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U1-06: File Changing, Copying, and Deleting --------------------------- 1997 File Cleanup Utilities Small Programs Disk --------------------------- ADDCRS will add Carriage Returns to a downloaded file that does not appear to have them when you try to list it using the DOS TYPE command. AWK 2.10 Duff, Rob $0 is a sophisticated program for scanning files for lines that match a specified pattern. Several programs in the library perform this function on a simple level, but AWK is more like a programming language. For example, it has conditional statements, variables, relational operators, loops, and concantenation of patterns. AWK is used mostly in two different ways: to print reports by printing selected fields and extracting counts, sums and sub-totals, and to convert data files from one format to another (eg: rearranging fields). An example of a practical use of AWK would be to clean up message files downloaded from a bbs. Clean $0 removes all control characters, except for carriage returns and line feeds, from a text file. When prompted, supply a filename to process. The original file is not changed. Clip Lazo, Charles III $? clips any unwanted ^Z's, carriage returns or line feeds from the end of files. Delchar O'Rear, Larry $5 deletes specified characters from a file. For example, you could use DelChar to get rid of a word processor's control characters left in the documentation files of some programmers. Do 3.3 (DO-LH) Hutton, Larrie $? is a utility that performs various file conversion functions stripping high bits, converting case, adding line numbers, expanding tabs, copying by column, finding/replacing strings, merging files, sorting files, etc. There's no documentation, so you'll have to study carefully the examples on the program's screen. Fileutil (FILUTIL) Rowley, Chris $? is a combination of UNWS and ADDLF with case conversion, full support for the subdirectories and back-ups allowed. Noblank removes blank lines from text files. Strip-cr strips extra Carriage Returns. Stripper 1.0 Rygiel, Patrick $10 strips all non-printable characters out of text files, including all line drawing and other characters above 127 and below 32. Tab2Spc 1.2 converts a text file containing tabs to one containing spaces in place of the tabs. The number of spaces to substitute may be specified by the user. Text Kennamer, Walter ASP $? alters the text within a file as specified in the command line. It allows you to delete all "white space" (multiple blank spaces) or just leading or trailing white space or reduce all white space to a single blank space. It will also convert upper to lower case or vice versa. Text in quotes can be excluded. Top20 1.11 Bouwman, Brian $0 finds and displays on one screen the 20 largest files on a disk, which is very useful information when trying to regain space on a full drive. It's also pretty fast. Trimline (TRIMLIN) simply removes trailing blanks from the end of lines in a text file. Weed 2.0 Pinnacle Help $4-$6 cleans up a text file by weeding out unwanted text, such as you might get in a download from a bbs. It will let you specify up to 100 different bits of text to search for and delete. In addition, you may choose to have it delete all lines which do or do NOT contain specified text. Wrapline 2.0 (WRAPLIN) Nassar, Nassib ASP $0 reformats a text file by wrapping lines of text longer than the specified line width. This is probably of value only for rough "emergency" work, since it chops off at the specified length without doing wordwrap. It is very fast, however. -------------------------------- END OF SMALL PROGRAMS DISK #1997 -------------------------------- ------------------------- 0781 Text File Conversion Small Programs Disk ------------------------- ASC2MM Graham, Keith P. $0 will convert ASCII files to Multimate documents in seconds instead of hours. Asc2Word (ASC2WRD) Marshall, George $? converts a normal ASCII text file into Microsoft Word format. C source code is included. AsciiRef 2.0 (ASCIREF) LePoer, Peter M. $15 lets you reformat files of bibliographic citations into an ASCII delimited format that other programs, such as dBase and Paradox, can import. Such citations can be downloaded from on-line services, such as Medline, ERIC and Paperchase. The program can be configured by the user to work with any database format. A sample file is included. ASCutils (ASCUTIL) $? $0 is a set of compact file modification utilities with assembler source code. The utilities perform such functions as removing duplicate lines, trimming space off the end of lines and other clean-up chores. Baab Gans, Ronald $0 stands for "Binary-to-ASCII, ASCII-to-Binary". BAAB lets you convert a file that is not all printable text to one that is so that you can TYPE it to the screen, print it out or transmit it in ASCII format (in which case the person receiving it must have BAAB to convert the file back to ASCII). This is not needed for communications systems that support Xmodem, but some local Email-type systems only allow ASCII transfers. Cols 1.00 Dunford, Christopher J. $0 takes single-column input (a list of names in a file, for example) and converts it to double-column input with numerous options to control the output format. You can specify file names or COLS can be used with DOS piping and redirection tools. Convdw 1.2 CrossCourt Systems ASP $15 converts Displaywrite 3 or 4 files to ASCII. This program ignores most formatting codes. It does recognize Indent codes, and pads subsequent lines with