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- These are quotations from various magazines and users, mainly about
- PocketD v1.67 and earlier. The full text for these is in the file
- POCKETD.REV, distributed separately in the file POCKRV40.ZIP (you may
- have this with your distribution).
-
- NOTE: PocketD Plus v4.0 is a SUBSTANTIALLY improved product over v1.67
-
- BEST UTILITY 1992!! PocketD v1.66 was awarded "Best New Utility 1992",
- by PsL, (one of the top 2 shareware vendors in the
- U.S.) Nelson Ford, (Dec92)
-
- BEST UTILITY 1994!! PocketD v3.1 awarded one of "The 4 best Utilities
- 1994" by What PC, May 1994.
-
- Bob Ainsbury: Registered user and author of DOS 6 SECRETS
- "One of the most exciting programs I have discovered in
- the last 12 months is Pocketware's PocketD. PocketD is
- an extremely compact and fast utility program for
- managing files and directories, and it completely
- out-classes the many DOS commands such as COPY, XCOPY,
- MOVE, RENAME, DIR, DEL and ATTRIB, to name but a few.
- Try it, you'll like it. PocketD is destined to be a
- classic. I highly recommend it." (Apr93)
-
- Jay Heyl: Registered user & President of RoboSoft Systems, Orange, CA.
- "I've been writing software professionally for over 15
- years now and I'm not easily impressed by the work of
- others. When I am impressed, as I am with PocketD, I
- don't mind recommending it to damn near everyone I
- meet." (Sep92)
-
- Tom Maynard: Registered user, Hinckley, Illinois.
- "I saw an obscure reference to PocketD in a shareware
- catalog. Intrigued, I ordered it for evaluation.
- Imagine my surprise as it blossomed into a truly
- indispensable tool on my system! Never before had I
- rushed to register so quickly. Thank you for the best
- utility in the world. It is a real pleasure to find a
- solid, professional, polished piece of work like
- PocketD in an otherwise sterile PC environment" (Jan93)
-
- Craig Menefee: Registered user. Auth: Byte's DOS Programmer's Cookbook.
- "What attracts me to PocketD is that it does, in one
- form or another, just about everything that XTree Gold
- does, but faster."
-
- Personal Computer World: "I've saved the nicest thing about D till
- last: its tiny memory overhead. Unlike most DOS
- extenders (like the excellent 4DOS), D is not
- memory-resident. It uses just 65k each time it runs
- ...D also includes one of the most powerful menuing
- systems I have come across...In short, D is wonderful"
- Karl Dallas (Cover disk and 2388 word review, Dec92)
-
- PC Plus: "..a very powerful tool for all types of disk
- housekeeping. This is a compact and unusually versatile
- program". Ray Girvin (v1.67 - 347 word review, Sep92).
-
- Range of features: * * * * *
- Overall speed: * * * * *
- Ease of use: * * * - -
- Documentation: * * * * -
- Value verdict: * * * * *
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- PC Plus: "PocketD is an extremely productive utility for
- day-to-day DOS file manipulations".
- Wilf Hey (v3.0 - word cover-disk review, Nov93).
-
- PC Today: "You'll soon forget about the Dos DIR command once you
- have tried PocketD as it is many times more
- powerful..PocketD must be the last word in Dos
- utilities" Lance Concannon. (Subscriber's disk and 467
- word review, Sep92).
-
- Shareware Magazine: "D /WR *.GIF [GIFVIEW $w][COPY $w A://PKZIP SAVE
- $w]... will search the whole disk for GIF files...view
- them with GIFVIEW...choose the ones that you want to
- copy ... and automatically add them to SAVE.ZIP....
- WOW! That's an impressive automation of a lot of DOS
- keystrokes...these are the sort of things that makes
- PocketD unique and very useful." (535 word review,
- Jul92).
-
- Shareware Shopper: "THE DOS ARMY KNIFE...stands out because it's small
- but offers an enormous range of features." Jack Zanetti
- (1404 word review, Jun92).
-
- Range of features: * * * * *
- Ease of use: * * * - -
- Documentation: * * * * *
- Value: * * * * *
- Overall: * * * * -
-
- PsL News: "...smaller than many other file utilities, but
- jam-packed with features" (Reviewed as one of the 4
- best new programs of the month from 200 new and updated
- programs). 575 word review, Feb92.
-
- PC Home: "...a small program with an incredible list of
- features. This will help you out with those day-to-day
- tasks that can be so time consuming when using DOS.
- Ideal for those with less powerful machines or who do
- not like Windows and large file managers."
- (Subscriber's Disk, Jan93)
-
- PC Review: "Lose those DOS blues with these easy to use utilities"
- (v1.66, Cover disk, Sep92).
-
- PC News Weekly:"PocketD is an exceptionally powerful DOS utility with
- a strange name, but packed with amazing and invaluable
- features.". (205 word review, Oct93).
-
- PocketD v2.0 is bundled with the book DOS 6 SECRETS by Bob Ainsbury (IDG
- Worldwide). See quote above.
-
- PocketD Plus v3.0 was chosen by the American Institute of Certified
- Public Accountants (AICPA) for distribution to their members.
-
- PocketD v4.0 is to be bundled with "BYTE's DOS Programmer's Cookbook",
- principal author Craig Menefee. See quote above.
-