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====[ Bulletin 1 -- New Files ]=================================== Computer Connections PCBoard, Washington, D.C., 2400/1200 (202) 547-2008 -- Public; (202) 547-7621 -- Limited Access Brief comments on some of the new files added to the system: [09-30-86] JCAL14.ARC 32768 09-30-86 Jewish <--> Gregorian calendar converter v1.4 So, what was wrong with version 1.0? In any event, this is an updated version of the program and comes complete with a good doc file this time. U/L by Bob Weinstein. SLS_FCST.ARC 26112 09-30-86 Time series sales forecasting/ TP source only Projects sales by unit. U/L by Bill Asp. PCDBMS20.ARC 177091 09-30-86 Relational DBMS v2.0 now with calc fields PC-DBMS is a full-featured, relational DBMS. It is by no means as easy to use as File Express, but the latter is not relational. Features of PC-DBMS include: - Dynamically formatted full screen forms for data entry, retrieval and editing and for "fill in the blanks" query composition. - A query command that can retrieve selected records from one or two tables, optionally sorting them. - Dynamic files, i.e., the capability to create new, defined tables from query results. - A fast screen editor for command composition with previous command recall. The editor features word wrapping and flying reform. - A menu-based help system. - Files containing the data tables look just like the tables, facilitating import and export. - Indexing with automatic index update on data entry, deletion or modification. No operation requires existence of an index. - Optional use of color. - Integrated data dictionary but kept in its own file. - Entire dbms contained in one EXE file. The documentation is quite good and complete and the program is not at all crippled, to my knowledge. U/L by Loren Olson. TIMEDGET.ARC 1414 09-30-86 Choices in batch files with timed defaults Similar in some respects to TIME(R), though a bit simpler, this program simply pauses and sets one errorlevel if the spacebar is pressed and another if any other key is pressed or if 12 seconds elapse with no keypress. A useful batch file tool. U/L by Loren Olson. FORMFEED.ARC 478 09-30-86 Mem-res: formfeed and PrtSc with formfeed U/L by Octavian Refrano. [09-29-86] TIMEBOOT.ARC 2048 09-29-86 Time a re-boot in a batch file Interesting program. It's mem-res (takes less than 1/2K) and you set it to reboot your computer X hours/mins from now, up to 59 hours away. It works exactly as it should, but why would you want to do this? I suppose if I were feeling mean I could run it on this system .... nah, there have to be more practical uses for it than that. U/L by Tom Weyer. NECP5.ARC 1920 09-29-86 Pop-up menu for NEC P5 printer control U/L by Tom Weyer. PIBCRC.ARC 2304 09-29-86 Tabular CRC calc in Turbo for Xmodem Tabular method for CRC calculations implemented in Turbo Pascal. U/L and written by Philip Burns. [09-28-86] PIBMDOS.ARC 30208 09-28-86 Multitasker interface routines for Turbo Pasc Philip Burns has released the source code for some routines to interface several popular multitaskers to Turbo Pascal. Currently, interfaces are provided for: IBM's TopView (and MicroSoft Windows by emulation of TopView) Quarterdeck's DesqView Sunny Hill Software's TaskView SoftLogic's DoubleDos A demo program, showing use of the routines, is also provided. U/L and written by Philip Burns. ABORT.ARC 4096 09-28-86 Break out of program loops w/ source A program to trap the Control-C key and to abort the currently resident process (such as the DSI Loader). U/L by John Howard. IGNORE.ARC 6144 09-28-86 Ignore ECC codes when reading files v1.0 Helps salvage disk files that have CRC or ECC errors. U/L by John Howard. DIFFL.ARC 15872 09-28-86 CP/M diffl ported to DOS/compare text files An old CP/M favorite by Richard Greenlaw, ported to DOS (v1.0 9/20/86), one of the better compare text files utilities, and includes C source. U/L by Ray Malitzke. AUTOMAXX.ARC 79872 09-28-86 DOS menu/shell program/formerly AUTOMENU III You're going to need a scorecard for this one. First there was Marshall McGee's AUTOMENU (v3.01 of which is still on this system -- I noticed an ad for 4.0 in PC Mag so I assume it has gone commercial). Then, a different author, William Smith, imitated the design of AUTOMENU but made some improvements while he was at it. That was here as AUTO3.ARC. He has now changed the name to AUTOMAXX and this is version 2.1 of that program. Got it? In any event, this is a good menu program, with a great deal of flexibility in setting up an environment for users. It is also a file manager and DOS shell. Major changes for this version, in addition to the shell capabilities, are the addition of a calendar and printer interface routines. For those who have already invested a great deal of time building a menu system with the earlier version, an easy upgrade procedure is provided. U/L by Paul Gorski. MAPMAKER.ARC 177152 09-28-86 Good map-making program A quote from the doc will have to suffice as I can barely find Europe on a map: MapMaker produces two common forms of quantitative maps; CHOROPLETH (Area Coloring) and GRADUATED CIRCLE, on an IBM/PC color monitor, and if desired, in black and white on a matrix printer. Any set of statistical values may be displayed for corresponding geographical areas. Map areas must be comprised of bounded units such as states, counties, census tracts, or areas delineated by the user. On any given map, only one variable is shown for each map unit. Choropleth maps display statistical variables by using a sequence of colors (maximum of 3). Circle maps represent data with proportionately- sized circles. Proper usage of both map forms is discussed in detail later in the manual. MapMaker can also save and later recall screen images without going through the create process. U/L by Dean Wood. [09-27-86] TINYLIST.ARC 14001 09-27-86 Very tiny print: up to 20K per page w/PAS You're going to need a magnifying glass to read the output from this one, but by using the tiniest print available on IBM/Epson printers and printing 2 columns per page, this sure gets a lot of text on each piece of paper. With TP source so you can modify for other printers. MAKEMEM2.ARC 28600 09-27-86 Create/List dBase 3 .mem files,bugs fixed This is ver 2 of both MAKEMEM and READMEM. Both can handle numeric variables. Bugs fixed described well in BUGFIX.TXT inside ARC. Allows your dBase pgms to communicate with the outside world by importing text as memory variables that your dBase program can process. I like these programs. Includes PARSE (clever, text file line manipulator), READMEM (show vars in MEM), CHKPRINT (checks printer ready). Description (and file, for that matter) from Pete Olympia's Darwin system. PRODOC24.ARC 117024 09-27-86 ProComm 2.4 doc without Epson formatting This file is NOT listed on a dir. The doc file in PRCM24B.ARC is formatted for an Epson or compatible. The version in this archive is plain ascii and should print on any printer, including a laser printer. ANSILABL.ARC 15360 09-27-86 Label generator for Citizen/Epson/IBM Gr 1.3 ANSILABL generates custom-printed 1-Up 15/16" x 3-1/2" labels. You must have your ANSI.SYS or compatible console driver loaded via your CONFIG.SYS file. This program also assumes the user has a CGA card and color monitor. You can print up to four lines of text on the labels using the many different modes available from the Citizen / Epson / IBM Graphic printers. U/L and written by Steven Sanders. TP-SUBST.ARC 11264 09-27-86 Multiple phrase search/replace for TP source A specialized pattern search and replace facility for Turbo Pascal source code. It will take a list of find/replace pairs and apply those substitutions throughout an entire source program and all of its include files. SUBST actually parses the source code into Pascal identifiers so that substitutions will occur on whole words only, and will not affect string literals or comments. U/L by Craig Hulvey. PAS only. HGCIBM.ARC 7780 09-27-86 CGA Graphics on Hercules cards-untested U/L by Lewis Dozier. BASAID40.ARC 104080 09-27-86 BasicAid 4.0: Xref, Compress, etc. 9/86 The venerable BasicAid xref and optimize package. Handles the new basic compilers and source code saved in any form. The author is no longer distributing the source, so EXE and DOC only in this archive. XONE2.ARC 9303 09-27-86 Make ARC from member file(s) v2 V.Buerg w/asm Vern Buerg did this program by special request, but it has general applicability. What it will do is make separate archives from one or more files in an archive. Thus: XONE TEST FILE.TXT will make a separate archive out of FILE.TXT. This is done without uncompressing the file, so it is fast as .... Vern has also included the assembler source which is well-commented and useful in learning a bit more about archive formats. U/L and written by Vern Buerg. [09-26-86] ACCTS22.ARC 95607 09-26-86 Home accounting/budget program v2.22 Very minor changes to version 2.20, which was already on this system, this is a good, but by no means great, consolidated home accounting and budget system. U/L by Mark Rapp. NEW-MOVE.ARC 2165 09-26-86 MOVE util: wildcards/across devices/ 09-26-86 excellent command line parsing: BEST? It figures. I just revised the "Best" list on this system a couple of days ago and look what shows up -- a strong contender for the best "move" file util. This one does everything done by NMOVE586 -- it handles wildcards, "moves" files across devices if necessary, etc. -- and it is even smaller, by a few bytes, than NMOVE. Plus, it will accept the following command line: MV file1 file2 file3 ... \subdir which would choke NMOVE. That's very nifty command line parsing. There is only one other difference: NMOVE requires you to use a /D switch to overwrite an existing file; this program overwrites by default unless you use a /P switch. I think I prefer NMOVE's approach, but six of one .... This is an excellent, little program. CSTUFF.ARC 7936 09-26-86 Miscellaneous MSC 3.0/4.0 routines It'll take me longer to describe each of these than it will for you to download them. A nice selection of little routines, in C and ASM. U/L by Don Conover. [09-25-86] GSETUP14.ARC 17664 09-25-86 Generic SETUP program for AT & clones v1.4 Does essentially all the same things as IBM's SETUP program for the AT but does not require you to reboot your system as does IBM's and can be run from the hard disk. Very handy. U/L by Lee Winsor. TP-ARRAY.ARC 2048 09-25-86 Variable sized arrays in TURBO Allow array sizes to be defined dynamically as your program runs. U/L by Stephen Falatko. DISKFREE.ARC 10880 09-25-86 Show disk usage by subdir incl slack space Gives a nicely formatted display of all or specified subdirs on your disk, including files, and tells you total space usage per subdir, including slack space, and for the disk as a whole. U/L by Jay Robb. DB3STOCK.ARC 29696 09-25-86 Miscellaneous routines for dBase3/Clipper The name is misleading. This is not an inventory program written in dBase III. Rather, it's a set of "stock" routines that you can incorporate in your own programs, with a heavy emphasis on user interface. Source and Clipper-linkable object file provided. U/L by Bill Asp. RES86DOC.ARC 15616 09-25-86 Documentation for res86.arc disassembler. Better late than never, a DOS version of Ward Christensen's CP/M disassembler has been on this system for quite a while. Here's some documentation for it. U/L by Jack Velte. [09-24-86] EM3270.ARC 59392 09-24-86 TPascal 3270 emulation routines A set of procedures which allows full-screen editing patterned after the IBM 3270 family of terminals. U/L by John Gefaell. DOS32PAT.ARC 2466 09-24-86 Patch DOS 3.2 /new keybd and 3.1 fmttd disks 2 patches: (1) So that basic will work properly with the new, extended keyboard; (2) So that you can put DOS 3.2 on a DOS 3.1 hard disk without losing the files already on that disk. As far as I know, these are not "official" patches, at least not yet, so please take some care with them (i.e. don't patch your original DOS disk, for gosh sakes, and backup your hard disk before trying to install DOS 3.2 on it). U/L by Bill Andrus. AUTOPRC1.ARC 65664 09-24-86 Procomm 2.4 automatic script generator A routine to generate DOWNLOAD scripts (.CMD files) for ProComm version 2.4 and greater. The .COM file can be executed right from with ProComm itself for on-the-fly .CMD file creation. v2.0, 9/86. U/L by Rich Schinnell. RECIPE.ARC 47741 09-24-86 Meal-Meister 1.0 Recipe Management System Not my cup of tea, so to speak, so a quote from the doc: "Meal-Meister is a menu-driven database system specially created and tailored to manage your recipes. With Meal-Meister, you can store, update, and print your recipes in a variety of formats. You can search for recipes using any combination of Title, Category, or Ingredient criteria. And you can have Meal-Meister automatically up- scale and downscale recipes to get the number of servings you need! Meal-Meister not only replaces the dog-eared, disorganized collection of index cards found in most kitchens, it gives you an invaluable tool for meal selection and preparation!" U/L by David Geerinck. SPEED.ARC 2944 09-24-86 Analyze CPU and memory performance of PC & AT Does a series of CPU and memory tests to help you benchmark the performance of a machine versus a standard PC. The approach taken here will give you much more realistic results than Norton's SI program, or other similar CPU tests. I think this is one of the best, simple performance benchmarkers I have seen. Between this and a good hard disk tester (e.g. Core's test or several others), you'll get a good approximation of how a machine will perform in actual use, much more quickly than you will with the more extensive PC Mag tests that are in BENCH.ARC. YACC.ARC 87800 09-24-86 YACC (DECUS PD version) for MS-DOS (w/src) LEX.ARC 121906 09-24-86 LEX (DECUS PD version) for MS-DOS (w/src) Adaptations of the Unix 'lex' (lexical analyzer from regular expression grammars) and 'yacc'(parser generator) for MS-DOS. The complete source is provided for both programs, in DeSmet C, as are executables. There is rather extensive documentation for the Lex program; for YACC, you're going to have to dig up a Unix manual or book as only the differences are documented. I hope I'm not about to have another round with AT&T's attorneys over this code (we did have some "discussions" over other code they believed to be proprietary earlier this year). Both archives indicate the source originated with DECUS (the DEC Users' Society) and has since been modified for DOS. The LEX documentation contains the following language: General permission to copy or modify, but not for profit, is hereby granted, provided that the above copyright notice is included and reference made to the fact that reproduction privileges were granted by DECUS. While there is nothing quite as express in the Yacc package, it is clearly identified as also having its origins in the DECUS source and is, therefore, presumably under the same distribution guidelines. U/L by Winston Llamas, but if push comes to shove, I take full responsibility for posting these programs. [09-23-86] PRCM24A.ARC 122424 09-23-86 ProComm 2.4 part 1 -- Main files PRCM24B.ARC 129229 09-23-86 ProComm 2.4 part 2 -- Documentation PRCM24C.ARC 25933 09-23-86 ProComm 2.4 part 3 -- CMD files/TEF/PRCMSORT U/L by Loren Olson. The WHATSNEW file for ProComm 2.4 is in Bulletin 4. Also there is a verbose listing of the archives in that bulletin as they may be organized slightly differently on this system than on others (as uploaded, there were duplicate files that I have deleted to save you download time). I have had some not very nice things to say about ProComm in the past. My prejudice stemmed from the first releases which were so heavy on bells and whistles (and I do mean that literally) that the program looked and sounded like an arcade game. Since Ymodem was introduced a few versions back, I, and several others, have dubbed the program "Slowcomm" because of how slowly it does Ymodem compared to PibTerm and the latest version of Qmodem. Well, the bells and whistles are under control. Alas, the Ymodem downloads are still slower than Pib and Qm, and I'm mystified as to why, but so it goes (the Ymodem uploads, actually, aren't bad at all). Still, there's a lot to like about this program. Like Pib, but unlike Qmodem, a full range of protocols are supported, both single file and batch. The implementation of Ymodem batch is partial, but probably a sensible compromise for MS-DOS: The Ymodem Block 0 filename and size are supported, but not the date and time (which is quite bizarrely done in Forsberg's full implementation). This approach is workable and fully compatible. Sliding windows kermit is also supported. I only wish I understood why folks were fond of that one. At least over regular phone lines, it's slower than Ymodem. A new "windowed" Xmodem (WXMODEM) is also supported. Cute, but again slower than Ymodem. When the 9600 bps modems take over with internal error correction, I'd bet on something closer to YMODEMG than either of these, but we shall see. In any event, the terminal emulations are good, the command language is very powerful (enhancements to that seem to be the major change in this revision), and all in all, it's a very professional program. It's also less disk and memory hungry than either PibTerm or Qmodem, no doubt thanks to the fact it is written in C rather than Turbo Pascal. Do wish they would speed up the Ymodem receives in the next release, but a very good program even now. Peruse the license, folks. This is neither "public domain" nor shareware. It's try-it-but-if-you-use-it-you'd-better-pay-for-it-or-else software. Wonder if that'll work? TCB.ARC 7168 09-23-86 C source code "beautifier" /EXE & DOC U/L by Steve Hite. QFONE222.TXT 2048 09-23-86 What's new with Qfonedit 2.22 QFONE222.ARC 89088 09-23-86 Ver. 2.22 - Brendel's Qmodem FON editor U/L by Raymond Clements. Update (bug fixes) to Karl Brendel's utility to edit/sort/do everything to Qmodem 2.2's FON directory. [09-22-86] DOCASST.ARC 33106 09-22-86 Help documenting BASIC programs U/L by Terry Leckbee. Produces a variable listing and a bit more. DIR404.ARC 48128 09-22-86 Disk Directory Librarian v4.04, 9/14/86,w/PAS U/L by Bob Weinstein. Wes Meier's disk catalog program, written in Turbo Pascal, with the complete source code provided. Alas, no doc, but the program is easy enough to use that you shouldn't need one. SIGNMAKR.ARC 68096 09-22-86 Giant banner maker w/fonts, font manager U/L and written by Sam Lin. I can't believe I'm going to let yet another banner program stay on this system, but this one looks particularly good. The doc says it will support any printer, and a supplemental program also allows use and modification of multiple fonts. I must say I'm also prejudiced by the license which is as follows: These programs are distributed in the manner that the 'Freeware' concept should be; they are literally free! No strings attached. Copy 'em, distribute them; just please do not distribute altered copies, and PLEASE do not sell them! You got it for free, so others should, too. ADJRAM30.ARC 65152 09-22-86 Adjust ram disk size w/out losing data v3.0 U/L by Loren Olson. A very impressive programming effort, but I'm going to stick with RDISK2. The advantage of this one is that you can change the size of your ram disk at any time without losing its contents. RDISK2 also allows changing the size of the vdisk without rebooting but you will lose whatever files are on it. But, the penalty you pay here is that the ram disk is always at least 64K. With RDISK2, you can reduce it to 0 if you wish. The other advantage here is that EMS ram disks are supported, but as the author candidly admits in his docs, the program uses so many EMS memory handles that you'll never be able to build one of decent size with this program and have enough left over to do anything else. The really good news is that both ASM source for the driver and C source for the adjustment program are provided, and there's some nice code in there. (BTW, the advantage of RDISK2 over SETRAM, another adjustable ram disk program, is that the former allows 64 dir entries while the latter is limited to 32). CATS18.ARC 20608 09-22-86 Prodn ver of fast & exc disk cat pgm CATSUTIL.ARC 26624 09-22-86 Utility & sort BAT files for CATS U/L by Pete Olympia. Very nice program. CATS simply reads floppy disks and outputs the results to a catalog file in a format that is easy to read and to manipulate -- both with an editor and with a database system. The CATSUTIL arc really just shows what you can do, in this case manipulating the catalog file with Vern Buerg's wonderful SORTF program (not included, but on this system in SORTF215.ARC). Together, they make a simple, but powerful, cataloging system. DBASEBBS.ARC 15360 09-22-86 dBASE 3 BBS database with programs U/L by Dean Wood. For those of you who are really BBS addicts and want to make a science out of it .... GUDLUK14.ARC 23552 09-22-86 Compare two files side by side rev 1.4 U/L by Mike Focke. An update to a good file viewer/compare program, an earlier version of which is described in more detail below. PC-TUNES.ARC 22528 09-22-86 9 tunes w/short & long versions for .bats U/L by Brian Miller. If my computer started singing to me at the end of batch files, as this program would help it do, I'd remove its larynx. But, for those of you more left-brained than I ... [09-21-86] CHECMATE.ARC 198656 09-21-86 Home & small biz accting/8 accnts/v1.02 From the docs, an edited summary of features: - Supports up to eight accounts simultaneously (total number of accounts is limited only by disk space) - Supports Checking and Savings accounts - Up to 32,767 transactions may be active per account - Prints reports in standard format or in Borland Intl's Traveling SideKick (tm) format - Reports and Checks may be printed in PICA, ELITE or CONDENSED print - Transactions may be edited or printed and search criteria may be specified on ANY field in the transaction - Check printer supports continuous feed AND standard checks - Allows 100 predefined transactions that can be called up at a keystroke - Provides a financial calculator for quick figures on loans, regular deposit accounts, and compounding - Helps you reconcile your accounts when your statements arrive, and prints a complete report of outstanding transactions - Includes extensive, context sensitive on-line help Released 9/9/86, v1.02. U/L by Brian Miller. This looks to be one of the more sophisticated "checkbook" packages, really almost a mini-accounting system. Given that it also prints checks on your own forms (nothing special needed), you may want to look at this one if you use your computer for that task (I don't). DISKUT.ARC 42614 09-21-86 5.25" Floppy Util 1.0/Edit Fat,Unerase,etc. For floppies only! Looks like a powerful disk editor, with some additional Norton-like capabilities. U/L by Loren Olson. JOHARI.ARC 18304 09-21-86 A personality windows program - try it! MYERS.ARC 33792 09-21-86 Personality program & aptitude analyst Neither likely to stay on this system long, so grab if you wish. No doc for MYERS at all. Untried. U/L by Bill Asp. QFONE221.ARC 89088 09-21-86 QFONEDIT v2.21, THE QModem util, rel 9/19/86 QFONE221.TXT 2048 09-21-86 Contents of QFONE221.ARC -- by Karl Brendel A message from the author of these, Karl Brendel, on the Software Society, says that he has already found a "minor" bug and another version is imminent. Better to wait, huh? U/L by Bob Weinstein. WAKEUP.ARC 1792 09-21-86 Enter a command at any preset time, K. Graham Feed any command line you specify to DOS at the time you specify. The program is memory-resident and leaves behind a 900 or so byte thingamajig every time you run it, so you may want to MARK/RELEASE it. U/L by Bob Weinstein. PIBPCPSC.ARC 