enough tabs to maintain the proper indent level. It handles syllable ("soft") hyphens correctly, dropping them unless they occur at the end of a line. It normally translates all line ends to carriage returns, but there is an option to drop the "soft" returns. Delimit 1.0 (DELIMIT) 09-93 CD Grosbach, Roy G. $15 converts fixed format files into DELIMITed files, that databases and spreadsheets can read quickly. The program filters the file, choosing selected fields, eliminating headers from reports, or selecting only summary lines from reports or you can also choose selected fields from fixed-format files easily. (Not on this disk. Ask for disk #18126.) Filters offers the following filters: Upper - translate all lowercase characters to uppercase Lower - translate all uppercase characters to lowercase Snglspc - removes extra blank lines from a file Unique - deletes multiple occurances from a sorted list Trunc - truncates a line at first matching char (or space) Fecho - echoes standard input to screen (great for debugging) Translat - puts each word of a file onto a separate line. Feed - reads a filespec and sends files to standard output Forclean - takes a fortran source and deletes comments and labels. Modify Software Clinic Development $20 makes it easy to modify text files. While it can be used with any kind of text files, it is ideally suited for small files that are subject to frequent change, such as batch files. With Modify, you can easily change text on a specified line or insert a line before a specified line. Lines are specified by giving word(s) of text that appear on the line. (The authors are no longer at the address provided in the documentation.) MUD 2.5 JD Enterprises $10 is a Mac/Unix DOS ASCII file translator. Coversions include DOS to Mac, DOS to UNIX, UNIX to DOS, UNIX to Mac, Mac to UNIX, and Mac to DOS. (Not on this disk. Ask for disk #18024.) NUM (NUM2) adds line numbers to the lines in text files. Quick-ASCII (QA) a utility to convert a file to all ASCII characters. The output will not be pretty, but it will be readable. Thus, if you have, say, a MultiMate file, but no MultiMate, and are curious to know what it is, just run QA. RTrim 5.2 Keber, Bob $0 trims blank spaces, spacebars, and nulls from the right end of all lines of text in any ASCII text file. It can also add spaces to the beginning of each line to create a margin. Textcon 1.72 CrossCourt Systems ASP $25 is a file pre-processor that does much of the necessary conversion or cleaning-up of ASCII automatically. The ASCII files produced are in a form that is more suitable for importation to most word processors. It doesn't eliminate all the manual editing but makes the job much easier. Of all the utilities we have tested over the years for converting ASCII files to the WordStar Document file format, Textcon does the best job, even though it is not designed specifically for that purpose. Other features include added support for wildcard filenames, an option to drop end-of-sentence spaces, to keep or drop leading spaces in a line that are used to form a left margin, and more. While TextCon won't retain all formatting codes, it will help quite a bit in converting files. XlateIBM will translate the line-drawing characters of the IBM extended character set, which are used in some pd/shareware doc files but which some printers cannot print. The characters are translated to +, -, or =. Your original file is not changed; a new file is created instead. -------------------------------- END OF SMALL PROGRAMS DISK #0781 -------------------------------- ------------------------------ 3791 Miscellaneous Conversions Small Programs Disk ------------------------------ 3791 System conversions ----------------------- NOTE: Conversion utilities designed for specific software for which we have dedicated disks in the library, such as WordStar or WordPerfect, can be found on those disks. ConvDCA Crosscourt Systems ASP $? converts a file from IBM's DCA/RFT format to straight ASCII text. Com2Cmd converts DOS files ending in .COM to CP/M 86 files ending in CMD and back. Cutz-SDF 2.0 Roper, David $0 will help cut and change SDF type files downloaded from a mainframe. UnixDOS 1.0 Logical Solutions $0 will convert files between UNIX and DOS formats. 3791 Other ---------- PSX 1.02c (PSX-FB) Brown, Frank $0 extracts ASCII text from PostScript files and stores it in a text file. -------------------------------- END OF SMALL PROGRAMS DISK #3791 -------------------------------- -------------------- 1440 File Comparison Small Programs Disk -------------------- 1440 Manual Comparison ---------------------- CMP-BJB (CMP-BAL) Ball, B. J. $0 is a file comparison program. Intended primarily for programmers, CMP can be set up to detect mainly those differences which afect the operation of the resulting executable programs, ignoring matters which concern only the appearance or readability of the source files. CMP shows the two files side-by-side when comparing them line-by-line. You can page through the files or press F to move forward or backward to the next set up unmatched lines. Although CMP.EXE is designed primarily for programmers, it will work on any ASCII file, but not binary files because of the nature of the approach used. Compare Mefford, Michael J. $0 displays the differences between two text or two binary files. Files need not be the same length, and paragraph reformatting changes introduced by word wrap are ignored. Files are displayed in two on-screen windows. Differences are shown in inverse video, and are