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- =====PsL Monthly Additions Disks
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- The programs in this section are new small programs of different types.
- Disks of new small programs specific to Windows, to programming, and to Games
- are in those sections.
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- -----September 1993 Additions Disk #1
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- Column Printer 2.0 [COLPRTR]
- Printer Utility
- Thomas M. Roddy; $10
- prints newspaper style columns of text. It prints up to three columns
- printers. Included is a word wrap program which can reformat text files
- into specific line widths.
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- ColorDOS. v1.52 [COLRDOS]
- DOS Utility
- KroTek Electronics; $11
- is a 1k TSR that changes text colors when you change drives. It also
- displays each directory in your DOS prompt path a different color.
-
- Comic 1.0 [COMIC]
- Quote Generator
- John Owen; $7
- displays a different funny remark each day. Put it in your AUTOEXEC.BAT
- to start each morning with a grin. <COMIC.PCX>
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- ComPack 4.5 [COMPACK]
- Archive Utility
- Prominence Computer Services; $25-$40
- saves disk space by compressing EXE and COM files while still leaving
- them executable. It produces faster and smaller EXE and COM files than
- EXEPACK, LZEXE, and PKLITE. This program has been around a while in
- Italy, but has just made it to PsL in the U.S.
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- CronTab 2.21 [CRONTAB]
- System Control
- Thomas G. Harold; $0
- runs programs based on the date. Execution can be periodic such as
- daily, weekly, monthly, or yearly with or without a specified offset
- such as the third day of the month. Execution can also be day-specific
- such as every Monday, Wednesday, Friday, or on the 15th of each month.
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- Crypt [CRYPT]
- File Encryption
- $0
- is a very quick and easy file encryption program. You simply enter
- CRYPT SOMEKEY <FILE1 >FILE2
- to either encrypt or decrypt a file. "SOMEKEY" is whatever key or
- password you want to use. "FILE1" is the name of the file to
- encrypt/decrypt and "FILE2" is the name of the output file. C source code
- is included.
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- DOS Quiz Manager 1.23 [DQM]
- Education
- Steve Mount; $10
- allows you to customize a DOS quiz to test students or job applicants on
- their knowledge of DOS. Test on DOS 5 specifically or ask advanced DOS
- questions. It also has password security, and the ability to save and
- print test resutlts.
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- GrowP 2.0 [GROWP]
- TSR Utility
- Tessler's Nifty Tools; $0
- is a 2k TSR which visually indicates in the DOS prompt how many copies
- of COMMAND.COM are invoked in the current chain. It is easy to shell to
- DOS from a program and later forget that you are shelled. With GrowP,
- you won't forget.
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- Star Program [STARS]
- Video: Graphics
- Data Management; $10
- is a graphic display program similar to Windows' star field screen
- saver.
-
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- -----September 1993 Additions Disk #2
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- Cache Test 5.0a [CACHTST]
- System Testing
- George Spafford; $10
- tests the effectiveness of your disk caching software. It checks
- sequential write and read, random write and read, random update, and DOS
- directory services times.
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- Delimit 1.0 [DELIMIT]
- File Conversion
- Roy G Grosbach; $15
- converts fixed format files into DELIMITed files, that databases and
- spreadsheets can read quickly. The program filters the file, choosing
- selected fields, eliminating headers from reports, or selecting only
- summary lines from reports or you can also choose selected fields from
- fixed-format files easily.
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- EasyDOS. 1.0 [EDOS]
- File Manager
- Jeff Brown; $10
- is a DOS shell that allows you to easily move around directories and see
- what is in them. From the file lists, the following functions are
- allowed: execute, view (ASCII/Hex), copy, delete, hide, move, rename,
- make read-only, encrypt/decrypt, and print. <EDOS_SCR.PCX>
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- FreeGraf. [FREEGRF]
- DOS Utility
- BV Engineering; $0
- quickly displays the amount and percentage of free space used and
- remaining, along with a graph of the same.
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- Injure. 1.0 [INJURE]
- Health/Fitness
- $0
- describes common forms of typing-related injuries, preventative
- measures, and what to do if you do injure yourself in this way. Includes
- information on alternative keyboards, furniture, and software that can
- help.
-
- ScrnCap. [SCRNCAP]
- Video Capture
- V-Soft; $20
- is a 9k TSR which captures all or part of text screens to a printer or
- to a text file.
-
- TurboBat 3.16 and TurboTXT 1.11 [TRBOBAT]
- Foley Hi-Tech Systems, ASP; $19
- allows you to compile regular DOS batch files into COM programs.
- TurboTXT 1.11 has been added which allows you to convert text files into
- self-displaying COM files.