1792 09-21-86 PC Pursuit script for PIBTERM 3.2.5 U/L and written by Andre LeClaire. E88-V3.ARC 29440 09-21-86 Small, fast, programmer's editor v3.00 A very nice programmer's editor -- very fast and small. Quite a few new features added, including search/replace and limited cut and paste, but it's still no competition for the larger programs of this kind like QEDIT or EDWIN (or IBM's wonderful Personal Editor II). U/L by Loren Olson. XT101.ARC 24448 09-21-86 eXecute over Tree / C. Dunford v1.01 Dunford's excellent program to allow you to execute a command repeatedly over all or part of your drive's tree structure. v1.01 allows specification of alternate drive. Also, an alternate version of the program is provided that uses an undocumented DOS function to execute internal DOS commands. It's faster but may not work on all compatibles. U/L by Loren Olson. FTREE.ARC 1024 09-21-86 Visual dir tree, like VTREE but shows files COM file only. U/L by Brian Miller. SEE.ARC 43008 09-21-86 Simple, small, text-oriented word processor Something of a come-on for a more, full-featured, commercial word processor, but the BBS version is quite functional and looks pretty good. For text, as opposed to programs -- that is, this is a word processor, not a programmer's editor. Ouput files are NOT ascii. Good tutorials are provided and the documentation is also adequate. Read the doc; you have to put a SET string in your environment to tell the program where its files are. True formatting of printed output and a spell-checker only come with the commercial version ($150). Version 0.5. U/L by Brian Miller. WSSI300.ARC 99328 09-21-86 Floppy & Hard disk catalog prgm v3.00/v good An update to an already very good disk catalogue system. Update notes from author: Added support for .ARC files, WSSICNF and WSSIDIR environment variables, default file names changed by appropriate input/output to file, word-tabbing and insert mode indicator in add-comments menu, enhanced selecting for comment and category. Shortened the .EXE file by removing unused floating point routines. U/L by Brian Miller. NOTROJIS.ARC 5120 09-21-86 Warning on the Trojan program NOTROJ.ARC I had tried the NOTROJ program, after downloading it myself from somewhere, and was dubious of it, so it was never posted here. Now, here's one of several accounts floating around lately indicating that the program may be dangerous. Be safe -- get rid of it. U/L by Brian Miller. A86A216.ARC 62464 09-21-86 \Controversial macro assembler, claims \ Pt A A86B216.ARC 75776 09-21-86 / to be the best/not MASM compat v2.16 / Pt B D86.ARC 57216 09-21-86 Debugger by immodest A86 author v2.15 The "Howard Cosell" of programming has issued a revised version of his macro assembler and a new program, a debugger about which, of course, he is equally immodest. If you can stand the bragging, the programs are quite powerful. The assembler is not MASM compatible but the documentation now gives some conversion tips. The debugger need not be used with A86 and it looks very good, though this just isn't my area. BEGINEND.ARC 9216 09-21-86 Kokonnen's Turbo pair checker /PAS/ 1/86 PAS source only. BIGD.ARC 9626 09-21-86 Formatted display of all files on disk Just a nice display of all the files on the disk you specify. Output can be redirected to a file (or the printer). WLOG.ARC 41984 09-21-86 WorkLog/Track/Prepare Statements/Time Billing In contrast to A86, read the following modest description from the doc: "Anything you can do with WORKLOG, you can do with a decent spreadsheet program. But if all you want to do is keep logs of time spent on client projects, calculate the amounts to be charged based on hourly rates you specify, and print monthly records of time spent on the projects, then you'll find WORKLOG a more efficient and, I hope, elegant solution." People who bill for their time may find this useful, but I still haven't found a really good pd/shareware time billing program that's easy to use, flexible, mem-res (this isn't and I need one that I can pop-up to record what I'm doing and then let me get back to work), has good reporting capabilities, and is fast. If someone wants to write one that meets those specs (and more that I'd be happy to provide), you'd have a helluva product and my thanks. CRT-DISK.ARC 12288 09-21-86 Save graphics screens to disk w/ C source Lattice v2.12 source for routines that save graphics screen to disk and restore them to the screen as well. MAXIRD15.ARC 126976 09-21-86 MAXI-READ v1.5 Analyzes your writing style An update to one of the best "readability" analyzers. There's nothing in the documentation to indicate what they've changed and when I ran the program I did not see anything new. I wish this program weren't so slow, but it has a lot of work to do I guess and it does it very well. Of all the programs of this type on the system, this is the one I recommend, although the state of the art in this area is still primitive. CVTFON11.ARC 35840 09-21-86 Cvt phone dirs-QM2.2,PibTerm/PCT/Procomm2.3 Now supports the Qmodem 2.2 phone dir format. This is the converts-any- phone-dir-to-any-other-phone-dir program. FORLIB17.ARC 19456 09-21-86 Microsoft Fortran Compiler enhancements v1.7 U/L by Lewis Dozier. [09-20-86] DBA1086.ARC 9216 09-20-86 Data Based Advisor source 10/86 U/L by Bob Hicks. CRC_HDV2.ARC 32768 09-20-86 List CRC for volume-subdirs, time , data rate Calculates CRC values for all or some of the files on your disk, writing the results to a file. You can use the list to check later whether a file has been corrupted. Version 2 tells you how long it takes to do its work and calculates a data transfer rate, useful for benchmarking. U/L and written by Rip Toren. PTOOLDB3.ARC 28672 09-20-86 DB3 CALLable screen and file routines Similar to C-Tools, you run a memory-resident program and then do a LOAD of a 3 byte BIN file in dBase III. At that point, you can do a CALL of routines related to disk and screen. [Thanks to Pete Olympia for the description which I stole from his board.] U/L by Craig Hulvey. BIN2ASCI.ARC 4096 09-20-86 ASM source code to convert bin to ascii U/L by Craig Hulvey. ASM_SUBR.ARC 69632 09-20-86 Assembler source code for 66 subroutines This looks like a coherent, well-commented set of assembler routines for you to make use of in your own work. U/L by Cal Thames. FIXLIST2.ARC 1024 09-20-86 Patch to LIST60H for use w/ FCON & EGA Vern Buerg has a Sigma EGA card and uses Fansi-Console 1.17C and hasn't had the problem mentioned here. It may be specific to the Video 7 and similar Quadram EGA cards, or an earlier version of FCON? In any event, Vern says the mod is harmless, so if you're having FCON/EGA/LIST conflicts, you may want to try it out. U/L and written by Bill Cochrane. ADPARK.ARC 2048 09-20-86 ADAPTEC(?) head parking utility w/ASM source Designed for the ACB-2010A and the ACB-2070A, I have no idea whether it will work on other controllers. U/L by Jack Kilday. STOPBOOT.ARC 4736 09-20-86 Prompt y/n before rebooting by Jaz w/ASM This program demonstrates how to take over the hardware interrupt 9. It simply passes all keys through to the user unless the user types the CTRL-ALT-DEL sequence. After running this program, you will be asked to confirm re-booting when you press CTRL-ALT-DEL. If you answer "NO", it will be as if you never had pressed the reboot keys. U/L and written by Jack Zucker. TJET.ARC 2048 09-20-86 Menu driven ThinkJet control code settings U/L by Dean Wood. QFILER22.ARC 67609 09-20-86 QFILER 2.2: now links with ARCA, ARCE, ARCV 09-20-86 & text editor of your choice; optional link 09-20-86 via FCDISK w/FILECAT/ Excellent sweep utility This is the official release of QFILER 2.2 -- 2.1E was technically a "beta". Kenn provided a good paragraph that sums up QFILER for those of you who are considering it for the first time: "QFILER 2.2 - a versatile 2-window file manager/DOS Shell; now includes links to your favorite editor or word processor, plus links to Buerg's ARCA, ARCE and ARCV programs. Looks and works like Neidert's FFM, but faster and with many additional features and functions. Normal COPY, DELETE and RENAME are supported as well as MOVE, set/unset HIDDEN and READONLY attributes, set file TIMEDATE timestamp, invoke PRINT.COM and LIST.COM from within the program, link with FILECAT file catalog database files and much more. A powerful disk file manager." Actually, that barely skims the surface of the power of this program. A few days ago, I decided to do some housecleaning on another machine here. I just loaded up QFILER and went roaming through the file tree, erasing files I didn't need, copying others to where they really belonged, arc'ing some to make space, etc. When I needed to, I shelled out of the program for a moment, and then popped right back in. The program is just a joy to use. The changes from 2.1E are quite minor, but grab it again anyway, as a few minor bugs were fixed and a few minor improvements made. Of the sweep-type file managers, QFILER has become my favorite. For a command-driven file handler (when you don't need the ability to tag multiple files and don't want menus and function keys), try Chris Dunford's FILER221. Between the two, you have everything you need and no reason to buy one of the many commercial DOS shell/file manager programs. U/L and written by Kenn Flee. Thanks, Kenn. FE377-1.ARC 111448 09-20-86 \FILE EXPRESS DBMS, latest version / EXE FE377-2.ARC 129229 09-20-86 /3.77 9/05/86 -- the most complete \ FILES FE377-3.ARC 94252 09-20-86 \user-supported DBMS now available / DOCS This is far and away the best shareware database manager and I have raved about it enough times in the past that I won't go on at length again. It is full-featured, easy to use, AND uncrippled. The Expressware folks, publishers of this program, give "shareware" a good name -- would that the same were true for all. In any event, the update is VERY minor (and thankfully, we did get update notes from the author this time): * A new command line option, /L, has been added to accomodate printers that insist on doing a line feed with every carriage return that is sent to it (resulting in a double spaced report or labels). Typing a /L after the FE to start the program will cause File Express to only send out a carriage return after each line printed instead of both a carriage return and a line feed. Fixed bug in Merge section. Fixed bug in Sort section that would occur when sorting numeric fields with deleted records. The third archive, containing the docs, looks barely changed at all, and you can save yourself (and this system) some time by passing on that if you already have the 3.7x docs from an earlier release. U/L by David Geerinck, and a biggie long distance at 1200 baud. Those of you who couldn't get through this afternoon have David to blame (and to thank!). [09-19-86] BLANK.ARC 768 09-19-86 TSR Screenblank at will/take <.5K of mem Control-minus blanks your screen; Control-plus turns it back on. Very useful, and takes only 400 odd bytes of mem. U/L by Jim Milgram. GUDLUK13.ARC 23424 09-19-86 Compare two files side-by-side v1.3 A very nice program that lets you scroll through two ascii files, one on top of the other. It is designed primarily to compare source code files, but will be useful in other applications as well. U/L by Mike Focke. CCIT.ARC 4096 09-19-86 Table driven CRC calculator for QBasic/V.Buerg Assembler source and a linkable object module for CRC calculations, using the table lookup approach, which is probably the fastest. Both the CCIT and CRC-16 tables are supported. Can be linked as is with Quick Basic programs, and should be equally useful for those programming in other languages. U/L and written by Vern Buerg. ADVBAS26.ARC 45312 09-19-86 v2.6 new commands for BASIC compiler Excellent library of assembler routines than can be called by your Quick Basic or other compiled basic programs. Source code provided to contributors. Tom's update notes for the latest: ADVBAS 2.6, 9/19/86: XQPRINTD will allow you to print to the screen using direct screen writes. This is the fastest possible print method, but will produce snow on some color displays if you are printing to the active display page. SCRRESTP and SCRSAVEP will allow you to save and restore any screen page to/from an array. SCRRESTPD and SCRSAVEPD will do the same using direct screen reads/writes (see note at XQPRINTD). SETCOMM will allow you to reset the parameters on an open communi- cations "file" without having to close the file (and thus drop the DTR signal) first. In addition, it lets you set the baud rate to speeds beyond the normal limitation of 9600 bps. An error in DMPRINT was fixed. U/L and written by Tom Hanlin. PKX32A11.COM 51200 09-19-86 Katz's ARChive utils: PKXARC 3.2 & PKARC 1.1 09-19-86 COM file will self-extract and create new 09-19-86 programs and documentation -- v. fast programs Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery; it can also produce very good programs (and a little bit of competitive spirit probably doesn't hurt either -- is it a coincidence that these new programs were released right after new versions of ARCA and ARCE?). Phil Katz has adopted the faster and more efficient LZW crunch algorithm that Vern Buerg and Wayne Chin have been using in their ARCA program. As a result, PKARC 1.1 is very fast -- maybe even faster than ARCA, but I'll leave extensive testing to others if they wish -- and produces archives almost the same size (a tiny bit bigger in the few I've tried). It's a very impressive piece of work. PKXARC now has a test archive integrity function and also claims to be faster than the earlier version, a claim I didn't check (a 5% speed improvement, which is claimed, would be hard to verify except on very large archives). The command line syntax of both programs still seems awkward to me, but I don't know what hurdles Katz had to go through with Lattice C 3.0, the compiler he used. Anyway, the author's update notes PKARC version 1.1, 9-12-86 -------------------------- Enhanced Ziv-Lempel compression was added to PKARC. The enchanced crunching algorithm provides superior compression ratios over the traditional crunching algorithm used in SEAware's ARC program. Files crunched with the enhanced crunching algorithm are up to 20% smaller, yet still fully compatible with ARC and PKXARC. File buffering has been drastically improved, resulting in faster compression, especially on floppy disks. The improved buffering and other optimizations have resulted in a twofold increase in archiving speed over PKARC version 1.0. [Sysop's note: I'm having a little trouble with that claim. Version 1.0 was quite fast; 1.1 is faster, but twice as fast???? Not in my limited testing]. Changes in PKXARC version 3.2 ----------------------------- The archive test function "/t" was added to PKXARC. This function tests the integrity of the archive without extracting the files to disk. Specifically, the CRC for each file is computed and compared against the correct value stored in the archive. Extraction speed has been increased by 5% for most files. U/L by Lee Winsor. Thanks, Lee. [09-18-86] SCRNSAV3.ARC 3072 09-18-86 Blank screen / optional beep to warn v3.0 Blanks your screen after 5 minutes of inactivity; beeps every 10 minutes if there's no activity to warn you to turn your machine off. You can have either or both features, and either or both can be disabled at any time. The beep would drive me nuts. I prefer BURN21 as it allows you to "blank" the screen on demand and works with almost any monitor. U/L by Mike Focke. SCAN12.ARC 6144 09-18-86 Find ASCII text in binary files v1.2, 9/17/86 SCAN 1.1 has been my quick ascii dump util of choice for quite a while. This new versions retains all the goodies (wildcards, good performance) and allows you to specify files on another drive. Would you believe that for a program I probably use everyday I never noticed v1.1 had that limitation? U/L by Bob Weinstein. ARCA122.ARC 11163 09-18-86 Latest ARC builder (9/17/86) V.Buerg/W.Chin 09-18-86 Even better compression and speed v1.22 ARCE206.ARC 8475 09-18-86 Buerg's ARC Extract 5.x compat/indiv files 09-18-86 Version 2.06 Wildcards/Redirection/Fast Vern Buerg and Wayne Chin have updated two of their archive utilities (ARCV remains at 1.15). They estimate a 9% speed improvement in ARCA, and as it was already the fastest thing going, that ain't hay. ARCA should also, usually (not always), produce even smaller files than earlier versions. Plus, the error-handling has been improved. I noticed immediately that it handled having the target disk become full much better than earlier versions did (it happens to me on ram disks all the time). ARCE has also had its speed increased and error-handling improved. [NOTE: New versions of PKXARC and PKARC were released AFTER the next paragraph was written --- see above]. I've done detailed comparisons of ARCA and PKARC10 in the past. ARCA now enjoys an even greater speed advantage; PKARC implements additional capabilities. As for ARCE and PKXARC, the latter is still a bit faster; ARCE is smaller and has less complicated command line parsing. I still end up using all 4 programs for different tasks (sigh). I also use ARCH538 for it's -P function, that unlike ARC itself, takes wildcards for both the arc and the files inside. Maybe Vern and Wayne will write an ARCP one of these days so I can get rid of that one (and so that Kenn Flee can integrate it into Qfiler). POP-CAL.ARC 12276 09-18-86 PC Mag's Pop-up Calendar v5,#17 ASM/BAS/COM By no means the best pop-up calendar I've seen, but the ASM source is included which some may find helpful in writing their own TSR programs. There was no doc on PC Mag's IRS when I downloaded this, but the source code will tell you all you need to know (Alt-C is the hot-key, and the arrow keys on your numeric keypad change the month/year displayed). Consult PC Mag itself for additional information. Note (for the lawyers): Downloaded by me this morning from PC Magazine's Interactive Reader Service for "personal use", which happens to include putting it on this bulletin board that I run as a hobby, where it is made available to all callers at no charge for their own "personal use." MODEMSW.ARC 2176 09-18-86 Modem dip switch identifier in BASIC Just a simple little program written for the USR Courier/Microlink modems (but should work on any Hayes compatible) to tell you what your dip switches are set for. With the Courier 24, the switches are external so I don't see much sense to this, but for internal modems and those where the dip switches aren't available for inspection, the program will prove useful. U/L by Charles Frankle. TT096.ARC 63104 09-18-86 Turbo-Term,v0.96,small/fast/Qmodem-like comm An update. I guess TT must be a beta; TT094 came with no docs (except for the brief message Pete Olympia put in the arc) and TT096 is similarly undocumented. So ... I have absolutely no idea what has changed. TT is quite full-functioned and VERY small (it's 2 files are just over 80K). The single file Ymodem seems fairly robust and fast; it's batch Ymodem receives need work, and there's no batch send implemented (yet?). There are also some rough edges to the program (a nice way of saying it's got some bugs). But, it's functional. If you like Qmodem but want a program that's about 1/3rd the size with most of the features, take a look. U/L by Lee Winsor. [09-17-86] LIST60H.ARC 18816 09-17-86 Buerg's excellent! file LISTer v6.0H 9/17/86 09-17-86 Full-screen ascii or binary file viewer 09-17-86 w/scrolling, find, hex display & much more Some minor fixes to Vern Buerg's excellent file lister, described in the doc as follows: Version 6.0h, Sept 17, 1986 - correct alt-F looping when invalid filespec entered - correct Wrap failing if W ON was cloned - more fussing with the EGA cursor, nothing can be done about colors/pallete resetting when changing modes - correct value of last line number when toggling Wrap - notes: the default for preload (alt-P) is OFF, alt-P is a toggle; the default of retrace testing in ON and may result in snow on some color monitors. U/L and written by Vern Buerg. CFMT11.ARC 17024 09-17-86 C-FORMAT v1.1: Fast, floppy formatter 9/11/86 An update that changes the way the command line is parsed. I'm very leary of these programs for disks on which I keep important data. I suppose I should also say something nice about DOS 3.2 for a change: The way the FORMAT program ticks off heads and cylinders is useful and keeps you amused while the program does its work. In any event, this program's here if you want it. I tried it and it works, but I won't use it. DISKVR42.ARC 50630 09-17-86 Disk Cover program v4.2/expands ARC/LBR I have no idea what's been changed as the docs are from v4.1 and the program looks identical to me. Yet, it does sign on as v4.2 dated 9/1/86. Gripe, gripe, gripe about undocumented updates. ENVELOPE.ARC 28672 09-17-86 Address envelopes/any printer v1.0/PAS 4/86 By the same author as DISKVRxx, a very simple envelope address program that's easy to use and will work with any printer. Plus, the TP source is included so you can fiddle if you're inclined. STYLED.ARC 68114 09-17-86 Interesting writing style analyzer v1.0 If I ran STYLED on this bulletin, I would abandon the task in despair. Oh well ... This is a little different than the other style analyzers on the system. This one doesn't calculate a "readability" score based on some variation of Rudolf Flesch's test, which rewards monosyllabic people who are fond of very short sentences (you'd hate this one, wouldn't you, Rudy?). Rather, STYLED attempts to find instances of passive voice, wordiness, etc., and also gives you a schematic of your punctuation so you can judge the rhythm of your writing. Oh yes, it finds long words for you, too (defined as more than 10 characters -- good grief, I'm in trouble!). The program is slow, but you may have fun with it. I guess the documentation is meant as an example of good writing. While the grammar may be perfect, it reminds me of Dick and Jane -- 2 sentence paragraphs, 5 words per sentence, and the like. Is that what good writing really is?, he asked rhetorically, a word the program would barf on because it has 12 letters (but it would like barf -- that only has 4!). By the way, while I think this one is interesting, most of you will probably find MAXI-READ more useful. [09-16-86] ECHOB.ARC 779 09-16-86 Echo blank line for BAT files/all DOS vers Includes the debug script for creating the program. U/L by John Moon. [09-15-86] TURBODBG.ARC 67584 09-15-86 Turbo 3.0 debug utility/ 8087/BCD vers incl This looks to be a quite good debug utility for Turbo Pascal. It's by a different author than the program in TDEBUG.ARC. This is all a bit techie for me folks, so for those of you who use these things .... U/L by Dean Wood. 704K.ARC 2048 09-15-86 Increase DOS mem to 704k (w/ some mem boards) IF you have the right kind of memory board that will allow you to address an additional 64K of mem in the area that DOS normally reserves for display memory but only uses if you have an EGA, THEN and only then will this program allow you to have useable DOS space of 704K. Most boards (the typical AST 6-Pack or clone) will NOT allow you to put memory in that segment, so don't bother. U/L by Craig Hulvey in response to a user's request. It's been on the system before and won't stay on long this time as it just won't work for most of you. BPATCH.ARC 29952 09-15-86 "DUMP" type utility for UNIX - excellent This is a very impressive piece of code. It's a full-screen, visual binary file dump and modification tool. Even if you don't need those capabilities on your Unix system, the code may be of interest. As Ken Brown rightly said in the description, it looks excellent. You'll need 'curses' to compile this. In my experience, some Unix systems have very poor implementations of that package (if they have it