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- =====Utilities
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- DiskQwik 1.1 [DISKQWIK]
- Hard Drive Speedup
- #12601 (U1-09)
- Dustbowl Designs, Inc.; $28
- claims to boost the transfer rate of IDE hard drives by up to 45% by
- activating the drive's multiple sector block transfer mode. It includes
- a utility to tell if your drive has the built-in capability to use this
- mode and a Data Transfer Rate test to measure the results.
-
- TSUtil 1.1 [TSUTIL]
- Hard Disk Utilities
- #12602 (U1-09)
- George Tihenea; $25
- will partition and/or format hard drives. It has full support for a
- second hard drive. You can select cluster size when formatting. It can
- also detect and destroy viruses. Supports DOS 6.0.
-
-
- ---Quick Looks, Utilities:
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- 4-Speed 1.0 [4SPD100] (Dustbowl Designs, Inc.; $0) graphically displays
- your drive's data transfer rate.
-
- BCM Menu System 2.0 [BCM] (Brad May; $49) is a group of integrated
- programs for menu and file management. It can be set up to use your
- favorite utilities, and automatically scan compressed files using your
- virus scanner. Other features include mouse support, hot-keys, encrypted
- password protection, application launching, disk and file management
- capabilities, file compression manager with support for ZIP/ARC/LZH/ARJ
- compression, easy customization, text editor and more. Requires 512K
- memory and a 1 meg of hard disk space.
-
- Block Cursor 1.0 [BLOKCUR] (Leithauser Research; $5) turns your cursor
- from a line to a block. (See PsL disk #2915 for freeware utilities of
- the same type.)
-
- Budi 2.2 [BUDI22] (Michael A. Mayo; $25, $50) is a batch file utility
- for creating text boxes, displaying text at any screen location and
- sounding beeps.
-
- [DateDir] 2.26 (Davor Hrboka; $1) lists all directory entries from a
- specified date to the current date.
-
- Dialer 2.3 [DIALER23] (GRH Software, ASP; $15-$25) is a telephone
- autodialer with call timer, notepad, log that saves name, date, time and
- your notes, macros, unlimited capacity, quick search and find, support
- for long number sequences and more. Requires a Hayes compatible modem.
-
- D 1.2 [D_MA] (Mike Albert; $25) is a file management utility.
-
- [D6SHELL] 1.0 (Rockland Software; $40) is a DOS 6.0 shell. The
- registered version supports all DOS commands and has an ASCII editor, a
- file finder, archive support and more. This version is very limited.
- Requires VGA, mouse and 2MB of extended memory.
-
- DLS 3.11 [DLS311] (James A. Clark; $15) will read files from directories
- and subdirectories on the hard drive or floppy drives and print a label,
- disk insert or disk sleeve. Handy for printing content information on
- diskettes.
-
- Fancy Directory 1.4 [FANCYDR] (Leithauser Research; $5) is a sorted
- directory utility which uses colors and a little bit different layout.
-
- Handy Directory 2.3 [HD23] (James M Walters; $5) is a color-coded sorted
- directory utility.
-
- HD-Copy 1.7q [HD_CP17Q] (Oliver Fromme; $0) is a copy program for high
- density disks. You can read/write 1.48Mb on any 5.25" drive and up to
- 1.72Mb on 3.5".
-
- [HideFile] (John De Palma; $0) lets you protect a file from being
- viewed, run, or copied, although its name will still appear in directory
- listings.
-
- HyperRead and HyperRead Generator 4.2 [HYPER42] (Leithauser Research;
- $25) is a file viewing utility that allows the user to read computer
- text files quickly and easily. Manipulate any ASCII documents, find
- text, link related phrases, remember key words and more.
-
- [JSREC] (Johnathan Mark Smith; $15) attempts to tell you what software
- created a specified file. We first tried a FrameMaker file (FM is used
- to produce PsL News) and then a .WAV file. It did not recognize either.
- On our third try, it recognized a .WRI file. The *8*(!) nag screens for
- this simple command line utility almost kept us from trying it a third
- time.
-
- The Norton Commander Archive Viewer 3.2 [AVIEW] (Chris Buijs; $0) is a
- utility to view, extract and manipulate ARC, ARJ, LZH, PAK, ZIP and ZOO
- files. Can also be used as stand-alone utility. The Norton Commander is
- not required.
-
- [Oblit] 1.1 (Tolgathian Software; $0) deletes files in such a way that
- they cannot be undeleted.
-
- Pretty Good Privacy 2.3 [PGP23] (Philip Zimmermann; $0) performs
- public-key encryption on files.
