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The Xanadu Utilities 2.0
(c) Copyright 1987 by Tony Overfield and Robert Woeger. All rights reserved.
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The Xanadu Utilities package, Version 2.0, consists of programs that
are designed to make using your PC easier and more enjoyable. They also have
advanced features for "power users". We wrote these programs with the user
in mind, and our utilities have undergone many revisions based on user input.
We feel that the Xanadu Utilities have reached a highly stable state and no
known bugs exist. The programs are ready for your demanding needs and should
serve you well for many years to come.
We do not ask for any money from users to obtain a copy of the Xanadu
Utilities, but we do ask that satisfied users send us a donation ($20.00
recommended) to compensate us for our efforts and to help motivate us to
continue to develop quality PC software for everyone to use. We believe that
people like you who use PC software would rather voluntarily send in money for
programs that you find worthwhile and useful than pay $60 to over $200 for
commercially distributed programs that may or may not be what you are looking
for. We let you try our programs first, whereas commercial programs usually
don't. We encourage you to copy the Xanadu Utilities programs and give them
to others. We only ask that you distribute the complete Xanadu Utilities and
that you don't modify our programs or delete anything from them. Also, please
do not charge any fee for others to obtain the Xanadu Utilities from you other
than a disk duplication fee (not to exceed $10). The authors are the only
people who may legally accept donations for the Xanadu Utilities, as they are
the copyright holders. To send us donations, questions, or comments please
write to:
Robert Woeger
911 Enfield St.
Bryan, TX 77802
Thank you for your support. We hope you enjoy the Xanadu Utilities as much
as we have enjoyed writing them.
- Tony Overfield and Robert Woeger, Authors of the Xanadu Utilities
All of the below programs have been tested on an IBM PC, XT, AT and 100%
PC compatible XT clones. They have been tested to work with the monochrome,
color (CGA), and enhanced graphics (EGA) displays. They should also work with
IBM's Personal System/2 line of computers (Models 30, 50, 60, and 80).
The Xanadu Utilities have been tested running under PC/MS-DOS Versions 2.0,
2.1, 3.0, 3.1, and 3.2. They should work on all future PC-DOS Versions as
well. The only programs in the Xanadu Utilities which are display type specific are the CURSORC and CURSORM programs (CURSORC works on CGA, CURSORM
works on monochrome systems).
Description of the programs in the utilities
--------------------------------------------
The Xanadu utilities currently consists of the following programs
which are all included in the XANADU.ARC distribution file:
HDIR.COM - The HotDIR, colorful sorted directory program 2.1.
Displays different colors based on file extension.
Many options too! Works on Monochrome, Color, & EGA.
PCSTAT.COM - PC Status Utility 3.2 - Displays Disk/RAM statistics
and other information in a well organized format.
It is much faster than CHKDSK too! New colors added.
SFIND.COM - Super File Find 1.02X - Finds files fast anywhere on
your disk (even inside ARC files).
QUICKCRT.COM - Speeds up the time it takes to write to the screen by
your programs. Very useful! A must!
CURSORC.COM - Resets cursor to original cursor after it has been
changed by another program. (Color version).
CURSORM.COM - Same function as CURSORC, except that this is the
monochrome version.
XANADU.DOC - This documentation file
HDIRCOLS.BAS - A program that lets you customize HDIR.COM so that
you can define the color you want displayed for each
type of file.
HDIR
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HotDIR is one of our most popular utilities. It produces a sorted
directory listing to the screen, printer, or disk file. You may sort by name,
extension, date, or size, and the display may be in a 1, 2, 4, or 6 column
format. Plus we add the Hot Colors (user definable) so that your files will
jump out at you on your screen. If you haven't seen HotDIR on a color
monitor, you should! Each type of file is displayed in a different color
based on its extension. This means that all .COM, .EXE, .BAS, .PAS, .BAT,
.ARC files are different colors! You can easily customize HotDIR to meet your
color preferences too! HotDIR was the first sorted directory utility to make
use of the "Hot Color" concept for different types of files. The following
options are available to you in HotDIR:
/c - Clears the screen before HotDIR displays directory and after
every pause of screens
/p - toggles the Pause mode (on or off) when screen is full
/h - displays the Help message (these commands)
/i - displays the ID number of the registered user
/a - causes HotDIR to produce ANSI.SYS compatible output
(Note: Normally HotDIR uses BIOS to display its output)
/# - Uses 1, 2, 4, or 6 column display mode (default is 4 column)
/r - produces Redirectable ASCII output (so you can save to file or
send the output to the printer)
/l - Lists files across the screen instead of up and down in columns
/n - Primary sort by Name
/e - Primary sort by Extension
/d - Primary sort by Date
/s - Primary sort by file Size
The best way to learn HDIR is to use it and try different combinations! The
format to run HotDIR is:
HDIR [d:filename or wildcards] [/options]
If you just run HDIR with no drive, wildcards, or options, you will see a 4
column display of the files in your current display sorted alphabetically by
filename.
Only one primary sort option is recognized (the last one specified). All
sorts are secondarily sorted by filename.
Below are some examples of HDIR commands:
HDIR c:\util Displays directory of c:\util files on screen
HDIR \ham /r >prn Displays an ASCII directory redirected to the
line printer.
HDIR /a /d Displays a directory of the current directory
sorted by Date using the ANSI display codes.
HDIR /2/p/c Displays a 2 column file listing, clears the screen
first, and does not pause at the end of each page.
The files are displayed from the current directory.
HDIR /h Displays the HELP screen
After all the files are displayed, you will be shown the number of files that
HotDIR has displayed, their total size, and the actual size they take up on
your disk. Then HotDIR will display the space remaining on the drive you
selected plus its volume label.
HotDIR automatically displays ALL files (hidden, system, regular, directory,
archive, read-only, normal). We feel this is far superior to the way the DOS
'DIR' and other directory programs only display some of the files.
The reason the ANSI (/a) switch is provided is for those PCs that are not 100%
IBM compatible (i.e. TI, Old COMPAQs). The BIOS on these machines is not the
same as on the PC, and the ANSI method of displaying colors must be used for
them. We do not recommend using the ANSI option on PC compatibles because it
is much slower than BIOS and the colors might not be displayed correctly if
you have another utility (TSR) loaded that uses colors.
If you do not see colors on your machine when running HotDIR, make sure that
you have a color monitor