at all), and that will be a limiting factor. UUENCODE.ARC 5632 09-15-86 Source for UNIX uuencode/decode utilities The source code to the Unix utils that allow shipping binary files over 7-bit lines, albeit rather inefficiently. U/L by Ken Brown. MOMAKER2.ARC 13312 09-15-86 Generate sequence of months for LOTUS prdcts "MOMAKER is a package of SYMPHONY support macros designed to provide a list of serial dates in monthly increments, either across the spreadsheet or down a column. Each serial date will be given for the same day of the month where possible. If the starting day is later in the month than there are days in a following month, the last day of that following month is returned. The program correctly calculates and reflects leap years. " U/L and written by James Collinge, 4/18/86. [09-14-86] QF21E.ARC 69120 09-14-86 QFILER 2.1E: now links with ARCA, ARCE, ARCV Kenn Flee has done an absolutely excellent job of integrating Vern Buerg's archive utilities with this sweep-type program. You can point to a file and ARCV it, thereby getting a verbose list of its contents. You can extract all or some of the files almost as easily. And, building an archive from only some of the files in your current dir is a piece of cake -- just mark 'em with Qfiler and let ARCA do its work on the marked files only. All in all, just a joy to use -- a very clean implementation of DOS' shell capabilities. QFILER has become my sweep utility of choice. As noted in earlier reviews, QF also lets you shell to almost any editor from within the program, and also links via FCDISK to Kenn's excellent FILECAT program. The "BOB" list (Bulletin 8) is seriously overdue for revision. QF will be on it next time around. Note: All of Vern's archive utilities are on this system at the top of Dir 2. To take full advantage of this new version of QFILER, make sure you have the 3 noted above. U/L and written by Kenn Flee. PCPCHK10.ARC 78848 09-14-86 Extract PC Pursuit #'s from Darwin's BBS List U/L by Ed Hopper. MSWRDSTY.ARC 5120 09-14-86 Tutorial on MS Word Style Sheets (needs Word) U/L by Ed Hopper. ATOV_EX.ARC 15360 09-14-86 Lattice ascii to integer extended, overflow U/L by Lewis Paper. 3CALQ.ARC 15360 09-14-86 Display 3 month calendars /current,-1,+1 U/L by Rip Toren. Not memory-resident; quite colorful. ERRTODAY.ARC 2048 09-14-86 Reports day of week as ERRLEVEL/for BAT files U/L by Jack Kilday. NOISE.ARC 5120 09-14-86 Makes spkr click on specified INT. w/ASM src U/L by Jack Kilday. NOISE is a very short program that clicks the speaker whenever an interrupt of a given type occurs. To invoke it, type "NOISE xx" at the DOS prompt, where xx is the (hex) interrupt number. e.g. to "hear" the clock, try "NOISE 08". Assembler source included. Illustrates TSR, Speaker control, and intercepting an interrupt. You can assemble it even if you don't have an assembler (using debug). LQALL10.ARC 104320 09-14-86 LQ 1.0 /Letr Qual & Fonts/Epson/C-Itoh/others I can't compare this to some of the other similar programs, like IMPRINT 1.21, as those all require an Epson. What caught my eye about this one was that it also supported the C-Itoh Prowriter, which is what I happen to have. It does a nice job -- quite a few fonts are supported and the package is quite easy to use. But, sloooooooooow...... Not the program's fault, I guess. It takes it 3 uni-directional passes for each line to give the high quality output that it produces. The program can be configured to support almost any printer, but you'll need to dig out your manual and fill in the escape codes. Config files for the Epson and the C-Itoh are provided. FAT.ARC 17408 09-14-86 Chris Dunford's FAT list utility v1.02 9/13 Authors like Chris Dunford make this bulletin too easy by providing brief, accurate descriptions of their programs: " FAT is a simple program that can be used to display the chain of clusters (disk allocation units) that belong to a disk file, to determine which file "owns" a specified cluster or sector, and to display general information about a disk. FAT is a passive program, that is, it does not perform any functions that alter disk data. It is an inquiry program only." In function, FAT is similar to the CHAIN and OWNER programs (see below), but actually provides quite a bit of additional information and it is well-documented (no such for the other 2). Source code not included. U/L by Tom Drinkard. [09-13-86] -------------- Note: PC Mag's XDEL program files (COM,ASM,BAS and DOC) are on the system in XDEL.ARC. The file isn't listed because I think the program is awful, but it's here if you want to see for yourself and also to save someone else the time in uploading it. There's some controversy over whether Sysops are permitted to post these files from PC Mag. That debate will be moot unless the programs improve (there have, in the past, been some excellent ones, but lately ...). -------------- VTPROLOG.ARC 35840 09-13-86 "Very Tiny Prolog" 1.0 /COM & TP source U/L by John Howard. Needless to say, not a full Prolog implementation, but the source code in particular may prove to be of interest. No doc, but I guess the code suffices. DLISTNDX.ARC 10240 09-13-86 DB3+ utility lists called index files "dBase 3+ utility to list index files called. Will list index files for entire application from one file or index files called in single file. Helps document dBase applications." U/L by Craig Hulvey. DLISTPRG.ARC 10240 09-13-86 DB3+ utility lists program file calls "Dbase 3+ utility that lists program file calls. Will either list all program files called by a "do " command for entire application by specifying the starting or main file, or all files called within just one program. Useful for determining files required for large application or documenting file hierarchy." U/L by Craig Hulvey. BLOCKRD.ARC 3072 09-13-86 MASM utility routine for block file read A little utility written in assembler to do block reads. 8086 assembler, Microsoft compatible format. U/L by Craig Hulvey. PARALLEL.ARC 5955 09-13-86 Discussion of Parallel Port/Device Control Includes some sample C routines. U/L by Michael White. EGABLANK.ARC 910 09-13-86 EGA Screen blanker/PC Mag 9/30/ COM & script Includes both the debug script, which will save you on typing, and the .COM file (the .COM file was also uploaded, but I made a new one myself to get rid of the Xmodem padding as it wasn't in an ARC). U/L by Mort Harmatz. BKDEMO.ARC 10240 09-13-86 Test Pgms/Info on DOS Backgrnd Tasks Contains programs which demonstrate the ability to use and enhance the background tasking capabilities of PC/MS-DOS. 9/12/86 U/L and written by Larry Himes. PCED.PCH 2304 09-13-86 Error Fixes for PCED 1.00 and 1.01 (not 1.01A) Debug patches for some minor bugs in PCED versions 1.00 and 1.01. If your distribution disk says you have 1.01A, then you do NOT need these. Another Maryland --> Ohio --> Calif --> D.C. upload. Thanks, Vern. [09-12-86] PCEDPR.ARC 7168 09-12-86 Compares features of PCED/CED/DOSEDIT Chris Dunford sent this along at my request (so don't blame Chris for posting promotional materials). Because I so frequently discuss PCED, several of you have asked for info about it and how it differs from CED (the "public domain" version). This arc contains files providing that information, and also comparing it to IBM's DOSEDIT (which later became NDOSEDIT and finally RETRIEVE). Ordering info is also included. Although somewhat out of date, CPCUG's Monitor did reviews of CED and then PCED earlier this year. Those reviews are available on MIX and I would post them here, but for some restrictive language in their copyright notice that (unintentionally, I think) seems to prohibit their posting on BBS systems. FINAIDS1.ARC 27648 09-12-86 SYMPHONY: Loans/Mtgs/Refinancing/R.O.I. Part of a larger package that you can buy, this module also apparently stands alone (however, that's based on a dump of the file only, as I don't have Symphony and can't try it out). U/L by Jerry Anderson. PCGAZ107.ARC 68608 09-12-86 PC Gazette Electronic Magazine, ver 1.07 This is such a good idea, I keep hoping it will get better. Alas, it hasn't, and in terms of substance rather than style, this month's issue is one of the weakest. U/L by Paul Kopit. SED.ARC 45831 09-12-86 DOS vers of SED (stream editor)/Lattice/GNU Lattice C source and EXE for another DOS implementation of Unix's stream editor (which I am NOT going to try and summarize in 25 words or less). Put in the PD by the creators of GNU. Who GNU? U/L by Nevin Dubin. [09-11-86] WAMPTXT.ARC 92416 09-11-86 DOC for WAMPUM30 converted to plain ascii The doc file for WAMPUM30 was chock-full of backspace characters and other nasties that show fine if you type the file, but not if you LIST it or send it to many printers. Ken Brown filtered them all out and sent along this revised ARC. NOT listed on a dir, but available for downloading. MRPRINT.ARC 16120 09-11-86 Toshiba & Generic Mem-Res Printer Setup (rev) A revised version of programs that are geared for the Toshiba line of printers but which can be modified for others. U/L by Chester Katz. LABELS21.ARC 39936 09-11-86 Updated Bus. Label/Envelope DatBase w/Doc AED A good name/address label printing program without the somewhat more sophisticated database features of Kenn Flee's LITLBOK2.ARC. Also prints envelopes. U/L and written by Ami Dworkin. 386NEWS.ARC 10240 09-11-86 Information on Compaq Deskpro 386 Here's the first major manufacturer to release a machine based on Intel's 80386. It's a screamer, alright: a 16MhZ CPU, 32-bit access to 100ns memory, a selection of reasonably fast hard disks. But, no operating system, yet, that can really take advantage of all this. For now, it's a superfast AT. $10,000, more or less, by the time it's fully configured and that ain't no cheap toy. I'll wait, thank you. DEDIT.ARC 124928 09-11-86 Creates/edits .DBF's w/o dBASE,w/ source Includes the source and Clipper-compiled executables for a program that lets you edit and even create dBase .DBF's without dBase. Compare with WAMPUM30 that's a whole lot larger but does a great deal more. OWNER150.ARC 10624 09-11-86 Shows which files owns cluster/v1.5 9/86 w/asm 9/2/86 update to OWNER.ARC, described below. PSEARCH3.ARC 66283 09-11-86 Super-Search 3.0/pwrful file/text search util Norm Patriquin has gotten very professional at this -- he even includes a description file to use in bulletins like this (or on CIS, I suppose). Anyway, to quote that: PSEARCH 3.0 -- If you have ever lost track of a file or needed to locate one containing specific text, PS IS FOR YOU! A powerful File locator that will locate files based on a filename you enter, or text data you are looking for. Shows matching text within files. V3.0 finds files by sound-alike names and in ARC files too! Use PEAK to scan 123 .WKS files. Menus, HELP, Colors, plus many other features. Actually, the changes to version 3.0 are quite minor, but this is an excellent program and worth a look. There are a load of commands. Patriquin provides sample batch files to use rather than memorizing them, and the program can also be run in menu-driven mode. Those of you who use CED/PCED will quickly realize that the better approach is to find the commands you need and create CED synonyms for them. Note: Since version 2.0, Norm has disabled a few of the commands in the non-registered version. The crippling is quite minor, but it is, alas, there. PLOT-FCP.ARC 11264 09-11-86 Plot subroutine for MS Fortran, C, Pascal U/L by Wes Jones. REGEX.ARC 22400 09-11-86 Regular expression routines in C U/L by Ken Brown. TESTKEY.ARC 818 09-11-86 Display INKEY() function results (dB3/CLIP) U/L and written by John McDermott. [09-10-86] HDTST273.ARC 69920 09-10-86 Throughly test HD for bad clusters v2.73 This file is NOT listed on a download directory, but is available. The reason for not listing it is that I would prefer that you read this before using the program. HDTEST v2.73 is one of the most powerful disk testing