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U2-05: System Setup, Testing, & Control ----------------------- 2781 Drives/Disks/Fat's Small Programs Disk ----------------------- Addrive Winkel, Rich $? bypasses the resetting of the system board floppy drive configuration switches when using the SUPERDRV ramdisk from AST Research. Autotest (AUTOTES) Shows floppy and hard disk access times for sequential and random seeks. It will not damage any files on the disk. Works on RAM disks too. Bootdump (BOOTDUM) displays technical information about a disk's boot record. CotDOS 1.1 Sydex $15 is a 4k DOS device driver for the Apricot's 720K MS-DOS diskettes. All DOS functions are supported, including Format and DiskCopy. Drive4 Gainsley, Jim $? tells you how to install 4 internal floppy drive in the AT type computers. Eagle16 1.11 Sydex $15 is a 4k DOS device driver the Eagle's Eagle 1600 series DOS diskettes. Exhume 2.01 Newman, Norman $0 will rescue (or "exhume") data which has been lost on a disk after the directory or FATS have been corrupted. Fat Turley, Steve $? includes three programs useful for recovering lost files, such as ones that are mistakenly deleted, or a patching up an incorrect FAT. The three programs are PFAT, FAT, and TOSECT. When used together with DEBUG, it is possible to correct both of the above situations with some time and patience; however, we recommend other programs in the library for undeleting files much more easily. Fat2 1.09 Dunford, Christopher J. $0 displays the chain of clusters that belong to a disk file, to determine which file owns a specified cluster or sector, and to display general information about a disk. It will also display general information about a disk. This also has support for large partitions under DOS 4+. HP150Sys 2.0 Sydex $20 is a set of two DOS device drivers for Hewlett-Packard's HP-150 and HP-150 series II DOS diskettes. MoveHD 2 Washburn C. $0 is a device driver to relocate HD parameter tables to low memory so that the original block may be overlaid by QEMM or 386MAX and used for LIM. Useful with DTC 5287 RLL or Second Nature, as ROM space may be converted to LIM. Also senses when original parms were in Int60-67 range, and re-zeros them after move (Adaptec RLL). RainDOS 1.11 Sydex $20 is a DOS device driver DEC's Rainbow DOS diskettes. Rock Disk Info 1.13 (ROCKDI) Rock Systems $21 displays a chart of information about one or all disk drives. Info includes their type, volume labels, sizes, space used/available, sector size, cluster size, number of FATs, sectors, clusters, and system identifications. Stat displays disk cluster size and other disk info. UnNonDOS 1.0 Christensen, Ward $0 is a program designed to simply and safely patch the FAT byte 00 of a hard disk back to an F8. Use it when CHKDSK says "probable non-DOS disk". The C source is included. Vfat displays a directory listing under a graphic representation of the File Allocation Table. By moving the cursor keys to select a file, you can see just which sectors on the disk are used by the file. By (R)eversing the procedure, you can select a cluster and see which file is using it. -------------------------------- END OF SMALL PROGRAMS DISK #2781 -------------------------------- -------------- 0270 System #1 Small Programs Disk -------------- 0270 Device Drivers ------------------- Comment Gilbreach, Skip $? is an MSDOS 2.0(+) device driver whose function is simply to echo a string to the standard output device. The driver code is not actually installed by DOS so no memory is wasted, and the driver can be referenced in CONFIG.SYS as often as desired. Dev is a small utility for more advanced users. It will list all current device drivers along with their memory addresses. DviceMap 2.10 (DVICEMA) Jenkins, Stephen L. $? shows the names, the order, addresses, attributes, strategies and interrupt locations for device drivers. UMB_DRVR 5.22 (UMBDRVR) Blum, Christopher $25 is a DOS 5.0 device driver that will use the shadow memory capability of the memory controller portion of various chip sets to force all ROM's not specifically excluded to be shadowed, and expand DOS base memory beyond 640KB if possible, and provide UMB's (Upper Memory Blocks) to DOS for loading programs and device drivers into high memory while not using any resident memory. 0270 Reference -------------- AnsiRef Telemacus Software Associates $? displays a reference table of the most common ANSI control strings. (on disk #280) ESC Hersey Micro Consulting, Inc. $? lets you change cursor, screen, keyboard, or speaker attributes. Actually, the documentation for this program is almost more valuable than the program. It clearly lays out the control code sequences recognized by ANSI.SYS. Phoenix.Txt $0 is text file of all the beep error codes and their Phoenix Rom Bios names. PinMap Tackett, Ray $0 is a VGA 15 pin connection map for 9 pin monitors. Specific information for Sony and NEC monitors are given, but should cover most 9 pin monitor connectors. Text Watch 1.1 (TXTWTCH) Vitt, Mark $17 allows you to monitor changes in files such as WIN.INI, CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT. XFan Brown, Cliff $0 tells you how to quieten a PC's noisy fan once and for all. 0270 Set-Up: ------------ 704K lets you use up to 704k of memory as DOS RAM memory that you can run programs in. The normal limit is 640k with memory above that only being useful for spoolers, RAM disks, etc. 896K Atkinson, Cy $0 tells how to increase memory and use the resulting memory above 640k in older PC/XT's inexpensively and without any soldering. ATclkset lets you reset your AT clock without running the Setup utility. CClock 1.0 Angel, Dave $0 reads your system's CMOS clock and set DOS clock without having to reboot. Assembler source code is included. Cmosget & Cmosput (CMOSREA) is intended to store a PC-AT's setup information which is normally stored in battery-powered CMOS memory on the AT. Once stored, you can change the battery and reload the parameters without having to use the AT's setup program using the command CMOSPUT < CMOS.DAT in your AUTOEXEC.BAT. EasyDate 4.5 (EASYDAT) Evans, Brian $3 is a quick and easy way to set the date and time for users who don't have hardware clocks. Features include: a running clock, command line options, it will use latest date & time (either the stored date and time or the system date and time), color, selection cursor has 'slide along' arrows, and it is windowed in center of screen. Enviro is a patch for COMMAND.COM (IBM-PC) to allow for a larger environment area. Currently, only 223 bytes total are allowed for environment string storage, with all data over 223 bytes truncated. Use the patch to increase the size of this data area. Envxpand (ENVXPAN) provides a way of expanding your environment to 1024 bytes, which should give you plenty of space for most uses. The original DOS strings take up less than an eighth of this space. Gsetup Micro Consulting Associates $? is a generic SETUP program for the model 99 IBM-PC/AT and compatibles. It will allow you to setup the system clock, system date and all CMOS parameters in the same way that the IBM diagnostics allows to to setup the CMOS parameters but without having to boot a special disk. Memory (MEMRYML) Microlife, Inc. $? is a utility to allow dynamic setting/resetting