preceded by several lines of matching text to provide a context. Compf Payne, R.W. $0 compares two text files, and produces a listing to indicate which lines have been added, changed or deleted. Options let you control how the files are compared, to ignore blank lines, to ignore characters on the left- or right-hand side of lines, and to indicate how many changes to report before the comparison stops. Diff 1.0 (DIFF-KO) Overhage, Klaus $0 is a file comparison program with an international flavor. It will prompt you in English or German. It will compare to files byte by byte or line by line. `C' and assembler source code is included for customizing for other languages. Double Lister 1.02 (DBLISTR) Bates, Stephen S. $15 lets you scroll and page through two files simultaneously. The files will be displayed initially in two horizontal windows, each taking half the screen. Pressing V changes the screen to two vertical windows. The display can be toggled to let either of the two take up two-thirds of the screen in either the vertical or horizontal display. Other features include a Hex display and a text search function. Note that the amount of each file displayed is limited to available memory, so you may get an ``End of File'' message when you know you are not at the end of the file. Stephen says he plans on changing this in a future version, but we still think the present version is very unique and useful. FC 2.7 (FC-MA) Albert, Mike $25 compares two text files and lists the differences between them line by line. Changes to the first file to make the second are shown. The program works with any ASCII text file. The program will always finds a minimal list of differences (i.e. smallest number of lines deleted and added), word changes within lines, and never misses matching lines. You can compare files of up to 16,300 lines. FCdoc 2.4 (FCDOC1) Albert, Mike $25 is a file comparison utility similar to Albert's FC utility, but it compares files by sentence rather than by line. The program works with any ASCII text file containing English text. Like FC this program will always finds a minimal list of differences (i.e. smallest number of sentences deleted and added), and never misses matching sentences. You can compare documents of up to 16,300 sentences. GookLook (GOODLK) is an unusual file comparison utility. Instead of showing the files side-by-side, it displays them top and bottom. To make it easier to compare them, the top file is displayed starting at the middle of the screen and works up the screen while the file on the bottom half scrolls down. View2 1.2 Leonard, Steve $10 lets you view two text files simultaneously. View-Two's features include text search, file comparison line by line, directory display and the ability to cut-and-paste between files. Only the first 776 lines of each file can be displayed. 1440 Automatic Comparison ------------------------- (These utilities don't require manually examining the files. They will output the differences only or will create a third file with the differences marked, etc.) Beyond Compare (BC-SSS) Stepping Stone Software $30 is a line-by-line file comparator. In comparing two files, Beyond Compare repeatedly looks for consecutive lines of text that are identical in both files and then reports the lines between the matching sections as differences. Beyond Compare is particularly useful for comparing two source code files or text files. Bincomp Telemacus Software Associates $0 is intended primarily for binary (non-text) files and shows the offset location of any differences. Cbin Stern, Steven $? will compare each byte, to the end-of-file of the longer of the two files or for a specified number of differences. Type "CBIN2" for command syntax. Diff Van Es, Peter $0 compares two text files and puts change bars in the margin of the second one to indicate changes. Mrev 1.1 Van Sickle, Paul R. $? compares two text files, an original and a revised file, and outputs a third text file based on the file with the revisions marked or date stamped, optionally, with line renumbering. (Not on this Disk. Ask for disk #8110.) PI-COMP Pelt, Markus $? is really more of a directory comparison utility than a file comparer, but it does compare the contents of files as well. Example usage would be "PI-COMP A:*.* B:*.*" where the output would be a sorted, side-by-side listing of the two directories showing which files match and which don't. QCMP 1.14 The Cove Software Group $0 compares two files or two groups of files. It is not designed to isolate file differences, but simply to tell you whether or not files are identical. QCMP is similar to DOS's COMP command except that it doesn't display differences; the display is better suited for automated processing; and it returns a usable errorlevel. Network support is also provided, and hidden files can be compared. Vdiff Krantz, D. & Kim, Craig J. $0 compares two text files and creates a third file with a "change bar" in the margin to indicate where changes have occurred. -------------------------------- END OF SMALL PROGRAMS DISK #1440 -------------------------------- ------------------------ 0784 File Copy Utilities Small Programs Disk ------------------------ Arcopy 1.72 Meyer, Eric $0 is a small, fast file copy utility. Its options include file-by-file verification; copying only if not in the destination disk/directory or only if already in the destination or only if changed since last backup; moving files (copy and then delete the original); copying files listed in a text file; and you can copy