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- Unp 3.1 [UNP]
- Archive Utility
- Ben Castricum; $5
- allows you to expand executable (COM and EXE) files which have been
- compressed with PKZip, LZEXE, et al.
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- Update 1.1 [UPDATE]
- File Updating
- John Lindinger; $0
- makes it easy to update files on a hard disk. Update searches a
- specified path for a file matching the filespec. It compares its file
- date to the new one to see if the one that was found needs to be
- updated.
-
- Universal Vocabulary Drill 1.0 [UVDRILL]
- Languages
- Mike Nichols; $15
- can be used to drill on vocabulary words (for SAT, ACT, etc.) as well as
- on foreign languages. Sample files in English, German and Spanish are
- provided.
-
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- -----September 1993 Additions Disk #3
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- ARJit. [ARJIT]
- Archiving
- Garry J. Vass; $0
- compresses all the files in the current directory into an ARJ file.
- Requires ARJ.EXE (disk #3122) C++ source code include.
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- ARJWalk. [ARJWALK]
- Archiving
- Garry J. Vass; $0
- goes from directory to directory looking for things to "ARJ" enabling
- you to free up disk space fast without having to delete files. C++
- source included.
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- ChkSys v1.0 [CHKSYS]
- Batch File Utilities
- Tay-Jee Software, ASP
- sets errorlevel to indicate the presence of specified system elements:
- ANSI, Append, Assign, Doskey, Files setting, Graftabl, Himem, Keyb,
- NLSfunc, Print, Share, and Windows.
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- DiaChess 1.0 [DIACHES]
- Games: Chess
- TNT Software; $20
- allows you to record and print complete chess games with a diagram for
- every move. It's a valuable teaching and study tool for serious players
- and ideal for printing a permanent record of tournament games.
-
- DOS 6 Quiz [DOS6QIZ]
- Education
- Steve Mount; $15
- test the user's knowledge and ability to use the features of DOS 6
- through a series of 20 questions/tasks. For users who are well-versed in
- DOS 6.0 and its new features, DOS 6 Quiz will let you know just how good
- you really are.
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- EatMem. 1.1 [EATMEM]
- DOS Utilities
- George A. Theall; $0
- is a simple utility to limit memory availability in order to discover
- the minimum memory requirements of programs.
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- HDDInfo 1.0 [HDDINFO]
- Hard Disk Utilities
- Markus Klama; $10
- helps to identify technical data for MFM, RLL, ESDI and IDE hard drives.
- This is useful if you are working on a strange system or if CMOS gets
- blown away. (Note: Do not use on SCSI drives.)
-
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- -----September 1993 Additions Disk #4
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- Little Black Book. 5.7 [LBB]
- Address Book
- Vic Baron ASP; $25
- is an address book and telephone dialer. It can be installed as a 5K TSR
- or be run from the command line. You can import/export files, supports
- international dialing and address formats. and has the ability to print
- pocket sized personal directory.
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- PSEdit. 3.1 [PSEDIT]
- Hex Editor
- Gary C. Crider; $24
- is a full screen editor for binary/hex or text files.
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- Rainbow. 1.0 [RAINBOW]
- Editor Utility
- David A. Hattel; $29.95
- is a utility that will colorize your editor. It is meant to highlight
- reserved words and make your comments stand out in different colors. You
- can even have flashing text for those comments that must not be missed.
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- TT2BMP [TT2BMP]
- Printing Utility
- Alexander Walter; $20
- is a DOS-based program to convert TrueType fonts to LaserJet bitmap
- fonts so older DOS-based programs can still use the latest printer
- fonts. Requires a graphics display and a print file generated by a
- Windows 3.1 application using TrueType fonts.
-
-
- -----September 1993 Additions Disk #5
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- Ex 1.22 [EX] (J. Andrzej Wrotniak; $30) is a scientific calculator which
- supports logs, variables, and complex expressions. Other features
- include plotting, integration, differentiation, summation, and root
- finding. <EX.PCX>
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- EZView 5.1 [EZVIEW] (Charles Hill; $20) is a file viewing utility.
- Features include changing drives and directories, files up to 16MB,
- hex/text, text search, view contents of archives.
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- Tommy's Insults [INSULT] (Tommy's Toys; $5) generates random insults.
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- [RandXX] 2.0 (Chuck Steenburgh ASP; $20-$30) is a random errorlevel
- generator for testing batch files or for creating random (temporary)
- file names.
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- [Reformat] 1.2 (Timothy C. Barmann; $10) will reformat the lines in a
- text file to any specified length.
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- [Sift] 1.0 (Tay-Jee Software, ASP) is a DOS filter than improves on
- MORE, FIND and SORT.