of the amount of memory used by DOS. The major advantage is that the system switches can be set to anything your heart desires, with the knowledge that you should not have to open up the PC to set switches while using MEMORY. MemSiz 2.0 resizes the current block of free memory available. MoreDOS Graham, Keith P. $0 checks for DOS above 640k and adjusts the DOS memory map without rebooting. -------------------------------- END OF SMALL PROGRAMS DISK #0270 -------------------------------- -------------- 2002 System #2 Small Programs Disk -------------- BootDate (BOOTDAT) O'Nolan, Paul $0 is a multifunction program that will monitor disk space, remind you when a backup was last performed, log all system boots, and display the current date and time. Turbo Pascal source included. Count (COUNTGR) GRSoft $1 counts the number of times your computer is booted and executes a specified program when the number of specified boots has been reached. This could be used for executing virus checkers, back-up procedures, etc, on a regular basis. Ddate Sampson, Hal $? is for people who do not have a battery powered clock in their PC. FreeDouble (FREEDBL) Roper, David $0 lets you patch your DOS version 2.0 to 3.3 to get a two-column DIR display. Why waste half a screen? And it's faster than using most directory utilities (well, except for PsL's DirPrompt). HitAKey Tackett, Raymond P. $0 is a dummy device driver which stops and lets you look at the screen, then hit a key to continue booting. It has no other effect on your system. Although the author has a rather ominous warning about its use on systems other than his, we tested it on different types of machines with no problems. InitDate 1.0 (INITDAT) Zentmayer, William G. $0 displays the system date and time and optionally logs them into a file. Nbscom 1.4 Antonio, Franklin $0 will allow you to accurately set the DOS date/time in your PC using the National Bureau of Standards Telephone Time Service. You simply run NBSCOM, and it dials up the NBS, reads the time, sets your DOS clock, and tells you how far your DOS clock needs to be advanced or set back. C source is included. OnBoot 1.10 Dunford, Christopher J. $0 allows you to have your AUTOEXEC.BAT file run selected programs only during a warm boot (Ctl-Alt-Del), a cold boot (power on), or the first boot of the day. OnceADay 1.2 (ONCEDAY) Unique Software ASP $15 is a small batch file utility that will allow you to run a file or a group of files only once a day. This is primarily for use in AUTOEXEC.BAT files. It allows you to reboot your machine during the day without having to execute programs which you only need to run on the first start-up of the day. Promptr 1.3 RJ Software Ltd. $10-$15 controls the loading of programs in AUTOEXEC.BAT. It will prompt you for each specified program (including TSR's) so that you can decide on boot-up which programs to run. Rtclock 1.30 Conley, Michael $0 will read the real time clock and set the DOS clock from it, or read the DOS clock and set the real time clock from it, or it will allow the user to set BOTH the real time clock and the DOS clock from the keyboard. It is intended for use on an AT class 80286 or 80386 machine. If you own the Heathkit "World's Most Accurate Clock" with a serial interface, RTCLOCK will allow you to set both your real time clock and your DOS clock from WWV, the short-wave time data service provided by the U.S. government. Time Richwell, Gunner $5-$15 contains numerous programs that relate to various aspects of time, date and timing, such as adjusting the DOS and BIOS clocks, displaying the time, a timer, hourly chimes and more. (Not on this Disk. Ask for disk #8211.) Time-IX Evrenidis, Basil $3 is for people who do not have clocks in their computers and have to manually set the time and date on bootup. This program makes it much easier to do so. TMonth Kerber, George $5 allows you to execute a command or set of commands from your AUTOEXEC.BAT file once a month. This is useful when you clean up files or in dialing a time setting modem on a monthly basis. -------------------------------- END OF SMALL PROGRAMS DISK #2002 -------------------------------- ------------------------------- 1035 System Memory View/Testing Small Programs Disk ------------------------------- 1035 Error Messages ------------------- EA Trimble, Timothy L. $? is a utility when you get a system error number on boot-up. To find out what the number means, you simple enter EA nnnn. For example, if you get an error 301, you enter EA 301 and EA will tell you Keyboard did not respond to software reset correctly or a stuck key failure was detected. If a stuck key was detected, the scan code for the key is displayed. DiagCode is a list of diagnostic error codes and their meanings. Diagnos Schneider, Jerry $0 is a pair of text files that tell how to interpret start-up beeps and error messages and how to locate a bad memory chip. Error Codes (ERRORS) $0 is a list of about 500 error codes for the PC. This can be a big help if your computer quits working and all it tells you is a number. Perror shows the chip numbers in a PC so that you know which to pull when you get a parity error number. Post Code Master 1.08 (PCM) MicroSystems Development, Inc. $62 is a menu driven database of Power On Self Test (POST) Codes generated by most major BIOS's. (These are the beeps and codes you get on boot-up if there is a problem with your system.) The two-digit code is displayed with an explanation of the code. Also included are Beep codes and their meanings. RomBeep is a description of what various system beeps and error messages mean on boot-up. 1035 Memory Testing ------------------- Eat-Mem Christensen, Ward $? helps you locate programs that fail because of memory location. This utility eats up about 32K of memory every time it is run. Keep running EAT-MEM and your program alternately until your program quits failing. RamTest has been developed as an exhaustive test of an IBM PC's system RAM. It is much more comprehensive than the PC Power On Self Test (POST) and delivers diagnostic messages which are much easier to understand. RAMTESTA is a version for the PC-AT. TestExt 3.4 Cyr, J. M. $0 will test Extended (not Expanded) memory. It requires a 286 or better CPU. 1035 Memory Viewing ------------------- LookMem allows scrolling through memory MaxDOS Graham, Keith P. $0 extends DOS memory map up above the video buffers. Memwalk lets you "walk" through areas of memory, displaying the contents on the screen. Shoemm Smoller, Jan $? is a utility designed to display the status and allocation of the Lotus/Intel/Microsoft Expanded Memory Specification. -------------------------------- END OF SMALL PROGRAMS DISK #1035 -------------------------------- --------------------- 3143 Memory Utilities Small Programs Disk --------------------- EEMRam 2.10 Dunford, Christopher J. $0 is a small utility by the author of CED/PCED (et al) that can expand your DOS memory from 640K to a maximum of 736K using Enhanced Expanded Memory (EEM). To use EEMRAM, you must have a memory board that provides EEM, such as the AST RAMpage. The JRam board, for example, is NOT EEM and thus will not support this utility. If your expanded memory card is not supported or not fully supported, no damage is done: EEMRAM will simply tell you the extent of the limitations of usage. There is also support for relocating extended BIOS data area (PS/2). EMM286 Jjex Software $0 is a public domain expanded memory simulator for 286's. All functions of the LIM EMS 4.0 specification dated October 1987 are supported except DMA functions. EMM286 requires an XMS driver, like HIMEM.SYS, for handling the transfers to/from extended memory. Emsim Kam, Karlton $? is a device driver that lets up to 256k of your AT's extended memory (above 640k) emulate expanded memory that programs like Ready and 1-2-3 can run in. Fast Load 1.24 (FASTLOD) Microsystems Software, Inc. $25 is a 2k TSR which provides instant execution of up to four specified programs, including COMMAND.COM, by storing them in EMS/XMS when you exit them and reloading them from memory when DOS tries to load them from disk. This is not a task-swapping program, it simply lets your programs load faster. Networks are supported. Jambo Adlersparre & Associates Inc. $10 makes more upper memory available for loading drivers and TSR's high under DOS 5. MemSim 3.2 Harris Computer Consulting $25 lets you use your hard disk to simulate EMS memory of up to 32 meg. This will, of course, be substantially slower than EMS, but it can allow you to do things that you might not otherwise be able to do, such as creating huge spreadsheets in 1-2-3, which normally requires EMS. NJRamt Blaszczak, Mike $? does a thorough test of EMS memory on bootup. Test can be aborted to save time by pressing a key. Remm 4.10 is AST's latest expanded memory manager. VRAM/386 1.0 Biologic $25 is a powerful memory management program for 386 and 486 PCs. It enhances the utilization of extended memory (memory above 1 megabyte) and high memory (memory between 640K and 1024K) by providing up to 32 megabytes of EMS version 4.0 expanded memory and 944K of conventional memory for use by MS-DOS programs. Also included is HRAM 1.0 which can create up to 96K of additional low DOS memory, and up to 208K of high DOS memory. Both programs will function alone, but together provide a complete memory enhancement package for 386 PCs. Also included is a viewer for both Word Perfect 5.+ files and a standard ASCII viewer. Many file management functions are also available. -------------------------------- END OF SMALL PROGRAMS DISK #3143 -------------------------------- -------------------- 0727 System Analysis Small Programs Disk -------------------- ATextMem Pardue, David G. $5 is a program to determine the size of extended memory. Bench87 is a benchmark test to test the accuracy and speed of the 8087, 80287, etc. Cenv provides information about your system. CI Smith, Simon $? identifies your CPU, clock speed, number of wait states and performance relative to a plain IBM-PC. CPUid Smith, Bob $? tells you which CPU you have and if it is faulty or not. Crit 1.00 Graham, Keith P. $0 is an intelligent critical error handler. Gives more information and options on critical errors. Disk Meter Deluxe 2.0 (DMD) P.C. Consulting $5 displays free space remaining on disk both graphically and numerically for one or more drives. The graphic display shows space used in yellow for over 50% and in red for over 90%. The author suggests that consultants put DMD in client's AUTOEXEC.BAT file with instructions to call when red blocks start showing up. It will also work on monochrome systems and includes a similar memory checker. DiskSpeed 1.05 (DISKSPD) Reznick, Josh $4 calculates the access time of a hard drive. See if your drive lives up to its specs. (It appears to work only on drive C:.) Equip2 1.0 Hanlin, Thomas G. III $0 displays information about the equipment on which it's running. Fastchk2 (FASTCHK) is a different utility to provide system information, mostly about the current drive. IOView Ad Infinitum Software $0 lets you view memory mapped I/O ports in action. MegaFlop 1.0 (MEGAFLP) Walker, Barrie $0 measures the floating point instruction speed of 80286/386/486 MS-DOS computers. An Intel compatible math coprocessor is optional. Mem 2.0 (MEM-DW) Williams, Dave ASP $0 displays information about system memory, DOS environment space, extended and expanded memory, and more. OverHead simply wastes a lot of CPU time and executes a lot of interrupts. It is completely CPU bound, no I/O is done. This is a harmless program, it's not a destructive diagnostic. The purpose is to see how long it takes to perform a given amount of CPU work. When no TSR's are loaded your program gets as much CPU time as DOS can manage. But when TSR's are loaded they take some CPU time to perform their housekeeping. This program lets you see how much time is being taken by TSR's. PC-Info 2.17 & PC-Ident 1.38 Robin, Max S. ASP $15 tells you machine type, CPU type and manufacturer, NDP type, ROM BIOS date, DOS version number, amount of system and extended and EMS memory and more. Several additional makes and models of computers are now recognized by PC-INFO, including IBM PS/2 model 55 and Model 70P. Support is also included for Weitek numeric coprocessor, and a listing for all Serial and Parallel Port Base Addresses. In addition, systems equipped with only a single floppy will now have floppy disk information displayed on screen 2. We tested several of these types of utilities and this was the most accurate. The program will correctly handle hard disk partitions larger than 32 Mb and recognition code has been added for several more machines. The program correctly handles LCD display on Toshiba 1600 laptops and uniquely recognizes several specific machines. A couple of things confused us: it says we have "80x25 B&W Using Color Card" (we do not have B&W) and it shows 0K extended, 256k expanded on a machine with 4 meg expanded. We figured out that the 256k was the amount of exapanded that we allocated to the current window in DESQview. Reveal 2.0 EbSoft $? displays a list of memory control blocks in use with information about each displayed in a window as you scroll through the list. You can select an area to view a greater level of detail. This is both a useful and educational utility for the technically inclined. Speed compares a system's cpu speed to a standard PC. SpeedIs tells you what speed ("fast" or "slow") your computer is running at if you have a two-speed machine. Most computers have lights that tell you this, but possibly some don't (or we assume this utility wouldn't have been written.) Status There are a lot of these utilities that display your system configuration status, but this one has a nice approach. It graphically displays the settings of your motherboard switches, the options their various settings can represent and the ones you are currently running under. Test Thomas, Al $? is for testing the speed of your system using Lotus 1-2-3 and this worksheet (which expands from 9k to 500k after loading). Vects displays the interrupt vectors. Vis-sys will provide you with a graphical representation of a system's configuration. Visual Systems Information (VSI) gives a graphic display of what's on your system. As the author says, "Cute." -------------------------------- END OF SMALL PROGRAMS DISK #0727 -------------------------------- ------------------------ 2607 Systems Analysis #2 Small Programs Disk ------------------------ 3D BenchMark VGA 1.0 (3DBENCH) New Dimension International Ltd. $0 is