home
***
CD-ROM
|
disk
|
FTP
|
other
***
search
/
Collection of Tools & Utilities
/
Collection of Tools and Utilities.iso
/
system
/
tsutld21.zip
/
TSUTLD.NWS
< prev
next >
Wrap
Text File
|
1993-08-15
|
11KB
|
191 lines
University of Vaasa, Finland, Sun sparcstation IPX garbo.uwasa.fi
has a large collection of PD and shareware PC programs available by
anonymous ftp or mail server. The file /pc/ts/0news-ts contains news
about the TS-programs in the /pc/ts directory (in reverse order).
This text, which you now have, is an extract from the 0news-ts file.
..................................................................
Prof. Timo Salmi Co-moderator of comp.archives.msdos.announce
Moderating at garbo.uwasa.fi anonymous FTP archives 128.214.87.1
Faculty of Accounting & Industrial Management; University of Vaasa
Internet: ts@uwasa.fi Bitnet: salmi@finfun; FI-65101, Finland
..................................................................
Sun 15-Aug-93: I have released a news version of my fourth
collection of utilities to be garbo.uwasa.fi:/pc/ts/tsutld21.zip by
updating "WARMBOOT.EXE Reboot with/without memory tests". It now can
also perform coldboot, and should flush possible disk caches so that
data should not be lost. The idea for the update came from Stan
Brown's comp.os.msdos.programmer FAQ /pc/doc-net/faqp9313.zip from
the item concerning rebooting.
I also updated in the same package "ADJCURS.BAT Batch shell for
adjusting cursor". The batch now checks whether the resident cursor
has already been loaded, so that the user cannot mistakenly load an
extra copy on top of the already loaded one. The batch now
recognizes also MsDos 6.0 to load the resident big cursor in the
upper memory for MsDos 5.0 or 6.0.
Sun 13-Sep-92: I have released an update of my fourth package of
utilities making it garbo.uwasa.fi:/pc/ts/tsutld20.zip.
I have a laptop-oriented TSR (terminate and stay resident)
program BIGCURS.EXE to make the cursor a block so that is is better
visible. It now can sense whether it already has been loaded so that
the user cannot accidentally load it twice.
I have rewritten the optional batch ADJCURS.BAT which can be used
to load and unload my cursor programs. The batch senses whether the
user has MsDos 5.0 and in that case loads BIGCURS high with loadhi.
If not then the batch loads it low. Also the tests in ADJCURS to
verify that the necessary programs are available has been totally
rewritten. It is now sufficient for ADJCURS that the programs are at
in the current directory or at path. (ADJCURS draws the ideas from
my batchtricks in /pc/ts/tsbat37.zip or whichever is the current
version number). Note that if you use ADJCURS you need auxiliary
programs from /pc/ts/tsutil35.zip and /pc/memutil/tsrcom34.zip (or
whichever are the current version numbers).
I have a SWITCHAR.EXE program for Unix freaks to toggle the MsDos
switch character between / and - although using the - can cause
problems with some applications. The undocumented MsDos interrupt
which drives the program has no effect in MsDos 5.0. I have added a
test for the MsDos version into SWITCHAR so that it won't even try
when MsDos 5.0 is encountered.
Sat 28-Mar-92: I have updated my TODAY.EXE. It is a utility that
shows your files that have been created today (have their date stamp
today). It optionally shows your files that have been created nn
days back (exactly nn days, or since, as you choose) also traversing
(optionally) all the subdirectories. There was a directory mask
error kindly reported to me by landers@ibm150.mgmt.purdue.edu
(Christopher Landers). Thanks, user feedback is welcome and useful.
TODAY now correctly handles masks like TODAY . and TODAY D: also
when used from another drive like C:. TODAY.EXE is part of my
consequently updated garbo.uwasa.fi:/pc/ts/tsutld19.zip package.
