor K. Phillips, ASP; reg. fee: $35)
allows you to encrypt any file for security while transmitting. It also
features hot keys, error reporting, and a file selection screen. There is a
16 and 32 bit version included.
HexEdit 1.1 [HEXEDIT] (Duval-Soft, reg. fee: $25) is an easy-to-use byte
editing editor. You can toggle to character mode to edit, using characters
instead of bytes. Some features are turned off on this version. Requires
640K RAM.
KryptoNiten 1.4 [KRYPTON] (Alfa Data, reg. fee: $30) is a high level
encryption/decryption program. It supports the Data Encryption Standard
(DES). Requires 512K RAM and EGA/VGA.
KSort 1.2 [KSORT12] (Josh Greifer, reg. fee: $0) sorts text files of any
size up to 20Mb or one million lines. The syntax is identical to the DOS
Sort program and it uses no stack, so it won't cause a stack overflow on
difficult files, such as reverse-ordered files. C source code is included.
MV - JMW 1.0 [MV1_0] (James M Walters, reg. fee: $5) is a file moving program.
Recall [RECALL] (Bill Schueler, reg. fee: $5) recovers from inadvertently
copying files from a floppy into the wrong harddisk directory.
File Sweeper 1.2 [SWEEPER] (Scott P. Leslie, reg. fee: $15) deletes
unnecessary files created by compilers and other build tools.
UpCopy 2.0 [UPCSH2] (Cybernetic Software, reg. fee: $30-45) copies new
files from one location to another in both directions. It asks questions,
shows file information and can show file comparisons before doing this.
ViDir/ViRes File Monitoring System 1.02 [VIDIR] (Vahnzinn international,
ASP; reg. fee: $39) determines which files you do not use, makes back ups
of them, and deletes them from the system.
Vision Edit 3.5 [VISED35] (Andrzej Brzezinski, ASP; reg. fee: $38) is a
text editor which allows you to edit several files simultaneously.
W - The Note Writer 4.0 [WNOTE40] (Infinity Data Products, ASP; reg. fee:
$6) allows you to create, and edit documents of up to 50K. It features word
wrap, converting to ASCII text, and an option to provide a short
description of the document to ease future identification.
---Updates: File Changing, Copying, Deleting
(U1-06) CMEditor 3.18a [CE318A] (NoVaSoft, ASP; reg. fee: $10) is a text
file editor for large files.
(U1-06) Oblit 1.4 [OBLIT14] (Tolgathian Software, reg. fee: $0) deletes
files in such a way that they cannot be undeleted.
(U1-06) Textcon 1.73 [TEXTC173] (CrossCourt Systems, reg. fee: $25) is a
file pre-processor that does much of the necessary conversion or
cleaning-up of ASCII automatically.
(U1-06) WDel 1.7 [WDEL17] (GoatEye Software, reg. fee: $0) irretrievably
deletes files.
-----File Cataloging
Since - RPM 1.30 [SINCE130] (R.P.McCormick, ASP; reg. fee: $7) will create
a list of files which have been used since a specified date and time, or
since an attribute was given to the file.
Virtual Disk Browser 1.0 [VDBRWS] (Bruce W. Evans, reg. fee: $0) is a file
cataloging program designed for users of Syquest, Bernoulli, and other
removable disks. It will create a list of files on disks, allowing you to
locate files without having to insert, spin up, browse and remove a
succession of disks.
---Updates: File Cataloging
(U1-07) CatDisk 7.40 [CD740D] (Rick Hillier, ASP; reg. fee: $29) catalogs
files, including contents of subdirectories and archives.
(U1-07) EZ-Disk Admiral YDA500c [YDA500C] (EZX Publishing, reg. fee: $20)
catalogs the directories of all of your disks, including hard disks.
-----File Managers
ArcPlus 6.0A [AP600A] (GDSoft, reg. fee: $30) is a file manager with full
archiving ability. It creates archives in any format from all disks and
paths on your system. The program supports ZIP, ARJ, PAK, PKA, ARC, LBR,
ZOO, and QWK archive formats.
SmartFile 1.10 [SF110] (Michael D. Chaney, reg. fee: $16) is a file manager
which features the ability to mark one or more files to copy, move, delete,
set attributes, or print, a file viewer, text search, perform many common
DOS commands, such as renaming files and creating directories, file
sorting, and more.