tools that I have ever come across. If there's a bad sector anywhere on your disk, this program is likely to find it. Unlike Norton's DT, or the Mace Utilities or other disk testers, which merely do a read of every cluster on your disk, HDTEST writes 20 different test patterns to every cluster on the disk and makes sure they can be read correctly. This INCLUDES clusters that are currently occupied by your files, yet, unlike low level scan/verify programs, this program will not destroy any of your files (unless, of course, one of your files is, in fact, sitting on a bad cluster, at which point the program will try to save it, but may well fail). So far, so good, right? Well, yes, but this program will keep your disk working constantly for 2-5 hours, depending on the size of the DOS partition and the speed of this disk. If your disk is marginal, that kind of torture can easily push it over the edge. Download if you wish, but please use with care. TSRSRC21.ARC 69632 09-10-86 Source and .COM for TSRCOM21.ARC Complete source and executables for Kokkonen's wonderful memory-resident program managers, version 2.1. If you only want the executables, take TSRCOM21.ARC instead. U/L by Tom Drinkard. WINDOW4C.ARC 53120 09-10-86 Windows for Lattic C/ LIB and DOC WIND4MSC.ARC 5934 09-10-86 MS-C library for WINDOW4C This is a decent, not great, C windowing package that has been around for awhile. The only new element here is the 2d arc which has the LIB file modified to work with MS-C, instead of Lattice. ASM source for the windowing routines NOT included -- it is sent to contributors only. U/L by Kent Bishop. OBJXREF.ARC 56320 09-10-86 Object module cross referencer " These utilities provide the ability to "cross reference" between seperately compiled modules, whether the modules are contained on "libraries", or are individual "object" files. " U/L by Mark Rapp. DOSHELP.ARC 9216 09-10-86 Resident DOS Help via Sidekick Dialer A clever idea -- it's just a nicely formatted help file arranged in a way that it can be invoked with SideKick's phone dialer. U/L by Ken Ingram. DBA0186.ARC 53248 09-10-86 Data Based Advisor source 1/86 DBA0686.ARC 18432 09-10-86 Data Based Advisor source 6/86 U/L by Bob Hicks. PSINSTAL.ARC 24576 09-10-86 Re-install Turbo pgms for screen/terminal Handy if you've come across a TP com file that is installed for the wrong screen type. U/L by Pete Olympia. DMOSHELL.ARC 41984 09-10-86 How to SHELL from QB 2.0 and save/rest screen Not a "demo" at all -- it's a source-included demonstration of how to shell from a Quick Basic 2.0 program while storing the current screen and then restoring it when the user exits from DOS. U/L and written by Lyle Smith. FIXVIDEO.ARC 6144 09-10-86 Reset screen if Borland prgs mess it up/ASM U/L by David Seidman. Originally designed for an Everex graphics board, it may also work on others. SCN.ARC 56702 09-10-86 SciTest Calculator v1.2/ No 8087 version " The program SciTest is a scientific calculator program that gives the user the ability to evaluate a variety of mathematical expressions. It can be used to solve simultaneous equations, polynomials, quadratics, full complex number evaluations, a large number of unit conversions, solid and planar mensuration formulas, a large set of trigonometric functions, and a full set of matrix manipulation and matrix evaluation procedures, including matrix inversion, coordinate transforms, matrix multiplication, etc. At this time over 150 functions are implemented." While there is a version of this program that supports the 8087, the version in this arc does not. Source code NOT included. U/L by John Judis. [09-09-86] ----------------------- DATEUTIL.INF 4608 09-06-86 \Gary Elfring's utils to manipulate files DATEUTIL.ARC 74752 09-06-86 /by name and date v 1.1 -- well-done These files have been REMOVED. My apologies to those of you who already downloaded them. I did not notice until today that these programs would cease to function on 10/1/86 unless you bought the registered version. That fact was not in the INF file, which the author encourages you to download for information about these programs, and is only at the very end of the documentation, which I think is deceptive and reprehensible. I want nothing further to do with these programs. ----------------------- WAMPUM30.ARC 170637 09-09-86 \Wampum 3.0: Full-featured, menu- \ Main WAMPDOC.ARC 101454 09-09-86 /driven implementation of dBase III / Docs WAMPSUP.ARC 41567 09-09-86 \programming language, but it's FREE\ Sup EXE An excerpt from the doc will give you some idea what this is: Ward's Automated Menu Package Using Microcomputers (WAMPUM) is a full-featured, menu-driven implementation of the dBASE III programming language. It is both an application development tool and an end-user data base management system with one significant difference: it's free. You do not have to own dBASE III to use this version of WAMPUM. Yet WAMPUM you can perform virtually all of the functions supported by dBASE III within the simple menu system which is WAMPUM. Key features include: * Creation and use of dBASE III-compatible data bases * Field types include: Char, Numeric, Date, Logical, Memo * Creation and use of up to 5 B-Tree Indexes per .DBF file * Add, Edit, Delete, & Undelete Records in any .DBF file * Display, List and Print Records from any .DBF file * 10 Data Entry Screen Formats tailored to any .DBF file * Creation and use of dBASE III-compatible reports & labels * Creation and use of WAMPUM "mail merge" form letters * Relation of second data base by key for any output format * Full-featured copy utilities to import & export any data * Creation of printer templates to support up to 10 fonts * Library of preformatted output forms with sort & select * Library of edit-checks tailored to any .DBF file system * Library of macros tailored to any WAMPUM application * Calculated fields using standard dBASE expressions * File and index packing to restore damaged data bases * Automated Selection Assist for complex Boolean searches * Boolean searches of dBASE III-compatible MEMO fields * Audit Trail / Transaction Logging for multi-user tasks Pete Olympia has had a first look at this one and was impressed. While noting that some error-trapping and screen-writing routines could be improved, Pete indicates that the program does what it claims (which is quite a lot). U/L by Philip Burns, and quite an upload at that. Thanks, Philip. XT.ARC 12800 09-09-86 Repeatedly issue commands on entire dir tree This is version 1.0, 9/8/86, of a new utility by Chris Dunford. XT stands for eXecute over Tree. Thus, XT \TEXT DEL *.BAK will erase all BAK files in the TEXT subdirectory and any subdirectory beneath \TEXT in your subdir tree. Starting at root with XT \ DEL *.BAK would erase all BAK files on your disk. The program is very similar in function to WT100 (Walk Tree) and PC Mag's SWEEP, although it processes the subdirs in a somewhat different order (it tends to go to the bottom on the tree and work back, while the others go forward). In any event, it quickly and efficiently does just what Chris' documentation says it will do and seems very well behaved. U/L by Loren Olson. CPRINT41.ARC 23994 09-09-86 Print multiple files/both sides page v4.01 See description of CPRINT40, below. This is a minor update, v4.01. U/L by Robin Kidd. WPMERGE.ARC 17408 09-09-86 dBase-->WordPerfect Merge format converter A utility program running under Dbase III Plus to convert Dbase data into WordPerfect format for mail-merge applications. U/L by Mark Elengold. GRASPEXT.ARC 17408 09-09-86 Address GRASP routines thru C;Turbo Pas, etc Requires at least version 1.0C of GRASP (which is on this system), this arc contains text files and source code examples (ASM, PAS and C) for interfacing to that program. U/L by Nevin Dubin. MEMSUM3.ARC 24576 09-09-86 Mem-res: Tells total mem and amount free 3.1 I'm not sure I see the point to having a program take up 33K of memory to tell you how much memory you have free. Yes, you can pop it on the screen from within another application, but I got very erratic results when trying that: it tended either not to take the currently active program into account when calculating free mem remaining or to wildly overestimate its usage. More work needed on this one? U/L by Kurt Schelin. [09-08-86] K9-831.ARC 23808 09-08-86 Multipurpose mem-res util for progrmmrs 8/31 "K9 is a multipurpose resident utility intended primarily to make life easier for programmers. It may be of some use to others as well, though user- friendliness has not been a design objective, especially in the documentation, which assumes a considerable understanding of DOS." Functions include expanded keyboard buffer, screen blanker, enhanced DOS command editor, elapsed timer, Dvorak keyboard redefinition, typematic rate adjustment, and more. 8/31/86 version, with lots of bug fixes and a few minor changes. U/L by Loren Olson. MODEM.ARC 10496 09-08-86 Xmodem Send/Receive - ASM Source/No CRC U/L by Bill Gibson. BREAKPT.ARC 7168 09-08-86 Set breakpoint in DEBUG - BYTE 9/86 " Most debuggers have a "break-out" switch that allows you to jump into the debugger regardless of what your computer is doing. However, the DEBUG program provided with IBM PC-DOS does not have this feature. BREAKPT (short for breakpoint) gives DOS DEBUG this capability." ASM/BAS/COM & DOC for this mem-res util included. U/L by Dean Wood. [09-07-86] LIST60G.ARC 18688 09-07-86 Buerg's excellent! file LISTer v6.0G 9/07/86 09-07-86 Full-screen ascii or binary file viewer 09-07-86 w/scrolling, find, hex display & much more As noted here a week ago when LIST 6.0F was released, that version was a major revision to Vern Buerg's wonderful program. Not surprisingly, a few "glitches" showed up. Equally unsuprising, Vern has promptly fixed them (we should get such support from Ashton Tate and Lotus -- but we don't). Here are the changes: Version 6.0g, Sept 4, 1986 - cosmetic corrections to Help screen - increase data buffer to reduce "jumpy" display - remove some tweaking of the cursor shape - default to retrace testing off (M on) - improve readability of binary files in ASCII display mode by changing handling of EOF character; this also solves a problem with files whose last record does not contain a cr/lf. Remember, LIST expects "records" to have CR and/or LF. LIST 6.0F has broken every record ever set on this system for the number of times downloaded in a week, and it well deserves it. Grab the update and enjoy this excellent program. U/L and written by Vern Buerg. LITLBOK2.ARC 65280 09-07-86 Flee's address book v2.0: now has 2 fields 09-07-86 for phone nums & ascii export: excellent! Speaking of support, Kenn Flee has responded to a couple of suggestions made here and taken an already very good program and made it even better. In commenting on 1.1, this bulletin said it was a little gem of a name and address database. Two suggestions were made: (1) That there be fields for both home and office phones; and (2) That it would be nice to be able to generate an ascii report to disk so that the data could be exported to other databases. Kenn has done the first and gone several times better on the second: The program supports disk file output in 4 formats: Same as when printed; comma delimited; each field on a line by itself; and fixed length (spreadsheet style). Perfect. U/L and written by Kenn Flee. Includes a utility to convert 1.1 address books to 2.0 format. ZOO120.ARC 57600 09-07-86 Fast archiver 1.20/Not compatible w/SEA's ARC This program has been made even faster and produces even smaller archives. Benchmarks are included showing that it produces smaller archives in less time than either PKARC10 or ARCA 1.18, and extracts just slightly slower than PKXARC 2.5 and faster than ARCE 1.18 (sic -- probably meant 1.24). I have no reason to doubt the tests. ZOO is a very impressive program. Still, the standard on BBS systems is SEA's ARC format, and