Sat 8-Sep-90: I have updated the fourth of my utility packages to be
(/pc/ts/)tsutld18.arc. It contains three new utilities WARMBOOT,
PUSHSCR(een), and POPSCR(een). The names should tell what they are
are about. FILES is one of the old programs in the collection. It
gives a summary statistics of the different types of files you have
on your harddisk (or floppy). It now also gives the percentages of
the different file types of the total when sorted by size or count.
Sat 21-Jul-90: When a key is held down there is a default delay
before it starts repeating, and then the key repeats at a default
rate. KEYRATE is a program that resets both the delay, and the
repeat rate. The facility is useful e.g. when you want to speed up
the cursor movement by increasing the repeat rate. Or if you have a
faulty keyboard striking ddoouubble, you can try a temporary remedy
by increasing the delay. The facilities used in this program do not
work for XTs and older ATs. KEYRATE recognizes the type of your
processor chip and ROM BIOS version and informs whether the program
is likely to have an effect or not. KEYRATE is part of my fourth
utility package which has been updated to be /pc/ts/tsutld17.arc.
Thu 19-Jul-90: Caps.exe is a utility to report the status of the
keyboard toggles (NumLock, CapsLock, and ScrollLock), and to turn on
or off these toggles. This is useful in special situations such as
in batch files when the state of these toggles need to be
controlled, or if there are no keyboard leds (many laptops lack
these), or if there is something wrong with the keyboard keys or
leds. Caps.exe is contained in the update /pc/ts/tsutld16.arc of my
fourth set of utilities. Available from chyde.uwasa.fi, Vaasa,
Finland, by anonymous ftp as usual.
By the way, the pascal routines to test, and to turn on or off
NumLock, CapsLock, and ScrollLock will be included (among the other
new routines) in my Turbo Pascal units collection, when I update it
to be tspas20.arc. At the moment of writing this, the Turbo Pascal
units upgrade version 2.0 is still being written, and I shall
announce it separately in due time.
Tue 3-Jul-90: I have updated my fourth utilities collection to be
/pc/ts/tsutld15.arc by adding a setprt.exe utility to set the
PrintScreen key retry times. On computers not recognizing a
printer's offline status immediately, this utility will save you
annoying waits when you hit the PrintScreen key inadvertently.
Although the tsutld collection is for any type of PC, it is
somewhat inclined toward utilities with a laptop flavor. For example
it contains (unchanged) two utilities for changing the cursor size.
One request, which has been posed very often in the InterNet
comp.sys.laptops newsgroup is for a utility making the cursor better
visible on laptops. Bigcurs.exe and bigncurs.exe will take care of
this problem.
Sat 16-Jun-90: Especially on laptops with cramped keyboards, it is
useful to be able to turn off your PrintScreen key to avoid
accidental printing of the screen. I have programmed a small utility
PSK.EXE for this purpose. Used repeatedly (as a toggle), it
alternatively disables or enables your PrintScreen key. I have made
it part of my consequently updated fourth utility collection
/pc/ts/tsutld14.arc.
Wed 6-12-89: I have updated my programs BIGCURS and BIGNCURS
altering the cursor into a block to make it better visible. Handy
for laptops. The programs now can take a numerical parameter to
adjust the starting scanline. This makes the program better
adjustable to different video adapters. Furthermore, Erik Jacobsen
(erja@daimi.dk) from the Computer Science Department of Aarhus
University pointed out to me that BIGCURS may interfere with other
resident programs by stealing the timer interrupt, and kindly
provided me with a solution to avoid this snag. Thanks Erik.
I have also programmed FILES.EXE giving file statistics of a
device in the following type of format (this is for my ramdisk):
Type Count Size Allocation Efficiency
1 419 512 81.84
COM 4 13473 13696 98.37
EXE 3 106212 106368 99.85
TPU 1 15536 15616 99.49
Total D: 9 135640 136192 99.59
The information can be sorted by any of the fields.
These programs are included in my fourth utilities collection
upgraded now to be