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=====Utilities - Disk & File Related
-----Archiving
Archive Tracker 1.0 [ARCTRK10] (Robert Barrentine, ASP; reg. fee: $35)
implements a file archiving system to keep track of computer files archived
off of a hard disk onto floppy disks. It reads archive disk directory,
stores file data and can be searched to locate specified files.
Put, Get, and Install 2.20 [PUT220] (MicroFox Company, ASP; reg. fee: $21)
is a set of archiving utilities. PUT and GET 2.2 allow you to archive and
dearchive files from the command line or from a menu, and INSTALL 3.02
allows you to use self-installing files compressed using these utilities.
ZipScrub 1.0 [ZSCRUB] (Dan Goodell, reg. fee: $0) deletes obsolete files
from PKZIP archive files. It compares the filenames in a ZIP archive to the
source directory. If files with the same names no longer exist in the
source, they are purged from the archive.
---Updates: Archiving
(U1-01) ArcMaster 9.9 [AM99] (New-Ware Shareware Products, reg. fee: $35)
is designed to make it easier to work with archive files. NEW: a feature
that allows commencing the compression sequence even if the active
directory is empty.
(U1-01) Norton Commander Archive Viewer 4.4 [AVIEW44S] (Chris Buijs, reg.
fee: $0) is a utility to view, extract and manipulate ARC, ARJ, LZH, PAK,
ZIP and ZOO files. NEW: improved use of memory.
(U1-01) Shez 9.6 [SHEZ96] (James Derr, ASP; reg. fee: $39) is a shell
program to make viewing and working with archive files user friendly. NEW:
added support for ZIP files that span multiple floppy disks, can handle to
3500 files in a compressed file.
(U1-01) ZDiff 1.4 [ZDIFF14] (Christophe Dubourg, reg. fee: $20) is an
archive/directory comparison program. NEW: added a feature to generate a
list from a set of files.
-----Anti-Virus
Digital detective 1.10 [DETEC] (Digital Enterprises, Inc., reg. fee: $29)
can detect any changes of any type to files which you have chosen to
authenticate. This can detect activity by viruses which are not recognized
by virus scanners.
---Updates: Anti-Virus
(U1-02) AVScan 1.34 [AVSCAN] (H+BEDV GmbH, reg. fee: $0) is a virus
scanner. NEW: detects new viruses.
(U1-02) ThunderByte Anti-Virus 6.1 [TBAV61] (Dick Geheniau, reg. fee: $99)
is a toolkit designed to protect against computer viruses and to recover
from them. NEW: an option to process all local disks rather than just the C
drive, more detailed status report at the end of the log file, added option
to delete files irretrievably, modified several signatures.
-----Batch File Utilities
Boot 1.0 [2BOOT] (John De Palma, reg. fee: $0) will tell you what drive was
used to boot the computer.
Batches 1.0 [BATCHES] (reg. fee: $0) is a set of 4 batch utilities. T-PAUSE
will pause for a specified time without pressing a key, KEY# returns the
ascii value of a pressed key in ERRORLEVEL, SAVER is a non-resident screen
saver, and SHOWERR checks for errors.
Break Point [BRKPOINT] (Ron Imhoff, reg. fee: $0) allows you to interrupt a
batch file. This is useful for fast computers which do not allow users to
interrupt batch files by pressing CTRL-C because of their speed.
Get Colors 1.0 [GETCOLR] (Richard Simpson, reg. fee: $0) saves the screen
colors at the beginning of a batch file and resets them at the end of the
batch file.
Hold [HOLD] (Unique Solutions Center, reg. fee: $10) is a batch file
programmable delay. It allows ctrl-c to stop the batch file.
Momentum 1.0 [MM] (Jim Tolliver, reg. fee: $5) lets you ask questions and
get yes or no answers in batch files and branch accordingly.
PAWS2 1.0 [PAWS2] (John De Palma, reg. fee: $0) allows you to insert pause
commands in your batch files which will respond to the keyboard or the
click of a mouse button. QBasic source code included.
---Updates: Batch File Utilities
(U1-03) Get 2.6u [GET26U] (Moby Disk, reg. fee: $16) adds many useful
commands to batch files. NEW: improved on several features including,
string handling, return codes from other programs and much more.
(U1-03) PowerBatch 2.0 [POWERBAT] (Computing Systems Design, Inc., ASP;
reg. fee: $30) is a programming language and compiler for DOS.