a 3D animated system timing benchmark program. Results depend on CPU, the use of cache memory, the internal architecture of the PC, the bus size of the VGA card (8 or 16 bit), and the efficiency of the VGA card. Aside from that, the graphics are fun to watch. Allvect displays a list of all vectors on the screen. CPUTest Bross, Richard A. $0 identifies CPU type, speed, estimated MIPS, comparison with 8088-cpu speed, and elapsed time of execution. Equip Delano, Everett $? reads the switch settings on the system board and produces a display of the equipment installed in/on the IBM-PC/XT. The disk drive statistics for the selected drive are also displayed. Equipment Check 7.35 (EQ-CHK) clySmic sotware $0 displays information about your system. We already have several such utilities, but this one is different. It detects EMS and XMS memory, Windows 3.0, and DPMI. It provides model, submodel, and BIOS revision which is useful for OS/2 users deciding which BIO files to keep. It shows the video card, Dhrystone benchmark, and more. Maxit Memory Monitor (MMMONTR) Osborne/McGraw-Hill $0 analyzes the contents of your computer's memory and displays a graphical map showing the first megabyte of memory. After displaying a bar chart of the computer's memory usage, a light-bar menu allows you to display further information about the computer. This includes a "what-if" analysis of installation of various networks and statistics on extended and expanded memory use, as well as a glossary of computer terms. New_Version 1.1 (NEW_VER) Vercellotti, Paul $5 lets you fool programs into thinking you have a different version of DOS. This can let you test programs to see what versions of DOS they will run under. What it will NOT do is let you run a program under DOS 2 if the program requires DOS 3+, for example. Show-Me 2.85 Crown Software Corporation $0 shows how your PC is set up: memory (conventional, extended, and expanded), video (cards and monitor), mouse, and disks. For each disk, it reports whether it's local or LAN connected, its size and free space. C and MASM source code included. Not very fancy, but provides good info and it is fast. Output scrolls off the screen, so you will need either to use a scroll-back utility or redirect output to a printer or file. ShowSet 1.74 Micro Firmware Inc. $0 reports the integrated chip sets used in a system. Speed99 displays your CPU speed relative to an AT and a 4.77mhz PC, purportedly more accurately than the Norton test. SSE-V2 is a series of timing routines including Integer count, real count, table lookup, string manipulation and empty loop operations along with actual results for a 8088 PC, a V20 PC, 6Mhz AT and 8Mhz AT. Run this on your machine and compare the results. SystemGraph 2.3 (SGRAPH) Reznick, Josh $5 displays color bar graphs of free disk space and free memory. This very speedy utility also shows DOS version number and date/time. SysID Grant, Steve $0 provides over 16 screens full of system information. Assembler source code is included. VSpeed Williams, Dave ASP $0 tests and reports your screen scrolling speed and gives your scrolling time and string write time. This is handy for comparing different video systems. -------------------------------- END OF SMALL PROGRAMS DISK #2607 -------------------------------- ------------------------ 3883 Systems Analysis #3 Small Programs Disk ------------------------ 486test Abrash, Michael $0 tests the time it takes to write out 1000 dwords to main memory from cpu. Assembly source code is included. 486Test 6.1 (486T-RL) Levey, Richard $30 performs an intensive, diagnostic test on motherboards and system components of a 80486. All of the system's resources are tested including the Bios, CPU, NDP, cache, RAM, extended memory and display memory. BURNit 5.1 Leveille, Norman $25 will thoroughly test a computer's internal components. It checks memory, drives, CPU, video cards, serial ports, speaker and more. It will also keep track of elapsed time. DSP 1.0 Harold, Thomas G. $0 reports disk speed from six different tests. DSP will run unattended from batch files. ANSI C source code is included. Memory Map 1.0 (MEMMAP) Juneau, Mark R. $5 draws a 3D bar graph displaying your computer's conventional memory usage. PCBench Korhonen, Aki $15 is a PC benchmarking program with 34 tests. It checks the speed of the cpu, math coprocessor, RAM, ROM, video RAM, expanded RAM, hard drive, video BIOS, DOS output and ANSI driver. The results can be stored into a database for retrieving later for comparative analysis of machines. Port Test (PORTEST) Microsystems Development $59 is a complete I/O port testing and control program. It will identify ports and their technical information, modify system tables, test the ports to identify and correct problems. It will let you add additional ports and swap ports. It will also display wiring information for serial ports. Roadblok! (RDBLOK) EbSoft $5 is an interactive device driver trace/analyze utility with tutorial. It enables you to get a close look at your system's device drivers, helping you to better understand their function and their place in the DOS memory space. SPC 5.0 Eyer, Bob $0 will do a complete multi-drive analysis. It displays information about video, BIOS, keyboard, communications including UART and modem response, Norton based CPU speed index, net/multitask, full RAM precision, and more. It also uses DOS Services to identify SUBSTed drives. It has a very compact, one-screen display. TrackMem 1.0 (TRAKMEM) Birdsall, James $5 tells you how much memory other applications use. It always tracks conventional memory usage, and detects the presence of EMS or XMS memory in your system and sets itself up to track usage of whichever types are present. It can also provide a continuous display of memory usage on a secondary monitor. VGASpeed (VGASPD) Oliphant, Peter $5 computes the relative speed of your VGA setup. It also tells you CPU type and speed and VGA bus type. -------------------------------- END OF SMALL PROGRAMS DISK #3883 -------------------------------- ------------------------ 12015 System Analysis #4 Small Programs Disk ------------------------ Bar Graphs 2.0 (BARGRAF) 08-93 CD Smith, David $0 displays a 3D bar graph of how many and what type of files are on your drive. (Not on this disk. Ask for disk #18104.) DMBB Montaron, Daniel $0 is an extensive system information utility. It can get over 250 pieces of information about your system, including the date, BIOS, DOS, CPU type, TSRs and more. It can set ERRORLEVEL to reflect its findings so that batch files can be made to act accordingly. PCStats 3.1 Rutkowski, Richard M. $0 displays your system configuration info, including CPU type, DOS version, keyboard, system memory, BIOS dates, disk drives, video, default drive space, floppy types, number of parallel ports and serial ports, mouse driver, and much more. Snooper 1.07 Vias, John P. $15 reports your computer's configuration and operating characteristics. It features detection of all memory types, accurate detection of math co-processors despite DIP switch settings, separate reports of BIOS-recognized and DOS-recognized floppy and fixed disks, and detection of Novell and LANtastic networks. It runs almost instantly without waiting for disk or BIOS searches. SysChk 2.35a Advanced Personal Systems $20 is one of the nicest system configuration reporting programs that we have seen. It starts with a system summary in the view window with a menu window to the side. Menu options change the view window to show detailed information about your CPUs, BIOS, I/O, hard disks, floppy disks, video, memory, TSR map, and system throughput speed. It will optionally print out the system information. What 2.0 (WHAT-CL) Lowe, Chris $0-$5 displays your system's configuration. It shows memory used, port addresses, device drivers, video type, keyboard status, drives types and more. WhatFax 1.1 Logan Industries, Inc. $0 is a command line utility to determine the type of FAX modem is connected to the sytem. It will recognize CAS, Class x, and SendFax modems. --------------------------------- END OF SMALL PROGRAMS DISK #12015 --------------------------------- ------------------------- 1670 System Configuration Small Programs Disk ------------------------- 1670 System Reconfig -------------------- BootPick allows selecting different DOS partitions on bootup, if you have a hard disk divided into more than one partition, such as DOS and UNIX. CHange ENVironment 1.0 (CHENV) Polakoff, Pedro P. III $0 allows for fast changing of the \CONFIG.SYS and \AUTOEXEC.BAT files for computer users who must maintain different configurations for different working purposes. Editenv 1.04 DME Systems Specialties $15 is a full-screen DOS environment and batch file editor. This makes it easy to change your Path and environment variables. It supports DOS 5.0, 4DOS and NDOS. Reboot1 2.2 Codeworks $0 allows you to change your CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT files on the fly. Reboot Millen, Jon R. $? documents the organization and software which permits a user to reboot a PC using a different CONFIG.SYS file and, optionally, a different AUTOEXEC.BAT file. Reconfig Marshall, Glen F. $? is designed to let you easily change your system configuration. This is done by having predefined different sets of CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT files with different filename extensions distinguishing them. RECONFIG lets you select the set that you want to invoke, copies them from the files with the distinguishing filename extensions to CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT filenames and reboots the machine to actually invoke them. Reset 1.2 Travers, Bruce $0 allows you to maintain several different environments on your PC via several AUTOEXEC.BAT and CONFIG.SYS files. 1670 Boot Configuration ----------------------- Bioscksm 1.2 (BIOSCKS) Stampf, Charlie $0 is for hackers who need to change the BIOS checksum performed during POST in order to modify BIOS (eg: the hard disk parameter table) without having the machine lock up during bootup. Assembler source is included. Boot-Sck 2.01 Kick, Stephen C. $10 is another manager for CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT files. BOOT allows up to 255 different system configurations to be defined in a single text file which can be easily edited with your favorite text editor. Boot is a DESQview-aware program. We have renamed the ARC file to BOOT-SCK to distinguish it from other BOOT's already in the library. Daybat Sheppard, Joseph $5 is a utility that will allow you to run a different batch file every day of the week from your AUTOEXEC.BAT file (or from DOS, if you wish). Pascal source is included. Do-Once 2.2 Snow, Glenn $0 keeps a record of and allows the running of programs which you want to run only once per month or per day or on/after a specified day. It stores the information necessary to perform this function in a data file. Another similar type of program, ONBOOT, tries to use flags set in the computer's memory, but does not work on all machines. Do-Once should work on all machines. -------------------------------- END OF SMALL PROGRAMS DISK #1670 -------------------------------- ------------------- 2409 System Control Small Programs Disk ------------------- AMISpeed (AMISPD) Geary, Michael $0 is a set of speed control programs for AMI 386 cache motherboard that will let you change the speed from a batch file. Calcqf 1.0 Hipple, Ken and Smith, Conrad $0 attempts to speed up your machine by calculating and setting the optimum memory refresh rate for your machine. It will then create a short .COM file that you can run to quickly set the refresh rate at any time thereafter. CommChk/CommSet 90-2 (COMMCHK) Roberts, John W. $10 let you examine and change the settings of four serial ports. Use these utilities to save time when you are installing new serial devices. They detect changes made to transmission speed, data bits, stop bits and parity by programs designed to use a serial port. Janus Ada source code is included. MathUnit Dallacqua, Tom $0 lets you turn your math coprocessor on and off. It also tests for the presence of a math coprocessor and tells you if it is enabled or disabled. Port Finder 2.71 (PORTFND) mcTRONic Systems $14 will let you activate COM3 and COM4; it will also let you swap COM ports, as well as parallel ports. Run Anytime! 2.0 (RUNANY) Crawford Software, Inc. $25 monitors up to 15 combinations of days, dates, and times in the background (15k) each time it is run to play back keystrokes whenever you wish just as if you typed them yourself. You could use it to automatically download files in the middle of the night when rates are low or to load and recalculate large spreadsheets and have database reports generated automatically at night, on weekends, or anytime. Run Anytime! can be run multiple times from different directories to monitor a larger combination of times, days, and dates. SetAlarm (SETALRM) lets you set the PC/AT's alarm to a specified time. Slow will slow down a fast CPU so that programs like games can be run at the intended speed. SLOW-NO reverses the affect. SlowDwn Ruzicka, John $0 slows down fast cpu's so that you can run programs written for slower machines. The author wrote this to aid C programmers in testing their programs, but it can be used by anyone needing to slow down their machine. You can specify the amount of slowdown on the DOS command line. TSR: 78k. SlowDown 1.10 (SLWDOWN) C&S Productions $0 is a TSR that slows down your computer. It features 256 different slowdown levels. This is very useful if you are trying to run games (or other programs) that were written on older computers and are too fast on newer machines. Speeder Hanlin, Thomas III $0 speeds up your machine by lowering the rate at which DMA refreshes RAM. While Thomas warns that this may not work on all machines and that you should only expect about a 5% speed increase, it worked on our Compaq 8086 Deskpro, loaded to the gills with TSR's and device drivers, and gave an 8% increase! Timeboot (TIMEBOO) Gilbrech, Skip $? will reboot your computer at a specified time or period of elapsed time. Time Runner 1.0 (TIMERUN) Allsoft Computer Products ASP $25 will execute specified BAT, COM or EXE files at up to five different specified dates and times. It is not a TSR, so you cannot set it and then go back to using the computer. Nor will it pass keystrokes to a program, so you have to be running programs that support their own scripts, such as most communications programs, or that work from the command line, such as most backup