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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, to Games
- and to Utilities are in those sections.
-
- -----November 1993 Additions Disk #1
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- 386 to 486 [386_486].
- System Setup
- Robert G. Brown; $0
- tells how to upgrade a 386DX to a Cx486DLC and get a 50% performance
- boost.
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- ASCIize 1.2 [ASCIIZE].
- Communications
- Mike Albert; $10
- converts binary files to ASCII only so that they can be sent email.
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- Batlog .9 [BATLOG].
- Computer Usage Log
- Doug Darrow; $5
- keeps track of the time you spend using specified programs.
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- CCIS 2.0 [CCIS].
- System Testing
- S. Demers; $0
- tests your CPU's speed.
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- Compressed Digital Audio [CDA]
- Sound File Compression
- Steve Krenek; $18
- can compress VOC files by a ratio of 4:1 using ADPCM. It
- can also decompress the compressed files.
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- CRT40 [CRT40].
- Video
- Jack A. Orman; $20
- lets you change screen colors for borders, background and foreground,
- number of lines and columns and more.
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- DF 3.5 [DF]
- Disk Copy Utilities
- Mark Vitt; $20
- creates an image of a floppy on your hard disk for production
- copying. Also see the next program, Extract.
-
- Extract 1.0 [EXTRACT]
- Disk Copy Utilities
- Gilles Vollant; $20
- extracts a file from floppy disk images created on hard disk
- by WinImage, DCF, DF, Sabdu, etc. These programs create
- floppy disk image files for faster disk duplication, but the contents of image files cannot be accessed normally.
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- DrvSwp [DRVSWP]
- Disk Drive Utility
- $0
- lets you reassign or swap drive letters, as well as write-protect hard drives.
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- EchoBlock 1.0 [ECHOBLOK].
- System Start-up
- R. N. Wisan; $0
- enhances DOS 6's CONFIG.SYS menu system. It prints on screen just the
- parts of a Config.Sys file that would be operative under a given menu
- choice.
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- Err [ERR].
- System Utilities
- Wayne Robbins; $10
- is a TSR which reports errorlevels returned by other programs.
-
- FileC 1.06 [FILEC]
- Keyboard Utility
- Mike Morearty; $0
- is a 2.5k TSR which allows you to type only the first few
- characters of long file names in DOS and then it fills in the rest.
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- Grammar Online! [GRAMMAR].
- Word Processing Utilities
- David Harrill Roberts; $15
- is a 115k TSR which you can pop up while in your word processor to
- look up grammar rules. Most text-based word processors do not use a
- lot of memory, so the 115k should not be a problem, but the author
- should really use swap-to-disk or to EMS to reduce the RAM overhead.
-
- Gun Clipart 1.0 [GUNS]
- Clip-Art and Fonts
- Gun Clipart; $20
- is a collection of gun clipart in PCX format. <REDHAWK.PCX>
-
- Jeopardy Detector 1.0 [JPRDY].
- System Analysis
- PC-Kwik Corporation; $0
- monitors disk caches for periods when the disk structure is in
- jeopardy. Many disk caches produce periods when directories point to
- files which have not yet been allocated in the File Allocation Table
- on the disk. If a crash occurs during these jeopardy periods,
- cross-linked files can result.
-
-
- -----November 1993 Additions Disk #2
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- Universal Find & Replace Utility 1.0 [FR]
- Softechnics; $14
- can do search and replace and make other changes to
- files. It works with any format and size of file.
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- In The Beginning 1.2 [ITB12].
- Keyboard Utility
- Jim Hughen; $35
- records/plays back key strokes used to start programs.
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- JSCroll 4.1 [JSCROLL].
- Video Utility
- Jeffrey Chasen; $15
- is a TSR which lets you view text that has scrolled off the screen in
- DOS.
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- JS-Not 1.0 [JS_NOT]
- File Utility
- Johnathan Mark Smith; $8
- lets you specify files on which action should NOT be
- taken. For example, you can delete or copy all files but those
- specified.
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- Locate 1.0 [LOCATE]
- File Finder
- Terry Crandall; $0
- searches for files on one or more drives. Options include
- searching floppies and network drives; filtering by file attribute,
- size, and date range; and executing commands on found files.
- This has become our favorite file finder already. C source code is
- included.
-
- PSDriver 0.1 [PSDRIV]
- PostScript Printer Utilities
- Johannes Geenen; $0
- is a device driver that allows direct printing of ASCII files
- to a Postscript printer. It can also be used on network printers.
