OS/2 Shareware BBS: 11 Util/11-Util.zip/STRUTL11.ZIP/README.DOC

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Hey folks. I wrote some programs running under both OS 0.5 and messDos :-)
They are hereby left out into the world (to see how the world copes with'em).
When writing them, I was very concerned about them to become as small as
possible. This is to put a contrast to all those gigantic programs coming up
the latest time. It seems, EXE files below 1 MB aren't considered worth even
looking at. As a result to this, these programs are 100% written in assembler.
Have a look at "SLEEP.EXE": Isn't that the smallest family application you've
ever seen, hey? Try writing a smaller one!
Ok, these programs are given to the public. If you admire me and my work, then
(and *only* then) you may copy/distribute them as you like. Deleting them is
*NOT* allowed (you won't do that to me, will you?) You may even sell them,
if you find some stupid willing to pay. To make things even smaller, I didn't
include notices in the program stating that I'm the author. But if you wanna
do me a favour: Tell everyone you give those programs to, that it was meeeee
who wrote them.

Here's some docu:
WHICH.EXE
  Like the *NIX command: Show where the file executed by the given command is
  located. For example WHICH COMMAND will (hopefully) write C:\COMMAND.COM.
  Technically spoken, WHICH will search the current directory and the PATH
  for the .COM, .EXE or .BAT (MsDos) / .CMD (OS/2) file, that is given as
  the first parameter. It does this much like COMMAND.COM / CMD.EXE does.
  Well, not quite: Internal commands aren't recognized. So WHICH DIR will
  probably find nothing. If you wanna find other files, you can add the name
  of an environment variable containing a directory list like PATH does.
  For example: WHICH STDIO.H INCLUDE searches the (current and) directories
  stored in environment variable INCLUDE for the C header file.
  Update 4 Sep 1991: Supports jokers more correctly than previous version.
  Update 5 Sep 1991: Fixed some bug resulting in no output in Dos mode.
TABS.EXE
  Write "TABS" (no spaces) to get info...
  Update 4 Sep 1991: Made smaller!
SLEEP.EXE
  Like the *NIX command: Sleep for the specified number of seconds. Its
  main benefit is that it will take (almost) not cpu power when run in OS/2
  compatibility box. This is different from busy-wait approch usually taken
  in DOS applications!
FILESIZE.EXE
  Compare the sizes of two files, or of one file and a number. The result
  (smaller, equal in size, bigger) can be tested using ERRORLEVEL.
FILEDATE.EXE
  Like above, but with DATE/TIME of last access of files instead of their
  size(s). (Using this utility, I could write a small MAKE batch file,
  which will rebuild only those parts of a module that have been changed.)
ECHO.EXE
  Enhancement for the built-in echo command. See ECHO.DOC, ECHO.BAT and
  ECHO.INC! Notice, that to start it, you will have to write .\ECHO, for
  else the built-in echo command will be used. For this reason, I set an
  environmentvariable %ECHO% in my AUTOEXEC.BAT (Dos) / CONFIG.SYS (OS/2)
  containing path AND FILENAME of the ECHO.EXE command. Now if I wanna use
  if (in batch files, usually), I just write %ECHO% instead of ECHO.
  Of course, you may also rename it.
  Update 4 Sep 1991: Corrected some protection violation when file not found
                     Also became somewhat smaller.
BATCOUNT.EXE
  New since 4 Sep 1991
  Ever wanted to have some program called on ever n-th call to some batch
  file (STARTUP.CMD, AUTOEXEC.BAT etc) ?  This will help you to do it.
  Enter "BATCOUNT" to get more explaination.

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