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ExtraDOS Toolbox (tm)
_______________________________________
Users Manual
Release 09/93
Copyright (c) 1985-93 Foley Hi-Tech Systems (ASP) All Rights Reserved
Introduction
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ExtraDOS Toolbox is a compilation of tools useful to Microsoft DOS
users. I originally wrote the first version of ExtraDOS under MS-DOS
because I found a need for them and there were no commercially
available products that provided these functions. Some ExtraDOS tools
were designed to enhance programs already found in MS-DOS. Other
tools were familiar to the Unix world, but were not available in
MS-DOS. Over the years this collection has grown into large group of
very useful tools. Some of these utilities are duplicates of those
found elsewhere, but often provide much better features or reduced
memory overhead than similar utilities found elsewhere. In addition,
ExtraDOS complements PC-Tools and Norton Utilities with added tools
these programs do not provide.
Over thirty of the ExtraDOS Toolbox utilities have been selected by
Paul Somerson, former Executive Editor of PC Magazine, for Bantam
Books', DOS Power Tools, 2nd Edition, Revised and Expanded for DOS
5.0. Many of the ExtraDOS Toolbox utilities are now appearing in many
popular DOS books that feature shareware enhancements for DOS.
I hope you find these tools useful and convienent. Any suggestions
for enhancements, improvements or additions are welcome. Please
contact use with your comments.
David R. Foley
License Agreement
_____________________________________________________________________
This software is protected by both United States' copyright law and
international treaty provisions. Therefore, you must treat this
software "just like a book," with the following single exception.
Foley Hi-Tech Systems authorizes you to make archival copies of the
software for the sole purpose of backing up our software and
protecting your investment from loss. By saying, "just like a book,"
Foley Hi-Tech Systems means that this software may be used by any
number of people and may be freely moved from one computer location
to another, provided there is absolutely no possibility of it being
used at one location while it is being used at another. Just as a
book cannot be read by two different people in two different places
simultaneously, the software may not be used by two different people
in two different places simultaneously.
You may not make copies of the software documentation or disk,
except as described above. You may not distribute, rent, sublicense,
or lease the software or the documentation. You may not alter,
modify, or adapt the software or documentation, including but not
limited to translating, decompiling, reverse assembling, or creating
derivative works. You may not use the software in a network,
timeshareing, multiple CPU, or multi- user environment unless each
user is licensed by Foley Hi-Tech Systems.
EXTRADOS TOOLBOX
_____________________________________________________________________
LIMITED WARRANTY
Upon notification of defects in material or workmanship,
within the warranty period of 45 days from the date of purchase,
Foley Hi-Tech Systems will, at its option, replace the defective
diskette or refund the license fee. If you need to return a product,
call the Foley Hi-Tech Systems Technical Support Service Department
to obtain a return authorization number. The remedy for breach of
this warranty shall be limited to replacement or refund and shall
not encompass any other damages, including but not limited to loss
of profit, and special, incidental, consequential, or other similar
claims.
Foley Hi-Tech Systems specifically disclaims all other warranties,
expressed or implied, including but not limited to implied
warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose
with respect to defects in the diskette and documentation, and the
program license granted herein in particular, and without limiting
operation of the program license with respect to any particular
application, use, or purpose. In no event shall Foley Hi-Tech
Systems be liable for any loss of profit or any other commercial
damage, including but not limited to special, incidental,
consequential, or other damages. This statement shall be construed,
interpreted, and governed by the laws of the State of California.
TRADEMARK INFORMATION
ExtraDOS Toolbox, TurboBAT, SpeedRAM, Screen Manager, Profiler,
WizLabel, CDBS, Press Gate Manager, ExtraWindows Toolbox and Safety
Disk are trademarks of Foley Hi-Tech Systems.
MS-DOS and Windows are trademarks of Microsoft Corporation.
Norton Utilities are a trademark of Symantec.
PC-Tools is a trademark of Central Point Software.
Table of Contents
_____________________________________________________________________
SUBJECT
Introduction.............................................
License Agreement........................................
Limited Warranty.........................................
Trademark Information....................................
Table of Contents........................................
ADDCOMM Serial Port Management Program..............
ALARMCLK Alarm Clock Program.........................
SETALARM....................................
ALLSUB Perform Task In All Subdirectories..........
AREACODE Telephone Area Code Search Utility..........
BANNER DOS Banner Display..........................
BOOT PC Rebooting Utility........................
BOOTLOCK Lock Out Reboot Keys and Break Keys.........
BOOTCTL Setup Boot Sector of a Floppy Diskette......
BRKBOX COM Port Break Out Box Display..............
CALENDAR DOS Calendar Display........................
CAT DOS Cat Text File Utility...................
CHIMES DOS Clock Chimes............................
CLEANFL Floppy Drive Cleaning Program...............
CLEANUP Cleanup Your Drives from Duplicate Files....
COUNT Count Characters, Words and Lines...........
CURLOCK Lock Cursor Shape Permanently...............
CURSOR Change Cursor Shapes........................
CUT DOS Cut Text File Utility...................
CUTPASTE DOS Cut & Paste Text Utility................
DELAY Batch File Delay Utility....................
DETAB File Detabulation Utility...................
DISKINFO Disk Drive Information Reporter.............
EDIT Full Screen Text File Editor................
CONFIG.EXE, EDIT.HLP, EDIT.HDX..............
EVAL DOS Command Line Calculator.................
FILEATTR Change File Attributes......................
FILEINFO File Information Program....................
FILESIZE File Size Listing Utility...................
FILETREE File Directory Tree Listing Utility.........
FINDFILE Find File on Disk...........................
FIXCR Fix CR/LF problems with Text files..........
HELP DOS Command HELP............................
HEXDUMP File Hex Display Utility....................
HUSH Speaker Silencing Utility...................
KILLDIR Remove Directory and All Contents...........
Table of Contents
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LASER Control HP Laser Jet from DOS...............
LS DOS Listing Utility.........................
MONITOR Monitor Convergence/Alignment/Focus Test....
MOVE MOVE Files Across Disks.....................
NAMEDIR Name Directory Utility......................
NO DOS File Exclusion Utility..................
PATHFIND Path Find File Utility......................
PSPRINT PostScript Text File Print Utility..........
RAMDRIVE High Speed Ram Drive........................
SCNATTR Set Screen Attributes.......................
SCROLLBK Scroll Back pages of Video Display..........
SPEEDRAM Speed up CPU by Reducing Refresh............
TEXTSRCH Text Searching Utility......................
TIDY Tidy up Hard Drive by Removing Old Files....
TIMBER Cut the begginning of a file down...........
TOUCH Touch File Date Utility.....................
TURBOBAT Turbo Batch File Compiler...................
TURBOTXT Turbo Text File Compiler....................
USEMEM Programmers Memory Usage Utility............
USEMOUSE Use Mouse to Emulate Keystrokes.............
VIDMODE Setup Video Display Mode....................
VIEW View any MS-DOS File........................
VOLLABEL Disk Volume Label Update Utility............
Technical Support........................................
Credits..................................................
New Utilities Under Development..........................
FHTS Products............................................
ADDCOMM - Add Communications Port Information
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DESCRIPTION
ADDCOMM is a utility that allows you to define the address of your
COM ports in the DOS lower memory segment. This is useful for
machines whose BIOS doesn't support COM3 and COM4 ports by default.
In many older machines including early 80386 based systems, the BIOS
would only setup COM1 and COM2 for DOS. Newer serial cards and
modems allow you to define COM3 and COM4 on the cards but these
machines won't allow DOS to see these additional ports unless you
place the corresponding address in low DOS memory. ADDCOMM will
place this information in the correct location for you.
ADDCOMM will display the current address values for any COM
ports that are installed in your system. By placing the ADDCOMM
statements in your AUTOEXEC.BAT file you can have the machine load
the correct values without having to intervene. ADDCOMM is not a
TSR and will not require any overhead memory to setup your ports
from AUTOEXEC or the DOS prompt.
VERSION
1.31 12/03/92
COMMAND FORMAT
ADDCOMM [port] [address]
[port] is the COM port to add.
[address] is the address of the COM port being added.
EXAMPLE
ADDCOMM COM3 3E8 will tell DOS to address COM3 at address 3E8.
ADDCOMM - Add Communications Port Information
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NOTES
Certain makes of BIOS do not support beyond COM2. This means that at
the power-up equipment check they do not add COM3 and COM4 to the
low-memory equipment list and/or do not add the appropriate base
addresses to the BIOS data area even if you may have a modem or
I/O card configured as COM3 or COM4.
This same problem seems to occur occasionally because of
conflicts between various boards.
The equipment list may be incorrect if an internal modem is
installed as COM2 (or COM3 or COM4) with no COM1 serial port in the
computer.
The result of all these problems is that any serial I/O involving
DOS redirection will not work properly. For instance, one may use
COM3 successfully with a terminal program until "shelling out of
Host Mode," which often involves DOS CTTY redirection. Another
symptom would be a "WRITE FAULT ERROR WRITING DEVICE COMx" following
simple redirection such as "DIR >COMx."
ADDCOMM will write information about your serial ports into the
appropriate low-memory areas. It may be used to make your system
aware of your specific serial hardware.
If the COM port is already listed in the low-memory equipment list,
ADDCOMM will simply change the base address to what you specify in
the second argument to the command. Typing ADDCOMM alone will show
what ports are currently in the equipment list along with their base
addresses.
A typical use of ADDCOMM would be to put the line ADDCOMM COM3 3E8
in the autoexec.bat file for BIOS versions that do not support COM3.
ADDCOMM - Add Communications Port Information
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COMMON SERIAL PORT BASE ADDRESSES
COM1 - 3F8 the addresses for COM1 and COM2
COM2 - 2F8 are pretty much a standard
COM3 - 3E8 these addresses for COM3 and COM4 are
COM4 - 2E8 are common, though it's sometimes reversed
PS/2 SERIAL PORT BASE ADDRESSES
COM1 - 3F8
COM2 - 2F8
COM3 - 3220
COM4 - 3228
ALARMCLK - DOS Alarm Clock
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DESCRIPTION
ALARMCLK provides a simple alarm clock for MS-DOS machines. ALARMCLK
is split into two programs. You may install as many alarms as you
wish per session. ALARMCLK is the alarm clock TSR that loads into
memory and keeps track of the alarms that you specify. Once
ALARMCLK is loaded use SETALARM to set as many alarms as you like.