-
- QuikFile 5.1 [QFILE51].
- Address Book
- James P. Guare; $10
- is an address and telephone directory program. It includes a
- full-featured text editor, phone dialing through a modem, mailing
- label printing, and more.
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- SuperFind 4.7 [SF]
- File Finder
- David L. Dight; $0
- is a different kind of file finder. It reads all your drives once,
- then lets you interactively search for files based on name, attribute,
- date, and size. It can also execute commands on found files.
-
- Because it does not have to re-read the drives each time, it is
- ideal when you are searching for more than one file. SF also lets
- you shell to DOS so that you can return to SF later without having to
- re-read the drives.
-
- Tagaday 1.11 [TAD111].
- Daily Quote Utility
- Robert N. Payes; $0
- selects a line at random from a text file and displays it. This lets
- you create your own quote-of-the day files.
-
- Volume and Serial Number 1.26 [VASN126].
- Disk Utility
- Samuel Kaplin; $6
- allows changing the serial number and volume name on disks.
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- Wipe-Out. 1.06 [WIPEOUT]
- System Setup & Control
- Giles Rider; $25
- de-installs programs and their related directories in DOS,
- Windows and OS/2. It can also restore your original Config.Sys,
- Autoexec.Bat and Environment. Requires DOS 6.0.
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- ZipDel 1.0 [ZIPDEL]
- ZIP File Utility
- Steven Barcus; $0
- compares the time and date of files in a ZIP file with the
- expanded files on a hard disk and reports if any changes have
- been made. It optionally will delete files from the hard disk
- which do match.
-
-
- -----November 1993 Additions Disk #3
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- [AreaCode] 1.0 (Jeff Harrington; $0) finds the state, country and
- large metropolitan areas when you type in the area code.
-
- [Bells] (Jerry Whiting; $0) is a collection of beeps for use with
- batch files.
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- Cipher 1.6 [CIPHER16] (Mike Albert; $40) is a file encryption program.
-
- The Comic 1.0 [COMIC] (Owen Associates; $5) displays a different funny
- one-liner each time you boot your computer.
-
- [Compdir] (Davor Hrboka; $1) will compare the contents of any two
- subdirectories or multiple pairs of subdirectories and produce a
- listing of files that meet parameter criteria.
-
- Days Off Calculators 1.0 [DAYSOFF] (David Grant; $0) is a route and
- schedule planning system. The calculators allocate crew members among
- the seven days of the week, allowing for different staffing levels on
- different days and optimizing the off-days assigned to each crew
- member. Two calculators are included: one for 4-day workweeks and the
- other for 5-day workweeks.
-
- Directory Commander Plus 2.0 [DOSUTIL] (Chuck Steenburgh; $14.95)
- allows DOS 6.0 users to set and save (to a batch file) DIR switches
- from a menu driven program. Then you can run the batch file instead of
- trying to remember all the switch options.
-
- [DR_Bak] (John De Palma; $0) is a batch file utility for storing the
- current directory and changing back to it later. QB source included.
- Also see PPPD on PsL disk #1993.
-
- [DStroll] (Al Zermane; $0) allows the user to stroll through large
- directories viewing entries, using various sorting criteria such as
- date, file name, extension and size.
-
-
- -----November 1993 Additions Disk #4
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- Emily'93 [EMILY] is an add-on file of Hurricane Emily to be used with
- the MERLIN Hurricane Tracking Tool (which is on disk #4334).
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- Environ 3.1 [ENV31] (David E. Key; $any) allows direct manipulation of
- the DOS environment, saving and restoring variables to/from files.
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- TSR Floating Point Calculator 3.0 [FCA30] (Bob Eyer; $20) is a oneline
- TSR calculator able to perform complex math functions.
-
- [FCBin] 1.2 (Mike Albert; $25) compares two files and lists the
- differences between them byte by byte. Text or binary files can be
- compared.
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- [FSort] 1.0 (Mike Albert; $25) can sort files of any size, optionally
- removing duplicate lines.
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- FView 2.1 [FVIEW2] (Chris Gordon; $0) is a text file viewer.
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- Generalized File Replication Utilities [GFRU] (S. Gopalakrishnan; $35)
- identifies changes made to data on one computer, copies the changes
- and applies them to the same files on a secondary computer system.
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- GetKey 1.6 [GETKEY16] (Matthew G. Moody; $0) is a batch file utility
- that gets a keypress.