-----Disk & Drive Utilities
Disk Management System 1.0 [DMS10] (BC Systems, reg. fee: $15) is a command
line driven disk file catalog program. It moves files to free spaces on
available volumes. It generates reports based on filename, 4DOS
description, category or volume.
MegJr 1.2 [MEGJR] (Jim Tolliver, reg. fee: $8) displays a two line message
from the DOS prompt which reports the amount of disk space, percentage of
free space, CPU type, and DOS version.
PDF 1.0 [PDF] (Bob Eyer, reg. fee: $20) defragments specific files or
ranges of files instead of the entire disk or hard drive.
---Updates: Disk & Drive Utilities
(U1-04) Disk Copy Fast 4.3 [DCF43] (DCF Software, reg. fee: $25) is a
one-pass disk duplicating utility. NEW: copies in the background; longer
path names allowed.
(U1-04) Dfat 2.5 [DFAT] (Bob Eyer, reg. fee: $25) reports file
fragmentation in directory format. NEW: file count statistic at bottom of
list, and supports nesting of up to 32 subdirectories and 32 fragments per
single subdirectory listing.
(U1-04) Extract 2.0 [EXTRACT] (Gilles Vollant, reg. fee: $0) extracts a
file from floppy disk images created on hard disk by WinImage, DCF, DF,
Sabdu, etc.
(U1-04) MEG 2.0 [MEG] (Jim Tolliver, reg. fee: $10-14) displays a pie and
bar chart of total space, free space, space used, and percent free for hard
and floppy disks. NEW: screen includes path and Windows information.
---Updates: Directory Listers/Editors
(U1-05) Eddy 7g [EDDY7G] (John Scofield, ASP; reg. fee: $20) is a
full-screen directory editor and general purpose disk utility. NEW: keep
track of changes made to directories by new program installations or by
viruses, etc.
-----File Changing, Copying, Deleting
ATTS 1.0 [ATTS] (Ray Dittmeier, reg. fee: $7) allows you to change the
hidden and read-only attributes of any file.
CHG 2.8 [CHG] (Bob Eyer, reg. fee: $20) changes file attributes, dates, and
times on any file. You can also hide and unhide directories. Wildcards are
supported.
DAB 1.4 [DAB140] (Scott R. Anderson, reg. fee: $5) will allow you to delete
all files except those specified at the command line.
DelDir 2.7 [DELDIR] (Emmanuel Verbeeck, reg. fee: $0) is a
file/directory/volume eraser/wiper for DOS and Novell environments.
Features include support for non-empty directories, protected files,
exclusions, list files, extended wildcards, local/global confirmations, and
more.
_Find 1.0 [FIND_FJ] (Frank Jorga, reg. fee: $0) allows you to perform
search and process functions across several drives and subdirectories. You
can use wildcards to find files, delete, save, etc.
MYM2QKN 2.02 [MYM2QKN] (Charles E. Jackson III, reg. fee: $10-15) converts
data from Managing Your Money to Quicken for Windows.
SuperWipe 1.00u [SUPRWIPE] (Gary Jeffers, reg. fee: $21) is a file wipe
program. It writes a character over the entire file so that it cannot be
recovered by an undelete program. Features include 1 to 9 wipes, listing
multiple files to be wiped, wildcard support and more.
Unload86 1.0 [UNLOAD] (Mark D. Pickerill, reg. fee: $0) converts binary
files to Intel hex format. It will also output a BNPF, BHLF, or B10F type
file. This program is useful for programmers who need to have Intel hex
files for downloading to an EPROM programmer.
---Updates: File Changing, Copying, Deleting
(U1-06) JSDDuper 4.0 [JSDDUP40] (Johnathan Mark Smith, reg. fee: $18) will
read a data file and make a new file without any duplicate records on it.
(U1-06) JS-FCopy 2.0 [JSFCO20] (Johnathan Mark Smith, reg. fee: $18)
simplifies the task of finding and making copies of files.
(U1-06) JS-FDel 1.1 [JSFDE11] (Johnathan Mark Smith, reg. fee: $18)
simplifies the task of finding and deleting files.
(U1-06) WordSmart 1.3 [WSMART] (Lambert Klein, ASP; reg. fee: $18) is a
text reformatter that alters the length of lines in a plain text f