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ExtraDOS Toolbox Professional■ _______________________________________ Users Manual Version 3.62 09/10/91 Copyright (c) 1985-91 Foley Hi-Tech Systems License Agreement This software is protected by both United States copyright law and international treaty provisions. Therefore, you must treat this software "just like a book," with the following single exception. Foley Hi-Tech Systems authorizes you to make archival copies of the software for the sole purpose of backing up our software and protecting your investment from loss. By saying, "just like a book," Foley Hi-Tech Systems means that this software may be used by any number of people and may be freely moved from one computer location to another, provided there is absolutely no possibility of it being used at one location at the same time it is being used at another. Just as a book cannot be read by two different people in two different places at the same time, the software may not be used by two different people in two different places at the same time. You may not make copies of the software documentation or disk, except as described above. You may not distribute, rent, sublicense, or lease the software or the documentation. You may not alter, modify, or adapt the software or documentation, including but not limited to translating, decompiling, reverse assembling, or creating derivative works. You may not use the software in a network, timesharing, multiple CPU, or multi-user environment unless each user is licensed by Foley Hi-Tech Systems. Limited Warranty In the event of notification of defects in material or workmanship, within the warranty period of 45 days from the date of purchase, Foley Hi-Tech Systems will, at its option, replace the defective diskette or refund the license fee. If you need to return a product, call the Foley Hi-Tech Systems Technical Support Service Department to obtain a return authorization number. The remedy for breach of this warranty shall be limited to replacement or refund and shall not encompass any other damages, including but not limited to loss of profit, and special, incidental, consequential, or other similar claims. Foley Hi-Tech Systems specifically disclaims all other warranties, expressed or implied, including but not limited to implied warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose with respect to defects in the diskette and documentation, and the program license granted herein in particular, and without limiting operation of the program license with respect to any particular application, use, or purpose. In no event shall Foley Hi-Tech Systems be liable for any loss of profit or any other commercial damage, including but not limited to special, incidental, consequential, or other damages. This statement shall be construed, interpreted, and governed by the laws of the State of California. Trademark Information Safety Disk is a trademark of Foley Hi-Tech Systems. MS-DOS is a trademark of Microsoft Corporation. Introduction ___________________________________________________________ ExtraDOS is a compilation of tools useful to Microsoft DOS users. I originally wrote these tools under MS-DOS because I found a need for them and there were no commercially available products which provided these functions. Some ExtraDOS tools were designed to enhance programs already found in MS-DOS. Other tools were familiar to the Unix world, but were not available in MS-DOS. In addition, ExtraDOS compliments PC- Tools and Norton Utilities with added tools these programs do not provide. Over thirty of the ExtraDOS Toolbox utilities have been selected by Paul Somerson, former Executive Editor of PC Magazine, for Bantam Books', DOS Power Tools, 2nd Edition, Revised and Expanded for DOS 5.0. David R. Foley Table of Contents ___________________________________________________________ Subject License Agreement........................................ Limited Warranty......................................... Trademark Information.................................... Introduction............................................. Table of Contents........................................ ADDCOMM Serial Port Management Program.............. ALARMCLK Alarm Clock Program......................... SETALARM.................................... ALLSUB Perform Task In All Subdirectories.......... AREA Telephone Area Code Search Utility.......... BANNER DOS Banner Display.......................... BOOT PC Rebooting Utility........................ BOOTLOCK Lock Out Reboot Keys and Break Keys......... BOOTPAST Boot Past a Floppy to the Hard Disk......... BRKBOX COM Port Break Out Box Display.............. CAL DOS Calendar Display........................ CAT DOS Cat Text File Utility................... CHIMES DOS Clock Chimes............................ CLEANFL Floppy Drive Cleaning Program............... CLEANUP Cleanup Your Drives from Duplicate Files.... COUNT Count Characters, Words and Lines........... CURLOCK Lock Cursor Shape Permanently............... CURSOR Change Cursor Shapes........................ CUT DOS Cut Text File Utility................... CUTPASTE DOS Cut & Paste Text Utility................ DELAY Batch File Delay Utility.................... DETAB File Detabulation Utility................... DISKINFO Disk Drive Information Reporter............. EDIT Full Screen Text File Editor................ CONFIG.EXE, EDIT.HLP, EDIT.HDX.............. EVAL DOS Command Line Calculator................. FILEATTR Change File Attributes...................... FILEINFO File Information Program.................... FILESIZE File Size Listing Utility................... FILETREE File Directory Tree Listing Utility......... FINDFILE Find File on Disk........................... HELP DOS Command HELP............................ HEXDUMP File Hex Display Utility.................... HUSH Speaker Silencing Utility................... KILLDIR Remove Directory and All Contents........... Table of Contents _____________________________________________________________ LASER Control HP Laser Jet from DOS............... LS DOS Listing Utility......................... MOVE MOVE Files Across Disks..................... NAMEDIR Name Directory Utility...................... NO DOS File Exclusion Utility.................. PATHFIND Path Find File Utility...................... PSPRINT PostScript Text File Print Utility.......... SCNATTR Set Screen Attributes....................... SCROLLBK DOS Screen Scroll Back & View............... SPEEDRAM Speed up CPU by Reducing Refresh............ TEXTSRCH Text Searching Utility...................... TOUCH Touch File Date Utility..................... TURBOBAT Turbo Batch File Compiler................... USEMEM Programmers Memory Usage Utility............ USEMOUSE Use Mouse to Emulate Keystrokes............. VOLLABEL Disk Volume Label Update Utility............ Technical Support........................................ Credits.................................................. New Utilities Under Development.......................... FHTS Products............................................ ADDCOMM - Add Communications Port Information ___________________________________________________________ Description ADDCOMM is a utility that allows you to define the address of your COM ports in the DOS lower memory segment. This is useful for machines whose BIOS doesn't support COM3 and COM4 ports by default. In many older machines including early 80386 based systems, the BIOS would only setup COM1 and COM2 for DOS. Newer serial cards and modems allow you to define COM3 and COM4 on the cards but these machines won't allow DOS to see these additional ports unless you place the corresponding address in low DOS memory. ADDCOMM will place this information in the correct location for you. ADDCOMM will also display the current address values for any COM ports that are installed in your system. By placing the ADDCOMM statements in your AUTOEXEC.BAT file you can have the machine load the correct values without having to intervene. ADDCOMM is not a TSR and will not require any overhead memory to setup your ports from AUTOEXEC or the DOS prompt. Version 1.20 07/27/91 ADDCOMM - Add Communications Port Information ___________________________________________________________ Usage ADDCOMM [port] [address] Options PORT is the COM port to add ADDRESS is the address of the COM port Example ADDCOMM COM3 3E8 will tell DOS to address COM3 at address 3E8. ALARMCLK - DOS Alarm Clock ___________________________________________________________ Description ALARMCLK provides a simple alarm clock for MS-DOS machines. ALARMCLK is split into two programs. You may install as many alarms as you wish per session. ALARMCLK is the alarm clock TSR that loads into memory and keeps track of the alarms that you specify. Once ALARMCLK is loaded use SETALARM to set as many alarms as you like. Version 2.00 05/04/91 Command Format ALARMCLK [/D] [/U] [/Inn] SETALARM [time] [PM] [/D] [/U] [/Inn] TIME Time in HH:mm format 12 hour or 24 hour clocks are both accepted for the time format. PM ALARMCLK will assume AM with 12 hour format unless PM is defined. /D Deactivates all alarms /U Removes ALARMCLK.COM from memory /Inn Specify a new ID number ALLSUB - Perform a Task in All Subdirectories ___________________________________________________________ Description Allsub allows you to run any command or program in the current directory as well as in all subdirectories of the current directory. This is useful for deleting groups of files or performing tasks with programs that don't normally allow for subdirectories. As the command is performed in each subdirectory ALLSUB will display the directory of execution. Version 1.02 03/12/90 Command Format ALLSUB [command] [command] is any valid DOS command or program. AREA - Area Code Search Program ___________________________________________________________ Purpose AREA is a utility that will help you locate a region to which an area code applies or to locate the area code for a specific region. Version 2.13 01/13/91 Resident Memory Usage 8096 bytes Usage AREA [code] [string] [options] [code] is any 3 number area code. [string] is any string that might match a state or region that you are searching for. AREA - Area Code Search Program ___________________________________________________________ Options /L Load as a TSR. This will make the AREA code program a pop TSR that will allow you to call up and area code or location while running another application without exiting to DOS. [CTRL][LSHIFT]A is the /U Will uninstall the AREA code program if it is installed as a TSR freeing up the overhead that it required. Uninstall will only work if AREA was the last TSR loaded on the Heap. If the program is unable to uninstall it will inform you when running the /U parameter. /NOH If running AREA from a batch file or from another shell program you might sometimes wish to have it not display the header information. /NOH