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ZULU DISK UTILITIES a collection of programs for the disk user VERSION 2.02 (C) 1989-1993 ALAN WEINBERG 4560 S. 14th Ave. TUCSON, AZ, 85714, USA Hello! My name is Alan and I am glad to see you reading this file. This README file contains the instructions on using my ZULU DISK UTILITIES. The utilities are listed below in alphabetical order. At the end is a registration form. ********** NOTE: DEVICE=ANSI.SYS must be in your config.sys file ************ ***************************************************************************** BEEP.COM (c) 1990,Alan Weinberg ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- This program will beep the speaker in the PC. Use it in batch files to indicate the end of an operation. Then go off and do something else. When you hear the beep, you know your batch file is finished. Example batch file using beep.com: COPY A:\*.BAT C:\DBASE COPY PAYROLL.1 C:\GROCERS\ BEEP.COM When the batch file is done, beep.com will sound a tone to notify you that the batch file is done. **************************************************************************** BLAST.EXE Ever had to delete a directory and 10 subdirectories with all those files and get sick and tired of dos saying "do you really want me to delete all those files?". I did that for 4 years until the winter of 1991 when I made BLAST.EXE. Think of it as a Arnold Schwartzeneger type program where he blasts everyone and everything. Usage: BLAST<enter> it will delete the default directory and all subdirectories and leave you gracefully back one directory. I find this program useful for zapping floppies instead of reformating a floppy or using delfile.exe (see below). Delfile.exe can delete all files on a floppy but it will leave it to you to remove all those subdirectories. Its like a one way ticket to Mansfield Sanitarium in MonteVista California,,believe you me..... So I have great expectations that this program will be useful to me and maybe, maybe not, that it will be useful to you. I deleted the entire TopSpeed 'C' compiler directories (at least 13 megabytes of files and subdirectories in 45 seconds). Beware. Using this program can delete your hard disk in about 90 seconds. But don't worry because as the BLAST.EXE is blasting your disk away, you may press any key to immediately stop. Also, if you are in the root directory of the C drive (usually people's hard disk drive), and you use BLAST!, you will not be allowed to blast the C drive. WARNING: this is a very very dangerous program. For that matter so is DELFILE.EXE.(see below). I suggest trying the program on a floppy disk till you get comfortable with it. Remember that BLAST.EXE has no parameters and works only on the default drive in the default directory. Good lucK. NOTE: BLAST!, FROM THE ROOT DIRECTORY OF THE C DRIVE WILL AUTOMATICALLY ABORT. IT WILL NOT ALLOW YOU TO DELETE THE ENTIRE C DRIVE. THIS IS AN EXTRA PRECAUTION. MOST USERS HAVE THE C DRIVE AS THEIR PRIMARY HARD DISK. ****************************************************************************** BORDER.EXE version 1.01 (c) 1989 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- This is a nifty little program that allows you to set up the screen's border color using a not often used BIOS function call. Just select the color you want from the menu and press <ENTER>. I think it really improves the screen appearance. To use type BORDER <ENTER>. For batch files, you may use the following command-line: BORDER <color number taken from menu> such as BORDER 2 which will make the screen border light blue on the EGA/VGA monitor. To go back to the black default border type BORDER 1. NOTE: this program may not work with timed screen saver (blanking) tsr's like BURNOUT.COM (it causes the whole screen to turn the color of the screen border). *************************************************************************** CCD version 4.02 a change directory program (c) 1989 It is 85% faster than version 1.0! I feel it can be very useful to every PC user who has a disk drive and has in the past laboriously typed in the CD (change directory) command. CCD allows you to change directory and drive by typing in only the first few letters of the subdirectory name. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- INSTALLATION 1.......place CCD.EXE files in root directory or path. 2.......IF YOU HAVE USED PREVIOUS VERSIONS OF CCD, DELETE THE FILES CCD1.FIL, CCD2.FIL, OR CCD3.FIL FROM THE ROOT DIRECTORY OR PATH. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- page 2 HOW TO USE CCD The format is: ccd <optional drive:first few letters of subdirectory name> For example, say you want to go to subdirectory b:\database\rpt1\day1\letters\letter1\sales this would take quite a long time typing in!!! Instead, enter CCD b:\S or CCD b:sa or CCD b:sal and you are there within 1 to 5 seconds! When you make a new directory, CCD will take about 5 seconds to update the directory listings using the BERNOULLI SEARCH ALGORITHM, but thereafter it usually takes you there almost instantly! To go to the root directory on the b drive,type in: CCD \ or CCD B:\ or CCD B: **************************************************************************** COPI.EXE a fast COPY clone version 2.00 