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=====Utilities - Disk & File Related
-----Archiving
DoFiles 2.5 [DFILES25] (James Huckabey, reg. fee: $0) archives files with
extensions of the same name using original file names. It can process up to
2000 records at one time. Original files are erased after the archive is
created. Requires PKZIP.
Lodji Utility Program 1.02 [LUP] (David W. Roscoe, reg. fee: $30) is a
directory and archive viewer, file extractor, and file manager. It displays
the contents of directories and archive files. You can view the contents of
files, in directories, archive files, or subdirectories inside of archive
files. It also supports nested or embedded archives. Other features include
multiple directory viewing, file extraction, and file copying, deletion and
renaming. Requires 400K of disk space, 640K RAM, and an archive program.
ARC, LZH, ZIP, and ZOO are supported.
RVS - RView Shell 1.12 [RVS] (Raymond T. Kaya, reg. fee: $0) is a shell for
viewing and extracting the contents of several archive types. It supports
ARC, ARJ, HYP, LZH, LZS, PAK, SQZ, ZIP and ZOO. It will display either ZIP
or LZH style compression ratios.
---Updates: Archiving
(U1-01) Carch 1.05 [CARCH] (Leonardus Leonardi, reg. fee: $10) allows you
to convert an archived file from one compression format to another. It
recognizes ARJ, ARC, LZH, ZIP, ZOO and others.
(U1-01) DIZEdit 4.9c [DIZ49C] (GDSOFT, reg. fee: $15) allows you to edit
the description files found in archives
(U1-01) EzZip 1.1 [EZZIP11] (R.C. Consulting, reg. fee: $25) is a fairly
simple menu-driven interface for PKZip and PKUnzip.
(U1-01) JRchive 1.02 [JRC] (JAYAR Systems, ASP; reg. fee: $29) compresses
and stores files in an archive.
(U1-01) RView 2.51 [RV] (Raymond T. Kaya, reg. fee: $0) lists directories
of ARC, LZH, LZS, PAK, ZIP and ZOO archives, including self-extracting
archives. NEW: updated for the new ARJ security envelope, improved handling
of ZIP files with many extra bytes at the end.
(U1-01) Shez 9.7 [SHEZ] (California Software Design, ASP; reg. fee: $39) is
a shell program to make viewing and working with archive files user
friendly. NEW: support for the UC2 (Ultracompressor II) compression program
(U1-01) Stealth 4.0 [STEALTH] (David Smith, reg. fee: $15) is an archive
converter. NEW: added command line options to give exact details in log
file, perform virus checking, show files containing File_id.diz and
Desc.sdi files, and more.
(U1-01) TinyProg 3.9 [TINYPR39] (Tranzoa, Co., reg. fee: $39) compresses
EXE and COM programs to a smaller file size.
(U1-01) ZDiff 2.0 [ZDIF20] (Christophe Dubourg, reg. fee: $20) is an
archive/directory comparison program. NEW:exclude filters, ignore filters,
and side-by-side output, for screen and/or file output.
(U1-01) ZipMaster 3.2 [ZM32] (New-Ware, reg. fee: $30) is a powerful zip
file compression system manager.
-----Anti-Virus
FileSafe 1.01 [FLSF] (JAYAR Systems, ASP; reg. fee: $29) is a virus
protection program which records a 128-bit check message for all programs
on a disk and the boot record of the disk. Subsequently, it checks to make
sure the originals have not changed by comparing them to the check message.
Trojans & Viruses 1.0 [TROJAN] (Nibasoft, reg. fee: $0) contains facts
about many viruses and trojan horses.
---Updates: Anti-Virus
(U1-02) AVScan 1.41A [AVSCAN14] (H+BEDV GmbH, reg. fee: $0) is a virus
scanner. NEW: It now scans for more than 3400 virus signatures, not
counting special methods.
(U1-02) Clean-Up 9.23V1.12 [CLEANUP] (McAfee Associates, reg. fee: $15-30)
kills and removes computer viruses, and in most instances it repairs
infected files, re-constructs damaged programs and returns the system to
normal operation. NEW: identification of all viruses detected by the
current version of Viruscan.
(U1-02) F-Prot 2.11 [FPROT] (Frisk Software International, reg. fee: $0)
scans disks, hard drives, and all network drives for viruses. NEW:
identifies 51 new viruses.