-
- Rap 1.2 [RAP12] (Thomas M. Roddy; $10) reformats text files into
- specific line widths using word wrap.
-
- ShapeShifter [S_S02] (Curtis Little; $15) converts between archive files
- of various types (.lha, .arj, .zip, .lzh, etc.). It also scans files for
- viruses and can be used by sysops to updates BBS directory files.
-
- ZIP'R Lite 1.0 [ZIPRL10] (Stevenson Technical Services, Inc.; $20) uses
- PKZIP/PKUNZIP to store programs in compressed form. This is a no-frills
- version of ZIP'R (#4991). It compresses, decompresses and launches
- programs. With this feature, it is possible to fully integrate ZIP'R
- Lite into most, menuing systems. Requires a hard disk, 640K RAM, and
- PKZIP/PKUNZIP.
-
-
- ---Quick Looks, Spafford:
-
- One programmer sent us so many little utilities that we decided to
- just give him his own section:
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- All Drive Info 1.0 [ADI10] (George Spafford; $0) identifies all drives
- on a system and displays relevant information about each drive.
-
- ASKit 1.1 [ASKIT11] (George Spafford; $5) is a batch file utility for
- getting user input. Also see PsL Disk #1008 "Batch File Input
- Utilities."
-
- Blankit 2.0 [BLANK20] (George Spafford; $5) removes blank lines from
- text files.
-
- CUTIt 2.0 [CUT20] (George Spafford; $5) converts files with irregular
- length data formats to fixed length record formats.
-
- L2R 1.0 [L2R10] (George Spafford; $5) converts 1 line:1 field data to
- either fixed length or delimited format.
-
- S3 Line Calculator 1.0 [LC10] (George Spafford; $10) allows mathematical
- equations to be solved on the command line.
-
- LineFix Package 2.1 [LF21] (George Spafford; $5) fixes files where CR or
- LF characters have been left out of CR/LF pairs.
-
- LOGit 3.0 [LOGIT30] (George Spafford; $5) allows you to insert a command
- in a batch file and thus log the activity to a log file of your choice
- with a comment, date and time. The program must also be readily
- adaptable for any use, be it BBS, corporate or home.
-
- S3 MOD Name 1.0 [MODNAME] (George Spafford; $10) creates a listing of
- MOD file names and corresponding track titles in a DOS file or to a
- device.
-
- S3 Move ZIPped MODs 1.0 [MOVZM10] (George Spafford; $10) allows a user
- to process a large directory of ZIP files and move the ZIP files that
- contain MODs.
-
- Message Screen Saver 1.6 [MSS16] (George Spafford; $5) allows you to
- type a program name which will display a user-defined message on the
- screen in text mode.
-
- PadIt 3.0 [PAD30] (George Spafford; $5) converts variable length record
- formats to fixed length record formats.
-
- S3's Sloppy Directory 1.1 [S11] (George Spafford; $0) is a sorted
- directory utility.
-
- S3 Bit Calculator 1.0 [S3BIT10] (George Spafford; $10) calculates the
- decimal number given the bit positions and vice versa.
-
- S3 Floating Point BenchMark 1.0 [S3BENCH] (George Spafford; $10) will
- benchmark systems based on their ability to process complex floating
- point math.
-
- S3 Delimited Field Size 2.2 [S3DSIZE] (George Spafford; $10) identifies
- the number of records in a file, the maximum and minimum number of
- fields in the records encountered, and the maximum and minimum size of
- each field that is encountered.
-
- MAC Sub Data to PC Data Format 2.0 [S3MAC20] (George Spafford; $10)
- converts data prepared by a MAC running MacSub to a file more readily
- processable by a PC.
-
- S3 Password 1.10 [S3PW11] (George Spafford; $10) generates passwords
- based on users' names.
-
- S3 Directory Storage 1.0b [SDS10B] (George Spafford; $5) stores the
- current drive and directory names to a file and then restores them
- later.
-
- S3 Zip MOD 1.1 [ZIPMOD] (George Spafford; $10) uses PKZIP to compress a
- series of MOD files into ZIP files.
-
- S3 Trajectory 1.0 [S3TRAJ] (George Spafford; $35) allows you to track
- ballistics data.
-
- S3 Doc View Utility 1.2 [SSV10] (George Spafford; $5) is a simple ASCII
- file browsing utility.
-
-
- ---Updates, Utilities:
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- (U1-01: #27472/1261) Arcmaster 9.6 [AM96] is designed to make it easier
- to work with archive files.
-
- (U1-01: #27472/2030) [SHEZ] 9.3 (ASP) is a shell program to make viewing
- and working with archive files user friendly. NEW: enhanced virus
- scanning function, the ability to scan an unlimited depth of nested
- compressed files, user definable menu option, and support for 4DOS list
- function.
