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- Tessler's Nifty Tools (TNT) Release 3.4
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- <<< SHAREWARE >>>
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- Copyright (c) 1987-1993
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- TNT is a collection of over 25 useful SHAREWARE MS-DOS programs. Many TNT
- programs are featured in COMPUTE, INFOWORLD, and COMPUTER magazines. The
- latest versions of TNT programs are posted in Compuserve's IBMSYS, IBMCOM, and
- IBMHW areas under the common keyword of TNT. Registered users of any program
- will receive the complete collection for review.
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- Each program is individually priced at $19. Special prices with substantial
- savings exist for partial and complete collection purchases. Contact me for
- more information. Monetary contributions and any ideas for enhancements may be
- sent to:
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- Tessler's Nifty Tools (TNT) Release 3.4
- 430 Canyon Woods Place Suite A
- San Ramon, Ca. 94583
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- CompuServe: 71044,542
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- **************************************
- ** Summary of programs: **
- **************************************
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- CAPSTAT.EXE Sets DOS ERRORLEVEL to 0 if your local printer is NOT being
- captured to a Novell printer. Sets it to 1 if it IS being
- captured.
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- CHEK4DUP.EXE Generates a list of files that exist in both .EXE and .COM
- form. This usually occurs when software is upgraded from a COM
- format to an EXE format and the old COM version is
- accidentally left on the system when the new EXE form is put
- onto the system. DOS will always invoke the COM form before
- the EXE form program so you should delete the older COM program
- if required. Useful to avoid having old versions of software on
- your system.
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- CONTROLP Allows the user to turn on screen to printer echoing as if the
- user had pressed Ctrl-P or Ctrl-PrtSc. DesqView compatible.
- Status mode too. Great for use within batch files.
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- COMSPEED Returns the actual baud rate that a COM (serial) port is set
- to. With today's high speed modems that can adjust their phone
- line and data rate (speed) automatically, it is often very
- difficult to determine if your line is operating at the proper
- rate. Use COMSPEED to check your COM port's data rate after
- establishing a data connection.
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- COPYWA.EXE Copies files while preserving the source file's read-only
- attribute. Does it the way XCOPY should have done it.
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- CRTDUMP.EXE Copies the contents of either a color or monochrome monitor to
- a specified file.
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- DIR2BAT.EXE Will write a listing of drive_path_file specs matching the
- user's entered file specification to the file DIR2.BAT. Each
- file specification found may be prefixed and suffixed by
- user provided strings. This batch file will then be able to
- perform actions to the files.....
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- For example, if your C: disk contains the following files:
- README.DOC TESTME.DOC LIST.DOC PRINTER.DOC
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- Then the command:
- DIR2BAT C:*.DOC /S /A "ATTRIB -R ! /S" "DEL !"
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- will append the following lines to an existing DIR2.BAT file:
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- ATTRIB -R C:\README.DOC /S
- DEL C:\README.DOC
- ATTRIB -R C:\TESTME.DOC /S
- DEL C:\TESTME.DOC
- ATTRIB -R C:\LIST.DOC /S
- DEL C:\LIST.DOC
- ATTRIB -R C:\PRINTER.DOC /S
- DEL C:\PRINTER.DOC
- <eof>
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- DVCPU.EXE is a DesqView utility program that is meant to be run right
- before running a program that requires full usage of the CPU's
- computing power. It pops up the DesqView window and sets
- 'Share CPU when in Foreground' to 'Y' or 'N' depending on the
- parameter entered. It useful for programs that insist on
- running in a non-multitasking environment such as voice
- sampling and digitization programs.
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- DVPROMPT.EXE Facilitates naming of DOS windows under DesqView. For example,
- upon opening and using several DOS windows with command line
- programs, the user often finds it difficult to remember
- which window he/she was doing what task in. Since each window
- has the same DOS prompt, DOS gives him/her no visual clue to
- the identification of the current window.
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- This program will change each DOS window's DOS prompt into the
- typical form of:
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- 1 C:\>
- 2 C:\>
- 3 C:\> etc.
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- PROMPT n <user_string>
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- where n is the counter value of this DesqView window in
- DesqView's 'switch' window and the user_string is a PROMPT
- string (typically $P$G). If the user_string contains spaces,
- enclose it with double quotes.
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- A useful example is as follows: Assume that DesqView invokes
- AUTOEXEC.BAT as "AUTOEXEC X" whenever it opens a DOS
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- command shell. Let AUTOEXEC.BAT contain:
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- VERIFY OFF
- PATH = C:\;C:\DOS;C:\WPROC
- IF %1Y==Y GOTO NOT_UNDER_DV
- REM INVOKED BY DESQVIEW
- DVPROMPT $P$G
- TEMP <- DOS jumps to this batch file to set the prompt
- :NOT_UNDER_DV
- REM INVOKED BY PC UPON POWER-UP
- DEL DVPROMPT.DAT <- reset the counter to 1.
- PROMPT $P$G
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- DVRUN.EXE A DesqView utility program that returns ERRORLEVEL = 0 if
- DesqView is running or 1 if it is not.
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- EXPNDTAB.EXE Copies the file matching the source filespec to the
- destination filespec with any source file <tab> characters
- expanded into space characters into the destination file.