VERSION
2.00 05/04/91
RESIDENT MEMORY USAGE
Bytes
COMMAND FORMAT
ALARMCLK [/D] [/U] [/Inn]
SETALARM [time] [PM] [/D] [/U] [/Inn]
TIME Time in HH:mm format 12 hour or 24 hour clocks are both
accepted for the time format.
PM ALARMCLK will assume AM with 12 hour format unless PM is
defined.
/D Deactivates all alarms
/U Removes ALARMCLK.COM from memory
/Inn Specify a new ID number
ALLSUB - Perform a Task in All Subdirectories
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DESCRIPTION
Allsub allows you to run any command or program in the current
directory as well as in all subdirectories of the current directory.
This is useful for deleting groups of files or performing tasks with
programs that don't normally allow for subdirectories. As the
command is performed in each subdirectory ALLSUB will display the
directory of execution.
VERSION
2.05 12/03/92
COMMAND FORMAT
ALLSUB [command]
[command] is any valid DOS command or program.
AREACODE - Area Code Search Program
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DESCRIPTION
AREACODE is a utility that will help you locate a region to which an
area code applies or to locate the area code for a specific region.
VERSION
2.25 11/30/92
RESIDENT MEMORY USAGE
6,576 Bytes
COMMAND FORMAT
AREACODE [code] [string] [/L][/U][/?][/NOH][/K$nn][/E]
code is any 3 number area code.
string is any string that might match a state or region that you
are searching for.
AREA - Area Code Search Program
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/L Load as a TSR. This will make the AREACODE program a pop
TSR that will allow you to call up and area code or location
while running another application without exiting to DOS.
[CTRL][LSHIFT]A is the default "HOT KEY" for activating as a
TSR. See the /K parameter for changing the "HOT KEY"
definition. If your machine has EMS available then AREACODE
will swap it's main portion of code to EMS using as little
Conventional memory as possible. If you wish to force
AREACODE to swap to disk use the /E parameter
/U Will uninstall the AREACODE program if it is installed as a
TSR freeing up the overhead that it required. Uninstall will
only work if AREACODE was the last TSR loaded on the Heap.
If the program is unable to uninstall it will inform you when
running the /U parameter.
/NOH If running AREACODE from a batch file or from another shell
program you might sometimes wish to have it not display the
header information. /NOH tells AREACODE to not display the
header.
/K$nn Allows you to set the default key for the TSR pop up command.
You can alternatively set the hotkey by using the environment
variable AREAKEY. We suggest not using this option unless
you are familiar with your systems currently defined hotkeys.
By changing the hotkey value you may cause conflict with
another TSR in your system. See the chapter at the end of
this manual about defining TSR "HOT KEYS" for instructions on
how to calculate the value to be used by the /K parameter.
/E Forces TSR to swap to Disk rather than using EMS.
AREACODE - Area Code Search Program
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EXAMPLES
AREACODE /K$0836 /L would specify [ALT][RSHFT] as a new hotkey.
Example of Environment Variable for hotkey definition:
SET AREAKEY=$0836
BANNER - Generate a Large Type Banner on Printer
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DESCRIPTION
BANNER allows you to create a large banner using a standard ASCII
printer. BANNER contains an internal representation of the alphabet
that is made up of standard ASCII characters and will print any
message on your printer in a sideways banner fashion. Banner
Displays an ASCII rendition of the letters you put in a message
rotated at 90 degrees. This is based on the BANNER that is
available in many UNIX systems.
VERSION
1.31 12/03/92
COMMAND FORMAT
BANNER [/?][/Wnn][/PLPTn][/S][/Ofile][/NOH] [message]
/? Displays Help
/Wnn Set the Column width to nn characters. If no number is
specified then the width is set to 132. (Default 80)
/PLPTn Specify Printer Port. Default is to LPT1.
/S Send output to Screen rather than printer.
/Ofile Send output to a text file with name specified rather
than printer.
/NOH Suppress the header information
BOOT - Reboot PC from within a batch file or DOS
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DESCRIPTION
BOOT is a utility which can be called from the DOS command line or
from a batch file. This program will reboot your PC either
emulating a soft boot [CTRL][ALT][DEL] or a hard boot such as
pressing the reset key.
VERSION
1.71 12/03/92
COMMAND FORMAT
BOOT [WARM][SOFT][COLD][HARD][/T:nn]
COLD Perform a Cold Reboot of the System (same as Hard)
HARD Perform a Hard Reboot of the System (same as Cold)
WARM Perform a Warm Reboot of the System (same as Soft)
SOFT Perform a Soft Reboot of the System (same as Warm)
T:nn Where nn is the number of seconds to delay before rebooting.
(Default 5)
BOOTCTL - Boot Sector Control Program
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DESCRIPTION
BOOTCTL will modify a floppy disk's boot sector so that the systems
bootup process will skip over the normally checked floppy boot
sector and go to the hard disk boot sector. Many times when you
boot a PC if you have a diskette in the A: drive that is not a
bootable floppy you will get the message, NON-SYSTEM DISK or DISK
ERROR and have to reboot. BOOTCTL eliminates this problem by
skipping over the normally unbootable floppy boot sector. Be
careful not to run BOOTCTL on diskettes that are bootable or contain
copy protection because BOOTCTL will write over the boot sector
information.
With BOOTCTL you can also put a customized NON-SYSTEM boot message
on the diskette.
VERSION
2.03 12/03/92
COMMAND FORMAT
BOOTCTL [d:] [options]
[d:] is the floppy drive to modify.
/? Display Help Information
/P or Create a boot sector that will boot past the floppy to
/PAST the hard disk when this diskette is installed.
/C:fname This will place a customized NON-SYSTEM boot message on
the floppy. The file fname must be an ASCII file of no
more than 436 bytes. You may put any message in fname as
long as it fits in the boot sector (under 436). Included
is a sample file SAMPLE.TXT which can be used with this
parameter.
BOOTLOCK - Lockout various key functions from being used
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DESCRIPTION
BOOTLOCK is a simple utility that will lock out the use of the
[CTRL][ALT][DEL] soft boot sequence and the [CTRL]C or [CTRL][BREAK]
break sequence. The default is to disable both keys from having any
effect, but you may wish to only disable one or some combination.
See the usage flags below to disable specific keys. Once installed
you may also un-install and remove the program from memory by using
the /U parameter.
VERSION
2.13 09/06/92
RESIDENT MEMORY USAGE
896 Bytes
COMMAND FORMAT
BOOTLOCK [/I][/U][/B±][/C±][/R±][/K:nnn][/K±][/XT][/NOH]
or
DEVICE=BOOTLOCK.EXE [/I][/U][/B±][/C±][/R±][/K:nnn][/K±][/XT][/NOH]
/I Install BootLock
/U UnInstall BootLock and remove from memory (if TSR)
/B± Turn on/off locking of [CTRL][BREAK]
/C± Turn on/off locking of [CTRL]C
/R± Turn on/off locking of [CTRL][ALT][DEL]
/K:nnn Add a user defined key for locking (see notes below)
/K± Turn on/off locking of user defined key
/XT Trap keys on older systems
/NOH Don't display header (only works on registered version)
BOOTLOCK - Lockout various key functions from being used
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USER DEFINED KEYS
To specify an arbitrary key to disable use the /K: switch followed
by the string representation of the keystroke. Shifting keys must
be first, the actual scan code key, and only one is allowed, must be
last. Spaces are not allowed anywhere in the key string. "Named"
keys are enclosed in square brackets. The following named strings
are recognized by BOOTLOCK:
[Space]
[Slash] (/)
[Esc]
[Minus] (-)
[Bksp]
[Tab]
[Enter]
[Grey*]
[Caplock]
[Numlock]
[ScrollLock]
[Home]
[UpAr]
[PgUp]
[GreyMinus]
[LftAr]
[Pad5]
[RgtAr]
[GreyPlus]
[End]
[DnAr]
[PgDn]
[Ins]
[Del]
[Alt]
[Ctrl]
[Shift] (either shift keys is recognized)
[LeftShift] (only the left shift key is recognized)
[RightShift] (only the right shift key is recognized)
BOOTLOCK - Lockout various key functions from being used
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Examples of valid hotkeys:
[Ctrl][Alt]Q
[Ctrl][Alt] note, [Alt] is the scan key
[LeftShift][RightShift]X both shifts required
[Shift][Ins] Either or both shifts will
work
Invalid hotkeys:
[Ctrl] [Alt] Q has spaces
[Ctrl]Alt no brackets on Alt
[LShift][RShift]X spelling errors
[Ctrl]- should be [Minus]
When parsing the strings the input is converted to uppercase, the
following are all identical when parsed:
[Ctrl][Alt]C
[ctrl][alt]c
[CTRL][ALT]C
It is possible to indicate hotkeys that would normally be considered
invalid, for example if you only specify:
[Alt]
BOOTLOCK will completely disable the [ALT] key, not a good idea
(unless this is what is desired).
Once a key has been specified with /K:nnn, you can re-enable the key
with /K+, then disable it again by specifying "/K". BOOTLOCK
remembers the key so you don't have to type in a long string every
time unless, of course, you change the keystroke or unload BOOTLOCK
from memory.
BRKBOX - Software Breakout Box for I/O Port Debugging
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DESCRIPTION
BRKBOX is a software version of a hardware breakout box. It
displays the status of a COM or LPT port inside your PC. The status
of the various port flags are displayed on the screen and are
updated in real time as port activity happens.
VERSION
2.05 12/08/92
RESIDENT MEMORY USAGE
2,464 Bytes
COMMAND FORMAT
BRKBOX [port] [+][-][/U][/Knnnn]
port Port to monitor. You may specify either a serial or a
parallel port to monitor. COM1 through COM4 or LPT1 through
LPT3 are supported.
+ Enable BRKBOX display
- Disable BRKBOX display
/U uninstall and remove from memory
/Knnnn define a new hotkey for toggling display. See the chapter
at the end of the manual about calculating TSR "Hot Keys"
/Lxx display location. nn is any combination of r for right
side, l for the left side and t for the top of the screen
or b for the Bottom of the screen. EGA/VGA 43/50 line modes
are supported by the bottom display.
/NOH Suppress header
/Inn Multiplexer I.D. number
BRKBOX - Software Breakout Box for I/O Port Debugging
_____________________________________________________________________
NOTES
BRKBOX displays information about the port you are monitoring on
your screen. Whenever registers that are being monitored are "high"
or "on" then a reverse video string will be displayed for that
register. Below are tables describing the various registers
monitored by BRKBOX. This information is sometimes useful when
trying to debug a port or some associated communications software.