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- INTRODUCTION TO COPI.EXE COPI is a fast COPY clone that works similiar to CCD.EXE. You can copy files from a directory by typing only a few letters of the directory name. You may now copi from any drive and directory to any drive and directory! See below for details. Also, now COPI is faster at file copies since I read 32 Kbytes at a time. HOW TO USE COPI.EXE COPI <drive:first few letters of directory name \ filename to COPY FROM> <drive:first few letters of directory name \ filename to COPY TO> example 1. COPI EA\LETTER.DOC B:R\ or COPI C:E\LETTER.DOC B:R\ will COPY letter.doc in directory EASTMAN to directory RAMDOC on drive B example 2. COPI LETTER.DOC DA\LET1.FFF will COPY letter.doc in the default directory to directory DATABASE to file LET1.FFF notice that directories always have a slash (\) after them WRONG USAGE EXAMPLE: COPI msc\prog\done\letter.c should be COPI d\letter.c or COPI done\letter.c NOTE: wild cards are permissable! page 3 ***************************************************************************** DDIR.EXE a fast directory listing in color with Page Up and Page Down version 2.0 (c) 1990 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- This program will let you view any directory on any drive by typing only 1 or more letters of the subdirectory name. It employs one of the fastest sort algorithms and is in color! To use it: type DDIR to view the directory you are now in type DDIR B:\DAT\LETT??.GIF to view subdirectory b:\util\database\lett??.gif type DDIR *.EXE to view all .EXE files in subdirectory type DDIR *.EXE A.COM *.BAT to view all .EXE, A.COM, and .BAT file(s) (you may have up to 15 file specs) type DDIR *. to view subdirectories in your directory Wildcards are permissable. Note: you cannot redirect output to the printer since I use direct video writes instead of BIOS/DOS functions. To get output to printer press PrintScreen or use the DOS COPY command with redirection piping. DDIR.EXE is especially useful for directories with hundreds of files. This is because you can Page Up and Page Down or even abort by pressing <ESCAPE>. Each screen full of files has a page number at the top right hand corner of the screen. You file-intensive hackers should really like DDIR.EXE. At the end of each directory listing is a line that shows how many files were listed, the size in bytes, and total disk free space in bytes. Limitations: a maximum of 3000 files can be viewed. Write to me if you need more than that. **************************************************************************** DELFILE.EXE (c) 1990 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- This program allows you to delete any file(s) in all directories on your default drive. This program is useful to clean up your disk drives. EXAMPLES: DELFILE *.BAK will delete all files on your present drive with the extension .BAK DELFILE DATA?.GIF will delete DATA1.GIF,DATA2.GIF,etc. and even DATAQ.GIF Please be very careful when using this program. Think twice before pressing <ENTER>. At any rate, while deleting files, if you press any key, DELFILE automatically stops deleting files and you can then exit or continue. If you issue the command line DELFILE *.* or DELFILE ????????.??? the program will abort. This program will not accept full wildcard filenames because deleting all your files unintentionally is very easy. Better safe than sorry! WARNING: there are ways to get around this. If you really must delete all files use DELFILE ???????*.* or some variation. But be very careful! page 4 **************************************************************************** DOIT.EXE version 2.0 (c) 1990-1994 This program helps you overcome some of the limitations of MS-DOS batch files. Type DOIT at the command line. You will be prompted to "Do it ?" . Typing YES will send an error level of 0 to the batch file. A NO will return a 1 to the batch file. EXAMPLE BATCH FILE: DOIT.COM IF ERRORLEVEL 1 GOTO END COPY *.BAK B: <----------- this will only get done if you answer NO to :END DOIT.EXE **************************************************************************** GETKEY.EXE version 1.0 (c) 1991-1994 This program will tell you the scan code for any key you type in. This is useful mostly to programmers, so if you are not a programmer, you may want to go to the next program. Usage: GETKEY As you press any keys from the program, the ASCII character code used by the computer will be revealed. Press <escape> to quit. **************************************************************************** MOVE version 1.51 (c) 1989 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- This is a program that will move files from one subdirectory on any drive to another subdirectory on any drive. A unique feature about this program is that you only have to type in 1 or more letters of the subdirectory names your moving to and moving from. If the file already exists in the subdirectory your moving to, you will be prompted if you want to overwrite it. My program will parse and search for the directories that match. This is the same technique used in our previously described programs CCD.EXE and COPI.EXE. Syntax: MOVE <drive:first few letters of directory name to move files from\filename> <drive:first few letters of directory name to move files