---Updates: File Managers
(U1-08) CM_Filer 5.36q [CF536Q] (NoVaSoft, ASP; reg. fee: $30) is a
powerful file manager with a double directory display. NEW: optimized file
copying routines to save time, improved editor exit routine.
(U1-08) Quick Directory 1.32a [QDIR132] (Superware, ASP; reg. fee: $33) is
an archive, file and directory manager.
-----Hard Disk Utilities
SpaceBak 1.0a [SBBACK24] (MicroTools Inc, ASP; reg. fee: $25) allows you
create more disk space by deleting unused files from the hard disk with the
option of backing them up before deleting. You can also get a printout of
all of the files which have not been accessed since a specified date.
WDFmt 2.10 [WDFMT] (Western Digital, reg. fee: $0) can be used on any
Western Digital AT disk controller to perform a low level format of the
disk, verify the entire disk, mark bad tracks that were found and/or enter
the bad track map, and perform a surface test of the disk.
---Updates: Hard Disk Utilities
(U1-09) AutoCMS 1.2 [ACMS12] (Dick Koster, ASP; reg. fee: $10) reads
tape-search dumps from the Colorado Tape Backup System's Tape.EXE file and
creates an ASCII delimited output file suitable for importing into most
databases.
(U1-09) Free III 2.0e+ [FREE3] (Greg Merideth, reg. fee: $0) will display
disk space usage of all hard drives and network drives in your system.
(U1-09) Password 1.6 [PWORD] (Blackwell Software, reg. fee: $5) provides
password protection by displaying a fake DOS prompt when the program is
activated.
-----Subdirectory Utilities
Size 1.0 [SIZE] (Steve Jackson, reg. fee: $0) will display the size of the
subdirectory this file is executed from. It will also show files larger
than a specified size, deepest directory in the tree, largest subdirectory
and the size of all subdirectory trees one below the current subdirectory.
WDN: Wipe Directory Names 1.21 [WDN121] (R.P.McCormick, ASP; reg. fee: $5)
will remove empty subdirectories from your hard drive, including hidden
subdirectories.
---Updates: Subdirectory Utilities
(U1-10) PocketD Plus 4.0 [POCKETD4] (Jeff Rollason, ASP; reg. fee: $35-68)
is a file utility with over 120 options. NEW: File viewing supports
unix-type text files. A user-defined option allows a command to be added to
the browser. Browsing allows you to view the contents of files within
archives. Browse options also include the ability to uncompress any
archived file or whole archive and copy any file.
(U1-10) RDir 1.44 [RDIR144] (R.P.McCormick, ASP; reg. fee: $10) displays
relative directory size in pie and bar charts.
-----File Viewing, Comparing, Other
Compare 1.0 [COMP_RSZ] (RS Zale, reg. fee: $0) compares the contents of two
text files and writes any differences to a file.
Match Files 2.0 [MATCH] (D.P.Jennings, reg. fee: $10 pounds) compares two
files and displays the differences between them.
See - MicroFox 4.0 [SEE400] (MicroFox Company, ASP; reg. fee: $14) can view
files from the command line or from a menu of files. The viewer features
text search, scrolling commands, and a command which will freeze a few
lines of text while the rest of the document scrolls by.
Simply Docs 2.0 [SIMDOC20] (Robert E. Pitcher, ASP; reg. fee: $30) will
convert any plain text file into a self-displaying executable, complete
with text search, page numbering, color configuration, and more. Included
are utilities for capturing portions of a screen for use in your files and
for making the files work as pop-up TSRs.
Show Two Files 1.45 [STF145] (R.P.McCormick, ASP; reg. fee: $10) compares
two ASCII text files side-by-side. Files can be scrolled through
independently or together, differences are highlighted by dimming unequal
lines in one file. and text searches can be performed on either or both files.
View_Man 1.0 [VMAN100] (MicroMetric, ASP; reg. fee: $30) lets you view, and
edit a selected file in HEX or ASCII. It features string searches, search
and count, and search and replace. It also includes a macro utility for
simplifying repetitive tasks.
---Updates: File Viewing, Comparing, Other
(U1-11) FileBuddy 3.12 [FB312] (Lenard Dean, ASP; reg. fee: $20) is a
combination text, archive, and image file viewer. NEW: the ability to run
multiple copies of FileBUDDY on a network, GIF89a comment block support.
(U1-11) RFile 1.18 [RFILE118] (R.P. McCormick, ASP; reg. fee: $7) displays
relative file size in a pie chart of all files from a selected directory.