To toggle the display on and off use [ALT]C. The program will start
with the display toggled on. BRKBOX can be uninstalled by entering
it with the optional U parameter if it was the last TSR loaded.
SERIAL PORT MONITOR
When monitoring a serial port using BRKBOX the following registers
will be displayed:
DTR - Data Terminal Ready
RTS - Ready To Send
CTS - Clear To Send
DSR - Data Set Ready
RI - Ring Indicator
DCD - Data Carrier Detect
in additional to these registers you will also be given the current
values for the Buad Rate (300-115200), Parity (None, Even, Odd),
Data Bits (7 or 8), and Stop Bits (0, 1, 2).
PARALLEL PORT MONITOR
When monitoring a Parallel Port using BRKBOX the following registers
will be displayed:
BY - Printer Busy
AK - Acknowledge
PO - Paper Out
OL - Printer Online
IO - I/O Error
TO - Port Time Out
CALENDAR - Display monthly or yearly calendar
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DESCRIPTION
CALENDAR displays a calendar from DOS in one of two formats, either
one month or 12 months of one year.
VERSION
1.33 12/09/92
COMMAND FORMAT
CALENDAR [mm] yyyy [/C#] [/L##] [/T##]
mm month [1..12]
yyyy year [0..9999]. If 2 digits are used, the year will be 19yy
C# display in # columns [2..3(default)]
L## shifts display left by ## chars [0(default)..80]
T## shifts display down by ## lines [0(default)..40]
EXAMPLE
CALENDAR 66 /C2
will display a calendar in 2 columns for the year 1966
NOTES
If you want to pause the display of a full year press [CTRL]S to
pause the screen and then any key to continue the display.
CAT - Unix like CAT utility for concatenation of files.
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DESCRIPTION
CAT is a UNIX utility written for the MS-DOS world. For people that
are used to UNIX it is a handy familiar tool for displaying,
printing, and concatenating files together. CAT handles redirection
of both input and output. It can be used similar to copy con to
create files as well.
VERSION
1.13 12/09/92
COMMAND FORMAT
CAT [fname] - copy std input to file fname
CAT [file1] [file2] > [file3] - concatenate file1 and file2 to
file3
CHIMES - Quarterly hour clock chimes
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DESCRIPTION
Chimes is a terminate-and-stay resident program that attaches itself
to the BIOS timer tick interrupt. The program counts the time
internally, so that it does not bring any overhead into system
throughput by using DOS functions. When the program realizes that
the time is nearing the hour, the program starts chiming.
In its default mode, chimes produces "Time Tone" beeps. These
consist of three short beeps, starting at three seconds before the
hour. Then, at the hour, a longer and higher beep is given. Many
of the dial-up time services provide such a time tone.
Chimes can be given the /M option on the command line to provide the
different clock chimes. Using CHIMES /M1 would setup chimes to
use the Westminster chimes.
The Westminster chimes are the chimes that are played by Big Ben,
the most famous of all clock towers. From its home in London,
England, the clock plays a melody based on a composition by Handel.
The Saint Michael Chimes are also from England. However, the Saint
Michael Chimes were cast by an English craftsman for a church in
Charleston, South Carolina during the Revolutionary war. However,
the British captured this city by battle, and took the bells back to
England. Amazingly enough, the American rebels stole the molds for
the bells, and a second set of bells was cast and installed in the
Carolinian church.
The Whittington chimes were named for Lord Mayor Richard
Whittington. Whittington started life in poverty. However, he made
money in great volume by trading. After his terms as Lord Mayor of
London, he became a philanthropist.
If you select the M0 option of the program, chimes will only become
active at the hour. Otherwise, chimes will faithfully reproduce
the chimes for each quarter hour of the clock. The program will
also strike the hour by chiming for each hour, or chiming just once
for the half hour.
CHIMES - Quarterly hour clock chimes
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VERSION
1.12 12/09/92
RESIDENT MEMORY USAGE
1,552 Bytes
COMMAND FORMAT
CHIMES [/Mx] [/U] [/NOH]
/Mx indicates which built in CHIME to use where x is:
0 Time Tones
1 Westminster Chimes
2 Saint Michael Chimes
3 Whittington Chimes
/U Uninstall program and remove from memory
/NOH Surpress the header display
AUTOLOAD BYPASS
If you have added chimes to your machines AUTOEXEC.BAT and sometimes
wish to skip the loading of the program then you may use the bypass
keys. Holding down the [CTRL][ALT][LSHIFT] will cause the program
to ask you if you wish to abort the installation. If you respond
with a Y the program will not load into memory.
CLEANFL - Clean Floppy Drive Heads
_____________________________________________________________________
DESCRIPTION
CLEANFL is a utility that makes the task of cleaning floppy drive
heads much easier and more thorough. By moving the head of the
floppy drive back and forth traveling the entire span of the drive
you get a much better cleaning action and the surface of your
cleaning diskette will last much longer. Most cleaning diskettes
tell you to place them in the drive and type DIR A:. In this
scenario the head is always over the first track using a small
percentage of the cleaning surface all the time. By using CLEANFL
the cleaning surface gets a much more even wear and will last longer
and provide a better cleaning job for your diskette drives.
VERSION
1.52 12/10/92
COMMAND FORMAT
CLEANFL [d:] [/Tnn] [/Pnn] [/NOH]
d: refers to valid floppy drive (A:, B:, etc).
/Tnn specifies the number of tracks
/Sn specifies the number of sides
/Pnn specifies the number of passes
/NOH Supress the Header Display
NOTES
Everything requested has been done. The parameters can be in any
order on the command line. The drive specifier requires the colon
(:) since that's how I verify that the parameter is, in fact, a
drive letter.
The autodetect of the number of tracks and the drive type (floppy,
fixed, or RAM) needs to be tested on systems with very old BIOSes
(pre 1984) and also on XT class computers. On systems where the
feature isn't supported you should get an error message stating that
the /Tnn parameter is required (no default). On not sure of the
result if you drive to CLEAN a harddrive with a very old BIOS. If
it let's it slip by it shouldn't be a problem since it will only
move the head a few times without changing the data.
CLEANUP - Disk Drive Cleanup & Space Recovery
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DESCRIPTION
With the ever increasing size and lowering cost of disk
space, it isn't uncommon to find PC's with an average of 80MB.
Having larger disk drives has also made managing them becomes more
complex. It is no longer feasible to remember the name and location
and purpose of every file on your system. Often files and programs
will be installed on a temporary basis only to be forgotten and
either outdated or left behind. You can quickly devote as much as
25% of your hard disk to unused or duplicate files. Cleanup provides
a comprehensive way of dealing with this problem by quickly
isolating unused and duplicate files and removing them, freeing up
valuable hard disk space. Cleanup displays the name of each file as
it is deleted and a summary showing the total amount of disk space
that has been recovered.
WARNING
The main function of Cleanup is to recover lost disk space by
removing duplicate and unused files. You have total control over
which files will and will not be deleted, but with large hard disks
it is easy to overlook single file names and accidently delete a
desired file. It is suggested that you backup your disk before
running Cleanup. This will assure that you have a means of
recovering files that you delete by accident. The other alternative
is to have a copy of Norton Utilities UnErase or a similar type
product.
VERSION
2.06 01/08/93
CLEANUP - Disk Drive Cleanup & Space Recovery
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COMMAND FORMAT
CLEANUP [/L50]
/L50 Force into 43/50 Line mode on EGA/VGA monitors
NOTES
Cleanup is a menu driven program. After initializing the program
you are prompted with a list of disk drives in your system. In this
list you are allowed to toggle the search amongst any installed
drives in your system. Drives that are allowed, but not attached are
"grayed" out and you cannot select these drives. When you select a
drive a check mark √ will note when a drive is selected. You may
select any combination of all available drives. All of the drives
selected will be treated as one large volume across which all
duplicates and file marking will take place. This is particularly
handy if you have more than one hard drive on which you keep files,
and you might end up with duplicate files across the drives. Once
you have selected the drives to scan, press the [F10] key to start
scanning.
After all of the directories have been scanned you will be located
at the main menu of Cleanup. In the upper right hand corner of the
screen is the Current Status window. This window will always
display information about the programs status. The number of
directories, files and duplicate files is calculated after selecting
the drives and will not change until you exit the program and run
again. The number of tagged files and bytes will show you the
current statistics for the files that have been tagged for deletion.
These numbers will be updated as you tag or untag files for
deletion.
There are two methods for tagging files for deletion. The first
method is to use the Auto Tag and Auto Untag menus. These menus are
identical in options, and perform exactly the opposite tasks. The
Auto function allows you to tag groups of files all at one time.
Once tagged, you may then go in and manually untag individual files
using the manual tag option. Below are the options available from
the Auto Tag and Auto Untag menus.
CLEANUP - Disk Drive Cleanup & Space Recovery
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ALL All allows you to tag/untag all of the files
scanned. This is generally only useful for
untagging files. Be careful as if you use this
to tag files, you will tag all of the files on
the selected drives for deletion.
SMALLER DUPLICATES This will look at the list of duplicate files
and whenever there is a difference in size, the
smaller file will be marked for duplication.
OLDER DUPLICATES This is quite handy and will compare all of the
duplicate files and mark the oldest files.
This is useful when you wish to only keep the
most recent version of a file on your system.
BACKUP FILES This option will mark all files ending in .BAK.
This was the original function of the TIDY
program from which Cleanup evolved. Many
programs and editors create a backup of a file
when updating it. After a while these backups
can clutter up your system.
TEMP FILES There are many programs that make use of
temporary files while processing work.
Sometimes, if these programs are interrupted or
crash, the temporary files will be left of your
drive. Most software uses the convention of
naming temporary files with a .$$$ extension.
This option will mark all files ending in .$$$
EXT xxx This allows you to tag a group of files with a
particular extension that you know should be
removed. With this option you can specify any
group of files by giving the extension name.
All files ending in the extension that you
provide will be tagged. Be careful that you
wish to delete all files ending in the
extension before running the Erase option.
CLEANUP - Disk Drive Cleanup & Space Recovery
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ZERO LENGTH This was the other option available on the TIDY
program. Another type of temporary file that
can often be created is one that was opened but
never properly closed. This will often result
in a file entry in your directory with a file
size of 0 bytes. The zero length is
misleading. Every file entry requires at least
one cluster thus the minimum disk space used by
a 0 byte file is the cluster size (512 bytes or
more). Having a lot of 0 byte files can
actually take away space from your drive.
Choosing this option will mark all files with a
size of 0 bytes for deletion.
LENGTH n Like the Zero length files above, there may be
instances where you create a lot of small files
that you wish to tag for deletion. This option
allows you to input a specific file size. All
files matching this file size will be tagged
for deletion.
CLEANUP - Disk Drive Cleanup & Space Recovery
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The MANUAL TAG option from the Main Menu allows you to view the list
of files and to manually tag or untag files. When you first enter
this screen you will be presented with the list of duplicate files.
To view all of the files in the system press the [F6] key. Then to
switch back to the list of only duplicate files, again press the
[F6] key. Tagged files will be marked with a check mark √ next to
the name, and will appear in red on color monitors. To view the
list use the up and down arrow keys. To tag a particular file press
the [ENTER] key. Pressing it a second time will untag the file. To
untag a tagged file, highlight the file and press the [ENTER] key.
Once again, the [ENTER] key will continue to toggle the tag on and
off. When you are done viewing the manual tag list press the [F10]
key.
Once you are happy with the list of tagged files, choose the ERASE
TAGGED option from the main menu. This will erase all files that
were previously tagged. There is no UNDO feature on this program so
once they are deleted you will have to use an unerase program such
as Norton Utilities Quick Unerase to recover any erased files. If
you have accidentally deleted a file, do not use the disk drive
until the file has been unerased. Changing data anywhere on the
disk could result in permanently loosing the information in the
file.
NOTES
There have been some reports of problems when using Cleanup in a
machine that is running both FASTOPEN and SMARTDRIVE. The best
solution is to remove the usage of FASTOPEN as it can cause sorting
problems with the file list on large disk drives.
COUNT - Count Characters, Words & Lines
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DESCRIPTION
COUNT is a program that is useful for programmers or writers who are
looking for some content statistics on files that they have created.
COUNT will display the amount of characters, words and lines in a
given file.
VERSION
1.11 12/10/92
COMMAND FORMAT
COUNT [file] [/A][/N]
file is the name of the input file. Multiple file names may be
specified but wild cards can not be used.
/A don't count non-alphanumeric characters
/N only count non-blank lines in line count
CURLOCK - Cursor Locking Program
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DESCRIPTION
This program is especially useful for owners of laptop computers
with LCD screen. When using this type of computer is often
difficult to see the DOS cursor shape. Using CURSOR to set the
cursor shape to a large block, you can then lock the cursor shape as
a block so that all software packages will retain the large block
cursor. CURLOCK keeps applications from modifying the cursor and
rendering unreadable in many situations. CURLOCK intercepts all
calls to BIOS interrupt 10h and bypasses any calls to change the
cursor shape.
VERSION
2.30 08/19/91
RESIDENT MEMORY USAGE
864 bytes
COMMAND FORMAT
CURLOCK [/U] [/NOH] [/ID:nnn]
/U Uninstall. Will remove curlock from memory and once again
allow the cursor shape to be changed.
/NOH Don't display the header information.
/ID:nnn TSR installation ID number.
CURLOCK - Cursor Locking Program
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NOTES
This program was written because I got tired of various programs
changing the shape of the cursor on my screen. Particularly
annoying is that giant block cursor flashing away at me. If you
feel the same way then CURLOCK will save you lots of grief.
Once loaded on your screen to let you know that the program has been
installed. From now on (until you re-boot your computer) your
cursor will stay the same size even if another program tries to
change it. The only change that WILL be allowed is that the cursor
can dissapear and reappear. Some programs temporarily make the
cursor dissapear for asthetic reasons.
You may want to place the CURLOCK command in your AUTOEXEC.BAT file
so it will be installed each time you turn your computer on (that's
the way I have it set up).
I have been using this program on my system without any problems or
side- effects. It has proven reliable and has not interfered with
any of the other software I use. The final few paragraphs of this
document are included as 'standard prcatice' these days, not in
anticipation of problems that this program may cause.
CURLOCK is a terminate-and-stay-resident program (sometimes referred
to as a TSR) which occupies less than 1K when loaded. It intercepts
all requests for BIOS Video functions via interrupt 10H.
The size of the cursor is 'remembered' when the program is loaded.
All future requests for change of cursor size are intercepted and
the values for the cursor size (starting and ending scan lines) are
forced to the original values. The cursor dissapear/reappear
function is preserved by retaining the flag bit (the 32 bit in CH)
passed by the caller.
All requests other than the change size request (AH = 1) are passed
to the BIOS without alteration.
CURSOR - Cursor Setting Program
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DESCRIPTION
CURSOR is a program that lets you control your cursor from the DOS
prompt. You can set the cursor to various shapes as listed below.
Some software uses the DOS cursor in which case the cursor will stay
the same as when you set it using CURSOR. If the software makes
it's own cursor then the cursor you create with CURSOR will not
function inside this software. Some software resets the DOS cursor
to it's own shape. Therefore you might want to put CURSOR in a batch
file after this software to reset the cursor to what you want it to
be at the DOS prompt.
VERSION
2.02 03/15/93
COMMAND FORMAT
CURSOR [/D][/H][/B][/M][/?][/V][/I][/T:nn][/B:nn]
/D turns the cursor on to the bootup default underline
/H turns the cursor off (hide cursor)
/B makes the cursor a full block
/M displays the values of the registers for the video call
/? displays the help screen
/V returns version information
/I Interactive Setup. Gives you a full screen editor of your
cursor
/T:nn set the top scan line of your cursor
/B:nn set the bottom scan line of your cursor
NOTES
CURSOR is not completely compatible with 4DOS. 4DOS always sets the
cursor shape at the command line depending upon whether you are in
insert or overwrite mode. This can result in a cursor in the middle
of the character sell after running CURSOR without locking due to
CURSOR using the entire cursor range instead of CGA cursor
emulation, which 4DOS does not expect. Proper use of the SETDOS
/Sn:n command will normally fix this problem.
CUT - Unix like CUT text formatting utility.
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DESCRIPTION
CUT is another UNIX utility written for the MS-DOS world. For
people that are used to UNIX it is a handy familiar tool for
displaying and printing text files in different formats by
eliminating columns and other formatting options.
VERSION
1.11 05/04/91
COMMAND FORMAT
CUT -clist [fname1] [fname2] ...
EXAMPLE
CUT -c1-15 test.txt
will display all characters in the file test.txt in columns 1
through 15
CUTPASTE - DOS Text Cut & Paste Utility
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DESCRIPTION
Provides an MS-DOS clipboard function similar to one found WINDOWS and
MACINTOSH environments. CUTPASTE allows you to pop up over any TEXT
based screen and copy information into an internal buffer, to a file
or to the printer. You can use CUTPASTE to copy text from one screen
and paste it into an editor, word processor on onto the DOS Command
line.
VERSION
3.20 03/01/92
RESIDENT MEMORY USAGE
7,904 Bytes
8,272 Bytes with Mouse Support Loaded
COMMAND FORMAT
CUTPASTE [/?][/U][/Srr,cc][/NOH][/K:key]
/? Display help
/U Unload program
/M Enable mouse support
/Srr,cc Set screen buffer size (rows and columns)
/NOH don't display header information
/K:[key] Set hotkey
CUTPASTE - DOS Text Cut & Paste Utility
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NOTES
The default key to pop up the program is [CTRL][ALT]C
Older mouse drivers do not support the function calls necessary for
a TSR to use the mouse without messing up the mouse for the
interrupted program. In this case the mouse will either stop
working when control returns to the interrupted program or it will
just disappear, but still work.
When the /M switch is used the tsr takes up slightly more resident
memory so that there is room for a "mouse save state buffer".
CUTPASTE only supports standard text modes (0,1,2,3, or 7). If any
other mode is set it will beep with a notify error. CUTPASTE will
work with EGA video modes of 43 lines and VGA adapaters at 50 lines.
When CUTPASTE is activated it displays a block cursor on the current
screen. You then navigate the cursor using the arrow keys (or mouse
if /M mode is on(.
Move the cursor to the upper left hand corner of the text you wish
to copy. Now press the [ENTER] key (right mouse button) and the
upper left hand corner will be anchored at that spot. Use the arrow
keys to create a selection box around the text you wish to copy into
the buffer. Once selected press the [ENTER] key to display your
options.
When the desired area is shown, pressing O outputs the contents to
your LPT1 printer.
Pressing F allows you to save the information to a new ASCII text
file or to append the information to an existing file. If a file of
the same name already exists then you will be prompted with a
request to overwrite or append to the existing file.
Pressing C will copy the text into the internal TSR buffer for later
retrieval.
If you wish to insert some text onto the screen or keyboard buffer
from a previous copy then press [CTRL][ALT]C followed by a P (paste)
and the text that was previously copied will be pasted on the screen
that you are currently on.
DELAY - Delay during bootup or batch files
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DESCRIPTION
Delay is a utility that can be used to replace the PAUSE command
within a batch file. Pause will never continue until a key is
pressed, whereas with delay you can set the amount of seconds to
pause, and then continue or continue immediately by pressing a key.
DELAY can also be used in your CONFIG.SYS to delay or pause between
the loading of device drivers which is extremely helpful when trying
to solve a conflict in CONFIG.SYS.
VERSION
1.61 03/21/92
COMMAND FORMAT
DELAY [time]
or
DEVICE=DELAY.EXE [time]
[time] # of seconds to delay.
NOTES
Pressing [CTRL]C will also cause a break in a batch file that can be
monitored with the error level returned by DELAY. This is useful if
you are trying to break out of stream of commands from within a
large batch file. DELAY can be used in CONFIG.SYS as well as from
within BATCH files, this is rather helpful when you are trying to
delay the execution of device drivers in order to see what is going
by on the screen. Specifying no time on the delay batch line acts
the same as PAUSE.
This new version combines previous versions of DELAY.EXE and
PAUSE.SYS into one program.
DETAB - Remove ASCII Tab characters from a text file
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DESCRIPTION
DETAB is a utility that will strip any tab characters from an text
file and convert them into spaces. This is especially useful when
working with old formatted .ASM files that you would like to work
with in an editor which treats fixed tabs differently.
VERSION
1.51 03/21/92
COMMAND FORMAT
DETAB [input file] [output file] [/Tn][/NOH]
/Tn Set tab size to n. (Default is 4)
/NOH Suppress display of header
ENVIRONMENT OPTIONS
Set tab size using an environmental variable named TAB. This
environmental variable may be overruled by specifying a different
one on the command line using the /T command. Place SET TAB=n in
your AUTOEXEC.BAT file.