ZOO is not compatible. Is it impossible to have the best of these two programs combined? U/L and written by Rahul Dhesi. DBA0286.ARC 168960 09-07-86 Data Based Advisor source & demo 2/86 DBA0386.ARC 143360 09-07-86 Data Based Advisor source & demo 3/86 DBA0986.ARC 20480 09-07-86 Data Based Advisor source 9/86 U/L by Bob Hicks. PCPURS.ARC 19456 09-07-86 PC Pursuit EXEC PC, Verbose Modems &2400 info U/L by Ed Hopper. ATO500.REQ 1792 09-07-86 /Requirements to run AUTOSIG 5.00/V.Buerg ATODOC.ARC 58752 09-07-86 \Manual for AUTOSIG 5.00/CIS access program ATO500.ARC 107648 09-07-86 /Version 5.0 of ATO program for CompuServe "AUTOSIG is a program written specifically for CompuServe Special Interest Group use. It provides an automatic way of processing SIG messages that is quick and economical. The major features of AUTOSIG (ATO) are: - automatic dialing and access to CompuServe (CIS) through local, Tymnet, or Telenet nodes - automatic downloading of SIG messages - automatic retrieval and transmission of Email messages - file transfer using CIS "B" protocol - user defined program Function keys - full screen editor for composing messages offline - automatic transmission of your messages - offline display, printing, and saving of SIG messages" I am not a CIS user so I just have no way to evaluate this program. But, it was written by Vern Buerg, and that should be recommendation enough. ATO500.ARC U/L by Philip Burns. QMMOUS22.ARC 9216 09-07-86 Qmodem 2.2 mouse routines U/L by Mike Focke. CHAIN.ARC 8137 09-07-86 Trace clusters a file uses/v2.14 8/86 w/asm OWNER.ARC 9272 09-07-86 Shows which file owns cluster/v1.4 8/86 w/asm MARKC.ARC 5602 09-07-86 Mark/unmark a cluster bad/v2.20 8/86 w/asm This is a very powerful group of programs, exceptionally useful for dealing with a disk that has developed a few bad sectors. Full asm source is provided, and you'll need to look at that as that's all the documentation you get (it's really enough). Be careful with the MARK program: Like any powerful tool, it can be misused with disastrous results. CHAIN.ARC U/L by Mike Focke. TSRCOM21.ARC 40800 09-07-86 Kokkonen's excellent mem-res program mgmt v2.1 As best I can tell from the doc, this is a very minor update to Kim Kokonnen's wonderful programs, simply fixing the bug in RELEASE 2.0 for which the patch was already on this system anyway. U/L by Loren Olson. [09-06-86] COPYTREE.ARC 32200 09-06-86 Excellent XCOPY replacement: COPYs or 09-06-86 MOVEs files or an entire tree structure 8/86 If I summarize all the features of this program, it will take you longer to read than to download it, and I do highly! recommend that you download it. Much too briefly, this program will copy or move files that meet your selection criteria and will traverse subdirectories while doing so, creating subdirs as necessary on the target disk as well (if you wish). Selection file criteria include new files only, so this can be used as a backup util. Furthermore, it will pause if the target disk is full, and in addition to the usual option of allowing you to insert a fresh disk, you can shell to DOS and format a new diskette if necessary. In short, this program is a joy -- much more powerful than either DOS 3.2's XCOPY or REPLACE or the 2 combined. Comparisons to PCOPY by Norm Patriquin are inevitable but I'm going to resist, except to say that this program has fewer selection criteria, but is also much smaller (only 20K vs 56K for PCOPY), and the DOS shell option is truly unique and powerful. For different tasks, you'll probably want to have both. SCWRITE.ARC 4096 09-06-86 High speed write to row,col w/attr for MSC-3 A modification of a fast, TP asm program to compile with MASM for MS-C. U/L by Fran Horvath (who also made a few mods to the original to get it all to work properly). CALENDEM.ARC 52352 09-06-86 Full screen calendar/reminder program v1.0 This isn't a demo, notwithstanding the name. It's a simple full month calendar with up to 6 reminder for each day, an improvement to the PD CALENDAR.BAS program, now made shareware. U/L by Loren Olson. FANNAN.ZEN 3840 09-06-86 FANSI/NANSI/ZENO comparisons w. clone U/L by Kevin Witty. DECEIVE.ARC 15360 09-06-86 Put screen of your choice up when "working" U/L by Peter Silberman. UPDATE40.ARC 86016 09-06-86 Comprehensive FileCopy Sys + many options v4 The only change in this version that I noted is that one of the programs is identified an "new" and "smaller." In any event, as noted in prior reviews, this is a very professional and full-featured backup utility, particularly useful for those backing up one hard disk to another or who work with large ram disks and want to backup new files from them routinely to prevent catastrophe. Version 4.0, 9/5/86. U/L and written by Robert Holmgren. QB-INPUT.ARC 3072 09-06-86 QBasic 2.0 field input subroutines U/L by Craig Hulvey. DVFIX.ARC 768 09-06-86 Patch XDV.COM to work wit RAMPageAT U/L by Stephen Falatko. PTOUCH.ARC 18560 09-06-86 Patriquin's TOUCH (change file date) util 1.0 A very well-done implementation of Unix's TOUCH, brought to DOS and made much more friendly. Like all of Patriquin's programs, there's a truly professional feel to this one, both in the program itself and in the documentation. GT930.ARC 203776 09-06-86 GT PowerComm 9.30, w/ Sliding Windows Kermit. GTLOG26.ARC 61440 09-06-86 GT PowerComm LOG Analysis Prg. 2.6 Some pretty major changes to a program that grows more powerful and full-featured with each new release (and there are a LOT of new releases). 9.20 added sliding windows Kermit, accomplished by shelling to PCKERMIT.EXE, the same technique used by RBBS and other BBS systems, so compatibility is assured. 9.3 seems evolutionary, with features such as screen blanking, optional diskspace check, new modem init procedures, and more. U/L and written by Paul Meiners. QFONPAK.ARC 28032 09-06-86 Sort&Pack Qmodem 2.2 FON directory w/source U/L by Jim Chenvert. JAXHST3A.ARC 46080 09-06-86 JaxHost v3.0a. Host comm at DOS lvl. Bug fxd. A minor bug fix dealing with exiting from the program locally when it is waiting for a call and is set to do a callback. That bug would have affected very few of you, I suspect, but Jack has provided the new release of this excellent program for those that it does. U/L and written by Jack Kilday. PCBHYPER.ARC 36864 09-06-86 FAST Call Analyzer for PCBoard Ver 10.0 Untested, as PCB 11 and 10 callers file formats are incompatible. U/L by Andrew Roy. MANDAHA.ARC 21632 09-06-86 New mandelbrot graphics generator U/L by Loren Olson. LOGICSIM.ARC 53248 09-06-86 Logic simulator and waveform generator U/L by Steve Hite. [09-05-86] REVW0886.ARC 66826 09-05-86 Bulletin 1's New File Comments 8/1-9/5/86 Because of the release of so many new and important files in the last few days, the monthly archiving of this bulletin goes right up through today. EZFRMC24.ARC 163840 09-05-86 EZ-FORMS ver C2.4 as of 9/01/86. Form Maker Update notes: - Corrected several minor bugs reported by Pen Stevens of Westport, CT. Keep up the good work! - Made a couple of other minor improvements. As you can see, the changes are very minor indeed, but this is an excellent, shareware forms generation program for creating typical business forms (invoices, receipts, etc.), so if you haven't tried it before, you may wish to do so now. However, if you already have vC2.3 and haven't run into any bugs, don't bother with the update. U/L by Hewie Poplock. TFIND.ARC 22272 09-05-86 Find text w/regular expressions (K&R FIND) This is version 1.0 of a new utility by Chris Dunford, who describes it in the excellent documentation as follows: "Tfind is a text-finding filter that is based on the syntax of the Kernighan & Ritchie software tool "find" (which was in turn based on the UNIX utility, grep). It uses a fairly powerful subset of the class of text patterns known as "regular expressions". Tfind has been extended over the K&R find in that: it accepts multi-line patterns; it is (default) case insensitive (which can simplify pattern expressions); and it can display line numbers for matched lines. For simple searches (i.e., literal strings), I recommend using FGREP, which is MUCH faster and has greater versatility of display." Source code is not included (drat), but this looks to be an excellent tool to add to your arsenal of unix-like tools that have been ported to DOS, including Chris's own FGREP program (currently FGREP130.ARC). U/L and written by Chris Dunford. H-KEY.ARC 42624 09-05-86 Keyboard prog. for very severely handicapped "H-KEY is a writing tool for people with severe motor disabilities. H-KEY uses a single switch key entry principle for entering text. By displaying pictures of keyboards ("logical" keyboards) from which characters are selected to be typed, rather than from a physical keyboard, H-KEY simplifies the process of typing characters and carrying out complicated text handling functions...." U/L by Jake Bauer. [09-04-86] CATS13.ARC 13312 09-04-86 VG & fast floppy/HD catalog pgm-ASCII output This is an excellent, little catalog program that simply reads floppies or hard disks and outputs the filenames in an ascii format that you can edit and use with almost any data base program. U/L by Pete Olympia (who mentioned the possibilty of writing a dBIII prg to manipulate the output of CATS). Note: Notwithstanding the name of the ARC, it is apparently version 1.2 of the program. JCAL.ARC 26624 09-04-86 Cnvrt Jewish<-->Gregorian calendar, holidays Certainly is the right time of year for this. Happy New Year (or should I have run this program first to make sure I'm even close?). U/L by Joe Kattan. NAVPROG.ARC 96046 09-04-86 Aircraft Navig. & Flt Planner IBM vF.03.02 "NAVPROGseven is a series of ten programs designed to prepare a flight log that is ready for use in the cockpit. NAVPROGseven stores data about each aircraft you fly and each checkpoint you fly over, and saves that information for subsequent flights." The programs are in BASICA and are designed to be run on an IBM-PC or close compatible (versions for other computers are available, but please don't upload them). U/L by Kurt Schelin. DVAT.ARC 3072 09-04-86 Some notes on setting up a AT with DESQview Gives switch settings for AST's Advantage and RampageAT and some notes on popular software programs. Not from QuarterDeck as far as I can tell and untried here. U/L by Kurt Schelin. LBLMKR60.ARC 103808 09-04-86 Diskette Label Maker 6.0 8/10/86 "THE LABEL MAKER has the following features: 1. Automatically reads and prints all file names. 2. Handles sub-directories. 3. Allows entry of a disk name. 4. Allows either 4 or 8 lines of comments depending on which version you are running. 5. Prints on 3 1/2" x 15/16" or 4" x 1 7/16" labels. 6. Prints 1 to 4 labels as necessary. 7. Print multiple labels with one input. 8. Permits you to print only the disk name, list of sub-directories, and comments. 9. Allows you to edit the title and comments for a label. 