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- From: shri@unreal.cs.umass.edu (H.Shrikumar)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.palmtops
- Subject: Neat small utilities ....
- Message-ID: <58016@dime.cs.umass.edu>
- Date: 25 Dec 92 09:07:10 GMT
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- Reply-To: shri@unreal.cs.umass.edu (H.Shrikumar)
- Organization: UMass, Amherst MA + Temporal Sys & Computer Networks Bombay India
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- Hi,
-
- Burrowing thru Archie turned up some MSDOS utilities that work
- with the hp95lx very well !
-
- 1. PGREP .... Only 9866 bytes. A very small grep/egrep which
- works pretty well.
-
- Does not support [a-z]*, but almost all other feature of egrep
- reg exps are supported !
-
- 2. RDISK20.ZIP ... a very neat and small RAMDISK. It installs and
- deinstalls without rebooting, so thats a great boon.
-
- When I run out of disk space for temporary files, I escape to
- dos with dos.exm, start ramdisk with 10 to 360 KB, and continue with
- my application.
-
- The TSR part deinstalles cleanly, so thats a very good point.
-
- Its a good idea to open all EXM applications,have files open
- and then start ramdisk. Otherwise memory fragmentation is likely.[:w
-
- 3. ATTRIBCR.ZIP ... a very small and tidy chmod.
-
- Only 1012 bytes, and yet supports not only +-rhsa options
- but also +-wvub, as conveninent antonyms. For eg.
- attr +w and attr -r both turn off the read-only bit, or enable
- writing, depending on how you look at it.
-
- I have renamed the com file to attr.com
-
- (The one on eddie never seemed to unzip properly)
-
- 4. FIND ... oh well .. this is a zero-ware !
- chkdsk /v is equivalent to
- find . -print, so I did not find any need for another
- file find program.
-
- chkdsk /v | pgrep file works very well indeed
-
- 5. CDTO ... Finds a file in the disk, asks and does a CD to that
- directory.
-
- 6. PhoneBook as a database .. there have been a couple
- of other posts on this subject. Neat idea.
-
- 7. MIN4TH25.ARC ... a very small tight Forth langaaged.
- This kernel and user code takes only 4.8k. I am keeping
- it. ALso I have entered in a database of all FORTH
- words, so that's an online manual too!
-
- -- shrikumar ( shri@legato.cs.umass.edu )
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