DISKINFO - Disk Drive Information Display
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DESCRIPTION
DISKINFO is a utility that will read the boot sector of a disk and
then make a DOS call to find out the information that DOS has for
that disk. It will then list out the information in a side by side
format so that you may compare the reports from DOS and the boot
record. Most items reported are self explanatory. Every disk is
divided up into tracks, sectors and clusters. A track is a single
ring around a disk. A sector is a pie shaped wedge of a track. A
cluster is the smallest unit to which DOS can interact with the disk
drive and it is a group of Clusters. The System ID is the 8 byte
record that is put on the disk when it is formatted. The Media
Descriptor is a byte value that describes what type of media the
disk is.
VERSION
1.40 03/21/92
COMMAND FORMAT
DISKINFO [d:][/?][/NOH]
d: is the drive to view, if no drive is specified information on
the current drive will be displayed.
/? Displays help information.
/NOH Surpress Header Display
EDIT - SuperEdit DOS Text File Editor
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DESCRIPTION
SuperEdit is an MS-DOS based full screen editor with many features
including text formatting options, multiple windows and pull down
menus. You may press F1 and any time during the program to get
online help about various features. F10 will display the menu bar.
When using a menu choice the equivalent keystrokes of the menu
choice will be displayed in the upper left part of the screen.
CONFIG.EXE, a keystroke configuration program that allows you to
completely customize the editors functions to your own keystrokes,
EDIT.HDX, the online help file that is used by CONFIG to create
updated help information on customized function key values, and some
additional printer drivers.
To change these keystrokes to match any editor that you are used to
run the CONFIG.EXE program to install the editors keystrokes. Do not
modify EDIT.HLP or EDIT.HDX. These are the files used for the online
help system and configuration program. These files must appear in
the same directory as CONFIG and EDIT in order to be loaded
properly.
VERSION
3.04 05/24/91
COMMAND FORMAT
EDIT [f1] [f2] [f3] [f4] [f5] [f6]
f1-f6 file names to load into editor.
CONFIG
EVAL - DOS Command Line Calculator
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DESCRIPTION
EVAL is a program designed to evaluate mathematical expressions
input on the command line.
VERSION
1.01 10/08/90
COMMAND FORMAT
EVAL [expression][function][expression]...
NOTES
EVAL supports the four basic functions; addition, multiplication,
subtraction, and division. The syntax used is very similar to that
of the mathematic expressions used by most modern computer languages
and by most spreadsheet programs. For example, to add two to eight
and multiply that result by thirteen, one would use:
EVAL (2+8)*13
EVAL - DOS Command Line Calculator
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EXPONENTS
The operator precedence used is similar to most high level
languages, as well. Multiplication and division are "higher" than
addition and subtraction. Exponents, represented by the carat (^)
are lower than all four operators. You will find that you can
exponentiate values by using ** in place of the carat. Thus, you
can use: EVAL 2**1/2 to find 2^0.5.
It should be noted, by the way, that this is a good way to find
roots. The program has no sqrt() or curt() functions. You may
recall from your math courses that, to find the y-th root of x, you
can do: x^(1/y)
Of course, EVAL will complain if this results in a complex number.
For example, the result of the above is complex if x == -4 and
y == 4.
RANGE
EVAL uses the full "double" precision of the C language. Thus,
answers will be represented to a maximum of 16 digits to the right
of the decimal point. EVAL allows all numbers between 1.7E-308 and
1.7E+308 to exist. Of course, the negatives of these numbers are
also available. It should be noted that EVAL doesn't check for
overflows or underflows. EVAL will, however, flag "digital math"
nono's, such as division by zero and exponentiations resulting in
complex numbers. To use these numbers, just write them as you would
specify them in a program like 1-2-3 or in a program: 3.1415 0.1 -34
18.01 35e-2 6.2e+23
EVAL - DOS Command Line Calculator
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MODULO DIVISION
EVAL, as well as complementing the four functions with
exponentiation, allows the use of the modulo operator. This
operator provides the integral "remainder" of division. Since 5
divided by two is two remainder one, the command: EVAL 5%2 will
result in the answer 1.0.
FUNCTIONS
EVAL supports an extensive list of functions, as well. Functions
may be specified in either upper or lower case, and may be
abbreviated to as little as three characters. (Of course, if the
function's name is one or two characters long, all characters must
be specified.)
These functions are supported by EVAL:
abs(x) absolute value of x
acos(x) arc cos of the angle x radians
acot(x) arc cotangent of the angle x radians
acsc(x) arc cosecant of the angle x radians
asec(x) arc secant of the angle x radians
asin(x) arc sine of the angle x radians
atan(x) arc tangent of the angle x radians
cos(x) cosine of the angle x radians
cot(x) cotangent of the angle x radians
csc(x) cosecant of the angle x radians
deg(x) convert x radians to degrees
exp(x) e to the power of x
fact(x) factorial of x
EVAL - DOS Command Line Calculator
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ln(x) natural (base e) logarithm of x
log(x) base 10 logarithm of x
pi(x) pi times x
rad(x) converts x degrees to radians
sec(x) secant of the angle x radians
sin(x) sine of the angle x radians
tan(x) tangent of the angle x radians
sinh(x) hyperbolic sine of x
cosh(x) hyperbolic cosine of x
tanh(x) hyperbolic tangent of x
sech(x) hyperbolic secant of x
csch(x) hyperbolic cosecant of x
If any of these functions are passed invalid values, EVAL will abort
with an error. The arc-trig functions, for example, cannot accept
values outside of the closed interval [0,1].
Using these functions is similar to any other high level language.
The function name and its ending left parenthesis function as an
opening parenthesis in the precedence of the evaluation. Thus,
sin(.7)^2+cos(.7)^2 would evaluate to 1.0. You may find that
certain identities don't evaluate to what you would expect them to.
This is because of the limits of precision in computer math when
dealing with irrational numbers. While the sin^2+cos^2 identity
almost always works, the sec^2-tan^2 identity usually doesn't work,
for example.
Along with this problem, another comes. For example, mathematically
sec(0.5*pi) is undefined. However, EVAL will evaluate sec(pi(0.5))
to be a very (very) large number. This is again because of the
rounding errors in binary math. It is a good approximation,
considering lim(sec(x)) == +infinity x -> 0.5+
EVAL - DOS Command Line Calculator
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MEMORY
By popular demand, a "memory" feature has been added to EVAL. If
you make a computation using EVAL, the result is remembered and may
be used as needed in any further invocation of EVAL.
For example, using the command: EVAL SIN(1) would display the sine
of one radian. If you executed the command: EVAL ASIN(@) next,
you'd get, effectively, ASIN(SIN(1))... the result would be one.
Similarly, if you used EVAL 35+15 EVAL would print 50. If you did
EVAL @+100 a result of 150 would be displayed.
EVAL stores the results in your machine's environment. You may see
the previous result by typing the SET command; DOS will list the
environment variables it has stored. EVAL's environment variable is
listed on the line "EVAL".
FILEATTR - Set DOS File Attributes
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DESCRIPTION
FILEATTR allows you to change the attributes of a group of files. If
told to, FILEATTR also will search through subdirectories.
There are four attributes: Archive, Read-Only, System and Hidden. If
a file has the Archive bit set, this means the file has been changed
since the last time it was backed up. If a file has the Read-Only
bit set, this means the file can be read, but not written to,
meaning it CANNOT be changed. If a file has the System bit set, it
means this file is a DOS System file and should be left alone. If a
file has the Hidden bit set, then you cannot see the file or
directory by using the DIR command. You can still run the file,
assuming it is executable, or go into the directory, it is just
hidden.
VERSION
1.20 03/21/92
COMMAND FORMAT
FILEATTR [file] ±[attr] [/C][/D][/F][/V][/P][/Y][/S][/T][/U][/K][/?]
[file] is any valid DOS file specification including wildcards.
(Default is *.*)
FILEATTR - Set DOS File Attributes
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OPTIONS
/A Files with at least the Archive bit set. Search for files with
at least the Archive bit set, although there may be other bits
set as well.
/C Clear all bits. Clears all the bits from a file. You can use the
parameter of /ARSH to accomplish this, I just added this to make
it easier.
/D Change bits on sub-directories. Allows the changing of bits on
a sub directory. The only bit that will affect it is the Hidden
bit. You can hide or unhide a sub-directory.
FILEATTR will allow you to change the other three bits as well if
you want.
/F Files only - Size, Date and Time are not displayed. Will stop
the Size, Date and Time of the file(s) from being displayed.
/H Files with at least the Hidden bit set. Will search for files
with at least the Hidden bit set, although there may be other
bits set as well.
/K Kill (Delete) found files. Will kill (delete) all files that
are found. Use this command with or without the /V command. If a
sub-directory is found, it will be skipped, not deleted.
/P Pause every page. Will pause the output every page, which is
set for 24 lines. After 24 lines have gone by, a "pause prompt"
will appear on line 25. The prompt allows you to hit N for non
stop listing, Q or ESC to quit and return to DOS and the
subdirectory in which you started from, C to return to DOS but
in the current directory or hitting any other key
FILEATTR - Set DOS File Attributes
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/R Files with at least the Read-Only bit set. Will search for
files with at least the Read-Only bit set, although there may be
other bits set as well.
/S Process files in sub-directories. Allows searching from the
CURRENT sub-directory and all sub-directories below it for files.
/T Display totals of files found and changed. Will display totals
after all files have been found. It will display the total
number of files found and files changed.
/U Unusual files - those with any bit set. Will find any unusual
files. These are files with any bit set. This is similar to the
/A command.
/V Verify the Deletion of files. Will verify that you want to
delete each file. This is used with /K only and has no other
meaning if /K is not used. The file will be shown as normal and
you will be shown a prompt "Delete? (Y/N/C/Q)" minus the quotes.
Hit 'Y' to delete the file and FILEATTR will show you that it
has been deleted. Hit 'N' and the file is not deleted. Hit 'C'
for continuous deleting from this point on without verification.
Hit 'Q' or ESC and the file will not be deleted and you will
immediately be returned to DOS and the sub-directory in which
you started from.
/Y Files with at least the System bit set. Will search for files
with at least the System bit set, although there may be other
bits set as well.