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- HiSpeed [HISPED2] (John J. Speth; $0) lets you transfer files between
- computers at high speeds over a null modem cable.
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- [HoldOn] 2.10 (Samuel Kaplin; $6) is a variable delay program for
- batch files. It has 3 different ranges; seconds, milliseconds, and
- eighteenths of a second.
-
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- -----November 1993 Additions Disk #5
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- Jason's File Finder 2.0c [JFF20C] (Zinfandel Software; $10) will
- search for one or more filespecs across one or more drives or
- directories. It will optionally execute commands on matching files.
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- JSPick 1.0 [JSPICK10] (Johnathan Mark Smith; $10) checks ASCII files,
- such as those exported from mailing list programs, for duplicate
- entries.
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- [MYM2QKN] 2.01 (Charles E. Jackson III; $10-$15) converts data from
- Managing Your Money (versions 7.1 or higher) to Quicken for Windows.
-
- Network Disk Info [NDI] (Mark Vitt; $0) monitors and displays
- graphically disk space usage on network drives. It is intended to be
- left running, and it updates the display every 10 seconds; however, it
- can also be used on a one-shot basis on non-network drives.
-
- [NPWait]. (Nicholas Petreley; $0) lets you interrupt CONFIG.SYS in
- OS/2 to drop to a command line. C source code is included.
-
- [Reboot] can reboot your computer from a batch file or from the DOS
- command line, optionally doing either a cold or warm (i.e.: no memory
- check) reboot.
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- Ron's Smart Search 3.0 [RSS30] (Ron Loewy; $30) performs fast logic
- searches on static text databases.
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- AutoScore 1.1 [SCORE] (MT Software; $20) keeps track of bowling scores
- for up to five players and keeps game and series totals for the team.
-
- [Squish] 1.0 (Mike Albert; $10) compresses and decompresses files.
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- Time And Date 1.27 [TAD127] (Samuel Kaplin; $10.00) allows changing
- the time and date on files. It also keeps logs on files that it has
- changed.
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- [WaiTill] (Phillip Scott; $0) lets your computer perform tasks at a
- specified date and time.
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- [ZipFind] 1.2 (Mike Albert; $25) searches ZIP or ARC files for text
- strings.
-
-
- -----November 1993 Updates Disk #1
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- (AH-02) Home Loan Diary 2.0 [LOAN20] is a home mortgage diary and
- amortization schedule calculator. (Registration: $15)
-
- (AH-03) Econometric Forecasting [ECON] forecasts S&P 500, T-bond and
- T-bill interest rates, and inflation.
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- (BZ-01) HPLJ Calendar Printer 4.0 [HPCAL] prints out a one-page
- calendar for any year on an HP Laserjet compatible printer. NEW:
- supports HP LJ 4.
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- (BZ-Quick Look) [CAL] is a simple calendar program. C source code
- included.
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- (CM-01) TinyHost 3.31 [TH331] permits logging onto a computer from a
- remote site without having to install a large, complex BBS system.
-
- (CM-Quick Look) Modem Dictionary 2.0 [MDIC20] (R. Scott Perry; $0)
- contains definitions of over 730 words related to modems and BBSs.
-
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- -----November 1993 Updates Disk #2
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- (DB-Quick Look) [JSDDuper] 3.0 will read a data file and make a new
- file without any duplicate records in it.
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- (GA-05) [Quinta] 3.0 is similar to Othello, Go-Moku, Go and Pente.
-
- (GA-05) TakeNote 6.7.1 [TAKEN671] is a study tool for chess.
-
- (GA-13) Race The Nags 1.3 [NAGS13] (ASP) is an animated horse-racing
- game for up to six players.
-
- (MS-01) Bio-Cal 10.2 [BIOTEN] is a biorhythm-calendar program. ($25)
-
-
- -----November 1993 Updates Disk #3
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- (MS-10) BassTips 1.5 [BTIPS] (ASP) pops a valuable fishing or boating
- tip onto your screen each time it is run.
-
- (PG-04) CodeLister 1.21 [CL121] (ASP) prints C source code files.
-
- (PG-04) EMSIF 2.42 [EMSIF] provides a high-level interface to LIM EMS
- control functions.
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- (PG-08) RGB Color Mixer 1.5 [RGB15] is a color mixer for use with the
- setrgbpalette() function.
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- (PG-08) SOS Engine 2.14a [SOSENG] is a debugging tool which records
- low level application activity such as file accesses, reads, writes,
- memory allocation requests and more. (Registration: $30)
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