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* POCKETD PLUS v4.1 Readme File *
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The older PocketD v1.67 has been in circulation since January '92, and has
registered users in the US, Canada, Britain, France, Germany, Belgium,
Holland, Denmark, Spain, Sweden, Norway, Israel, Taiwan, Dubai, Brazil &
Australia. During the last 2 years it has received:
* The "BEST NEW UTILITY 1992" award by the top US Shareware catalog PsL
* Runner-up "BEST UTILITY 1994" What-PC, May - (Joint with Stacker 4.0)
* 9 Excellent reviews in magazines, totalling over 5500 words of review
text and earning 5 stars out of 5 in most assessment categories.
>>>>>>>> WHAT IS IT ?
PocketD Plus is first and foremost a small command-line file manager,
with a separate and optional menu-driven interface. Its purpose is to
provide the user with a highly productive tool for day-to-day disk
housekeeping. It may well be the tool you have been looking for. It
has been designed to be small enough for any DOS or Windows user to
want to use it on their PC, even if they only use 2% of its
facilities. At the same time its comprehensive copy facilities and
flexible programmable templates should make it indispensable for
heavy-duty users such as network administrators & sysops.
>>>>>>>> WHAT DOES IT OFFER ?
PocketD Plus comes as 2 key programs:
D.EXE This is a small color directory listing program & exceptionally
powerful DOS file manager. It allows the user to quickly and
easily carry out automated tasks that would be either too
difficult or impossible by other means. D.EXE has a staggering
220+ options and sub-options, including filename, string and
archive searching (supports ZIP, CRU, ARC, PAK, PKA, ZOO, ARJ,
LZH & SFX), analyse EXE/COM files, file viewing, advanced copy
(23 options), programmable execution and display template(s)
(50 parameters), sorting, color user menus, support for all
screen sizes, advanced wildcards, user-defined parameters (37),
many display formats, barchart summary, directory and archive
browsing (allows viewing of files in archives), recursive disk
analysis, environment variable analysis & much much more. The
executable D.EXE is only 31k in size (registered version 30k),
with an optional 107k of indexed on-line help.
MENUD.EXE This is the 37k front-end to D.EXE introduced with v3.0,
allowing users to gain access to D.EXE's extensive command-line
power through the comfort of a menu-driven system. D.EXE is an
innovative DOS tool, MENUD.EXE is an innovative menu-driven
system! MenuD's 60 menus and over 400 options not only allow
the user to build D.EXE command-lines, but also provide a
compound description of the operation in English! MenuD fulfils
the following roles:
(1) Menu-driven File Management
For users who want to gain access to D.EXE facilities
without learning the command-line syntax.
(2) A Tutorial For PocketD
For users who want a fast way to learn D.EXE's command-line
syntax. MenuD demonstrates which options can be used
together.
(3) A Utility Factory
No need to search for that special utility that you want.
MenuD lets you create it! The BAT files created by MenuD
are also automatically commented.
>>>>>>>> WHY MIGHT I NEED POCKETD PLUS?
1. Use it as a color-coded directory listing program.
If you are frustrated by DOS 6.0's failure to allow files to be
differentiated by color, then this is for you. PocketD (D.EXE)
provides more power to control color and far more tailoring and
display format options than any other program. Combine this with the
extensive options for choosing files (such as non-executable, today's
and hidden etc..), and PocketD becomes indispensable.
2. Use it as a browsing tool.
D.EXE allows the user to easily browse subdirectories and archives
simply by using the cursor keys. Files can be viewed, copied,
uncompressed and deleted. The contents of files can be viewed even if
they are inside ZIP/CRU/ZOO/ARJ/LZH/ARC/PAK archives. You will
probably forget how to use PKUNZIP!
3. Use it as a tool for managing your hard disk.
PocketD provides exceptional power for performing both simple
operations, such as daily backups, and complex tasks such as disk
cataloguing. PocketD will replace almost any file utility you might
already have and, in many cases, will do a much better job.
4. Use it for managing a network.
PocketD was designed for a network environment! It can perform such a
wide range of useful tasks that you should not be without it, and
provides many facilities for monitoring disk usage, removing
temporary files, managing backups, manipulating accounts etc..
PocketD's generality of design really comes into its own with network
management. (See the file NETWORK.DOC).
5. Use it on your laptop.
At 30k in size (registered version, minimum installation), PocketD is
a laptop user's dream. It is small enough to fit on anyone's machine,
and will allow you to dispose of many other utilities, leaving you
with a single consistent utility for all tasks, rather than a
hotch-potch of cumbersome and incompatible programs.
>>>>>>>> I ALREADY HAVE A BUNCH OF UTILITIES. WHY BOTHER WITH POCKETD?
Are you nervous about your BACKUPs?
Programs such as NORTON, PC-TOOLS and FLEXIBAC will irresponsibly
backup a corrupted 4k file over an uncorrupt 100k previous version
without a squeak. PocketD will let you fine-tune exactly how cautious
your backups should be. It will also tell you exactly what is going
on, and warn you if the system clock is wrong! If you want a secure,
fast and convenient tool for backing up your daily work, then PocketD
is ideal.
Are you sure that your existing utilities can do all that you need?
Have you ever needed to do any of the following?
Copy and optimally pack files to multiple disks?
Look for a file containing a particular piece of text?
Reverse an accidental copy into the wrong subdirectory?
Move a subdirectory tree to another part of the disk?
Search for a file in any disk or archive using multiple criteria?
Look at the contents of an SFX archive before running it?
Have your machine remind you when your next backup is due?
Have a program that could tell you how big your subdirectories are?
Test whether the correct disk is in a drive?
Automate commonly carried out operations?
Add questions to your AUTOEXEC.BAT or batch files?
Create a formatted audit file for all your machines?
Scan your hard disk to check that every byte is readable?
PocketD's flexible design will do these things and countless other tasks.
>>>>>>>> WHAT MAKES POCKETD SPECIAL?
The key feature that makes PocketD exceptional is its power to mix
and match its enormous range of features to perform almost any task.
Many utility packages provide "set-piece" facilities to perform
particular tasks. PocketD will often be able to provide the same
functionality by combining options in appropriate combinations, but
with the added advantage that PocketD can go further and provide a
much larger superset of facilities, which can be exactly tailored to
the user's needs.
For example: PocketD provides ARCHIVE support
Since PocketD can see a file inside an archive, the rest of its
general purpose facilities can be brought to bear.
How many other archive handlers could do the following?
(a) Take all ZIP archives on drive A: and uncompre