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- Golf Score Board [SGOLF] (Bob Howe; $0) keeps track of golf scores for
- one or more players. It calculates handicaps and averages at different
- courses. It shows your best and worst games, your problem holes, and
- your best and worst scores on each course.
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- [Writex] 2.5 (Chuck Steenburgh ASP; $20-$30) lets you have control over
- the positioning and color of text messages in batch files.
-
- [Zerofile] (P. Below; 0$) searches a directory for files of zero length
- so that you can delete them if you wish.
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- Music:
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- [Born] is a ROL version of the song from Columbia Pictures' "Born Free"
- by John Barry. Sound card required.
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- [Cats] contains several versions of the popular song "Cat's in the
- Cradle" by Harry and Sandy Chapin.
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- Patriotic [PATRIOT] is a collection of 10 patriotic song files in .CM1
- format. Songs include Star Spangled Banner, Dixie, La Marseillaise,
- Grand Old Flag, Battle Hymn of the Republic and more.
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- [Seattle] (Barry Robinson; $0) is a CMF file that plays the theme song
- for the 60's TV show "Here Comes The Brides".
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- Yesterday [YESTRDY] is the Lennon/McCartney song in ROL & CMF format.
-
-
- -----September 1993 General Updates Disk #1:
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- (AB-06) QuickTax 1.03 [QUIKTAX] maintains up-to-date information on your
- total expected tax liability for the year.
-
- (CM-02) PortaCall 2.0 [PCALL] calls you whenever a new message is on
- your answering machine. Modem required.
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- (CM-02) [Otto] 1.5 ASP ($30) lets you automate communications. New: an
- option for running scripts within batch files, new hot key capability
- and a print screen function.
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- (GA-05) TakeNote 6.5 [TAKENOT] is a study tool for chess.
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- (GA-12) A Clues Solution 2.0 [ACLUSL] combines the strategies of Wheel
- of Fortune, Jeopardy, and Trivial Pursuit.
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- (MS-10) Complete Martial Artist 2.0 [CMA] (Dave Smith; $0) is a thorough
- guide to martial arts. <CMA.PCX>
-
-
- -----September 1993 General Updates Disk #2:
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- (P1-01) LabelMate 1.6 [LBLMATE] lets you add a Print Shop graphic to a
- label with up to five lines of text.
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- (P2-02) [LJVGA] 2.0 ($10-$50) is a 6.5K TSR that allows you to print any
- VGA or Super VGA screen to an HP LaserJet or compatible printer.
-
- (PG-04) [EMSIF] 2.42 (James W. Birdsall; $5) is an interface to most
- common EMS functions.
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- (U1-01) [DirX] 1.10 searches for executable files that have been
- compressed by AXE, DIET, EXEPACK, ICE, LEXEM, LZEXE, PKLITE, SCRNCH,
- SHRINK and TINYPROG.
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- (U1-01) [DirXC] 1.10 provides a simple means of showing which files have
- and have not been compressed with an executable file compressor.
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- (U1-01) EXEMaster 2.9 [EXEMSTR] displays information about EXE and COM
- files, including archiver used, whether it is for DOS or Windows,
- whether it is a compiled batch file or self-displaying text file and
- more.
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- -----September 1993 General Updates Disk #3:
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- (U1-03) Fdate 7.3b [FDATESF] lets you do date/time arithmetic in batch
- files.
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- (U1-03) [Sounder] 3.1 produces from 1-3 random tones for use in batch
- files.
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- (U1-06) [DLT] 1.6 is an enhanced file deletion utility.
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- (U1-09) HardTrack 1.1 [HARDTRK] (ASP) keeps track of and reports on new,
- modified, and missing files on your hard disk or network drive.
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- (U2-02) MenuMedia 1.1 [MENUMED] is a quick & easy DOS menu application.
-
- (U2-03) [EXC] 2.6 is a simple but powerful script processor for
- automating DOS applications.
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- (U2-04) Resq 3.2 [RESQ32] (Mike Yarus; $10) is a utility which allows
- recovery of text otherwise lost in the computer. NEW: searches XMS and
- EMS memory as well as low RAM.
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- (U2-05) [HiVIDEO] 2.03 (ASP) expands DOS RAM by 96k.
-
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- -----September 1993 General Updates Disk #4:
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- (U2-07) [ConCopy] 1.50 captures to a disk file all the text going to the
- screen.
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- (U2-03) Playback 2.3 [PLAYBAC] ($35) ASP captures keystrokes and lets
- you play them back in a variety of ways.
-
- (Quick Look update): [DFat] 2.4 (Bob Eyer; $25) reports file
- fragmentation in directory format. Monthly Additions Disks Selected
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