Software of the Month Club March 1995 GENERAL INTEREST DayMaster v4.10 = DAYMST.ZIP by Unicorn Software Limited DayMaster is a rare gem it's useful, informative and entertaining. Every day you get the scoop on historical events, births and anniversaries that are observed on that date. You can set it to give you reminders daily, weekly, monthly, annually, for a range of dates, or for just one occurrence. You can even add your own special "historical" dates. DELEXT v2.2 = DELEXT.ZIP by Robert C. Brackel Many applications create temporary files which can become inconvenient space hogs. These files often remain on your hard drive even after the application is finished with them. Some applications leave them as backups to modified files. Finding and deleting these temporary files can be tedious and annoying. DELEXT hunts them out and deletes them for you hassle free. Simply create a text file containing the file extensions you want deleted and run DELEXT. It searches your entire drive and deletes all files with the specified extensions. You can even exclude specified subdirectories from the search. A real time saver. DISK COPY FAST v4.9 =DCF49.ZIP by Chang Ping Lee is a one pass diskette duplication utility which makes copies of 1.44 MB, 720 KB, 1.2 MB and 360 KB diskettes. DISK COPY FAST is incredibly fast. For example, using DOS command DISKCOPY to duplicate a 360 KB, 1.2 MB, 720 KB or 1.44 Mb diskette, assuming diskette shuffling doesn't take any time, will take 43%, 50%, 42% or 57% longer than using DISK COPY FAST. Add up the shuffling time the saving becomes unbelievable. More importantly, DISK COPY FAST achieves its high performance by precise timing, not by sacrificing compatibility. Every single read, write or format is done following the industry standard, strictly, no compromise! DISK MONITOR = DISKMON.ZIP by Karl Lager Diskmon was designed to keep track of changes made to a disk during software installation. The first time you run diskmon it reads all of the directories and subdirectories on the target disk and stores the data to a data file. You can then load your software and, when you are done installing, run diskmon again. Diskmon will prompt you for the name of the software package you installed, and then re-read the disk directories, making a list of all the direcories that have been added or deleted and all the files that have been added, deleted, or changed. This list is saved to a file in the same directory as diskmon.exe. MAC-ETTE v3.0U =MACETT30.ZIP by Paul E. Thomson Work in an office that has both IBM's and MAC's, they can read our disks. Now we can read theirs. By following several simple steps, described in the documentation, you can exchange files between the two. Mac-ette is a PC utility which can read, write, format and duplicate Macintosh HFS format 1.4 Meg diskettes on a PC equipped with a 3.5 inch high density diskette drive. Ministry of Buttons = MOD100.ZIP by UNKNOWN This is a driver for Windows 3.1x that puts a button bar into your Windows. You can create buttons to do almost everything that you can do. Create a button to run a program, open a document, exit Windows, arrange your icons or whatever you choose. This little program can easily save you time. Note: Requires Windows 3.1x QEdit Advanced v3.00C = QEDIT.ZIP by SemWare Corporation A blazingly fast, multi-file, multi-window, compact DOS text editor. Powerful and easy to use. Our favorite features? First is its fast operation and we mean fast! File loading, displaying and updating screens, searching, saving are all a snap! Second, this text editor is easy to use. You get optional "pull-down" menus, a customizable help screen and a pop-up file directory and picker. Last, QEdit is compact. It supports macros; column blocks; variable, smart, and fixed tabs; and basic word processing features. All this and it"s user configurable. The perfect solution to your text editing needs. SimuDOS v2.0 = SIMUDOS.ZIP by Bridge Learning Systems, Inc.Are you new to computers? Does the stark, blinking cursor on the DOS command line give you an uneasy feeling? SimuDOS is a friendly, tireless teacher. You get a tutorial and a simulated DOS environment where you can practice the ins and outs of DOS. Let SimuDOS make you a PC power user.