to\filename> example: Instead of MOVE c:\database\november\letters\jsmith\let5.doc b:\document use MOVE j\let5.doc b:d\ if the default drive is c:, otherwise use MOVE c:j\let5.doc b:d\ which will move file let5.doc in directory jsmith to directory document Don't forget to put a backslash after the subdirectory name or the pogram will think that it is a file.. wrong usage examples: <MOVE data.doc> is wrong because a directory to move to was not specified. Eg. use <MOVE data.doc edit\>. <MOVE db \ letter.doc a:ppp\> has 1 wrong error in the command line. There can be no spaces allowed in the parameters as in "db \ letter.doc" which should be "db\letter.doc". page 5 ***************************************************************************** NUMLOCK VERSION 1.20 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- When you boot up do you have to turn the NUMLOCK key off? Getting tired of accidently inputting numbers when you hit PgDn? Then put the command NUMLOCK in your AUTOEXEC.BAT FILE and put NUMLOCK.COM in the root directory or in the DOS path. It will toggle the NumLock key off for you when you boot up. **************************************************************************** UNTAB.EXE version 1.01 (c) 1990, Alan Weinberg UNTAB.EXE will convert all tabs in your file to 3 spaces. Syntax: UNTAB input-file output-file or UNTAB filename Input-file may be the same as output-file. You may use wildcards on input file. ***************************************************************************** VIEW.EXE version 1.0 (c) 1990 by Alan Weinberg ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- View.exe is a program that lets you look at a file and its contents. You can go anywhere in the file using regular navigation keys. Syntax: VIEW <path and filename> Note: this program uses less than 50 kbytes of memory no matter how big the file is. This is useful when core memory is scarce. I do this by reading only one page of the file at a time. Therefore it will be a little slower than you might be used to---but not that slow. page 6 **************************************************************************** YU.COM This program is like BEEP.COM and will sound the PC speaker until you press a key. BEEP.COM will only sound the speaker for 2 seconds whereas YU.COM will go on indefinately. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- **************************************************************************** If you want my complete Zulu Disk Utilities send $29 to: ALAN WEINBERG 4560 S. 14th Ave. TUCSON, AZ, 85714,USA I will send you the latest versions plus any new utilities. Foreign computer users please send US dollars money order or check plus $5 for shipping and handling. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- LICENSE AGREEMENT The ZULU DISK UTILITIES are protected by the United States Copyright Laws and International Treaties provisions. All rights are reserved. Non-registered users of the ZULU DISK UTILITIES are licensed only to use the programs on a trial basis for the sole purpose of determining whether or not it meets their requirements. All other uses require registration. Any other use of non-registered copies of the ZULU DISK UTILITIES programs by any person, business, government organization, or any other entity is strictly forbidden and is a violation of this license agreement, unless authorized by the author, said Alan Weinberg. Registration permits use of ZULU DISK UTILITIES programs on a single computer AT A TIME. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- WARRANTY I, Alan Weinberg, the author of ZULU DISK UTILITIES make no warranty of any kind, expressed or implied, including without limitation, any warranty of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose. Alan Weinberg shall not be liable for any damages, whether direct, indirect, special, or consequential arising from a failure of this program to operate in the manner desired by the user. Alan Weinberg shall not be liable for any damages to data or property which may be caused directly or indirectly by the use of ZULU DISK UTILITIES. IN NO EVENT WILL ALAN WEINBERG BE LIABLE FOR ANY DAMAGES, INCLUDING ANY LOST PROFITS, LOST SAVINGS, OR OTHER INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES ARISING OUT OF YOUR USE OF OR INABILITY TO USE THE PROGRAMS, OR FOR ANY CLAIM BY ANY OTHER PARTY. The License Agreement and Warranty shall be construed, interpreted, and governed by the laws of the state of Arizona. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- END OF README ZULU DISK UTILITIES REGISTRATION FORM version 2.02 NAME:______________________________________________________________________ ADDRESS:___________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________ WHAT DISTRIBUTOR DID YOU BUY THIS PROGRAM FROM? ____________________________________________________________________________ Send this form and a check for $29 to: Alan Weinberg 4560 S. 14th Ave. Tucson, Az, 85714 Foreign customers address all correspondence in English, and send US dollars in a money order. Foreign customers, please include $5 for shipping and handling. When you complete this form and mail it in and you are on your way to being registered. Thank you for registering! NOTE: QUANTITY DISCOUNTS AVAILABLE. PLEASE WRITE FOR DETAILS!