tells AREA to not display the header. /K$nn Allows you to set the default key for the TSR pop up command. You can alternatively set the hotkey by using the environment variable AREAKEY. We suggest not using this option unless you are familiar with your systems currently defined hotkeys. By changing the hotkey value you may cause conflict with another TSR in your system. Below is a chart that will show you the value to use for either the /K parameter or the environment variable /K. To calculate the "HOT KEY" code for the AREA code utility, see the chapter at the end of this manual "Calculating TSR HOT KEYS" AREA - Area Code Search Program ___________________________________________________________ Examples AREA /K$0836 /L would specify [ALT][RSHFT] as a new hotkey. Example of Environment Variable for hotkey definition: SET AREAKEY=$0836 BANNER - Generate a Large Type Banner on Printer ___________________________________________________________ Description BANNER allows you to create a large banner using a standard ASCII printer. BANNER contains an internal representation of the alphabet that is made up of standard ASCII characters and will print any message on your printer in a sideways banner fashion. Banner Displays an ASCII rendition of the letters you put in a message rotated at 90 degrees. This is based on the BANNER that is available in many UNIX systems. Version 1.30 07/27/91 Command Format BANNER [options] [message] Options /? Displays Help /w Set to 132 Column Width /wnn Set to nn Column Width /p Send output to LPT1 /pLPTn Send output to LPTn /s Send output to Screen /o[fname] Send output to file [fname] /noh suppress the header information BOOT - Reboot PC from within a batch file or DOS ___________________________________________________________ Description BOOT is a utility which can be called from the DOS command line or from a batch file. This program will reboot your PC either emulating a soft boot [CTRL][ALT][DEL] or a hard boot such as pressing the reset key. Version 1.50 09/05/90 Command Format BOOT [options] Options COLD Perform a Cold Reboot of the System (same as Hard) HARD Perform a Hard Reboot of the System (same as Cold) WARM Perform a Warm Reboot of the System (same as Soft) SOFT Perform a Soft Reboot of the System (same as Warm) Notes The next release of BOOT will include the option to specify the time delay before rebooting. BOOTLOCK - Lockout various key functions from being used ___________________________________________________________ Description BOOTLOCK is a simple utility that will lock out the use of the [CTRL][ALT][DEL] soft boot sequence and the [CTRL]C or [CTRL][BREAK] break sequence. The default is to disable both keys from having any effect, but you may wish to only disable one or some combination. See the usage flags below to disable specific keys. Once installed you may also un-install and remove the program from memory by using the /U parameter. Once installed BOOTLOCK requires 624 bytes of memory. Version 1.10 05/04/91 Command Format BOOTLOCK [options] Options /? Display help information /R Disable CTRL-ALT-DEL /B Disable CTRL-BREAK /C Disable CTRL-C /Inn Set the internal I.D. number where nn is 81h - FFh /U Remove BOOTLOCK from memory BOOTPAST - Boot past non system formatted diskettes ___________________________________________________________ Description BOOTPAST will modify a floppy disk's boot sector so that the systems bootup process will skip over the normally checked floppy boot sector and go to the hard disk boot sector. Many times when you boot a PC if you have a diskette in the A: drive that is not a bootable floppy you will get the message, NON-SYSTEM DISK or DISK ERROR and have to reboot. BOOTPAST eliminates this problem by skipping over the normally unbootable floppy boot sector. Be careful not to run BOOTPAST on diskettes that are bootable or contain copy protection because BOOTPAST will write over the boot sector information. Version 1.20 05/04/91 Command Format BOOTPAST [d:] [d:] is the floppy drive to modify. BRKBOX - Software RS-232 Break Out Box for Communications Debugging ___________________________________________________________ Description BRKBOX is a software version of a serial port breakout box. It displays the status of a COM port inside your PC. The status of the DTR, DSR, RTS, CTS, DCD, and RI pins as well as the data rate, parity, number of data bits, and number of stop bits are displayed on the top right hand corner of the screen. This information is sometimes useful when trying to debug a serial port or some associated communications software. If no communications port is specified the program will default to COM1. To toggle the display on and off use [ALT]C. The program will start with the display toggled off. BRKBOX can be uninstalled by entering it with the optional U parameter if it was the last TSR loaded. Version 1.21 05/04/91 Command Format BRKBOX [port] [/U] [/Knnnn] [/Lx] [port] is the COM port number 1 - 4 /U to uninstall /Knnn to define a new hotkey /Lx to specify the display location CALENDAR - Display monthly or yearly calendar ___________________________________________________________ Description CAL displays a calendar from DOS in one of two formats, either one month or 12 months of one year. Version 1.20 05/04/91 Command Format Usage: CALENDAR [mm] yyyy mm is the month [1..12] yyyy is the year [100..9999] if you specify 2 digits for yyyy then it will assume you mean 19xx Notes If you want to pause the display of a full year press [CTRL]S to pause the screen and then any key to continue the display. CAT - Unix like CAT utility for concatenation of files. ___________________________________________________________ Description CAT is a UNIX utility written for the MS-DOS world. For people that are used to UNIX it is a handy familiar tool for displaying, printing, and concatenating files together. CAT handles redirection of both input and output. It can be used similar to copy con to create files as well. Version 1.11 05/04/91 Command Format CAT [fname] - copy std input to file fname CAT [file1] [file2] > [file3] - concatenate file1 and file2 to file3 CHIMES - Quarterly hour clock chimes ___________________________________________________________ Description Chimes is a terminate-and-stay resident program that attaches itself to the BIOS timer tick interrupt. The program counts the time internally, so that it does not bring any overhead into system throughput by using DOS functions. When the program realizes that the time is nearing the hour, the program starts chiming. In its default mode, chimes produces "Time Tone" beeps. These consist of three short beeps, starting at three seconds before the hour. Then, at the hour, a longer and higher beep is given. Many of the dial-up time services provide such a time tone. Chimes can be given the /M option on the command line to provide the different clock chimes. Using CHIMES /M1 would setup chimes to use the Westminster chimes. The Westminster chimes are the chimes that are played by Big Ben, the most famous of all clock towers. From its home in London, England, the clock plays a melody based on a composition by Handel. The Saint Michael Chimes are also from England. However, the Saint Michael Chimes were cast by an English craftsman for a church in Charleston, South Carolina during the Revolutionary war. However, the British captured this city by battle, and took the bells back to England. Amazingly enough, the American rebels stole the molds for the bells, and a second set of bells was cast and installed in the Carolinian church. CHIMES - Quarterly hour clock chimes ___________________________________________________________ The Whittington chimes were named for Lord Mayor Richard Whittington. Whittington started life in poverty. However, he made money in great volume by trading. After his terms as Lord Mayor of London, he became a philanthropist. If you select the M0 option of the program, chimes will only become active at the hour. Otherwise, chimes will faithfully reproduce the chimes for each quarter hour of the clock. The program will also strike the hour by chiming for each hour, or chiming just once for the half hour. Version 1.00 05/04/91 Command Format CHIMES [/Mx] x indicates the different tones that are available 0 Time Tones 1 Westminster Chimes 2 Saint Michael Chimes 3 Whittington Chimes CLEANFL - Clean Floppy Drive Heads ___________________________________________________________ Description CLEANFL is a utility that makes the task of cleaning floppy drive heads much easier and more thorough. By moving the head of the floppy drive back and forth traveling the entire span of the drive you get a much better cleaning action and the surface of your cleaning diskette will last much longer. Most cleaning diskettes tell you to place them in the drive and type DIR A:. In this scenario the head is always over the first track using a small percentage of the cleaning surface all the time. By using CLEANFL the cleaning surface gets a much more even wear and will last longer and provide a better cleaning job for your diskette drives. Version 1.40 05/04/91 Command Format CLEANFL [d:] [options] d: refers to valid floppy drive (A:, B:, etc). /Tnn specifies the number of tracks, e.g. /T40 /Pnn specifies the number of passes, e.g. /P10 CLEANUP - Disk Drive Cleanup & Space Recovery ___________________________________________________________ Description Cleanup has evolved from a small helpful utility that originally located duplicate files on a hard disk to a full space recovery system. With the ever increasing size and lowering cost of disk space, it isn't uncommon to find PC's with an average of 80MB. Having larger disk drives has also made managing them becomes more complex. It is no longer feasible to remember the name and location and purpose of every file on your system. Often files and programs will be installed on a temporary basis only to be forgotten and either outdated or left behind. You can quickly devote as much as 25% of your hard disk to unused or duplicate files. Cleanup provides a comprehensive way of dealing with this problem by quickly isolating unused and duplicate files and removing them, freeing up valuable hard disk space. Cleanup displays the name of each file as it is deleted and a summary showing the total amount of disk space that has been recovered. Version 2.03 05/19/91 Warning The main function of Cleanup is to recover lost disk space by removing duplicate and unused files. You have total control over which files will and will not be deleted, but with large hard disks it is easy to overlook single file names and accidently delete a desired file. It is suggested that you backup your disk before running Cleanup. This will assure that you have a means of recovering files that you delete by accident. The other alternative is to have a copy of Norton Utilities UnErase or a similar type product. CLEANUP - Disk Drive Cleanup & Space Recovery ___________________________________________________________ Usage Cleanup is a menu driven program. After initializing the program you are prompted with a list of disk drives in your system. In this list you are allowed to toggle the search amongst any installed drives in your system. Drives that are allowed, but not attached are "grayed" out and you cannot select these drives. When you select a drive a check mark √ will note when a drive is selected. You may select any combination of all available drives. All of the drives selected will be treated as one large volume across which all duplicates and file marking will take place. This is particularly handy if you have more than one hard drive on which you keep files, and you might end up with duplicate files across the drives. Once you have selected the drives to scan, press the [F10] key to start scanning. After all of the directories have been scanned you will be located at the main menu of Cleanup. In the upper right hand corner of the screen is the Current Status window. This window will always display information about the programs status. The number of directories, files and duplicate files is calculated after selecting the drives and will not change until you exit the program and run again. The number of tagged files and bytes will show you the current statistics for the files that have been tagged for deletion. These numbers will be updated as you tag or untag files for deletion. There are two methods for tagging files for deletion. The first method is to use the Auto Tag and Auto Untag menus. These menus are identical in options, and perform exactly the opposite tasks. The Auto function allows you to tag groups of files all at one time. Once tagged, you may then go in and manually untag individual files using the manual tag option. Below are the options available from the Auto Tag and Auto Untag menus. CLEANUP - Disk Drive Cleanup & Space Recovery ___________________________________________________________ ALL - All allows you to tag/untag all of the files scanned. This is generally only useful for untagging files. Be careful as if you use this to tag files, you will tag all of the files on the selected drives for deletion. SMALLER DUPLICATES - This will look at the list of duplicate files and whenever there is a difference in size, the smaller file will be marked for duplication. OLDER DUPLICATES - This is quite handy and will compare all of the duplicate files and mark the oldest files. This is useful when you wish to only keep the most recent version of a file on your system. BACKUP FILES - This option will mark all files ending in .BAK. This was the original function of the TIDY program from which Cleanup evolved. Many programs and editors create a backup of a file when updating it. After a while these backups can clutter up your system. TEMP FILES - There are many programs that make use of temporary files while processing work. Sometimes, if these programs are interrupted or crash, the temporary files will be left of your drive. Most software uses the convention of naming temporary files with a .$$$ extension. This option will mark all files ending in .$$$ EXT xxx - This allows you to tag a group of files with a particular extension that you know should be removed. With this option you can specify any group of files by giving the extension name. All files ending in the extension that you provide will be tagged. Be careful that you wish to delete all files ending in the extension before running the Erase option. CLEANUP - Disk Drive Cleanup & Space Recovery ___________________________________________________________ ZERO LENGTH - This was the other option available on the TIDY program. Another type of temporary file that can often be created is one that was opened but never properly closed. This will often result in a file entry in your directory with a file size of 0 bytes. The zero length is misleading. Every file entry requires at least one cluster thus the minimum disk space used by a 0 byte file is the cluster size (512 bytes or more). Having a lot of 0 byte files can actually take away space from your drive. Choosing this option will mark all files with a size of 0 bytes for deletion. LENGTH n - Like the Zero length files above, there may be instances where you create a lot of small files that you wish to tag for deletion. This option allows you to input a specific file size. All files matching this file size will be tagged for deletion. CLEANUP - Disk Drive Cleanup & Space Recovery ___________________________________________________________ The MANUAL TAG option from the Main Menu allows you to view the list of files and to manually tag or untag files. When you first enter this screen you will be presented with the list of duplicate files. To view all of the files in the system press the [F6] key. Then to switch back to the list of only duplicate files, again press the [F6] key. Tagged files will be marked with a check mark √ next to the name, and will appear in red on color monitors. To view the list use the up and down arrow keys. To tag a particular file press the [ENTER] key. Pressing it a second time will untag the file. To untag a tagged file, highlight the file and press the [ENTER] key. Once again, the [ENTER] key will continue to toggle the tag on and off. When you are done viewing the manual tag list press the [F10] key. Once you are happy with the list of tagged files, choose the ERASE TAGGED option from the main menu. This will erase all files that were previously tagged. There is no UNDO feature on this program so once they are deleted you will have to use an unerase program such as Norton Utilities Quick Unerase to recover any erased files. If you have accidentally deleted a file, do not use the disk drive until the file has been unerased. Changing data anywhere on the disk could result in permanently loosing the information in the file. Notes There have been some reports of problems when using Cleanup in a machine that is running both FASTOPEN and SMARTDRIVE. The best solution is to remove the usage of FASTOPEN as it can cause sorting problems with the file list on large disk drives. COUNT - Count Characters, Words & Lines ___________________________________________________________ Description Count is a program that is useful for programmers or writers who are looking for some content statistics on files that they have created. COUNT will display the amount of characters, words and lines in a given file. Version 1.10 07/12/91 Command Format COUNT [filename] [options] filename is the name of the input file. Multiple file names may be specified but wild cards can not be used. /A don't count non-alphanumeric characters /N only count non-blank lines in line count CURLOCK - Cursor Locking Program ___________________________________________________________ Description This program is especially useful for owners of laptop computers with LCD screen. When using this type of computer is often difficult to see the DOS cursor shape. Using CURSOR to set the cursor shape to a large block, you can then lock the cursor shape as a block so that all software packages will retain the large block cursor. CURLOCK keeps applications from modifying the cursor and rendering unreadable in many situations. CURLOCK intercepts all calls to BIOS interrupt 10h and bypasses any calls to change the cursor shape. Version 2.12 08/12/91 Resident Memory Usage 864 bytes CURLOCK - Cursor Locking Program ___________________________________________________________ Command Format CURLOCK [options] /U Uninstall. Will remove curlock from memory and once again allow the cursor shape to be changed. /NOH Don't display the header information. /ID:nnn TSR installation ID number. CURSOR - Cursor Setting Program ___________________________________________________________ Description CURSOR is a program that lets you control your cursor from the DOS prompt. You can set the cursor to various shapes as listed below. Some software uses the DOS cursor in which case the cursor will stay the same as when you set it using CURSOR. If the software makes it's own cursor then the cursor you create with CURSOR will not function inside this software. Some software resets the DOS cursor to it's own shape. Therefore you might want to put CURSOR in a batch file after this software to reset the cursor to what you want it to be at the DOS prompt. Version 2.00 12/29/90 Command Format CURSOR [/D][/H][/B][/M][/?][/V][/I][/T:nn][/B:nn] /D turns the cursor on to the bootup default underline /H turns the cursor off (hide cursor) /B makes the cursor a full block /M displays the values of the registers for the video call /? displays the help screen /V returns version information /I Interactive Setup. Gives you a full screen editor of your cursor /T:nn set the top scan line of your cursor /B:nn set the bottom scan line of your cursor CURSOR - Cursor Setting Program ___________________________________________________________ Notes CURSOR is not completely compatible with 4DOS. 4DOS always sets the cursor shape at the command line depending upon whether you are in insert or overwrite mode. This can result in a cursor in the middle of the character sell after running CURSOR without locking due to CURSOR using the entire cursor range instead of CGA cursor emulation, which 4DOS does not expect. Proper use of the SETDOS /Sn:n command will normally fix this problem. CUT - Unix like CUT text formatting utility. ___________________________________________________________ Description CUT is another UNIX utility written for the MS-DOS world. For people that are used to UNIX it is a handy familiar tool for displaying and printing text files in different formats by eliminating columns and other formatting options. Version 1.11 05/04/91 Command Format CUT -clist [fname1] [fname2] ... Example CUT -c1-15 test.txt will display all characters in the file test.txt in columns 1 through 15 CUTPASTE - DOS Text Cut & Paste Utility ___________________________________________________________ Purpose Provides an MS-DOS clipboard function similar to one found WINDOWS and MACINTOSH environments. CUTPASTE allows you to pop up over any TEXT based screen and copy information into an internal buffer, to a file or to the printer. You can use CUTPASTE to copy text from one screen and paste it into an editor, word processor on onto the DOS Command line. Version 3.10 08/12/91 Resident Memory Requirements (6k) 5984 bytes (6k) 6352 bytes with Mouse Support Loaded CUTPASTE - DOS Text Cut & Paste Utility ___________________________________________________________ Usage CUTPASTE [options] Options /? Display help /U Unload program /M Enable mouse support /Srr,cc Set screen buffer size (rows and columns) /NOH don't display header information /Knnnn Set hotkey Description The default key to pop up the program is [CTRL][ALT]C Older mouse drivers do not support the function calls necessary for a TSR to use the mouse without messing up the mouse for the