(U1-02) ViruScan 9.23V112 [SCAN] (McAfee Associates, Inc., reg. fee: $25)
scans diskettes or entire systems and identifies any pre-existing PC virus
infection. NEW: detection of 63 new viruses and 81 variants.
-----Batch File Utilities
BatchMaker Plus 2.6 [BTMK26] (Northland Multisoft, ASP; reg. fee: $28)
provides a shell for creating and managing batch files and executing
several popular DOS commands.
DIRTest 1.0 [DIRTEST] (Chris Sanders, reg. fee: $0) lets you test for the
existence of a specified directory from within a batch file.
EQO 1.0 [EQO10] (Jeremy Sawicki, reg. fee: $0-5) is a replacement for DOS'
echo command which allows you to echo to the screen DOS symbols that would
otherwise not be allowed. It can also echo the current time and date,
current drive letter, ASCII control characters, ANSI sequences, and more.
EscRun 1.01 [ESCDEM] (Paradigm Software, reg. fee: $10) will pause during
your AUTOEXEC.BAT execution for a specified number of seconds and prompt
you to press the ESC key to run a program. If the prompt is ignored, the
batch file will continue without running the program.
GetColor 2.0 [GETCOLOR] (Richard B. Simpson, reg. fee: $0) detects and
saves screen colors at the beginning of a batch file and resets them at the
end of the batch file. It's designed for those who write batch files using
ansi.sys to make them colorful.
Path_Man 1.1 [PATH_114] (MicroMetric, ASP; reg. fee: $) will search the
directories in your defined Path for a specified file and set Errorlevel
based on the results.
PicSee 1.0 [PICSEE] (John De Palma., reg. fee: $0) displays PCX and GIF
files from batch files. QuickBasic source code is included.
WaitFor 1.1 [WAITFR11] (James Huckabey, reg. fee: $) lets you add delays to
batch files.
---Updates: Batch File Utilities
(U1-03) BatMnu 2.3a [BATMNU] (Warren Small, reg. fee: $18) is a menu system
for use with batch files. It provides a point-and-shoot menu with up to 26
options per menu. NEW: added message line to bottom of menu, options to
toggle borders on and off, and to join title/msg separators to border.
(U1-03) Choose 2.1 [CHOOSE21] (HFK Software, ASP; reg. fee: $20) provides
menu controlled branching within the AUTOEXEC or other batch files.
(U1-03) CLKTimer 4.20 [CLKTIM42] (Roger Brook, reg. fee: $10) is a 5k TSR
to perform tasks at designated times. NEW: fixed problem with computer lock
up when switching from VGA to MDA mode, a command to wait a specified time
to stuff a command to keyboard, changed event storage method to a stack for
repeat, execute, boot and alarm events to reduce TSR space.
(U1-03) KwikMenu 3.2/A [KWKMNU32] (John F. Cram, reg. fee: $10) helps you
easily create menu listings and batch files.
(U1-03) ShowLogo 2.0 [SHOWLOG] (Desert Frog Software, reg. fee: $23) lets
you create a self-displaying graphics screen that will display until any
non-alpha (eg: Ctrl or Shift) key is pressed. NEW: detects when
telecommunications are active, as well as when SVGA modes are in use.
(U1-03) Steenburgh's Stuff 3.01 [SSTUFF30] (Tay-Jee Software, ASP; reg.
fee: $20-30) contains many useful utilities for batch files.
-----Disk & Drive Utilities
CMDisk 1.0 [CMDISK] (NoVaSoft, ASP; reg. fee: $5-8) is a set of utilities
for duplicating, formatting, and scanning diskettes.
DiskCopy 1.0 [DISKCOPY] (Feico Nater Shareware, ASP; reg. fee: $5) allows
you to copy diskettes without disk-swapping and without formatting the
destination disk.
Driv_Man 1.20 [DMAN120] (MicroMetric, ASP; reg. fee: $25) displays usage
data for up to 26 drives, including logical and network drives. It will
display information such as, drive capacity, used and free memory, a graph
of usage for each drive, volume label, etc. The display data may also be
recorded to a file.
FCopy 1.0 [FCOPY_CS] (CompSoft Services, reg. fee: $14) will copy any size
file to disk. If the file is to large to fit on destination disk, the
program will prompt the user for another disk. FCopy can then be used to
reassemble the original file.
FlopTool 1.0 [FLOPTOOL] (Feico Nater, ASP; reg. fee: