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- │ "The cALMER Utilities" SERIES 127 Upgrade Information │
- │ Copyright (C) 1991 by cALMER Utilities [All Rights Reserved] │
- │361 Somerville Road, Hornsby Heights NSW 2077 Australia [+612] (02) 482 1715│
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- --------------- Tue 25th. Jun 1991 ---------------
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- All programmes have changed internally to improve overall performance
- in a multi-tasking environment such as Windows 3. They also take
- advantage of information provided to programmes by DOS 5. They detect
- the presence of the ThunderByte anti-virus hardware card and adjust
- their behaviour in two ways if ThunderByte is active:
-
- * The anti-viral self-test is 92% faster.
- * The programmes work as a fully registered version even without
- supplying the normal password.
-
- The following operational changes have been implemented:
-
- NBY:
- * ALL boot-sector viruses damage floppy disks in some way or
- another (they must store the original bootup information
- somewhere on disk and can thus overwrite existing information).
- For that reason, NBY will now simply eliminate any bootsector
- virus found on any floppy disk by re-writing the bootsector
- from scratch. If the diskette was a bootable DOS disk, DOS
- will no longer load from if booting from the previously infected
- disk. You should NEVER have a non-writeprotected DOS boot disk !
- The advantage of this is two-fold: NBY can eliminate the boot-
- sector virus even if it has been hacked by someone and has changed
- it's expected behaviour. All previously infected disks become
- bootable disks, as if they had been treated with BootPast.
-
- * After scanning a floppy disk, NBY now gives you the option to
- scan another disk, allowing you to edit the command line. On
- hard disk scanning, you can call up this option by going say:
- 'NBY C:*.com c:*.exe /m<Enter>' (/m for 'More')
-
- * A bug which did not check boot sectors on floppies if the
- system had no hard disk at all has been removed.
-
- * Users who have ThunderByte installed will note that the systems
- files (io.sys, msdos.sys, command.com or equivalent) are only
- scanned once a day. However, if ThunderByte has been disabled,
- it will scan those files on every bootup. This is due to the
- supreme protection derived from the antivirus hardware card and
- it really is not necessary to check those files in every bootup.
-
- * Users who have ThunderByte installed are given a message to
- ignore the ThunderByte warning message when NBY is eliminating
- a floppy boot-sector virus.
-
- FASTNBY:
- * Changes to file-sharing for network / multitasking environment
-
- * An external data file allowing users to nominate additional
- extensions to be scanned. '.LIB', '.OVR' etc. are now specified
- in that data file so users can disable the scanning for them.
-
- CCD:
- * CCD now saves the 'previous' directory information on every
- run, thus 'CCD /P' will always return to the previous directory.
-
- TODAY:
- * Today now allows the setting of the MASTER environment from
- the data file. 'Set X=ABC' set the environment variable X only
- for the duration of the run of Today, ':Set X=ABC' will set
- X into the master environment, i.e. it will still be set when
- today has completed.
-
- TCT:
- * Following numerous requests to stop the whistle from TCTON and/or
- TCTOFF, the two programmes will whistle only if a parameter is given.
- i.e.:
-
- 'TCTON<Enter>' = silent
- 'TCTON x<Enter>' = whistle
- 'TCTOFF<Enter>' = silent
- 'TCTOFF x<Enter>'= whistle
-
- * TCT.COM has been compacted and now takes about 75 bytes less
- RAM. It can be loaded high in DOS 5 (LoadHigh TCT) or QEMM
- without problems.
-
- DL:
- * DL has 3 new commands. (dl /? to get a listing of commands)
- - /l list mode, only shows file name, intended for redirection
- into a file.
- - /lp list mode, shows file and pathname name.
- - /~ NOT (e.g: 'dl /~e<Enter>' shows all non-executable files.
-
- LAZYBACK:
- * 'Lazyback /mark<Enter>' will mark all files in the current data-
- file as backed up already.
-
- BOOTPAST:
- * Now Fully re-constructs the entire bootsector which could have
- been destroyed by a virus.
-
- * Now works on all computers. On some clones, the bootstrap
- loader is non-standard and a disk treated with BootPast would
- display the message and scroll continuously. On those PCs,
- the message will now be displayed once only and then lock up.
-
- AUTOEDIT:
- * Now allows customisation of editor to use, i.e. you can use
- your own editor (in which case you lose the context-sensitive
- help)
-
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- Current program files contained in the complete set of the cALMER Utilities:
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-
- Program Purpose
-
- AUTOEDIT Edit often-changed files from a pick-list
- BOOTPAST Make floppies bootable
- CAPSOFF Switch caps lock Off
- CAPSON Switch caps lock on
- CCD cALMER Change Directory
- CURSOR Large cursor
- DISKFREE Disk statistics
- DL Directory listing program
- EE Environment Editor
- EMPTYKBD Clear keyboard
- FASTNBY High-speed scanning of entire disk for changes
- FILEVIEW View / Extract / Print files
- FIM Memory Search Program
- FORMFEED Send a formfeed
- KILLDIR Remove directory inc. files
- LAZYBACK Automatic backup procedure
- MENU application menu
- MOVE moves files
- NBY Anti-Trojan / Virus program
- NOCURSOR remove cursor
- NUMOFF Switch num lock Off
- NUMON Switch num lock on
- PRINFOOL remove printer
- PRTIMER set printer time-out
- QT2 a cute little program (QUARTER TO)
- RAM reports how much ram is free for DOS
- SCH Scheduling system
- SCHEDULE part of SCH
- SCROLOFF Switch scroll lock Off
- SCROLON Switch scroll lock on
- SIPLUS Systems Information Plus
- TCT The Calmer TSR. (Dosedit, mouse etc.)
- TCTOFF TCT utility
- TCTON TCT utility
- TCTSETUP TCT utility
- TODAY Once a day processing utility
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