interrupted program. In this case the mouse will either stop working when control returns to the interrupted program or it will just disappear, but still work. When the /M switch is used the tsr takes up slightly more resident memory so that there is room for a "mouse save state buffer". CUTPASTE only supports standard text modes (0,1,2,3, or 7). If any other mode is set it will beep with a notify error. CUTPASTE will work with EGA video modes of 43 lines and VGA adapters at 50 lines. CUTPASTE - DOS Text Cut & Paste Utility ___________________________________________________________ When CUTPASTE is activated it displays a block cursor on the current screen. You then navigate the cursor using the arrow keys (or mouse if /M mode is on(. Move the cursor to the upper left hand corner of the text you wish to copy. Now press the [ENTER] key (right mouse button) and the upper left hand corner will be anchored at that spot. Use the arrow keys to create a selection box around the text you wish to copy into the buffer. Once selected press the [ENTER] key to display your options. When the desired area is shown, pressing O outputs the contents to your LPT1 printer. Pressing F allows you to save the information to a new ASCII text file or to append the information to an existing file. If a file of the same name already exists then you will be prompted with a request to overwrite or append to the existing file. Pressing C will copy the text into the internal TSR buffer for later retrieval. If you wish to insert some text onto the screen or keyboard buffer from a previous copy then press [CTRL][ALT]C followed by a P (paste) and the text that was previously copied will be pasted on the screen that you are currently on. DELAY - Delay during bootup or batch files ___________________________________________________________ Description Delay is a utility that can be used to replace the PAUSE command within a batch file. Pause will never continue until a key is pressed, whereas with delay you can set the amount of seconds to pause, and then continue or continue immediately by pressing a key. Pressing [CTRL]C will also cause a break in a batch file that can be monitored with the error level returned by DELAY. This is useful if you are trying to break out of stream of commands from within a large batch file. DELAY can be used in CONFIG.SYS as well as from within BATCH files, this is rather helpful when you are trying to delay the execution of device drivers in order to see what is going by on the screen. Specifying no time on the delay batch line acts the same as PAUSE. This new version replaces the need for a separate file PAUSE.SYS. Version 1.60 05/04/91 Command Format DELAY [time] or DEVICE=DELAY.EXE [time] [time] # of seconds to delay. DETAB - Remove ASCII Tab characters from a text file ___________________________________________________________ Description DETAB is a utility that will strip any tab characters from an text file and convert them into spaces. This is especially useful when working with old formatted .ASM files that you would like to work with in an editor which treats fixed tabs differently. Version 1.50 05/04/91 Command Format DETAB [input file] [output file] [/Tn][/NOH] /Tn Set tab size to n /NOH Suppress display of header Environment Options Set tab size using an environmental variable named TAB. This environmental variable may be overruled by specifying a different one on the command line. DISKINFO - Disk Drive Information Display ___________________________________________________________ Description DISKINFO is a utility that will read the boot sector of a disk and then make a DOS call to find out the information that DOS has for that disk. It will then list out the information in a side by side format so that you may compare the reports from DOS and the boot record. Most items reported are self explanatory. Every disk is divided up into tracks, sectors and clusters. A track is a single ring around a disk. A sector is a pie shaped wedge of a track. A cluster is the smallest unit to which DOS can interact with the disk drive and it is a group of Clusters. The System ID is the 8 byte record that is put on the disk when it is formatted. The Media Descriptor is a byte value that describes what type of media the disk is. Version 1.10 05/16/91 Command Format DISKINFO [d:] d: is the drive to view, if no drive is specified information on the current drive will be displayed. EDIT - DOS Text File Editor ___________________________________________________________ Description SuperEdit is an MS-DOS based full screen editor with many features including text formatting options, multiple windows and pull down menus. You may press F1 and any time during the program to get online help about various features. F10 will display the menu bar. When using a menu choice the equivalent keystrokes of the menu choice will be displayed in the upper left part of the screen. CONFIG.EXE, a keystroke configuration program that allows you to completely customize the editors functions to your own keystrokes, EDIT.HDX, the online help file that is used by CONFIG to create updated help information on customized function key values, and some additional printer drivers. To change these keystrokes to match any editor that you are used to run the CONFIG.EXE program to install the editors keystrokes. Do not modify EDIT.HLP or EDIT.HDX. These are the files used for the online help system and configuration program. These files must appear in the same directory as CONFIG and EDIT in order to be loaded properly. Version 3.04 05/24/91 EVAL - DOS Command Line Calculator ___________________________________________________________ Description EVAL is a program designed to evaluate mathematical expressions input on the command line. Version 1.01 10/08/90 Command Format EVAL [expression][function][expression]... Usage Notes EVAL supports the four basic functions; addition, multiplication, subtraction, and division. The syntax used is very similar to that of the mathematic expressions used by most modern computer languages and by most spreadsheet programs. For example, to add two to eight and multiply that result by thirteen, one would use: EVAL (2+8)*13 EVAL - DOS Command Line Calculator ___________________________________________________________ Exponents The operator precedence used is similar to most high level languages, as well. Multiplication and division are "higher" than addition and subtraction. Exponents, represented by the carat (^) are lower than all four operators. You will find that you can exponentiate values by using ** in place of the carat. Thus, you can use: EVAL 2**1/2 to find 2^0.5. It should be noted, by the way, that this is a good way to find roots. The program has no sqrt() or curt() functions. You may recall from your math courses that, to find the y-th root of x, you can do: x^(1/y) Of course, EVAL will complain if this results in a complex number. For example, the result of the above is complex if x == -4 and y == 4. Range EVAL uses the full "double" precision of the C language. Thus, answers will be represented to a maximum of 16 digits to the right of the decimal point. EVAL allows all numbers between 1.7E-308 and 1.7E+308 to exist. Of course, the negatives of these numbers are also available. It should be noted that EVAL doesn't check for overflows or underflows. EVAL will, however, flag "digital math" nono's, such as division by zero and exponentiations resulting in complex numbers. To use these numbers, just write them as you would specify them in a program like 1-2-3 or in a program: 3.1415 0.1 -34 18.01 35e-2 6.2e+23 EVAL - DOS Command Line Calculator ___________________________________________________________ Modulo Division EVAL, as well as complementing the four functions with exponentiation, allows the use of the modulo operator. This operator provides the integral "remainder" of division. Since 5 divided by two is two remainder one, the command: EVAL 5%2 will result in the answer 1.0. Functions EVAL supports an extensive list of functions, as well. Functions may be specified in either upper or lower case, and may be abbreviated to as little as three characters. (Of course, if the function's name is one or two characters long, all characters must be specified.) These functions are supported by EVAL: abs(x) absolute value of x acos(x) arc cos of the angle x radians acot(x) arc cotangent of the angle x radians acsc(x) arc cosecant of the angle x radians asec(x) arc secant of the angle x radians asin(x) arc sine of the angle x radians atan(x) arc tangent of the angle x radians cos(x) cosine of the angle x radians cot(x) cotangent of the angle x radians csc(x) cosecant of the angle x radians deg(x) convert x radians to degrees exp(x) e to the power of x fact(x) factorial of x EVAL - DOS Command Line Calculator ___________________________________________________________ ln(x) natural (base e) logarithm of x log(x) base 10 logarithm of x pi(x) pi times x rad(x) converts x degrees to radians sec(x) secant of the angle x radians sin(x) sine of the angle x radians tan(x) tangent of the angle x radians sinh(x) hyperbolic sine of x cosh(x) hyperbolic cosine of x tanh(x) hyperbolic tangent of x sech(x) hyperbolic secant of x csch(x) hyperbolic cosecant of x If any of these functions are passed invalid values, EVAL will abort with an error. The arc-trig functions, for example, cannot accept values outside of the closed interval [0,1]. Using these functions is similar to any other high level language. The function name and its ending left parenthesis function as an opening parenthesis in the precedence of the evaluation. Thus, sin(.7)^2+cos(.7)^2 would evaluate to 1.0. You may find that certain identities don't evaluate to what you would expect them to. This is because of the limits of precision in computer math when dealing with irrational numbers. While the sin^2+cos^2 identity almost always works, the sec^2-tan^2 identity usually doesn't work, for example. Along with this problem, another comes. For example, mathematically sec(0.5*pi) is undefined. However, EVAL will evaluate sec(pi(0.5)) to be a very (very) large number. This is again because of the rounding errors in binary math. It is a good approximation, considering lim(sec(x)) == +infinity x -> 0.5+ EVAL - DOS Command Line Calculator ___________________________________________________________ Memory By popular demand, a "memory" feature has been added to EVAL. If you make a computation using EVAL, the result is remembered and may be used as needed in any further invocation of EVAL. For example, using the command: EVAL SIN(1) would display the sine of one radian. If you executed the command: EVAL ASIN(@) next, you'd get, effectively, ASIN(SIN(1))... the result would be one. Similarly, if you used EVAL 35+15 EVAL would print 50. If you did EVAL @+100 a result of 150 would be displayed. EVAL stores the results in your machine's environment. You may see the previous result by