FILEATTR - Set DOS File Attributes
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NOTES
At anytime while FILEATTR is running, you can hit ESC or Q and you
will be immediately returned to DOS and the sub-directory at which
you started from. Another key you can hit while FILEATTR is running
is P, which instantly puts FILEATTR into Pause mode, the same as if
you used /P option. You may also hit C at anytime. FILEATTR will
return to DOS and the current sub-directory. This is useful when
using the /S option, and you see something that makes you want to go
to that directory.
FILEATTR can search through your directories for files as well. It
has a limit of 450 directories it can handle.
EXAMPLES
FILEATTR
Will display the help information screen.
FILEATTR /cspt a*.zi?
Will search for files in the current sub-directory and all
subdirectories below that start with A and have ZI in the extension.
It will clear all bits on those files and display a total of files
found and files changed. FILEATTR will also pause every 24 lines.
FILEATTR d: /us
Will search for files in the current sub-directory of D: and all
sub-directories below it for files with the any bit set.
FILEINFO - DOS File Information
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DESCRIPTION
FILEINFO is a utility that helps alleviate the problem that DOS has
created by only allowing 8 characters to describe a file. Many
times you have files that aren't accessed very often and it becomes
hard to remember what they are used for. FILEINFO provides a way of
adding notes about files in any directory.
VERSION
1.10 05/04/91
COMMAND FORMAT
FILEINFO [d:\path]
NOTES
Run FILEINFO from the directory that you wish to describe or enter
the name of the directory you wish to edit on the command line.
FILEINFO creates a file called FILEINFO. in each directory that you
run in. This file is just a standard text file that can be printed
out if you wish to have a hard copy of the file descriptions.
Once loaded you will be presented with a list of files and any
previous descriptions that were left. Files that are new or haven't
yet been described will contain a * after the file information and
before the description area.
FILEINFO creates a file in each
FILEINFO also supports the optional EGA 43 line mode and VGA 50 line
mode. If your system is in one of these modes when you run
FILEINFO, the file list will be displayed in the proper mode
FILESIZE - Display File Size Information
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DESCRIPTION
FILESIZE is a utility that will list each individual file and their
respective sizes. A summary at the end of the list gives total
size, number of files, total space and drive and space available
with a actual and percentage values. You may pass FILESIZE a
specific file to list, or group of files. If no parameters are
passed FILESIZE will list all files in the current directory.
VERSION
1.30 03/21/92
COMMAND FORMAT
FILESIZE [filespec] [/?][/T][/S][/P][/NOH]
/? Display help
/T Display totals only
/S Search subdirectories
/P Pause on screenfulls
/NOH Suppress Header
FILETREE - Display DOS File Structure
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DESCRIPTION
FILETREE is a utility which will scan the directory structure of a
disk and give a top down tree listing of the entire disks directory
structure. It groups the listing in a left to right fashion with
each subdirectory moving further right across the screen.
VERSION
2.02 03/21/92
COMMAND FORMAT
FILETREE [d:]
d: is the drive to scan
NOTES
Pressing [CTRL]C during the scan will halt the program.
FINDFILE - Find File on your Disk Drive
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DESCRIPTION
Locates files by searching the entire disk for a specified file.
You may use DOS wildcards to find a group of files as well. The new
version of FINDFILE will also search within compressed files to
search for filenames as well. FINDFILE searches across your disk
looking for any files that you specify. When it finds a matching
file it will display the directory the file was found in, the
complete file name, the file size, creation date and time, and any
attributes associated with the file.
VERSION
3.12 12/14/92
COMMAND FORMAT
FINDFILE [filespec] [options]
NOTES
FINDFILE works with standard DOS file names. The program will also
"open" several types of archive files. These include the popular
ZIP, PAK and ARC formats, as well as the public domain ZOO and LZH
formats.
FINDFILE supports any DOS based networks including Novell and
Lantastic.
EXAMPLES
To search the current drive for the file GOOFY.TXT enter
FINDFILE GOOFY.TXT
Should you wish, you can have FINDFILE run a drive other than the
default drive. To do this, simply include a drive specification.
To look for GOOFY.TXT on drive H, one would use the command
FINDFILE H:GOOFY.TXT
If you are looking for a file with a name you can't specifically
remember, you may use wildcards in the filename given to FINDFILE to
search the drives and files on your system. If you knew that your
text file began with a G, for example, you might use
FINDFILE H:G*.TXT
FINDFILE - Find File on your Disk Drive
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If you knew that you had called the file MODEL but couldn't remember
the extension it had,
FINDFILE MODEL.*
Note that FINDFILE searches *all* archive files it notices, even if
they don't match the wildcard specification that you supply.
If you have many of the supported archive files on your diskette,
you may be noticing that FINDFILE runs a little slower. If you are
looking only for "normal" DOS files, you can use the /N option to
cause FINDFILE to search only DOS directories. That would make the
above command look like this:
FINDFILE /N MODEL.*
Since you might know that the file is not stored in an archive, you
can expidite the search by using /N. Normally, FINDFILE searches
ZIP, ARC, ZOO, PAK, and LZH files when it finds them. You can
switch off these file choices individually, as well. For example,
to search for FINDFILE.C without looking in LZH or ZOO files, you
may use
FINDFILE /O /L FINDFILE.C
FINDFILE - Find File on your Disk Drive
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If you'd like, you can have FINDFILE print out messages as it
traverses your hard drive and checks files. To do this, use the /D
option to display the filenames FINDFILE searches through, as well
as the ones it finds.
FINDFILE is capable of displaying file directory information, as
well. If you would like to see the last modification date and time
as well as the attributes and size of found files, use the /V
option. /V stands for "verbose mode".
It is often handy to have just a total of file information. For
example, you might want to see how many .GIF files are on your hard
disk, and how much room they're taking up. You can use the /T
option to have FINDFILE print out only the totals information,
instead of also displaying the name and location of all the found
files.
Our example with .GIF files might look like this:
FINDFILE /T *.GIF
When FINDFILE prints out the number of files found, the number
indicates the number of files that were not in archives. If any
files were "inside" of archives, FINDFILE will note that number of
files with "archived files".
If you ran FINDFILE and it printed, for example,
6 files found.
18 archive files found.
it would mean that FINDFILE came across 24 files that matched your
specification. Six of these files were regular DOS files, but
eighteen of the files were actually inside archive files.
FINDFILE - Find File on your Disk Drive
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FINDFILE will search through archive files if it finds them and
recognizes them by their extension. Notice that, if you have an
archive file and it doesn't have the normal file extension, the file
won't be checked by FINDFILE.
If you find yourself confused about FINDFILE's options, you can run
FINDFILE without any options and it will show you a display of the
usage information. FINDFILE will also do this if you try to use an
option it doesn't recognize.
If you're running FINDFILE and realize something's wrong (or you
have a huge disk and ge tired of waiting), you can use [CTRL]C or
[CTRL][BREAK] to stop the program. FINDFILE will tell you what it's
found so far, and then leave you at the DOS prompt.
If you use the /R option, FINDFILE will go through all of the drives
looking for your file. If the filespec you provide contains a drive
specification, it will be ignored. FINDFILE searches your drives in
alphabetical order, starting with your first hard disk drive or RAM
disk. FINDFILE does not search floppy drives in this mode.
FIXCR - DOS CR/LF Manipulation Program
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DESCRIPTION
FIXCR is a small utility that is used to fix files that are
transferred from systems such as UNIX or Macintosh where the end
of a text line is marked with a CR but not a CR/LF as in MS-DOS.
You can also use FIXCR to add a CR/LF to any column of a text file.
VERSION
1.10 09/28/92
COMMAND FORMAT
FIXCR source [/f:nn]
source source file name
/f:nn add a CR/LF at column nn of each line in text file
HELP - DOS Command Help Facility
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DESCRIPTION
HELP prints out help messages on some of the more useful and popular
DOS commands. To use the utility just type HELP followed by the
name of the command that you want help with.
VERSION
1.21 03/22/92
COMMAND FORMAT
HELP [command]
where command is any of the commands listed below
append, assign, attrib, backup, break, chcp, cd, chdir, chkdsk, cls,
command, comp, copy, ctty, date, del, dir, diskcomp, diskcopy,
edlin, erase, exe2bin, exit, fastopen, fc, fdisk, find, format,
graftabl, graphics, join, keyb, label, mem, md, mkdir, mode, more,
nlsfunc, path, print, prompt, rd, recover, ren, rename, replace,
restore, rmdir, select, set, share, sort, subst, sys, time, tree,
type, ver, verify, vol, xcopy
HEXDUMP - Hexadecimal Display of File Contents
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DESCRIPTION
HEXDUMP is a utility that will give you a quick dump of the contents
of any file. The dump is very similar in format to what you get
with the Norton Utilities file viewer. An advantage of HEXDUMP is
that you can quickly dump the contents of any file to the screen
without having to load the overhead of a shell program. You can
display any type of file ASCII or Binary. The default display is to
list the HEX values on the left and the ASCII equivalents on the
right hand column.
VERSION
1.20 07/27/91
COMMAND FORMAT
HEXDUMP [file] [/B][/O][/H][/P]
file can be any valid DOS file including binary files.
/B will dump the file in binary groups rather than hex.
/O will dump the file in octal groups rather than hex.
/H will display the file in raw hexadecimal format rather than
showing the hex and ASCII values side by side.
/P Pause mode, will pause each screen full
HUSH - Speaker Control Utility
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DESCRIPTION
HUSH is a utility that can eliminate a majority of the sounds
generated by the PC's internal speaker. HUSH can not eliminate all
beeps. Tones that it can not completely silence, it can reduce to a
small click. HUSH is a small TSR which when loaded watches for
output to the speaker. When activated, HUSH will try and suppress
the speaker 18.2 times a second.
VERSION
1.21 11/23/90
RESIDENT MEMORY USAGE
544 Bytes
COMMAND FORMAT
HUSH [ON] [OFF]
ON Enable HUSH functions
OFF Disable HUSH functions
KILLDIR - Remove Directory and it's contents
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DESCRIPTION
KILLDIR is a utility that will make eliminating a directory and all
of it's contents a lot easier. When you run KILLDIR it will display
the information about the directory that you wish to remove
including the number of files and sizes as well as any subdirectory
information. KILLDIR will remove all files and file types including
hidden or system files.
VERSION
1.41 10/14/91
COMMAND FORMAT
KILLDIR [dir] [/SN] [/NOH] [/NOP]
/SN Display the names of all subdirectories when listing the
subdirectory info.