-
- (U1-01: #12603) [ZDiff] 1.3 is an archive/directory comparison program.
-
- (U1-04: #27060/1559) FormatMaster 5.5 [FM55] is a full-featured floppy
- diskette format utility.
-
- (U1-05: #3862) Eddy 7D [EDDY7D] (John Scofield) is a full-screen file
- and directory editor. It can also find files and strings of text.
-
- (U1-08: #2369) QuickCat 1.01 [QKCAT1] (ASP) will quickly catalog, update,
- and query every file on all disks, diskettes, and CD-Roms.
-
- (U1-08: #12213) Quick Directory 1.22 [QDIR122] (ASP) is an archive, file
- and directory manager.
-
- (U1-09: #12604) PC-Sentry [PCSNET] is a collection of programs that
- provides security and accountability on PC's and networks.
-
- (U2-05: #3950) Dosnix 2.2a [DSX22A] is a set of UNIX-style utilities
- which are very compatible with UNIX conventions.
-
- (U2-05: #12372) RighTime 2.58 [RITM258] is a 3K TSR which corrects a CMOS
- type clock error up to about 5.5 minutes per day.
-
- (U2-08: #4685) [INIMaint] 2.1g (Larry J. Martin; $30) allows OS/2 users
- to display and edit their INI files.
-
- (U1-Quick Looks) AVScan [AVS117] (Tjark Auerbach; $0) is a virus
- scanner. NEW: network support.
-
- (U1-Quick Look) Polycopy 3.0 [POLY30] (Joseph M. Albanese; $27) makes
- single-pass copies of diskettes.
-
-
- -----Small Utilities Update Disks
-
- ---November 1993 Utilities Updates Disk #1:
-
- (U1-01) [APRUNE] 2.21 removes from an archive all files that do not
- match files in the original directory.
-
- (U1-03) [BatMouse] 1.1 lets you add mouse support to your batch files.
- NEW: works from Windows.
-
- (U1-03) [Strike] (William Cravener; $0) prints and speaks the phrase,
- "Strike a key when ready...". Also included is an animated ansi drawing
- of a face.k
-
- (U1-04) ImageCopy 2.1 [ICPY21] copies diskette images to hard disk where
- they can be stored and copied to floppies in any quantity.
- [ICPY21S] contains the complete C source code.
-
- (U1-05) CSAP 4.0 [CSAP400] ($0) will sort and rewrite directories by
- name, by extension, or by date/time and size, in ascending or descending
- order. C source code is included.
-
- (U1-06) FC 2.7 [FC_MA] compares two text files and lists the differences
- between them line by line. NEW: supports more than 25 lines on screen.
-
- (U1-06) FCdoc 2.4 [FCDOC1] is a file comparison utility similar to
- Albert's FC utility, but it compares files by sentence rather than by
- line. NEW: comparison of multiple files in a single run and more.
-
- (U1-06) PC-Crypt 7.0 [CRYP70] is a file encryption program which uses
- the Vernam process.
-
- (U1-09) PC Padlock 2.5 [PCPL25] is a floppy disk locking system. NEW:
- monochrome mode for use with laptops, activity logging, and disk
- swapping.
-
-
- ---November 1993 Utilities Updates Disk #2:
-
- (U1-09) 3_Drives 2.6 [3DRVS260] is a universal device driver that allows
- you to add a 2nd 16-bit hard disk drive interface, even if it is a
- different type than your first interface.
-
- (U1-09) Protect! EXE/COM 3.1 [PROTECT] is an EXE and COM file security
- program.
-
- (U1-11) Com File Library and Command Executor 1.5 [XEQ] (Colin J.
- Stearman; $0) combines multiple small COM files to save disk space.
-
- (U1-Quick Looks) Global File Editor 2.6 [GLEDIT] (Gary C. Crider; $16)
- lets you globally search and replace a string of characters in all
- selected files of a directory.
-
- (U1-Quick Looks) [JSField] 2.0 aids in the process of extracting and
- formatting data.
-
- (U2-04) HelpCom 1.2 [HC] lets you add a help screen to any .COM program.
-
- (U2-05) SysChk 2.38 (ASP) is one of the nicest system configuration
- reporting programs that we have seen. NEW: partition names, the ability
- to automatically add comments to the printout, detection of additional
- installed hard disks, average access speed of all hard disks, detection
- of Intel Pentium, a combination of other speed tests, CD-ROM detection,
- additional SCSI Host Adapter Controllers, and interrupt info for serial
- and parallel ports.
-