typing the SET command; DOS will list the environment variables it has stored. EVAL's environment variable is listed on the line "EVAL". FILEATTR - Set DOS File Attributes ___________________________________________________________ Description FILEATTR allows you to change the attributes of a group of files. If told to, FILEATTR also will search through subdirectories. There are four attributes: Archive, Read-Only, System and Hidden. If a file has the Archive bit set, this means the file has been changed since the last time it was backed up. If a file has the Read-Only bit set, this means the file can be read, but not written to, meaning it CANNOT be changed. If a file has the System bit set, it means this file is a DOS System file and should be left alone. If a file has the Hidden bit set, then you cannot see the file or directory by using the DIR command. You can still run the file, assuming it is executable, or go into the directory, it is just hidden. FILEATTR can search through your directories for files as well. It has a limit of 450 directories it can handle. Version 1.10 05/11/91 Command Format FILEATTR [filespec] [options] [filespec] is any valid DOS file specification including wildcards. FILEATTR - Set DOS File Attributes ___________________________________________________________ Options /A Files with at least the Archive bit set. Search for files with at least the Archive bit set, although there may be other bits set as well. /C Clear all bits. Clears all the bits from a file. You can use the parameter of /ARSH to accomplish this, I just added this to make it easier. /D Change bits on sub-directories. Allows the changing of bits on a sub directory. The only bit that will affect it is the Hidden bit. You can hide or unhide a sub-directory. FILEATTR will allow you to change the other three bits as well if you want. /F Files only - Size, Date and Time are not displayed. Will stop the Size, Date and Time of the file(s) from being displayed. /H Files with at least the Hidden bit set. Will search for files with at least the Hidden bit set, although there may be other bits set as well. /K Kill (Delete) found files. Will kill (delete) all files that are found. Use this command with or without the /V command. If a sub-directory is found, it will be skipped, not deleted. /P Pause every page. Will pause the output every page, which is set for 24 lines. After 24 lines have gone by, a "pause prompt" will appear on line 25. The prompt allows you to hit N for non stop listing, Q or ESC to quit and return to DOS and the subdirectory in which you started from, C to return to DOS but in the current directory or hitting any other key FILEATTR - Set DOS File Attributes ___________________________________________________________ /R Files with at least the Read-Only bit set. Will search for files with at least the Read-Only bit set, although there may be other bits set as well. /S Process files in sub-directories. Allows searching from the CURRENT sub-directory and all sub-directories below it for files. /T Display totals of files found and changed. Will display totals after all files have been found. It will display the total number of files found and files changed. /U Unusual files - those with any bit set. Will find any unusual files. These are files with any bit set. This is similar to the /A command. /V Verify the Deletion of files. Will verify that you want to delete each file. This is used with /K only and has no other meaning if /K is not used. The file will be shown as normal and you will be shown a prompt "Delete? (Y/N/C/Q)" minus the quotes. Hit 'Y' to delete the file and FILEATTR will show you that it has been deleted. Hit 'N' and the file is not deleted. Hit 'C' for continuous deleting from this point on without verification. Hit 'Q' or ESC and the file will not be deleted and you will immediately be returned to DOS and the sub-directory in which you started from. /Y Files with at least the System bit set. Will search for files with at least the System bit set, although there may be other bits set as well. FILEATTR - Set DOS File Attributes ___________________________________________________________ Notes At anytime while FILEATTR is running, you can hit ESC or Q and you will be immediately returned to DOS and the sub-directory at which you started from. Another key you can hit while FILEATTR is running is P, which instantly puts FILEATTR into Pause mode, the same as if you used /P option. You may also hit C at anytime. FILEATTR will return to DOS and the current sub-directory. This is useful when using the /S option, and you see something that makes you want to go to that directory. Examples FILEATTR Will display the help information screen. FILEATTR /cspt a*.zi? Will search for files in the current sub-directory and all subdirectories below that start with A and have ZI in the extension. It will clear all bits on those files and display a total of files found and files changed. FILEATTR will also pause every 24 lines. FILEATTR d: /us Will search for files in the current sub-directory of D: and all sub-directories below it for files with the any bit set. FILEINFO - DOS File Information ___________________________________________________________ Description FILEINFO is a utility that helps alleviate the problem that DOS has created by only allowing 8 characters to describe a file. Many times you have files that aren't accessed that often and can't remember what they are used for. FILEINFO provides a way of adding comments to files in any directory. To run enter FILEINFO from the directory that you wish to describe. Once loaded you will be presented with a list of files and any previous descriptions that were left. Files that are new or haven't yet been described will contain a * after the file information and before the description area. FILEINFO creates a file in each directory that it is run in called FILEINFO. This is a standard ASCII file and can be printed out to show the contents and descriptions of files for that directory. FILEINFO also supports the optional EGA 43 line mode and VGA 50 line mode. If your system is in one of these modes when you run FILEINFO, the file list will be displayed in the proper mode Version 1.10 05/04/91 Command Format FILEINFO FILESIZE - Display File Size Information ___________________________________________________________ Description FILESIZE is a utility that will list each individual file and their respective sizes. A summary at the end of the list gives total size, number of files, total space and drive and space available with a actual and percentage values. You may pass FILESIZE a specific file to list, or group of files. If no parameters are passed FILESIZE will list all files in the current directory. Version 1.23 05/15/91 Command Format FILESIZE [filespec] FILETREE - Display DOS File Structure ___________________________________________________________ Description FILETREE is a utility which will scan the directory structure of a disk and give a top down tree listing of the entire disks directory structure. It groups the listing in a left to right fashion with each subdirectory moving further right across the screen. Pressing [CTRL]C during the scan will halt the program. Version 2.00 05/16/91 Command Format FILETREE [d:] where d: is the drive to scan FINDFILE - Find File on your Disk Drive ___________________________________________________________ Description Locates files by searching the entire disk for a specified file. You may use DOS wildcards to find a group of files as well. The new version of FILEFIND will also search within compressed files to search for filenames as well. FILEFIND searches across your disk looking for any files that you specify. When it finds a matching file it will display the directory the file was found in, the complete file name, the file size, creation date and time, and any attributes associated with the file. Version 2.00 02/15/91 Command Format FINDFILE [filespec] [options] FINDFILE - Find File on your Disk Drive ___________________________________________________________ Options filespec is any valid DOS file specification including Wildcards. /V Verbose mode, will show file statistics /T Total mode, will show file totals and not found names /D Progress Display, will show files as searching /R All Drive mode, will search across all drives found /N normal files only, do not search inside any compressed files (this is a combination of all of the below options) /O do not search inside .ZOO files /Z do not search inside .ZIP files /A do not search inside .ARC files /P do not search inside .PAK files /L do not search inside .LZH files [CTRL]C Will halt the execution of the program at any time. [CTRL]S Will pause the display at any time. HELP - DOS Command Help Facility ___________________________________________________________ Description HELP prints out help messages on some of the more useful and popular DOS commands. To use the utility just type HELP followed by the name of the command that you want help with. Version 1.11 11/16/90 Command Format HELP [command] where command is any of the commands listed below append, assign, attrib, backup, break, chcp, cd, chdir, chkdsk, cls, command, comp, copy, ctty, date, del, dir, diskcomp, diskcopy, edlin, erase, exe2bin, exit, fastopen, fc, fdisk, find, format, graftabl, graphics, join, keyb, label, mem, md, mkdir, mode, more, nlsfunc, path, print, prompt, rd, recover, ren, rename, replace, restore, rmdir, select, set, share, sort, subst, sys, time, tree, type, ver, verify, vol, xcopy HEXDUMP - Hexadecimal Display of File Contents ___________________________________________________________ Description HEXDUMP is a utility that will give you a quick dump of the contents of any file. The dump is very similar in format to what you get with the Norton Utilities file viewer. An advantage of HEXDUMP is that you can quickly dump the contents of any file to the screen without having to load the overhead of a shell program. You can display any type of file ASCII or Binary. The default display is to list the HEX values on the left and the ASCII equivalents on the right hand column. Version 1.20 07/27/91 Command Format HEXDUMP [filename] [options] filename can be any valid DOS file including binary files. /B will dump the file in binary groups rather than hex. /O will dump the file in octal groups rather than hex. /H will display the file in raw hexadecimal format rather than showing the hex and ASCII values side by side /P Pause mode, will pause each screen full HUSH - Speaker Control Utility ___________________________________________________________ Description HUSH is a utility that can eliminate a majority of the sounds generated by the PC's internal speaker. HUSH can not eliminate all beeps. Tones that it can not completely silence, it can reduce to a small click. HUSH is a small TSR which when loaded watches for output to the speaker. When activated, HUSH will try and suppress the speaker 