programs. Turbo (TURBOTB) Bohning, Terry $? is a CPU speed changing utility for clones that don't allow CPU speed to be changed through the keyboard. Varislow allows you to downwardly vary the speed of your AT in order to run programs that expect to be run at a slower speed - most often, games. WakeUp2 Graham, Keith P. $? is primarily intended to let you leave your computer and have it start executing a program at a specific time. Actually, when WAKEUP kicks in, it will type up to 500 characters of whatever you specified on the command line. The command line looks like this: WAKEUP2 HHMMSS COMMAND. Eg: WAKEUP 174500 BACKUP C: A: would cause the computer to do a backup at 5:45 pm if you left the system in DOS. If you are in a word processor, you will see BACKUP C: A: appear on the screen in your text file. (res:1k) -------------------------------- END OF SMALL PROGRAMS DISK #2409 -------------------------------- ------------------- 1951 System Startup Small Programs Disk ------------------- 1951 Memory Sizing & Fast Booting --------------------------------- BootCFG is a fast boot-up utility that will also let you boot from a hard disk even on old PC's. Ignition (IGNITIO) Baker, John D. $? lets you boot up your computer in 15 seconds instead of the usual minute and half. In addition, the program gives your system password protection and allows you to branch within batch files depending on which user is logged on. It also allows you to have up to 704k of RAM if available. Associated files are OLD2NEW.COM, RAMOUNT.COM and UIDTEST.BAT. (aka: PC-IGNITION) MoreRAM O'Brien, Daiel M. $? allows a PC to use more memory than is allowed via the motherboard memory switches. That allows faster power-up sequence by setting the motherboard memory switch settings and patch the ROM BIOS data area to indicate that this PC has four floppy diskettes installed (instead of the normal two). This is for ram disk emulation programs that require the motherboard equipment options switch to be set to include the number of ram disks. This is most notably required by the AST RESEARCH ramdisk program called SUPERDRV. Qwikst31 is a patch to DOS 3.1 to let you start up your system more quickly by passing on checking memory above 128k. (on disk #0664) RAMset Byrd, Mark Allen $? PC-DOS device driver to initialize ram. Warmboot (WARMBOO) Bushong, D. $? contains 3 programs. COLD.COM is a program which performs a cold start on PC's and compatibles. Used in a batch file which installs some kind of O/S change (such as re-writing the CONFIG.SYS file, etc.). This program is called when a full power-on test is desired. WARM.COM will provide you with a quick reboot function and PREPARE.COM sets a flag in BIOS memory to indicate that it's a keyboard reset not a cold start. Place PREPARE in your AUTOEXEC.BAT file so whenever you do a Ctrl-Alt-Del, your reboot time is shorter. 1951 Other Start-Up Utilities ----------------------------- Boot 2.0 (BOOT-DB) Bass, Dick $0 when added to your AUTOEXEC.BAT file, BOOT will keep a log of entries showing the date and time of each system bootup. BOOT also lets you easily zero out or display the log file. BootAny $0 is a set of programs created to set up your hard drive to boot from any of four partitions, selectable at boot time. This is useful if you have different operating systems installed on your hard disk. C and ASM source are included. Warning: this alters your boot sector. BRK Solid Systems $? provides the user with the ability to decide if and when Ctrl-Brk is operative, or ignored. The user can cause the system to boot with Ctrl-Break disabled thus preventing his AUTOEXEC.BAT file from being interupted. Counter 1.0 Wishart, Greg $0 counts events such as the number of times you boot your computer, run a program, compile a program, etc. Comzap Nisley, Edward $? is to overcome a bug in PC_DOS 2.x that causes Command.Com to be reloaded from a: when the system is booted from a:, irregardless of the user's instructions to the PC. CFG 2.0 (CFG-MT) Treadwell, Mark $0 is a system device driver that provides multiple utilities for use during CONFIG.SYS execution: beep the speaker, clear the screen to specified colors, swap serial ports, swap parallel ports, display text, pause, set EGA to 43 or VGA to 43 or 50 lines, store text in inter-application communication area, conditional pause, produce a series of tones, delay execution for a specified period of time, and more. NoStop 1.1 Sanbar, J. Scott $5 is a device driver that disables CTRL-ALT-DEL, CTRL-BREAK and CTRL-C on bootup to add security to menu and password programs. Remote contains a couple of files and instructions on how to remotely access a PC, including how to run programs from a remote location. -------------------------------- END OF SMALL PROGRAMS DISK #1951 -------------------------------- ------------------ 2408 System, Other Small Programs Disk ------------------ ATclock McGuire, T. $0 sets the CMOS clock in an AT to the current DOS time and date. It also will automatically adjust the CMOS and DOS clocks by a preset amount once per day if the AT's clocks consistently lose or gain time. It will adjust both system clock forward or back one hour for changes between standard and daylight time, if desired. Assembler source included. Required: 80286 and DOS 3+. BuildBat (BUILDBA) Curry, Phil $? makes it easy to copy the contents of a hard disk to a PS/2 computer from a regular PC. Cbend Melvin, Jim $? resets interrupts 0 and 4 to a IRET instruction and resets the flag to 00H. Whenever a 'Child of Basic' error message crops up simply run this program. WARNING - if you've shelled from basic don't run this othervise you vector table will get trashed and a system reset might be required. CL Slater, R. R. $? is an installable DOS 2.XX device driver which enables owners of both the Leading Edge and the Sperry PC to use the on-board clock/calendar chip that is supplied with the machines. ClockWork 4.9 (CLOCKWK) Otavsky, Pavel $15-$20 maintains an accurate system clock without a modem and long distance calls. It handles both real-time clocks and add-ons. One second per week is achievable. EM87 1.2 Kimball, Ron $0 emulates the 8087 math coprocessor on 80286 and 80386 based computers. Bill Batterton, Torrance, CA: When QEMM is installed, EM87 /L freezes my AMI AT Mk II 386-25 with 8 meg running Compaq DOS 3.31 and requires a cold boot. HiLo $0 sets errorlevel to indicate if DOS 5 is loaded in High memory. HoldIt! Swift-Ware $0 lets you insert pauses in CONFIG.SYS. It displays the name of the next device driver to be loaded. This lets you determine which driver is at fault if your system is locking up on start-up. HTMU 1.0 Chang, Hyan-Taek $0 is a simple utility for modifying hard disk tables on IBM PC/AT's or compatible's BIOS ROM. It takes either the BIOS image file (binary) or resident ROM image, and produces a modified image file for burning 27128/27256 type EPROMs. MkPrompt (MKPROMP) Vass, Garry J. $0 does the following: sets the screen to blue on red, prompts the user for what information should appear in the prompt, prompts the user for color options (not all, but enough to provide an interesting choice), constructs the prompt command, shows its creation to the user, asks for permission to create a .BAT file with the prompt command. No-Int Colby, Lauren