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News on TSUTLF, Sixth set of Utilities, in reverse order
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University of Vaasa, Finland, Linux Pentium garbo.uwasa.fi has a
large collection of PD and shareware PC programs available by
anonymous ftp and mail server. The file 0news-ts contains news about
the TS-programs (in reverse order). This text, which you now have,
is an extract from the ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/ts/0news-ts file.
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Prof. Timo Salmi Co-moderator of news:comp.archives.msdos.announce
Moderating at ftp:// & http://garbo.uwasa.fi archives 193.166.120.5
Department of Accounting and Business Finance ; University of Vaasa
ts@uwasa.fi http://uwasa.fi/~ts BBS 961-3170972; FIN-65101, Finland
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Thu 27-Jul-95: The ordinary MS-DOS commands mkdir, rmdir and chdir
cannot handle directory names with blanks in them. I have added
GOTODIR.EXE Generalized change directory
to complement
DELEDIR.EXE Generalized delete directory
MAKEDIR.EXE Generalized create directory
It is part of the updated
ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/ts/tsutlf15.zip
Timo's 6th utility set (advdate,choose,deledir,strings,strmemo,)
Thu 24-Feb-94: Wrote the following two programs and added them to
the update garbo.uwasa.fi:/pc/ts/tsutlf14.zip.
DELEDIR.EXE Generalized delete directory
MAKEDIR.EXE Generalized create directory
Contrary to the MsDos rmdir and mkdir these programs allow using
blanks.
Sat 7-Aug-93: Programmed "CHOOSE.EXE Ask questions in batch files".
MsDos 6.0 finally included a CHOICE command for making user choices
in batches. CHOOSE simulates CHOICE for the earlier MsDos versions
reasonably accurately. The idea is that if you have obtained a batch
that uses CHOICE, but you don't have MsDos 6.0, you can still
utilize the batch. The syntax is naturally based on MicroSoft's,
except for the addition of the help switch. The actual CHOOSE
program is a Turbo Pascal 5.0 program based the author's own,
earlier ASK program for making choices in batches. Contrary to
CHOICE, CHOOSE handles also the /t:c,0 timeout correctly.
There is also a companion batch file "CHTEST.BAT An example of
using CHOOSE.EXE".
These files are available in garbo.uwasa.fi:/pc/ts/tsutlf13.zip.
Fri 16-Apr-93: I have written
ADVDATE.EXE "Advance system clock's date"
Usage: ADVDATE [[+/-]numberOfDays]
If you have MsDos 3.3+ also the CMOS date is updated.
The program is in the updated garbo.uwasa.fi:/pc/ts/tsutlf12.zip.
Sun 7-Feb-93: Peter Weighill (stuce@csv.warwick.ac.uk) noticed that
my STRMEMO.EXE "Find strings in your PC's memory" has the bug of not
allowing an E as part of the hexadecimal starting address or the
ending address for the memory string search. This kind of feedback
is very useful to me. I have corrected this bug, and consequently
update the relevant collection to be garbo.uwasa.fi:/pc/ts/
tsutlf11.zip.
While I was at it I noticed another bug myself which concerns
both STRMEMO.EXE and STRINGS.EXE "Find a file's embedded strings".
If the output was redirected, the beep belonging to the error
message went to the redirected destination istead of the standard
output. This has been corrected.
Mon 16-Nov-92: I have started the sixth utility assortment of mine.
It is garbo.uwasa.fi:/pc/ts/tsutlf10.zip.
The new collection includes STRINGS.EXE for finding the embedded
strings from a text or a binary file. It also gives the hexadecimal
offset of each string found.
The second program in the new collection is STRMEMO.EXE which can
be used for scanning your PC's memory for strings. You'll probably
find some interesting information in there.
An optional switch to use the Scandinavian string definition in
the search is provided.