18.2 times a second. Version 1.21 11/23/90 Resident Memory Usage Command Format HUSH [options] Options ON Enable HUSH functions OFF Disable HUSH functions KILLDIR - Remove Directory and it's contents ___________________________________________________________ Description KILLDIR is a utility that will make eliminating a directory and all of it's contents a lot easier. When you run KILLDIR it will display the information about the directory that you wish to remove including the number of files and sizes as well as any subdirectory information. KILLDIR will remove all files and file types including hidden or system files. Version 1.30 07/27/91 Command Format KILLDIR directory [options] Options /sn Display the names of all subdirectories when listing the subdirectory info. /noh No Header Display /nop No Prompt for deletion DANGER !! will erase without a pause LASER - Laser Printer Control ___________________________________________________________ Description LASER helps you set your laser printer's mode and also makes it easy for you to send some control codes to it. It is specifically designed to work with HP LaserJet Compatible Printers but some of the generic functions such as Form Feed, Line Feed and Carriage Return will work with any printer. Version 1.40 10/18/90 Command Format LASER [mode] [mode] ... Options BOLDON Turns on Bolding of all characters BOLDOFF Turns off Bolding Off ITALON Sets the PCL Font to Italics ITALOFF Turns of the PCL Italics LF Send a Line Feed to the printer FF Send Form Feed. This will eject the page that is in the printer. CR Send a Carriage Return to the printer. ESC Sends the ESCAPE code to the printer. ASCII 027. LASER - Laser Printer Control ___________________________________________________________ 6LPI Sets the PCL Font to 6 Lines Per Inch 8LPI Sets the PCL Font to 8 Lines Per Inch 16CPI Sets the PCL Font to 16 Chars Per Inch 10CPI Sets the PCL Font to 10 Chars per Inch PORT Sets the mode to Portrait Orientation for vertical output. LAND Sets the mode to Landscape Orientation for horizontal output. AUTO Tells the printer to use the internal paper tray to feed from. MAN Tells the printer to wait for manually fed pages during print. LEG Set up the printer to use 8 1/2 x 14 Legal sized paper. LET Set up the printer to use 8 1/2 x 11 Letter sized paper. TEST Prints a Test page to the printer. RESET Send the RESET code to the HP Laserjet. PAGEON This parameter is for use with HP Laserjet users that have a Pacific Page Postscript Cartridge installed. This cartridge allows you to emulate an Apple LaserWriter Postscript printer on your HP LaserJet. Some software does not support the Postscript mode, and rather than having to power on and off and insert and remove the cartridge each time you wish to switch modes, you can use laser to set the proper mode of the cartridge. PAGEON tells the Printer to use the PostScript emulation mode. PAGEOFF This tells the Pacific Page cartridge functions to disable and the printer will now except standard PCL commands. LASER - Laser Printer Control ___________________________________________________________ STRING=[text] This parameter allows you to send whatever strings you wish to the printer. It can be used in conjunction with the ESC parameter to select soft fonts and send setup commands. LS - Unix like LS Directory Listing ___________________________________________________________ Description LS is a file listing utility that is found in the Unix operating system. It has many advanced features beyond that of the DIR command found in DOS. This implementation has most of the Unix features built in. This version will also search the environment string for LS=[defaults]. Any options that you set LS= with the SET command will be loaded automatically when you run the program from the DOS prompt. Set your most used parameters in your AUTOEXEC.BAT file and then a plain LS will run those parameters for you. Options as in the Unix LS the switches are case sensitive. Version 1.00 10/24/90 Command Format LS [options] [filespec] Options -1 list in single column -C list in multiple columns -F directories are marked with a trailing '\', system files are marked with a trailing '@' and executable files are marked with a trailing '*' -P print the directory name before listing -R recursively list subdirectories -S sort by file size in bytes (cluster size if option 's' is selected) -a list all entries including hidden and system files LS - Unix like LS Directory Listing ___________________________________________________________ -d list directories as if they were a normal file -f do not sort (list in the order files appear in the directory) -l list in long format ([size in clusters,] mode, size, date, name) -r reverse the order of the selected sort -s list the file size in clusters -t sort by time MOVE - Move Files Across Directories or Drives ___________________________________________________________ Description Moves any file from one place to another. If moving the file from one drive to a different drive, MOVE will first check to make sure that there is enough space on the destination drive. If you don't specify a destination MOVE will assume the current directory and the same file name. Version 3.31 09/02/91 Command Format MOVE source [destination] [options] Options /? Displays Help /C confirm each file before moving /O overwrite all colliding files /X never overwrite colliding files /N overwrite only newer files /A ask before overwriting files (DEFAULT) /H Move Hidden files /R Automatically renames files if possible without prompting /RA Ask you for a new filename for each filespec found /S search subdirectories copying tree structure /SX search subdirectories using destination directory /NOH Suppress Header MOVE - Move Files Across Directories or Drives ___________________________________________________________ Notes When using the renaming feature, hitting the escape key at the input prompt, will ABORT the program. If you do not desire to rename the file, leave the input area blank. Examples MOVE ABC.TXT \DOS This will move the file ABC.TXT to the directory \DOS keeping the same name MOVE \DOS\ABC.TXT This will move the file \DOS\ABC.TXT to the current directory keeping the same name. Notes If a file of the same name already exists where you are trying to move a file to, you will be prompted whether or not you wish to overwrite that file. If a destination is unclear as to whether it is a file name or a directory name MOVE will prompt you to decide for it. If a destination directory does not exist, MOVE will ask you whether or not you would like it to create a new destination directory for you. NAMEDIR - Rename a Directory ___________________________________________________________ PURPOSE NAMEDIR is a utility that is used to rename directories. This program will rename a directory without having to empty or modify it's contents. Version 1.20 12/11/90 Command Format NAMEDIR [olddir] [newdir] NO - DOS File Exclusion Utility ___________________________________________________________ Purpose NO is a utility that gives many DOS commands and external utilities the ability to exclude certain groups of files from the effects of the program called. Version 1.03 08/13/91 Usage NO [filespec] [command parameters] filespec is any valid DOS file specification including wildcards command is any DOS command, or external program parameters normal parameters passed to the command or program NO - DOS File Exclusion Utility ___________________________________________________________ Description NO hides files in the current directory from most programs and utilities by putting the HIDDEN file attribute on. It then calls the command or program with the specified parameters. Once the command is complete, NO will remove the HIDDEN file attribute from the specified files. NO is very useful when using commands such as DEL *.* when you want the action to take effect on all but a certain group of files. NO is recursive which means you can stack groups of excluded files together by stacking NO commands. Examples NO *.EXE DIR will display all files in the current directory with the exception of files ending in .EXE NO FILE.* DEL *.* will delete all files in the current directory except those beginning named FILE with any extension NO *.EXE NO *.COM DEL *.* will delete all files in the current directory except .EXE and .COM files PATHFIND - Find File in the Current Path ___________________________________________________________ Description PATHFIND is a utility that allows you to search the file path for any files. This is handy when you are trying to locate a similar program of file that could exist in multiple places in your path statement. It will display the files that it finds in order of appearance within the path. Version 1.30 02/25/91 Command Format PATHFIND [filespec] filespec is any valid DOS filename including wildcards. PSPRINT - Print ASCII files to a Postscript Printer ___________________________________________________________ Description PSPRINT is a utility that allows you to print DOS ASCII Text files on a PostScript device without any conversion. PSPRINT is based on a unix filter taking STDIN input and sending the converted text to STDOUT output. By rerouting the output to the printer and specifying an input file name PSPRINT will print the file to the printer specified. The default settings may be modified at a run time basis by using the optional parameters on the command line. To set a default output mode you can specify the environment variable PSPOUT=[destination] in your AUTOEXEC.BAT file. By using PSPOUT=LPT1 the output will be redirected to the LPT1 printer port rather than STDOUT. Version 1.40 03/02/91 Command Format PSPRINT [options] filename PSPRINT - Print ASCII files to a Postscript Printer ___________________________________________________________ Options -m[xx] set left margin (in points) (24) -t[xx] set top margin (in points) (24) -l[xx] set leading (points between lines) (11.5) -p[xx] set pointsize of font (10) -f[name] set font name (Courier) -n[xx] number of lines per page (66) -i ignore form feed -c[x] number of copies to print. Default is 1 -noh suppress the header information SCRNATTR - SET DOS Screen Attributes ___________________________________________________________ Description SCNATTR allows you to set the foreground, background and border colors of your monitor. To use it, just type SA followed by three of the allowed parameters. Version 1.11 11/06/90 Command Format SCNATTR [foreground] [background] [border] The following are valid colors: Black, Blue, Green, Cyan, Red, Magenta, Brown, Gray, DarkGray, LightBlue, LightGreen, LightCyan, LightRed, LightMagenta, Yellow, White. SCROLLBK - DOS Screen Scroll Back Utility ___________________________________________________________ Purpose SCROLLBK allows you to capture screen information that has rolled off the top of your screen and buffers it into a conventional or expanded memory