- Great for printers that can't handle tabs but you still want
- the formatting/alignment preserved.
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- FEEFIFO.EXE Enables the FIFO of a 16550A serial UART chip at the COM port
- specified by the user. Also sets the FIFO depth to 1,4,8, or
- 14. Use in status mode to determine what type of serial chip
- you have.
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- GROWP.COM Unique TSR gives visual indication of shelled process via C:>
- prompt to avoid turning off PC when a program is suspended and
- is shelled to DOS. Any time you have a master program
- (including Windows) running in the background, GROWP changes
- your prompt. Only program of its kind in industry. Avoids DOS 6
- disk corruption. This resident program requires about 1400
- bytes of resident RAM to add a default '>' or user
- entered growth character to the environment's 'PROMPT'
- string each time another copy of COMMAND.COM is shelled
- and to remove the growth character when the copy
- of COMMAND.COM is terminated. GROWP requires DOS version
- 3.0 or higher. Each growth character represents a
- suspended program in RAM and gives you a visual warning
- that you should not turn-off your PC before returning to
- the suspended program and gracefully exiting it.
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- IFONSCRN.EXE IFONSCRN will examine the video screen for the appearance of up
- to three case-sensitive trigger (search) character strings.
- Great for programs that don't return errorlevel (like
- compilers) but you need to know if they terminated with an
- error condition. Also runs as TSR with sound/beep/dialog box
- alert modes. Can control parallel port devices too. IFONSCRN
- may be run as a TSR (RAM-resident) or as a non-TSR program
- (CL mode). If IFONSCRN is running in the command line (CL
- -non-resident) mode, and it finds one of the trigger strings,
- it sets the DOS ERRORLEVEL to 0 (zero) , else if it is not
- found, it will be set to 1 (one).
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- In either TSR or CL mode, after finding the trigger string, an
- optional window may pop up with the user's message. Different
- types of beeps may be associated with the window, including
- the ability to control an external parallel port device.
- After pressing any key to clear the window, optional keystrokes
- may be automatically sent to the foreground program (TSR mode
- only).
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- PARKHEAD.EXE Parks up to 2 hard (fixed) disk's heads over the disk's
- shipping area where user data doesn't reside. Runs on IBM
- PC/286/386/486/pentium and most compatible clones. One of the
- first head parkers ever written.
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- PDEL.EXE PERMANENTLY deletes with verification, your specified filename.
- You will be prompted to press 'Y'<cr> to delete the specific
- file. The deleted file can not be recovered.
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- PLAYER.EXE Plays a WAVE or VOC formatted sound file on a Sound Blaster or
- Sound Blaster Pro or Pro or Audio 16 card.
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- PRTSCRFF.EXE Appends a form-feed (paper eject) command to your printer
- whenever you press the PrintScreen key. Very useful to
- keep your printer always at its top-of-form position. For
- laser printers, this saves you from taking the printer
- off-line, and pressing the PageEject button.
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- RLIST.EXE Prints a range of lines from a file to the console or printer.
- Useful to view a portion of a file's contents.
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- RWDIR.EXE Generates a list of non-read-only files. Useful to keep track
- of the few files on your system that are read-writable since
- the cautious user will have the majority of his/her files
- marked as read-only. Certain applications require their files
- to read-writable so not every file may be set to read-only.
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- SETBEEP.COM Installs itself as a RAM-resident program that will set the
- beep character's (ASCII decimal 7 or control-G) duration to a
- user specified value. The default beep tone duration is 1
- second which is too long and annoying for many people. The
- beep can even be disabled to provide for a truly silent PC.
- This program intercepts BIOS interrupt 10h WRITE_TTY.
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- TUNE4DAY.EXE Plays a voice file(s) upon invocation. TUNE4DAY uses
- TUNE4DAY.INI to control its operation. It maintains a pointer
- in this file to control which file(s) it will act upon
- during its next invocation. It runs a command on this
- file(s). Even though TUNE4DAY is meant to traverse down a
- directory of sound files and play the next sequential
- file(s), it can be used to perform any command on a directory
- of any type of files. Displays a random saying each time it is
- run. User can add his/her own 'sayings' to the data file.
- Package includes pseudo-Murphy's computer laws. Uses TNT's
- PLAYER program.
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- VDEL.EXE Will delete with verification, files that match your filename
- specification. You will be prompted to press 'Y' to delete the
- specific file. 'Read-only' files will prompt you for an
- additional 'Y' to be deleted.
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- VERS.COM Installs itself as a RAM-resident program that will set the DOS
- versions to a user specified value. This is useful when running
- programs that require a specific DOS version for no useful
- reason. (Many DOS supplemental programs require specific
- versions for no reason. For example, if you are running DOS 3.1
- but like DOS 3.2's ATTRIB.EXE '/S' sub-directory search option,
- you could set VERS to 3.2, then run ATTRIB and then reset it
- back to 3.1). TSR lets you set DOS' two versions - the TRUE and
- FAKE versions that applications may ask for... Works better
- then SETVER. Fool programs on what version they're running
- under. You read about this in INFOWORLD!
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- ZDIR.EXE Reports the sizes of files specified in a format appropriate
- for managing large disks.
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