/NOH No Header Display
/NOP No Prompt for deletion DANGER !! will erase without a pause
LASER - Laser Printer Control
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DESCRIPTION
LASER helps you set your laser printer's mode and also makes it easy
for you to send some control codes to it. It is specifically
designed to work with HP LaserJet Compatible Printers but some of
the generic functions such as Form Feed, Line Feed and Carriage
Return will work with any printer.
VERSION
1.41 03/29/92
COMMAND FORMAT
LASER [mode] [mode] ...
BOLDON Turns on Bolding of all characters
BOLDOFF Turns off Bolding Off
ITALON Sets the PCL Font to Italics
ITALOFF Turns of the PCL Italics
LF Send a Line Feed to the printer
FF Send Form Feed. This will eject the page that is in the
printer.
LASER - Laser Printer Control
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CR Send a Carriage Return to the printer.
ESC Sends the ESCAPE code to the printer. ASCII 027.
6LPI Sets the PCL Font to 6 Lines Per Inch
8LPI Sets the PCL Font to 8 Lines Per Inch
16CPI Sets the PCL Font to 16 Chars Per Inch
10CPI Sets the PCL Font to 10 Chars per Inch
PORT Sets the mode to Portrait Orientation for vertical output.
LAND Sets the mode to Landscape Orientation for horizontal
output.
AUTO Tells the printer to use the internal paper tray to feed
from.
MAN Tells the printer to wait for manually fed pages during
print.
LEG Set up the printer to use 8 1/2 x 14 Legal sized paper.
LET Set up the printer to use 8 1/2 x 11 Letter sized paper.
TEST Prints a Test page to the printer.
RESET Send the RESET code to the HP Laserjet.
PAGEON This parameter is for use with HP Laserjet users that have
a Pacific Page Postscript Cartridge installed. This
cartridge allows you to emulate an Apple LaserWriter
Postscript printer on your HP LaserJet. Some software does
not support the Postscript mode, and rather than having to
power on and off and insert and remove the cartridge each
time you wish to switch modes, you can use laser to set the
proper mode of the cartridge. PAGEON tells the Printer to
use the PostScript emulation mode.
PAGEOFF This tells the Pacific Page cartridge functions to disable
and the printer will now except standard PCL commands.
STRING=[text] This parameter allows you to send whatever strings
you wish to the printer. It can be used in
conjunction with the ESC parameter to select soft
fonts and send setup commands.
LS - Unix like LS Directory Listing
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DESCRIPTION
LS is a file listing utility that is found in the Unix operating
system. It has many advanced features beyond that of the DIR
command found in DOS. This implementation has most of the Unix
features built in.
VERSION
1.00 10/24/90
COMMAND FORMAT
LS [-1CFPRSdflrst] [filespec]
-1 list in single column
-C list in multiple columns
-F directories are marked with a trailing '\', system files are
marked with a trailing '@' and executable files are marked with
a trailing '*'
-P print the directory name before listing
-R recursively list subdirectories
-S sort by file size in bytes (cluster size if option 's' is
selected)
-d list directories as if they were a normal file
-f do not sort (list in the order files appear in the directory)
-l list in long format ([size in clusters,] mode, size, date, name)
-r reverse the order of the selected sort
-s list the file size in clusters
-t sort by time
NOTES
This version will also search the environment string for LS=
[defaults]. Any options that you set LS= with the SET command will
be loaded automatically when you run the program from the DOS
prompt. Set your most used parameters in your AUTOEXEC.BAT file and
then a plain LS will run those parameters for you. Options as in
the Unix LS the switches are case sensitive.
MONITOR - Monitor Convergence/Alignment/Focus Test
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DESCRIPTION
MONITOR allows you to test out your video monitor. It displays a
series of patterns that help you make sure that the monitor is setup
correctly. A grid of cross hatching is displayed to show the maximum
display area of the monitor. If the lines are crooked or distorted
around the edges you may need to adjust the alignment. In the four
corners of the screen are colored circles. These can be used to
adjust the focus. Across the top is a pattern of the base 16 colors
for adjusting the RGB values.
VERSION
1.32 08/16/92
COMMAND FORMAT
MONITOR
NOTES
MONITOR supports the following video adapters: HERCULES, CGA, EGA,
VGA, and 8514A.
If you set the environment variable HEADER=OFF the trailing copyright
message will not be displayed.
MOVE - Move Files Across Directories or Drives
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DESCRIPTION
Moves any file from one place to another. If moving the file from
one drive to a different drive, MOVE will first check to make sure
that there is enough space on the destination drive. If you don't
specify a destination MOVE will assume the current directory and the
same file name.
VERSION
3.31 09/02/91
COMMAND FORMAT
MOVE source [destination] [options]
/? Displays Help
/C confirm each file before moving
/O overwrite all colliding files
/X never overwrite colliding files
/N overwrite only newer files
/A ask before overwriting files (DEFAULT)
/H Move Hidden files
/R Automatically renames files if possible without prompting
/RA Ask you for a new filename for each filespec found
/S search subdirectories copying tree structure
/SX search subdirectories using destination directory
/NOH Suppress Header
MOVE - Move Files Across Directories or Drives
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EXAMPLES
MOVE ABC.TXT \DOS
This will move the file ABC.TXT to the directory \DOS keeping the
same name
MOVE \DOS\ABC.TXT
This will move the file \DOS\ABC.TXT to the current directory
keeping the same name.
NOTES
When using the renaming feature, hitting the escape key at the input
prompt, will ABORT the program. If you do not desire to rename the
file, leave the input area blank.
If a file of the same name already exists where you are trying to
move a file to, you will be prompted whether or not you wish to
overwrite that file.
If a destination is unclear as to whether it is a file name or a
directory name MOVE will prompt you to decide for it.
If a destination directory does not exist, MOVE will ask you whether
or not you would like it to create a new destination directory for
you.
NAMEDIR - Rename a Directory
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DESCRIPTION
NAMEDIR is a utility that is used to rename directories. This
program will rename a directory without having to empty or modify
it's contents.
VERSION
1.21 03/29/92
COMMAND FORMAT
NAMEDIR [olddir] [newdir]
NO - DOS File Exclusion Utility
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DESCRIPTION
NO is a utility that gives many DOS commands and external utilities
the ability to exclude certain groups of files from the effects of
the program called.
VERSION
2.00 09/25/91
COMMAND FORMAT
NO [filespec] [command parameters]
filespec is any valid DOS file specification including wildcards
command is any DOS command, or external program
parameters normal parameters passed to the command or program
NOTES
NO hides files in the current directory from most programs and
utilities by putting the HIDDEN file attribute on. It then calls
the command or program with the specified parameters. Once the
command is complete, NO will remove the HIDDEN file attribute from
the specified files.
NO is very useful when using commands such as DEL *.* when you want
the action to take effect on all but a certain group of files.
NO is recursive which means you can stack groups of excluded files
together by stacking NO commands.
EXAMPLES
NO *.EXE DIR
will display all files in the current directory with the exception
of files ending in .EXE
NO FILE.* DEL *.*
will delete all files in the current directory except those
beginning named FILE with any extension
NO *.EXE NO *.COM DEL *.*
will delete all files in the current directory except .EXE and .COM
files
PATHFIND - Find File in the Current Path
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DESCRIPTION
PATHFIND is a utility that allows you to search the file path for
any files. This is handy when you are trying to locate a similar
program of file that could exist in multiple places in your path
statement. It will display the files that it finds in order of
appearance within the path.
VERSION
1.31 03/29/92
COMMAND FORMAT
PATHFIND [filespec]
filespec is any valid DOS filename including wildcards.
PSPRINT - Print ASCII files to a Postscript Printer
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DESCRIPTION
PSPRINT is a utility that allows you to print DOS ASCII Text files
on a PostScript device without any conversion. PSPRINT is based on
a unix filter taking STDIN input and sending the converted text to
STDOUT output. By rerouting the output to the printer and
specifying an input file name PSPRINT will print the file to the
printer specified.
VERSION
1.51 11/03/91
COMMAND FORMAT
PSPRINT [/Mx][/Tx][/Lx][/Px][/Fname][/Nx][/I][/Cnn][/NOH] [file]
file File to print. Wildcards are allowed.
/Mx left margin in points (Default 24)
/Tx top margin in points (Default 24)
/Lx leading points between lines (Default 11.5)
/Px pointsize of font (Default 10)
/Fname font name (Default Courier)
/Nx number of lines per page (Default 66)
/I ignore form feed characters in file (ASCII 12)
/Cx number of copies to print. (Default 1)
/NOH suppress the header information
NOTES
The default settings may be modified at a run time basis by using
the optional parameters on the command line. To set a default
output mode you can specify the environment variable
PSPOUT=[destination] in your AUTOEXEC.BAT file. By using
PSPOUT=LPT1 the output will be redirected to the LPT1 printer port
rather than STDOUT.
RAMDRIVE.SYS - High Speed RAM Drive for MS-DOS
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DESCRIPTION
RAMDRIVE is a device driver that allows you to partition a part of
your Expanded Memory (EMS) as "RAM disk drive." Having a part of
your memory configured as a RAM disk will allow you to access
temporary files, intermediate files, and other information at a much
faster rate than a standard hard disk.
VERSION
2.00 03/03/92
RESIDENT MEMORY USAGE
700 Bytes
USAGE
DEVICE=[d:][path]RAMDRIVE.SYS [/M:nnnn] [/S] [/A]
PC, PC-XT and other 8088 users
DEVICE=[d:][path]RAMDXT.SYS [/M:nnnn] [/S] [/A]
/Mnnnn Specifies the amount of memory in kilobytes to allocate
for the RAM disk. The amount is rounded upwards to the
nearest 16k block. Default 512.
/A Tells RAMDRIVE to use all available EMS memory. Use this
option instead of the /Mnnnn option.
/S Turns on speaker clicking. With this option each time
the RAM drive is accessed the speaker will produce a
short click. This is useful when trying to measure how
much disk activity is occuring on the RAM drive.
RAMDRIVE.SYS - High Speed RAM Drive for MS-DOS
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NOTES
RAMDRIVE is compatible with the Lotus/Intel/Microsoft EMS standard,
as well as the AST/Quadram/Ashton-Tate EEMS standard. RAMDRIVE will
function equally well with both systems.
RAMDRIVE requires under 1K of DOS memory for its installation.