10. Allows you to configure your program to match your system." BASIC source code is provided so you can customize to some extent, for example, to support additional printers. I'll stay with DISKVR41 (see below) because it expands arcs and libraries, but the larger comment field here and the support of gummed labels (DISKVR really prints disk jacket inserts on plain paper that you just stuff in the diskette jacket) may make this program useful for many of you. U/L by Loren Olson. [09-03-86] XT286.ARC 18432 09-03-86 IBM'S New XT/286 Announcement I cannot believe that IBM has done it again. They've put an AT in an XT box and did not, as some suspected, cripple it with fewer slots (there are 8 -- 5 16-bit and 3 8-bit) or a slower CPU speed (6 MhZ 0 wait states is probably just as fast as the current AT's 8 MhZ 1 wait state). BUT, this new machine comes with a 20 megabyte, 85ms average access time hard disk. That's too slow for an AT-class machine (38 ms is "standard" for a real AT, and many folks buy faster ones) and it may well be too small (32 meg is becoming the minimum). And, it appears, that the slow 20 megger is bundled with this ATjr so you're stuck with it. All for $3,995, much more than you would pay for an AT clone with a faster, larger hard disk. C'mon Big Blue, are people really going to fall for this? U/L by Loren Olson. MEDLIT2D.ARC 176128 09-03-86 Medical Literature Data Base/!DEMO! 150 09-03-86 records max, no on-line help/v2 Will be 09-03-86 erased from system in approx 4 weeks U/L by Chuma Agbodike. CURS.ARC 1024 09-03-86 Restores original CGA cursor at DOS prompt If a program leaves your cursor in left field on an IBM CGA, this little COM file will restore it. U/L and written by Craig Hulvey. [09-02-86] DBUTIL5.ARC 10624 09-02-86 Lists 115 dBase and Clipper utilities U/L by Eric Engelmann. CROSSTAB.ARC 5888 09-02-86 Clipper cross tabulation program U/L and written by Carl Slutter. v1.0 9/1/86. THREEDX.ARC 47104 09-02-86 Draws 3-d objects w/joystick support (BASIC) U/L by Bruce Guthrie. HERCBIOS.ARC 25216 09-02-86 Improve INT10 support for Herc card/ASM/C/DOC A TSR front end to the INT 10 (VIDEO) functions of the DOS BIOS, so that the important functions work on a Hercules graphics board or its clones. Allows you to write programs for the Hercules board that run in graphics mode, and still write text easily on the graphics screen. With it, you can program in those higher-level language processors that use the DOS or BIOS calls for display, using their standard I/O calls to write text to the graphics screen. Source code included. 9/86 release. U/L by Ken Brown. SOUNDEXC.ARC 6528 09-02-86 Soundex routine - C source & EXE U/L by Ken Brown. DS-MEM13.ARC 32640 09-02-86 Katri's mem-res ver dSCAR - vg dB Analyzer An "experimental" version of a memory-resident implementation of Katri's excellent dSCAR, a powerful dB analyzer program (also on this system). With either of these, Pete Olympia (who uploaded and recommends the program) suggests you no longer need several other PD dBase utils, such as DBINDENT, DBFORMAT and others. With such a recommendation from Dr. dBase, you ought to take a look. ANSITALK.ARC 5737 09-02-86 Convert Xtalk XVI to Display ANSI graphics But, still no Ymodem in Crosstalk, so the heck with it. U/L by Craig Smith. PAL14.INF 1664 09-02-86 Info on PAL14.ARC and PALARM10.ARC PAL14.ARC 93568 09-02-86 Personal Appt. Locator for SideKick, Ver 1.4 PALARM10.ARC 92160 09-02-86 Resident alarm clock. Companion to PAL 1.4 These are excellent SideKick add-ons, that bolster the rather weak appointment calendar functions in that program. The author's description: August 26, 1986 PAL Version 1.4: The Personal Appointment Locator for SideKick * Powerful command line or menu operation * Report all upcoming appointments within a specified range * Search for any appointment * Auto-repeating appointments (annual, monthly) * Procrastinator's helper (reminds if a task is not done) * View several appointment files at once * Print your calendar the way you want it * Perpetual calendar * Twice as fast as version 1.3 * On-line help * Garbage collection procedures * Easily delete old appointments * Customize to your needs PALARM : A resident alarm clock * Maintain up to 10 alarms * Alarms survive power failure and power down * Snooze feature * Four choices of alarm sound * Optionally show date and time continuously on screen * Customize to your needs * On-line help If you use SideKick, you owe it to yourself to give these a look. They are professional and very useful. =====[ Qmodem 2.2 ]================================== Note: You must take at LEAST the first 2 Qmodem archives even if you have an older version. You must run the new QINSTALL and CNVRTFON programs. I strongly recommend that you take the doc file as well to understand the changes and properly follow the installation procedures, although the on-line help in both the install program and in Qmodem itself is excellent. This is NOT a beta; it is an official release by John Friel. You should destroy Qmodem 2.1 if you have it as that was never an official release. QMODEM22.ARC 123186 09-02-86 Qmodem 2.2 released 9/1/86 \ Main program QM22-SUP.ARC 74383 09-02-86 Excellent package for BBS / Qinstall & Cnvrt QM22-DOC.ARC 44430 09-02-86 Communications/Fast/Sleek \ Doc File I wish I had saved the NEWTODAY files from the various betas because that would have reminded me of all the things that are new in this latest version of Qmodem. Alas, I did not, and John has not done a summary of new features (as you'll see from how changed this program is, that's understandable -- John has been busy). Suffice it to say for now that the program shows significant enhancements. While it is in essence still the Qmodem that you are used to, there are many new features, an on-line help facilty for both Qinstall and Qmodem itself that is a tour de force, and greater speed in many areas (we're going to need to do some Ymodem benchmarking again, JK, PO, LW and others). This version has also been extensively beta tested, a sign of patience and professionalism for which John Friel deserves a great deal of credit. He subjected himself to the slings and arrows of many testers over several months and kept at it until he was satisfied, notwithstanding "Where's John Friel lately" questions from people who used to accuse him of too many releases. So, here it is: An excellent program for BBS communications, supporting all the popular single file transfer protocols including Ymodem. I hope one of these days John will add batch file transfer capabilities and VT-100 emulation to this program; those two critical (to me at least) features of a full-fledged communications program are still absent. However, neither is relevant to calling this BBS and Qmodem serves that purpose very well. John deserves a great deal of credit for his hard work, and your support if you decide to use the program regularly after you have tried it out. U/L by Dennis Quinn as a single file. I have re-organized the files into 3 archives to deal with time constraints on this system and so that if a download aborts, you won't be 2/3 of the way into a 244K file. QFONE220.ARC 87424 09-02-86 K. Brendel's Qmodem.fon util for QM 2.2 A very powerful QMODEM.FON editor, sorter, etc, now officially sanctioned by John Friel, I gather, as THE Qmodem phone utility (at least if I understand the note in the Qmodem doc file and the description of the file on John's board). Other utilities for Qmodem 2.0 and earlier are not likely to work. Several I know won't work have already been deleted, and a question has been added to Dir4 for those remaining. Feedback from all of you on those would be appreciated, and I suspect we will see updated versions of the others soon enough. [09-01-86] CSR101.ARC 10368 09-01-86 C Spot Run Support Newsletter V1 N1 The author of the CSPOTRUN C routines is supporting them with this periodic newsletter. Nice stuff. U/L and written by Bob Pritchett. SD219.ARC 40960 09-01-86 Super Directory v2.19 -- 07/21/86 A powerful sorted dir program with many options, and an install program to customize it on your system. Some of you with Leading Edge 'D's seemed to have problems with an earlier version of this program. I'd be interested to hear if that problem persists with this version. U/L by Bob Weinstein. CB105.ARC 20480 09-01-86 C Source "beautifier" v1.05 8/86 source & exe The latest version (at least as I write this) of the venerable C source code formatter, ported to DOS. GO.ARC 10236 09-01-86 GO L = CD \LOTUS (for example): Very nice This is interesting. You create a GO.DAT file with any ascii editor and, in effect, create synonyms for your CD commands. Thus, the example in the description above. For those of you who have lots of little batch files on your disk to do the same thing, this program could help you get rid of them, but I'd much rather use CED/PCED synonyms to to the same thing as those become part of DOS itself, rather than loading an external program. C source included. PUSHFILE.ARC 12288 09-01-86 Push file on "stack" before changing:safer This is probably particularly useful for programmers who are constantly modifying and recompiling code to get something to work or to revise a program. This, in effect, is an easy way to keep backups of the code you are modifying, by "push"ing old versions onto a stack (the program automatically names them in sequence) so you can always go back and find your last good copy before you screwed up. However, its use extends beyond programmers to anyone who is modifying files and wants to store earlier versions. Take a look. This one is easier to use then to explain. CPRINT40.ARC 27648 09-01-86 Print multiple files/both sides page v4.0 There is another program called CPRINT9 by Dan Doman with which this one should not be confused, although they are somewhat similar in function. Both programs print multiple files with headers. This one adds the ability to print on both sides of the paper. It's syntax is also less obscure than CPRINT9 and it has an optional full-screen mode so you don't have to remember a lot of command line switches if you don't want to. Hmm... makes this all sound pretty good, doesn't it? LITLBK11.ARC 43648 09-01-86 Flee's Address Book 1.1/E-Z to use & v.good Good things often come in small packages, and here's another. Kenn Flee, author of the excellent QFILER and FILECAT packages (among others), has also written a little gem of a name and address data base system. It's fast and clean, with the normal address fields, one for a phone number (I'd really like 2 -- one for home, one for office), a classification field where you can identify categories of your own choosing, and a comments field. Sort capabilities are fine, the report capabilities are adequate, and it can print labels, etc. All in all, a very nice program for simple name and address database requirements. One suggestion for the next version: The ability to print the reports to an ascii file on disk so they can be imported into other database programs. UNIX-DOC.ARC 39273 09-01-86 AT&T's Beginner's Guide to Unix 11/85 ed2 Kernighan's Unix for Beginners, 2d edition, November 1985. I'm not a beginner (I'm sure as heck not a Unix guru, either), and I picked up some tips from this file. I don't know whether a true beginner would find this a little overwhelming. (Note: The file is chock full of backspace characters, which you may wish to filter out in your copy with the program in NO-BS.ARC or one like it). COMPTUTR.ARC 132389 09-01-86 DOS Tutorial for Beginners v4.1 7/85 Very nice program to get a real neophyte going on the fundamentals of DOS. It's different than (not as pretty by any means) the on-disk intro that comes with PC-DOS 3.x, and you might want to use both. U/L by Don Heckman. MEMWALK.ARC 21504 09-01-86 Memory Display Utility - All areas of Mem. Just go wandering around in memory to see what's there. U/L by John Stanton. GALXY12C.ARC 80756 09-01-86 Galaxy editor v1.2C/WS-like w/pop-up menus Yet another, supposedly "LAST SHAREWARE VERSION" of Galaxy. Once again, I searched through the doc file for a single mention of the fact that this program is based on Borland's Editor Toolbox and once again I found none. You draw your own conclusions as to how much value has really been added to that program. In any event, here are the author's (not mine) latest claims: * Cleaner looking Pulldown Menus * 23 line editing screen (two more than 1.2B) * Help files from the Pulldown Menus * Help with Quick Commands on all menus * Toggle Wordstar or ASCII file save * Colors can be switched on or off * Documentation improved U/L by Loren Olson. PCTJ0986.ARC 22528 09-01-86 IBM PC TECH JOURNAL Routines - Sep 86 Source code from PC Tech Journal, September 1986. See below for individual archives with COM files and (sometimes) DOCs. ====================== For reviews of files added to the system during August, download REVW0886.ARC. ======================