buffer. At any time you can then press the SCROLL LOCK key on your keyboard and scroll back through the previous screens. SCROLLBK supports MDA, HERCULES, CGA, EGA and VGA video cards. It supports all text modes that use 80 columns. Version 2.30 08/18/91 Resident Memory Requirements (2k) 2688 bytes Usage SCROLLBK /Mnnnn [/EMS] [/D] [/C] [/?] [+] [-] [/U] [/Ffname] [/A] [/O] /Mnnnn This tells SCROLLBK how much memory to use in nnnn k bytes for the scroll back buffer. Conventional memory will be used unless you specify the /EMS parameter described below. The resident memory usage will be the 2k for overhead + the buffer size unless EMS is used. SCROLLBK - DOS Screen Scroll Back Utility ___________________________________________________________ /EMS Use Expanded Memory for Buffer Space. The amount of memory buffer specified by the /Mnnnn parameter will be used out of EMS rather than conventional memory. EMS 3.2 or 4.0 is supported. The amount of memory in K bytes specified in the /M parameter will be rounded up to the nearest EMS page (16k). /NOH Suppresses the Header display. /D Some video BIOSes have a built in scroll back buffer and will cause the SCROLLBK buffer to have a duplicate of every line that has been displayed. Using this parameter should compensate for the built in buffer and eliminate the double lines. Compaq EGA and Orchid VGA cards are known to have this problem. /C This option will clean out the buffer so that it starts recording with a clean memory from this point on. + Enable SCROLLBK. This turns on the SCROLLBK functions if previously disabled. - Disable SCROLLBK. This leaves the program in memory but turns off the capture and display features. /U Uninstall SCROLLBK. Removes the program from memory if possible. /Ffname Will save the current contents of the scroll back buffer to a file named fname. SCROLLBK - DOS Screen Scroll Back Utility ___________________________________________________________ /A If the /F parameter is used and a file already exists with the same name, this parameter tells SCROLLBK to append the current buffer onto the existing file. /O If the /F parameter is used and a file already exists with the same name, this parameter tells SCROLLBK to overwrite the existing file with the current buffer information. Keys used for the viewing of the scroll back buffer: [SCROLL LOCK] Activates the SCROLLBK viewing feature. Disables the cursor and allows the keystrokes listed below to take effect. Will stay in the viewing mode until [SCROLL LOCK] is pressed again, which will deactivate the viewing mode. Pressing [ESC] will also exit the buffer viewing mode. [UP ARROW] Move up the viewing one line [DOWN ARROW] Move down the viewing one line. [PGUP] Move up in the buffer viewing one Screen [PGDN] Move down the buffer on screen. [HOME] Go to the top of the buffer [END] Go to the bottom of the buffer SPEEDRAM - Increase Performance of System ___________________________________________________________ Purpose SpeedRam increases the speed of your system CPU by changing the refresh rate of your systems 8253 timer chip. All Personal Computers, including the original IBM PC were designed with a very high refresh rate. The rate used by all personal computers is far beyond the rate required by the RAM chips used in these machines. SpeedRam sets the refresh rate to match closer with RAM manufacturers specifications and in turn frees up CPU cycles. These free cycles can be used by your software rather than going to waste by refreshing the RAM too often. The change in refresh rate matches within specifications of most DRAM manufacturers. Depending on your system SpeedRam should increase your CPU's performance from 2% to 10%. You can measure this in many ways such as LANDMARK's CPU SPEED Test or Norton Utilities SI program. What is a REFRESH RATE and what does it do? The memory in your Personal Computer is called DRAM, or Dynamic Random Access Memory. This memory is made of banks of 9 chips each holding up to as much as 4MB of 1 bit data. Each chip in a bank represents one of 9 bits. In Personal Computers, 8 of the bits store data and the 9th bit is called a parity bit, used to determine if the data bits are holding the proper information. DRAM chips can not hold a charge of electricity for a very long time. In fact, a new charge of 5 volts must be supplied about every 65 micro seconds or it will loose its data. To supply this charge, that is refresh, the memory, the CPU must stop processing data and direct the 8253 chip to send the refresh charge to the bank of memory. Once the refresh is done the CPU can continue processing. By reducing the number of times the CPU has to stop to refresh the DRAM is how SpeedRam speeds up your system. SPEEDRAM - Increase Performance of System ___________________________________________________________ SpeedRam is not a TSR. It does not require any RAM or take any away from your system. SpeedRam only needs to be loaded once and will perform until the machine is rebooted. SpeedRam has now loaded and changed your systems speed. Now try loading some software to insure that the system is working properly. Run all the programs that you normally run on your system. Do not load any data that isn't already saved in case SpeedRam causes a problem. If SpeedRam causes any problem, it will cause memory problems, your system will either hang or you will get a Parity Error type message, if have any problems refer to the Trouble Shooting section that follows for further instructions. If everything works fine then you might want to install SpeedRam so it loads every time you boot your machine. If you have any time of Memory or RAM test you can further insure that everything is working properly by running that test. If it reports no problems than it is safe to assume that SpeedRam has no conflicts with your machine. Version 1.10 05/09/91 SPEEDRAM - Increase Performance of System ___________________________________________________________ Command Format SPEEDRAM [option] Options + Enable SpeedRam. Entering a + will enable SpeedRam and set the optimum refresh rate. - Disable SpeedRam. Entering a - will disable SpeedRam and set the refresh rate to stock values. r:nn Set refresh rate to nn Us. Entering r:nn will set the refresh rate to nn micro seconds. Only use this if you have a good understanding of the refresh rates. Setting too high a refresh rate will cause memory Parity errors or hang your system. If you find that SPEEDRAM + causes parity errors or hangs your system than you will want to try this option. SPEEDRAM - Increase Performance of System ___________________________________________________________ TROUBLE SHOOTING SpeedRam has been thoroughly tested on many systems before being released but due to the complexity and variety of equipment available we can not guarantee that it will work on every Personal Computer. If you notice memory errors, parity errors, or that your machine is hanging after running SpeedRam + then the rate that SpeedRam has chosen for your system is causing the DRAM chips to fail. This is in no way a permanent failure, you will just have to pick a lower rate at which to run SpeedRam. To use a manual refresh rate with SpeedRam enter the following: SPEEDRAM r:nn [ENTER] where nn is the refresh rate you wish to use. Start with 60 and retest your system. If you continue to have problems keep decrements the amount by 5 until you reach a value that your system works with. If the value is less than 18 then you will most likely not benefit from SpeedRam. If this is the case contact technical support for further help. If you have to use a manual refresh rate then install with the rate override option, and give it the value that worked with your system when the installation program prompts you. Some problems in benchmarking are caused by TSR or Memory Resident software such as screen blankers or print spoolers. SPEEDRAM - Increase Performance of System ___________________________________________________________ The benchmark ATPERF.EXE from PC Tech Journal which measures overhead is usually not affected by these programs. It is a very good sign of the change SpeedRam has with your program. Norton Utilities SI and Landmarks CPUSPEED can be affected by TSR's and may not show the increase in performance. If notice no improvement in performance try running the benchmarks without any TSR's loaded. If you still see no increase, call technical support. There are some utilities available as Shareware or Public Domain software that perform a similar task to SpeedRam. If you have any of the following you might not see an increase with SpeedRam: NREFRESH.COM 1987 SPEEDER.COM 1987 FASTRAM.COM 1988 FASTV20.COM 1988 ZIP.EXE 1988 (not to be confused with PKZIP archive program) TEXTSRCH - Search Files for Text ___________________________________________________________ Description TEXTSRCH is a utility that will search for all occurrences of a given string inside of a specified text file. It will stop at each occurrence and display the found string, and prompt the user to continue or to exit. Version 1.01 10/24/90 Command Format TEXTSRCH [filespec] [text] TOUCH - File Stamping Utility ___________________________________________________________ Description TOUCH is a unix utility that is used to stamp a file's attributes with the current system date and time. This is useful if you want to have a group of files with identical date and time stamps. Wildcards are acceptable in the filespec. Version 1.20 12/17/90 Command Format TOUCH [filespec] where filespec is any valid DOS file specification including wildcards TURBOBAT - Turbo Batch File Compiler ___________________________________________________________ Description TurboBat allows you to compile standard DOS batch files into .COM binary programs. This will greatly enhance the speed of large batch files by allowing them to run in native code rather than interpreted DOS commands. The resulting .COM files may call nested batch files without loosing the parent since the parent calling program is now no longer a batch file. Version 2.20 07/07/91 Command Format TURBOBAT [filename.BAT] [/I] Options /I ignore labels that don't start with a letter. This is handy if you use the : as a comment field holder in some places. Notes The output will be filename.COM. USEMEM - Programmers Memory Usage Utility ___________________________________________________________ Purpose USEMEM is a utility that allows you to tailor you useable memory to very exact sizes. This is very useful when testing programs or systems and verifying minimum amounts of memory required. Version 1.10 09/03/91 Usage USEMEM [nnnn] [/Tnnnn] [/Ennnn] [/TEnnnn] [/U] Options nnnn amount of conventional memory to use /Tnnnn amount of conventional memory to leave /Ennnn amount of expanded memory to use /TEnnnn amount of expanded memory to leave /U Unload last copy of USEMEM USEMOUSE - Use mouse for Keyboard Emulation ___________________________________________________________ Description USEMOUSE is a utility designed to any DOS application the ability to use the mouse. USEMOUSE makes mouse movement emulate the four directional arrow keys. You can also specify the emulation values for each of the button events of the mouse. USEMOUSE supports most 2 and 3 button mice. Version 1.41 06/25/91 Resident Memory Usage 880 bytes USEMOUSE - Use mouse for Keyboard Emulation ___________________________________________________________ Usage USEMOUSE [/?][/Hn][/Vn][Lxxx][/Cxxx][/Rxxx][/Bxxx][/U] /? display information about program /Hn Horizontal acceleration. Default is 5. 