RAMDRIVE is installed as a DOS device driver and must be placed
after your EMS device driver for it to work. For example:
device=EMM386.SYS
device=RAMDRIVE.SYS
RAMDRIVE has been optimized for 16 bit computers. This helps make
it the fastest RAM drive avaialable. Because of this users that
have XT class machines must use the 8 bit version of the program.
RAMDXT.SYS is functionally the same as the RAMDRIVE.SYS but will
work on 8 bit machines. The RAMDRIVE.SYS program is about 10%
faster than the RAMDXT.SYS version and about 30% faster than the
RAMDRIVE that comes with MS-DOS.
BYPASSING STARTUP
There are times when you may wish to not load RAMDRIVE to gain back
it's memory usage or to test some software with RAMDRIVE loaded. In
this case as you machine boots if you simultaneously hold down the
[CTRL][ALT][LSHIFT] keys RAMDRIVE will ask you if you wish to bypass
the installation. At this point you can answer Y or N as to whether
or not you wish RAMDRIVE to load.
RAMDRIVE.SYS - High Speed RAM Drive for MS-DOS
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ERROR MESSAGES
Device not installed.
There was a general installation error with RAMDRIVE and the program
could not install. Verify that you requested an amount of memory
that is available and the the EMS driver has been installed before
the RAMDRIVE driver in your CONFIG.SYS.
The EMM is not installed.
RAMDRIVE could not find or recognize your EMM driver. Verify that
it is installed.
EMM failure during installation.
RAMDRIVE had a problem with the EMM driver while trying to allocate
memory. Try lowering the amount of memory requested for RAMDRIVE.
No free EMM Memory.
There is no Expanded memory available for RAMDRIVE. Try reducing
other programs usage. Many times EMS has been allocated to Disk
Caching or Print Spool programs.
Requested size too big to fit.
You have requested more Expanded memory than is available. Try
lowering the amount of memory in the /M:nnnn option.
Can't have zero disk size.
You can not allocate a RAM drive of 0k size. You must specify at
least 16k of RAM drive space.
Unrecognized option encountered.
A command was placed on the DEVICE= line that was unrecognized by
RAMDRIVE.
SCRNATTR - SET DOS Screen Attributes
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DESCRIPTION
SCNATTR allows you to set the foreground, background and border
colors of your monitor. To use it, just type SCRNATTR followed by
three of the allowed parameters.
VERSION
1.12 03/29/92
COMMAND FORMAT
SCRNATTR [bright] [blink] [underline] [fg] [ON bg] [/n]
EXAMPLE
A:>scrnattr red on green
would set the screen colors to a green background with red text.
NOTES
The following are valid colors:
Black, Red, Green, Yellow, Blue, Magenta, Cyan, White
If /N is included the border color is not set
SCROLLBK - DOS Screen Scroll Back Utility
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DESCRIPTION
SCROLLBK allows you to capture screen information that has rolled
off the top of your screen and buffers it into a conventional or
expanded memory buffer. At any time you can then press the SCROLL
LOCK key on your keyboard and scroll back through the previous
screens. SCROLLBK supports MDA, HERCULES, CGA, EGA and VGA video
cards. It supports all text modes that use 80 columns.
VERSION
2.30 08/18/91
RESIDENT MEMORY REQUIREMENT
2,688 bytes
COMMAND FORMAT
SCROLLBK /Mnnnn [/EMS][/D][/C][/?][+][-][/U][/Ffname][/A][/O]
/Mnnnn This tells SCROLLBK how much memory to use in nnnn k bytes
for the scroll back buffer. Conventional memory will be
used unless you specify the /EMS parameter described below.
The resident memory usage will be the 2k for overhead + the
buffer size unless EMS is used.
SCROLLBK - DOS Screen Scroll Back Utility
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/EMS Use Expanded Memory for Buffer Space. The amount of memory
buffer specified by the /Mnnnn parameter will be used out
of EMS rather than conventional memory. EMS 3.2 or 4.0 is
supported. The amount of memory in K bytes specified in
the /M parameter will be rounded up to the nearest EMS page
(16k).
/NOH Suppresses the Header display.
/D Some video BIOSes have a built in scroll back buffer and
will cause the SCROLLBK buffer to have a duplicate of every
line that has been displayed. Using this parameter should
compensate for the built in buffer and eliminate the double
lines. Compaq EGA and Orchid VGA cards are known to have
this problem.
/C This option will clean out the buffer so that it starts
recording with a clean memory from this point on.
+ Enable SCROLLBK. This turns on the SCROLLBK functions if
previously disabled.
- Disable SCROLLBK. This leaves the program in memory but
turns off the capture and display features.
/U Uninstall SCROLLBK. Removes the program from memory if
possible.
/Ffname Will save the current contents of the scroll back buffer to
a file named fname.
SCROLLBK - DOS Screen Scroll Back Utility
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/A If the /F parameter is used and a file already exists with
the same name, this parameter tells SCROLLBK to append the
current buffer onto the existing file.
/O If the /F parameter is used and a file already exists with
the same name, this parameter tells SCROLLBK to overwrite
the existing file with the current buffer information.
VIEWING BUFFER
[SCROLL LOCK] Activates the SCROLLBK viewing feature. Disables the
cursor and allows the keystrokes listed below to take
effect. Will stay in the viewing mode until [SCROLL
LOCK] is pressed again, which will deactivate the
viewing mode. Pressing [ESC] will also exit the
buffer viewing mode.
[UP ARROW] Move up the viewing one line
[DOWN ARROW] Move down the viewing one line.
[PGUP] Move up in the buffer viewing one Screen
[PGDN] Move down the buffer on screen.
[HOME] Go to the top of the buffer
[END] Go to the bottom of the buffer
SPEEDRAM - System Performance Enhancer
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DESCRIPTION
SpeedRAM increases the speed of your system CPU by changing the
refresh rate of your systems 8253 timer chip. All Personal
Computers, including the original IBM PC were designed with a very
high refresh rate. The rate used by all personal computers is far
beyond the rate required by the RAM chips used in these machines.
SpeedRAM sets the refresh rate to match closer with RAM
manufacturers specifications and in turn frees up CPU cycles. These
free cycles can be used by your software rather than going to waste
by refreshing the RAM too often. The change in refresh rate matches
within specifications of most DRAM manufacturers. Depending on your
system SpeedRAM should increase your CPU's performance from 2% to
10%. You can measure this in many ways such as LANDMARK's CPU SPEED
Test or Norton Utilities SI program.
VERSION
2.00 03/14/92
COMMAND FORMAT
SPEEDRAM [+][-][/R:nn]
+ Enable SpeedRAM. Entering a + will enable SpeedRAM and set
the optimum refresh rate.
- Disable SpeedRAM. Entering a - will disable SpeedRAM and set
the refresh rate to stock values.
r:nn Set refresh rate to nn Us. Entering r:nn will set the
refresh rate to nn micro seconds. Only use this if you have
a good understanding of the refresh rates. Setting too high
a refresh rate will cause memory Parity errors or hang your
system. If you find that SPEEDRAM + causes parity errors or
hangs your system than you will want to try this option.
SPEEDRAM - System Performance Enhancer
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WHAT IS A REFRESH RATE AND WHAT DOES IT DO?
The memory in your Personal Computer is called DRAM, or Dynamic
Random Access Memory. This memory is made of banks of 9 chips each
holding up to as much as 4MB of 1 bit data. Each chip in a bank
represents one of 9 bits. In Personal Computers, 8 of the bits store
data and the 9th bit is called a parity bit, used to determine if
the data bits are holding the proper information. DRAM chips can not
hold a charge of electricity for a very long time. In fact, a new
charge of 5 volts must be supplied about every 65 micro seconds or
it will loose its data. To supply this charge, that is refresh, the
memory, the CPU must stop processing data and direct the 8253 chip
to send the refresh charge to the bank of memory. Once the refresh
is done the CPU can continue processing. By reducing the number of
times the CPU has to stop to refresh the DRAM is how SpeedRAM speeds
up your system.
NOTES
SpeedRAM is not a TSR. It does not require any RAM or take any away
from your system. SpeedRAM only needs to be loaded once and will
perform until the machine is rebooted.
SpeedRAM has now loaded and changed your systems speed. Now try
loading some software to insure that the system is working properly.
Run all the programs that you normally run on your system. Do not
load any data that isn't already saved in case SpeedRAM causes a
problem. If SpeedRAM causes any problem, it will cause memory
problems, your system will either hang or you will get a Parity
Error type message, if have any problems refer to the Trouble
Shooting section that follows for further instructions. If
everything works fine then you might want to install SpeedRAM so it
loads every time you boot your machine.
If you have any time of Memory or RAM test you can further insure
that everything is working properly by running that test. If it
reports no problems than it is safe to assume that SpeedRAM has no
conflicts with your machine.
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TROUBLE SHOOTING
SpeedRAM has been thoroughly tested on many systems before being
released but due to the complexity and variety of equipment
available we can not guarantee that it will work on every Personal
Computer.
If you notice memory errors, parity errors, or that your machine is
hanging after running SpeedRAM + then the rate that SpeedRAM has
chosen for your system is causing the DRAM chips to fail. This is in
no way a permanent failure, you will just have to pick a lower rate
at which to run SpeedRAM. To use a manual refresh rate with SpeedRAM
enter the following:
SPEEDRAM r:nn [ENTER]
where nn is the refresh rate you wish to use. Start with 60 and
retest your system. If you continue to have problems keep decrements
the amount by 5 until you reach a value that your system works with.
If the value is less than 18 then you will most likely not benefit
from SpeedRAM. If this is the case contact technical support for
further help.
If you have to use a manual refresh rate then install with the rate
override option, and give it the value that worked with your system
when the installation program prompts you.
Some problems in benchmarking are caused by TSR or Memory Resident
software such as screen blankers or print spoolers.
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The benchmark ATPERF.EXE from PC Tech Journal which measures
overhead is usually not affected by these programs. It is a very
good sign of the change SpeedRAM has with your program.
Norton Utilities SI and Landmarks CPUSPEED can be affected by TSR's
and may not show the increase in performance. If notice no
improvement in performance try running the benchmarks without any
TSR's loaded. If you still see no increase, call technical support.
There are some utilities available as Shareware or Public Domain
software that perform a similar task to SpeedRAM. If you have any of
the following you might not see an increase with SpeedRAM:
NREFRESH.COM 1987
SPEEDER.COM 1987
FASTRAM.COM 1988
FASTV20.COM 1988
ZIP.EXE 1988
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