A. $0 fixes a serial port interrupt conflict with the Seiko smart-label printer. Basic source included. (Not on this disk. Ask for disk #8543.) Partell will trap parity errors, but allow you to keep running. PCDOS locates the string in the resident portion of the DOS command processor that is used to reload the transient portion of DOS and changes it to the string specified on the command line. This allows COMMAND.COM to be reloaded from a RAM Disk or nonbootable fixed disk. Surg1&2 is a text file that tells and shows you how to build a surge protector for your power and telephone lines. Switch Ceres, Luis $? automates switching your hard disk over from MS-DOS to PC-DOS. Times2 Unique Software ASP $0 contains the following time related programs: SETTIME 1.4 calls the United States Naval Observatory modem, downloads one of the USNO's time strings and then sets your system time and date. DTM (DateTime) is a useful utility if you don't have a clock/calendar yet or if your battery back clock is not working. It lets you easily set the time and date. VidSpeed 3.2 (VIDSPEE) Bridges, John $? tests the speed of a video system. It also has a lengthy table of speeds from running the program on various kinds of systems. -------------------------------- END OF SMALL PROGRAMS DISK #2408 -------------------------------- --------------------- 3706 System, Other #2 Small Programs Disk --------------------- CPU 24-Hour Burn-In Test 1.22 (CPU24) Ip, William $10 is a burn-in test program. Most hardware failures show up right away. But if you do not use every single part of your system in every way possible, a weakness or failure may not show up until your warranty is over. A burn-in program can bring out such problems in a new system right away. GasGauge 5.7 (GASGAUG) Eglinton, Charles $15 loads into memory in your laptop computer and keeps track of how minutes of computer use remain before recharging is needed. Gen 1.5 (GEN-HS) Herron Software $12 generates test characters to a file or device. It generates files of any size from zero to twenty million bytes for building specific-sized files for printer, storage, or timing tests. (Not on this disk. Ask for disk #8731.) LPTRead Cosgrove, Rob $20 lets you use the LPT port for data acquisition. It is a TSR which reads the port and executes predefined keystrokes. LPTRead could be use in laboratories, for alarm systems, for automation, etc. LPTWrite (LPTWRIT) Cosgrove, Rob $20 lets you control external devices through the printer port. NiCad 1.0 KJL Software $29 is a 16k TSR which monitors laptop battery use and displays a bar graph of the battery charge. Features include deep discharge of batteries, up to seven low-battery alarms, optional on-screen clock and charge indicator, and battery charge history. QMenu 1.10 McDaniel, James D. $0 is a menu program that links together QEMM.COM with options, LOADHI, and the Manifest program MFT under one shell. RunDown CSD, Inc. ASP $0 discharges the battery of a laptop computer. The time required to run down the battery for the last 23 discharges is recorded so that you can monitor battery performance. (Not on this disk. Ask for disk #18023.) SpeedRAM 2.0 (SPEEDRM) Foley Hi-Tech Systems ASP $19 increases a CPU's performance from 2 to 10 percent by changing the refresh rate of the system's 8253 timer chip. Visual Memory Mapper (VMM) Telemaucus Software Associates $0 graphically displays the usage of memory by TSR's, etc. Working 1.0 Sawada, Dr. Masaaki $5-$10 is a 2k TSR that will tell you if your software is still running or has locked up your machine. -------------------------------- END OF SMALL PROGRAMS DISK #3706 -------------------------------- 2nd Shift Transversal Design $49 #2651 provides unattended operation of a computer. It will execute either at a certain time or date. It can also be used to track down problems by examining the keys typed by a user. 386Test Levey, Richard $35 #3949 is a diagnostic program designed to test motherboards and system components. It tests all of the system's resources including the Bios, CPU, NDP, cache, RAM, extended memory and display memory. Anadisk 2.07 Guzis, Charles P. $28 #2159 is a general purpose utility package to analyze, inspect, edit, repair and copy floppy diskettes. It makes extensive use of the PC's hardware facilities. It contains support for, but is not limited to, DOS compatible diskettes. Almost any diskette that can successfully be read by the hardware contained in your machine can be processed by Anadisk. The CompatiCard is also supported. AutoCon Weaver, Larry ASP $15 #3123 makes it easy to maintain different system set-up configurations. It maintains a database of up to 50 pairs of AUTOEXEC.BAT and CONFIG.SYS files. When you select the pair you want, AutoCon copies them into your root directory and reboots. A device driver can disable commands in CONFIG.SYS. Battery Master 1.5 Decisis, Inc. $34 #4974 is a TSR that monitors battery use of a portable computer and provides a gauge to estimate remaining power. It displays information on the battery time remaining, percent battery remaining, time elapsed since recharge, and capacity at the current usage rate. Battery Master's features include five alarms to alert you as battery power diminishes, a display of your computer's past battery performance, and a total battery discharge feature. BootSys 2.0 08-93 CD Salvisberg, Hans ASP $44 #12389 makes it easy to reconfigure your system's CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT. It makes it possible to display one or more menus at boot-up time and to have different parts of CONFIG.SYS and/or AUTOEXEC.BAT executed depending on which menu options are chosen. The program allows up to nine options per menu, a freely definable prompt area at the top of the screen, 25 consecutive menus, each defining a different aspect of your system configuration, and 25 levels of nested menus and submenus. There is only one version of CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT. There is a cold boot feature, a warm boot, or no boot, and an option to keep it from installing its tiny resident part to get a minimal plain-DOS setup. Individual CONFIG.SYS lines can be edited on the fly while booting up. There is also an option to come up on an external monitor on Compaq and some Toshiba laptops. BOOT.SYS uses only 160 bytes of resident DOS memory, and provides full support for DOS 6.0. and DR-DOS. Burn-In 1.5 08-93 CD Campbell, George $15 #1203 allows extensive testing of new computers. It is meant to run for at least 72 hours and during that time cycles through repeated tests of your disk drives, CPU, monitor, display adapter and RAM memory. Features include automatic command-line operation, automatic disabling of tests on defective disks, a convenient summary file, along with error-only logging as the default. NOTE: Once you start this program, you can only break out of it at certain points and those points may be three or four hours in coming, so don't start the burn-in unless you do not need your computer for a while. Control King, Peter E. $25 #1201 is a memory resident program that allows the keyboard to toggle the eight data lines on your printer port to control eight relays which in turn can control devices such as lights, heating, burglar alarms, lawn sprinkling