home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- ExtraDOS Toolbox Professional■ is a compilation of powerful and
- sophisticated tools for MS-DOS users. The programs offer
- functionality; some enhance programs already found in MS-DOS, other
- tools were familiar to the Unix world and are now available in MS-DOS.
- ExtraDOS also compliments PC Tools and Norton utilities by offering
- many features not found in these packages. The quality of our tools
- will allow you to work faster, smarter and better.
-
- Paul Somerson, former Executive Editor of PC Magazine, has selected
- over 30 of ExtraDOS' utilities for his Bantam Books publication, DOS
- Power Tools, 2nd Edition, Revised for DOS 5.0.
-
-
-
- Features Of ExtraDOS Toolbox■
-
-
- ADDCOMM* allows you to define the actual address of your
- communications ports in the DOS lower memory segment
- allowing older machines to support COM3 and COM4.
-
- ALARMCLK* provides a simple alarm clock for MS-DOS machines.
-
- ALLSUB* Allows any command or program to be run on the current
- directory as well as all on 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.
-
- AREACODE* AREACODE is a utility that will help you locate the region
- to which an area code applies or to locate the area code
- for a specific region.
-
- BANNER* Create a large banner using a standard ASCII printer.
-
- BOOT Reboot PC from within a batch file or from the DOS command
- line.
-
- BOOTCTL Boot system on hard drive even with a non system floppy
- disk in the A: drive.
-
- BOOTLOCK* Locks out the [CTRL]C, [CTRL][BREAK] and [CTRL][ALT][DEL]
- keystroke functions. Disable one or any combination of
- these functions.
-
- BRKBOX* Software version of a breakout box. Displays the status of
- the Serial or Parallel ports on the screen. This is a very
- handy tool when trying to debug communications or printing
- problems.
-
- CALENDAR* Display monthly or yearly calendar
-
- CAT* Unix like CAT utility for displaying, printing, and
- combining files.
-
- CHIMES* Quarterly hour clock chimes. Westminster, Saint Michael,
- or Whittington chimes.
-
- CLEANFL Makes the task of cleaning floppy drive heads much easier
- and more thorough. Moves the head of the floppy drive to
- travel the entire span of the cleaning floppy rather than
- just using a small portion of the cleaning diskette.
-
-
- CLEANUP Cleanup allows you to recover valuable space that is eaten
- up by unused or duplicate files on your hard and floppy
- drives. Quickly isolates unused and duplicate files and
- removes them.
-
- COUNT Counts the number of characters, words and lines in a file.
-
- CURLOCK* CURLOCK locks the cursor shape (optionally set with CURSOR)
- so that no matter what software you use the cursor will not
- be changed.
-
- CURSOR* Let's you change the size and shape of the DOS cursor.
-
- CUT* Unix like utility for displaying and printing text files in
- different formats by eliminating columns and other
- formatting options.
-
- CUTPASTE Small clipboard utility for MS-DOS. CUTPASTE allows you to
- pop up over any DOS application and copy a portion of the
- information displayed on the screen and paste it into
- another application, to the printer or to a file.
-
- DELAY* Sets a user defined delay in batch files or CONFIG.SYS.
-
- DETAB* Strips any tab characters from an ASCII text file and
- converts them into spaces. This is especially useful when
- working with old formatted files that you would like to
- work with in an editor which treats fixed tabs differently.
-
- DISKINFO Reads the boot sector of a disk and then makes 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.
-
- EDIT SuperEdit full screen editor many features including
- multiple windows, text formatting options and pull down
- menus.
-
- EVAL* DOS command line calculator that evaluates mathematical
- expressions input on the command line.
-
- FILEATTR Allows you to set or change the attributes of a group of
- files.
-
- FILEINFO Alleviates the problem that DOS has created by only
- allowing 8 characters to describe a file. FILEINFO provides
- a way of adding comments to files in any directory.
-
- FILESIZE* Displays a list of files and their respective sizes with
- summary that gives total sizes, number of files, totals
- space on disk and space available both in bytes and
- percentage.
-
- FILETREE* Scans the directory structure of a disk and gives a top
- down tree listing of the entire disk's directory structure.
-
- FINDFILE* Will locate files by searching the entire disk for a
- specified file. Also searches within compressed files to
- searchfor filenames. 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.
-
- HELP HELP prints out help messages on some of the more useful
- and popular DOS commands.
-
- HEXDUMP* Provides you a quick dump of the contents of any file. The
- 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.
-
- HUSH* A utility that can eliminate a majority of the sounds
- generated by the PC's internal speaker.
-
- KILLDIR* Makes eliminating a directory and all of it's contents a
- lot easier. It displays information about the directory
- that includes the number of files and their sizes as well
- as any subdirectory information.
-
- LASER Helps you set your laser printer's mode and also makes it
- easy for you to send control codes to it.
-
- LS* Unix like file listing utility. It has many advanced
- features beyond that of the DIR command found in DOS.
-
- MONITOR MONITOR displays an adjustment pattern for your monitor.
- It is useful when trying to align and adjust monitors.
- Support HERCULES through VGA cards MOVE Moves any file
- from one place to another.
-
- MOVE Move files to different locations on the hard disk without
- having to copy and delete manually. Supports multiple hard
- drives including network drives.
-
- NAMEDIR* Renames directories without emptying or modifying their it's
- contents.
-
- NO File exlusion utility. Let's you run a command on all files
- except specified groups.
-
- PATHFIND* Allows you to search the file path for any files. Will
- display the files that it finds in order of appearance
- within the path. This is handy when you are trying to
- locate a similar program or file that could exist in
- multiple places in your path statement.
-
- PSPRINT Allows you to print DOS ASCII Text files on a PostScript
- device without the usual conversion.
-
- SCRNATTR* Sets the foreground, background and border colors at the DOS
- prompt.
-
- SPEEDRAM* Increases the speed of your system CPU by changing the
- refresh rate of your system's 8253 timer chip. SpeedRam
- should increase your CPU's performance from 2% to 10%.
-
- TEXTSRCH* Searches for all occurrences of a given string inside of a
- specified text file.
-
- TIDY* Scans drives for any .BAK and 0 length files and deletes
- them automatically.
-
- TOUCH* A unix like utility used to stamp a file's attributes with
- the current system date and time.
-
-
-
- TURBOBAT* Compiles batch files into .COM binary programs. This will
- greatly increase the speed of large batch files by allowing
- them to run in machine code rather than interpreted DOS
- commands.
-
- USEMEM Program allows you to use up memory for testing programs and
- applications with a minimal memory setting.
-
- USEMOUSE Gives any DOS application the ability to use the mouse.
-
- VIDMODE Set the current video mode from the DOS prompt. Allows
- switching to any of the supported text modes.
-
- VOLLABEL Allows you to view and modify the volume label on any disk.
-
-
-
- * denotes utilities included in DOS Power Tools.
-
-
- ExtraDOS Toolbox Professional is available at your local computer dealer or
- directly from Foley Hi-Tech Systems for $59.95.
-
- MasterCard, Visa and COD orders are accepted. xdosfly 7/23/91