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FREE Utility Programs with source
Howard Richoux
May 2, 1994
The concept I am trying to push is the cooperative creation
and maintenance of a comprehensive TP7 DOS code library. Maybe the
way to convince people of the need is to demonstrate its usefulness.
I am packaging up a group of utility programs I have written. These are
now PUBLIC DOMAIN (even though many still list a copyright to HNR Software).
Caveat - Many of these "just grew" and are still growing. I use
them until they don't do what I want then I improve them, or start over.
Source for everything is bundled into the CServe PUBLIB.ZIP in the GENERAL
section. If you want to experiment with public domain library concepts, or
play with modifying these utilities, down-load and have fun. Hopefully, in
the next few weeks, a true PUBLIB V1.00 can be constructed with reasonably
permanent structure and naming. This should be the real starting point
for coding.
In the mean time, these EXE files and accompanying (sparse) documentation
will serve as a useful concept prover.
One last caveat - I didn't say these were small - just useful. For
example, the DDIR.EXE program is 24k replacing a DDIR.com I had been using
which was under 1k. But somebody else owned that one, there are real or
imagined restrictions on my re-distributing of it, and if it didn't exactly
fit my desires, I couldn't change it. Disk space is getting very cheap these
days, and 24k loads and runs as quickly as 1k.
1. DDIR - the old DoubleDirectory.