systems, etc. Jan Schoonenberg of the Netherlands says "For the non-initiated user, this may have the flavor of a demo program. After you pay the shareware fee, you get full diagrams more more software. But the somewhat initiated can work with the program as is." Cyrix Utilities Marden, Jeff $0 #4898 is a set of utilities that can be used to configure and monitor the operation of the Cyrix 486SLC and 486DLC cpu's. It includes the M5 program, which displays SLC/DLC configuration and status, and other utilities to detect the SLC/DLC, turn cache on, and turn cache off. Dhrystone III Levey, Richard $25 #3185 is a protected mode benchmark test for 80386 and 80486 based computer system. It reports the speed of your computer and displays the results from several other machines for comparison. DOSMAX 2.1 Gardner, Philip B. $15 #12378 maximizes the use of low memory for DOS versions 3.1 through 5.0. DOS 5 users can load DOS into upper memory rather than the HMA, freeing up HMA space for programs that use the HMA more efficiently, such as Windows and DesqView. It can also move Buffers, Files, FCBS and the drive list high. Support is provided for 386MAX and DOS 6.0/DRDOS 6.0. Requires a 286 or better. Memory Management Kit 2.02 Biologic $50 #3674 provides memory management features DOS 5 left out. You can load TSRs and device drivers into high DOS memory on 8088 and 80286's (not just 80386 PCs) and convert extended memory to expanded memory on a 80286 PC. It will allow you to create 64K+ more high DOS memory on a 80386 and up to 32 megabytes of expanded memory from disk space and create up to 736K of low DOS memory and more. 40 different chipsets are supported. DOSNIX 2.0e Vrooman, Gerald M. $30 #3950 is a set of UNIX-style utilities which are very compatible with UNIX conventions. D'Scope #0643 turns a PC into a line monitor (or datascope) that can "eavesdrop" on a data communications link. This can be useful for people writing async communications software or as a teaching aid or, let's get it out in the open here, for spying on Russians. Besides two async ports (two PC's?), you may have to whip up some special cables. High Memory Utilities Shannon, Larry $0 #2496 contains several utilities, primarily for use in working with high memory. HILoad lets you use what should be unused areas of memory. EDisk is a RAM disk which uses the 128K in the D and E blocks which will retain its contents after a warm-boot. MapMep shows what is in memory. VideoTSR shows what TSRs have been loaded into Video memory area. Several other utilities are included. PC Magazine Labs Benchmarks $0 #1361 is a large collection of printer performance tests designed to extract the ultimate performance comparisons across the varied possibilities by highlighting as many compatible features as possible. Features include a Variable Size File Access Test, a Battery Rundown Test designed for laptop users, and MicroScope, PC Labs' new System Information utility. Painless Event Processor Painless Accounting ASP $45 #3261 allows unattended operation of your computer. Key strokes can be captured by an accompanying pop-up utility and played back at a preset time to execute commands or programs. You can specify a delay from 1 second to 255 minutes, perform a reboot of your system, execute up to eight events at once, and much more. Only 10K of memory is required once the program is invoked. Mouse support is included. QEMM-386 and Windows Troubleshooting Guide Falloon, John $0 #4440 is a hypertext database of information on configuring QEMM memory manager and Windows 3.x. Topics include Windows 3.0 vs. Windows 3.1, Determining your Qemm-386 version, Determining your Windows version, Determining whether Stealth is causing a conflict, Configure windows to avoid conflicts with Qemm, Create a clean environment for Qemm, Use the Microsoft Drivers instead of Qemm-386, Configure QEMM-386 similarly to the Microsoft drivers, Creating high ram for Qemm, Eliminating high ram conflicts, and Adding the Stealth parameter back. A PCX graphic graphic viewing program is included. RamTest Brown Bag Software $55 #1580 is used for identifying an existing fault but could be used as part of a periodic maintenance program. This program has been developed as an exhaustive test of the memory in a PC, XT, AT or any of their clones. It is much more comprehensive than self-test on boot-up. In addition to system or base memory, RamTest will also test Expanded Memory on all machines and Extended Memory on AT type machines. (Note: Brown Bag does not allow the latest versions of their programs to be distributed as shareware. The registration fee shown is for the latest version.) Reconfig Optimal Solutions of New Hampshire $35 #1594 lets you maintain up to 100 sets of different AUTOEXEC.BAT and CONFIG.SYS files so that you can quickly and easily change your system configuration. It includes a built-in editor and drop-down menus. Requires a hard disk. RighTime 2.54 08-93 CD GTBecker $40 #12372 is a 3K TSR which corrects a CMOS type clock error up to about 5.5 minutes per day. It also corrects for the time that the system is not running. Other features include DRDOS 5.0 support; time trim provided in hundredths of a second; permanent disable, temporary disable and re-enable; quiet mode which silences beeps in error messages; four termination codes testable by batch errorlevel; automatic time-set request by two criteria; CMOS backup battery failure detection; and command line switches. Other features include true 0.01 second DOS clock resolution, system date/time security by preventing unauthorized changes, automatic daylight/standard time change, logging of all time-related activity, and more. Requries DOS 3+. Rio Argy, Bob $25 #3332 is a TSR that logs all DOS disk I/O operations and other functions to a file for later study. The logging of each function is configurable. Time/date stamping, or logging of interrupt function numbers can be turned on or off. These options are selectable from a separate non-TSR program which communicates with RIO-TSR, so that this larger program won't hog your system RAM while you're running RIO-TSR. HyperDisk SpeedKit 4.6 [SPEEDKIT] 08-93 CD HyperWare $10-$50 #4895 is a set of system speed up utilities: a disk cache program, a video speed-up utility, and a keyboard enhancer that enlarges the type-ahead buffer and lets you set the typeomatic rate. Also included are a programmer's API and support for monitoring UPS power outages. DOS 6.0 DoubleSpace is supported. TimeSet 7.21 08-93 CD Petrakis, Pete $40 #1090 resets your computer clock by calling cesium beam atomic clocks of either the U.S. Naval Observatory or the National Institute of Standards and Technology. A modem is required. A noise detection procedure is provided to prevent spurious noise detection with certain modems. It can access atomic clock-based telephone time services in Sweden, Austria, Italy and the USNO and NIST in the U.S.A. Other features include an auto dial utility, automatic reconfiguration when the time season changes between daylight savings time and standard time, the ability to save data on your computer clock to a disk file each time you call a time service, and custom serial port configuration making it usable with serial ports up to COM8 and nonstandard IRQs and port addresses. ]]]]]