1 is the slowest, 9 is the fastest. /Vn Vertical acceleration. Default is 5. 1 is the slowest, 9 is the fastest. /Lxxx Left Button key value. Default is [ENTER] /Cxxx Center Button key value. Default is /Rxxx Right Button key value. Default is [ESC] /Bxxx Both Button key value. Default is [CTRL]C. see key chart below /U Uninstall. Will remove USEMOUSE from memory. /D Disable the functions but remain in memory /I set the TSR ID number where nn is a hex value from 81-FF Notes USEMOUSE's features can be disabled when running an application that has built in mouse support. In this case you will need to run USEMOUSE to reset the internal tables for USEMOUSE to continue running from non- mouse supported applications. USEMOUSE - Use mouse for Keyboard Emulation ___________________________________________________________ Key Values If you wish to set the USEMOUSE key options to something other than the defaults you must use the chart below to determine the code for that keystroke. Codes above 31 must be preceded with an @ symbol as these are extended key codes. Key Code --- ---- [F1]-[F10] 59-68 [F11]-[F12] 133-134 [ESC] 01 [BKSP] 14 [ENTER] 1C [HOME] 71 [UPARR] 72 [PGUP] 73 [LARR] 75 [RARR] 77 [END] 79 [DNARR] 80 [PGDN] 81 [INS] 82 [DEL] 83 VOLLABEL - Set Disk Volume Label ___________________________________________________________ Description VOLLABEL is a utility that allows you to view and modify the volume label on any disk. The volume label is a 12 digit string that can be placed on any disk to help you recognize what the disk is used for. VOLLABEL also allows you to erase an existing label. This is a replacement for the DOS file LABEL, which is available in DOS 3.0 and greater. VOLLABEL allows a mixture of upper or lower case letters and will prompt you for the information required. Version 1.10 05/16/91 Command Format VOLLABEL [d:] [label] where d: is the drive that the label is to be found on. [label] is any string up to 12 characters to be placed on the disk as the volume label. Defining TSR "HOT KEYS" ___________________________________________________________ Many of our resident utilities allow you to define the combination of keys that you use to activate the program once loaded into memory. This feature allows flexability when using our software in case another product that you are using needs the particular keys that we have defined for some other function. When loading our software you need to give the program a command line option that tells it the new key definition. To calculate this four digit number use the directions below. Keyboard Scan Codes for Hotkey Use Hotkey = $XXYY where: XX = hex code for the [CTRL], [ALT], [LSHIFT] and [RSHIFT] YY = One of the hex codes from the scancode tables below. Computing the XX value: [RSHIFT] = 01 [LSHIFT] = 02 [CTRL] = 04 [ALT] = 08 Note: If XX = $0000 then this is a single key hotkey which will be defined by the YY keycode. Defining TSR "HOT KEYS" ___________________________________________________________ Computing the YY value: The YY value of the "HOT KEY" code is determined by the non-shift state keys. Below is a list of these keys and thier associated codes: Key Code Key Code Key Code --- ---- --- ---- --- ---- A 1E [F1] 3B [ESC] 01 B 30 [F2] 3C [BKSP] 0E C 2E [F3] 3D [ENTER] 1C D 20 [F4] 3E [RSHFT] 36 E 12 [F5] 3F [LSHFT] 2A F 21 [F6] 40 [CTRL] 1D G 22 [F7] 41 [ALT] 38 H 23 [F8] 42 [SPACE] 39 I 17 [F9] 43 [PRTSC] 37 J 24 [F10] 44 [CAPSLK] 3A K 25 [UPARR] 48 L 26 [DNARR] 50 M 32 { [ 1A [PGUP] 49 N 31 } ] 1B [PGDN] 51 O 18 | \ 2B [LFARR] 4B P 19 ? / 35 [RTARR] 4D Q 10 " ' 28 [DEL] 53 R 13 ` ~ 29 [INS] 52 S 1F < , 33 [HOME] 47 T 14 > . 34 [END] 4F U 16 ! 1 02 [NUMLCK] 45 V 2F @ 2 03 [SCRLCK] 46 W 11 # 3 04 [TAB] 0F X 2D $ 4 05 NUMPAD - 4A Y 15 % 5 06 NUMPAD + 4E Z 2C ^ 6 07 NUMPAD 5 4C & 7 08 * 8 09 ( 9 0A ) 0 0B _ - 0C + = 0D : ; 27 Defining TSR "HOT KEYS" ___________________________________________________________ Once you have decided on the keys that you want to use for your "HOT KEY" combination you need to calculate the resulting code. To do this you add up any of the XX value shift keys and combine them with the YY value keys to get a resulting code. All math must be done in hexadecimal or BASE 16. Examples [ALT][LSHIFT] YY = 08 + 02 = 0A XX = 00 CODE = 0A00 [CTRL][RSHIFT] YY = 04 + 01 = 05 XX = 00 CODE = 0500 [ALT][LSHIFT][G] YY = 08 + 02 = 0A XX = 22 CODE = 0A22 [CTRL][F10] YY = 04 XX = 44 CODE = 0444 TECHNICAL SUPPORT ___________________________________________________________ Program bug reports are welcome. If you have any questions feel free to give us a call or write a letter to us at: Foley Hi-Tech Systems 172 Amber Drive San Francisco, CA 93131 8:00am - 5:00pm PST Monday - Friday (415) 826-6084 VOICE (415) 826-1706 FAX (415) 826-1707 BBS 70262,1463 CompuServe Credits _____________________________________________________________ This collection of utilities started out as a small set of home grown tools that I just could not stand to live without. Many times someone would see me using them and ask for a copy. This was a big mistake. All of the sudden I had to debug my code. Someone would call me up and remind me of some problem with a utility that I had written or asked me to just add this one little feature. Six years later the package has evolved to its current state. Along the way I have had the help of many people in testing and ideas for products. I would like to thank all of those people who have of course registered these utilities as this is now a new incentive for continuing to expand them. More specifically I'd like to thank the following people: Kathy Smith. For her never ending understanding and support of this time consuming project. Jay Wessel. Relentless Testing & suggestions. Jay's never ending pursuit to find bugs and abnormalities in the programs is always appreciated. Mike Blaszczak. "Nifty James" shareware author who had some good ideas of which we have expanded upon. Mike is responsible for the original versions of CHIMES, EVAL and FILEFIND. Mike Viens. Mike was the original author of the NAMEDIR and FILEATTR programs. His original utilities where known as the FANTASTIC utilities. Mike Molloy. AREA was based on Mike's original FAC area code TSR. Mike has updated the AREA program with many new features. Bill McKee. Bill helped write and update many of the ExtraDOS utilities including CLEANUP and SHELL. Credits _____________________________________________________________ Ross Wentworth. Ross has been a key help in developing the 4.0 release of this product including work on many of the TSR and Device Driver programs. PC Magazine. PC Magazine has inspired many of these utilities with many good ideas published in the technical articles seen in every issue. Many times we have taken an idea of a program that they have published and made a usable utility out of it. New Utilities Coming _____________________________________________________________ We are constantly updating and writing utilities for the ExtraDOS Toolbox. Below is a list of some of the utilities currently under development: ASKBATCH Ask Questions in a batch file. BATPLUS Enhancements for batch file processing. BOOTB Boot Machine from B: Drive. BROWSE Full featured file browser. DIFF File comparison utility. DIRSORT Sort directories on your disk drive. DISKMAP Displays a graphical representation of your drives structure and usage. DISKTEST Comprehensive test of disk surface, and file structures EMS EMS Memory Manager for 286, 386 and 486 based systems. FASTANSI Replace DOS ANSI with faster and more powerful ANSI.SYS driver. New Utilities Coming _____________________________________________________________ FREERAM Quick display of Memory Usage in system. KEYCLICK Customize the sound generated when pressing keys. LQPRINT Makes 9 pin Dot Matrix Printers print Near Letter Quality. MORE Screen holding utility for display pages. PASTE Unix like PASTE function. PMPTMGR Library of Customized DOS Prompts and utility to remap function keys. PROFILER System Profiler. Shows hardware and software installed in your system. RAMDISK FAST RAM disk for Extended or EMS Memory. RAMTEST RAM Diagnostic and Bad Chip locating utility. New Utilities Coming _____________________________________________________________ RECALL Recall DOS commands. Buffers all commands entered at the DOS prompt. SCNSAVER Screen Saver. Blanks screen after no use of system. SYSINFO System Information utility. Displays a list of installed equipment. SORTFILE Sort information in ASCII Files. TOUCHSHT Allows you to press a state key and then release it while holding it's state. TSRMGR TSR Management tools for removing TSR's from memory. VSPEED Increase the performance of your video card in text mode. New Utilities Coming _____________________________________________________________ WIDEDIR A replacement for the DOS dir command. XCHDIR Smart Directory Changer. Allows the quick change of directories. XSPOOL XDOS Print Spooler. FHTS Products _____________________________________________________________ ExtraDOS Toolbox Professional■. A large collection of over 50 utilities that DOS forgot. Includes many helpful utilities that enhance MS-DOS machines. Featured in the DOS Power Tools, 2nd Edition, Revised for DOS 5.0 book by Bantam Books. Safety Disk■ . Safety Disk saves all of your systems vital information and will solve most problems due to: Loss of battery power, Loss of CMOS information, accidental deletion of boot files, virus damage to boot disk. Coach Database System■. CDBS provides a method for tracking and evaluating NBA teams, NBA players, and college players. It supplies a comprehensive report generator for building decision support reports on scouted players. Press Gate Manager■. Software for event organizers. Creates and maintains a database of events and guests with the ability to track seating by type, location, and person. Produces seating charts and labels for press passes. FINDB■. Financial Database System for tracking shareholders in a company. Allows the instant retrieval of information based on any part of a persons account id, ss#, zip code etc. Has support for completely customized HP Laserjet tax forms. Ideal for generating K1 tax reports for limited partnerships. StatView■. Software that keeps track of all players in the NBA. Includes dial in capability for daily updates on transactions, statistics and penalties.