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- As of February 9, the most recent files uploaded to the PC MagNet Utilities
- Database (GO UTILITIES) are from PC Magazine, Vol 8, No 5, dated March 14, 1989.
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- Utilities: "Free Software Breakout Box"-- Without touching a cable, LITES tells
- you why your serial printer won't print or your modem won't send. This utility
- emulates costly hardware breakout boxes. LITES is available in .COM, .ASM, and
- .BAS formats. A short documentation file is labeled LITES.DOC.
-
- V8N05.ARC contains all of the files from the issue in an ARC file. Be sure to
- unARC before using.
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- Shareware: (BOYAN40A.ARC, BOYAN40B.ARC)--Justin Boyan sent us version 4 of his
- magnificent comm program, BOYAN. BOYAN40A contains the program files and
- BOYAN40B has the documentation.
-
- User-to-User: (MOVE.BAT, SCRUB.BAT, MULTI.BAT)--MOVE.BAT moves a file from one
- place to another in DOS with a single command. SCRUB.BAT wipes files off a
- floppy disk faster than formatting. MULTI.BAT lets you give wildcard file
- specifications to commands.
-
- Power User: (MACMEN.WPM)-- MACMEN.WPM allows users of WordPerfect, Version 5.0
- to create their own customized menus.
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- Languages: (DELAY.BAS, SORT.BAS, BINARY.PAS, BLKRD.PAS and SAVE.BAS)--DELAY.BAS
- creates a delay in a BASIC routine. However, instead of sitting in an empty
- loop, like most delay programs, this one not only provides a delay but will also
- return the number of seconds remaining. This even allows you to perform
- different tasks depending on how much time is left. SORT.BAS is a BASIC program
- which, like DELAY.BAS allows for two different tasks to be performed at once.
- BINARY.PAS, the Turbo Pascal program, can be used to display in binary any digit
- from 0 to 7 using the Caps, Num, and Scroll Lock indicators. It takes one
- parameter, in integer between 0 and 7, and displays it in binary on the Lock
- indicator LEDs. BLKRD.PAS (BlockRead) is a Turbo Pascal program which can
- drastically reduce the time involved in sequentially reading a file typed in
- Turbo Pascal. The compiler is make to believe that the file is untyped and uses
- BlockRead instructions with a buffer that holds many records. SAVE.BAS saves the
- current date and time with a program, as well as the number of times it has been
- saved.
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- Connectivity Clinic: (RELOG.BAT)-- RELOG.BAT, located in the LOGIN directory of
- the first network drive, globally alters aspects of the network booting process
- and allows a user to relog onto the network under another account.
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- Power Programming: (NUMB1.C, NUMB2.C, RLINE.ASM, and TYPEFILE.ASM)--NUMB1.C is a
- utility that numbers the lines of a text file using the C low-level file
- functions, while NUMB2.C numbers the lines using the C stream file functions.
- Both accept a single filename on the command line and create a new version of
- that file with each line numbered. Both leave the original file intact.
- RLINE.ASM is an assembly language DOS subroutine that reads a text file one line
- at a time. TYPEFILE.ASM is a short demonstration program which can be linked
- with RLINE.ASM to illustrate its use.
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- Updates: (LOG.ASM, LOG.COM)--we updated LOG to take care of a couple of bugs.
- Be sure to download version 1.1.
-