files with a time/date stamp before or after a specified time/date. BCMove 1.2 Campbell, Barry L. ASP $0 is a virtually perfect file moving utility. Its command syntax is nearly identical to the DOS Copy command, making it easy and intuitive to use. It warns before overwriting an existing file. If you move files to a non-existent directory, some file movers will either simply abort or, worse yet, will conclude that you are renaming the files - all to the same file name, causing the loss of those files. BCMove will give you the choice of creating a new subdirectory or renaming the file. BCMove is fast, doesn't mess up the screen with strange colors, and best of all, it's freeware. BKU Graham, Keith P. $0 copies only un-archived files and sets the archive bit. Copy Files 5.3 (COPYFIL) Higgins, Bryan $0 is a robust file coping utility. It allows multiple filenames to be specified on the command line. It will create a target directory if it does not exist. You can tell it to automatically overwrite or not overwrite files of the same name in the target disk/directory. (Works with Move Files, below.) Copyit 2.10 Condron, Frank J. $15 is a file copy utility designed to be much more complete than the standard DOS COPY command. It will optionally prompt you before copying each file, check to make sure no files of the same name will be overwritten at the destination, use multiple target disks when the first one gets full, delete the original when done, copy files based on date or size or attribute, and optimize copying to disks to fill them as completely as possible. Other features include the ability to move files to multiple diskettes instead of just copying them, a "% complete" indicator, the ability to exclude specified files and more. CopySafe Mefford, Michael J. $0 is a resident utility that warns you when a target disk\path contains a file with the same name as a file you are copying, to prevent accidental overcopying. Most of the time, we prefer using MOVE (on 1-UT-273) because it does not have to be resident and it will move file directory entries between subdirectories without actually copying if on the same drive but it has the disadvantage of not giving you the option to overwrite the file without entering the command again with a "/D" appended. DCopy 4.11 McKay, Doug $0 is an improvement on the DOS Copy command. This program provides more feedback, shows bytes copied while copying, time elapsed, total bytes copied, appends files together, copies from subdirectories, copy only different file, resumes copying if interrupted, checks free space before starting to copy, and more. (Not on this disk. Ask for disk #8947.) FC 1.3 is a fast file copying utility. It speeds things up by reading all the files to be copied at once and then writing them all to the target disk, unlike COPY, which reads then writes one file at a time. FCopy 1.01 Christensen, A. $5 is similar to DOS's Xcopy, but it prompts you for a new disk if the destination disk runs out of space. Kopy Davis, Stephen R. $0 lets you batch copy files with prompting for each file and warns you if a file of the same name already exists in the target drive\directory. Other options include the ability to delete the original after copying, copying files (using wildcards) from ALL subdirectories, prompting to change floppies when one fills and then keep going. The latter feature can also be used to search for files on a hard disk without copying them. Kopy 1.8 (KOPY-CV) Veltsos, Christophe $10 compares files in two disks/directories and copies any file with a later date over the other one. This is an excellent utility for backing up directories on the fly. If you specify a nonexistent subdirectory to copy to, KOPY will create it. Master Copy (MCP-MJ) Johnson, Michael Paul $15-$20 is a replacement for XCOPY that allows conditional overwrites of only older files and moving of entire directory structures on the same or different disks. (Not on this disk. Ask for disk #8948.) Mcopy lets you copy multiple files that cannot be covered with wildcards. You simply specify them on the DOS commnad line. Eg: MCOPY ABC.EXE XYZ.BAT B: Move Files 4.2 (MOVEFIL) Higgins, Bryan $0 is a file moving utility. Its only drawback is that when "moving" a file to a different drive, it requires the presence of COPY FILES, above, which slows things down and seems like an unnecessary nuisance anyway. Otherwise, this is an excellent file mover and COPY FILES is an excellent file copier. Move It Over Here! 3.0 (MOVHERE) Smith, David $5 searches your hard disk for a specified file and then moves it to the current directory. This can save you having to type in long path names, but it is many times slower than using a regular Move utility, and if more than one file on your hard disk has the same name, it may move the wrong one, though it shows which path it came from so that you could move it back. MV 2.6 Eyer, Bob $0 is a near-perfect file moving utility. This provides a couple of niceities that BCMOVE does not have, such as being able to use "." in place of "*.*" (well, every keystroke counts). The only mild drawback is that it is a hair slower than BCMOVE, but the author says that's because MV does some additional safety checks. XFile 1.04 Van de Winckel, Eddy $0 is an enhancement of DOS's Copy and Xcopy commands (except that it does not support copying subdirectories like Xcopy). You may optionally copy only those files not already in the destination directory. You may also update only those files present in the destination. XFile's syntax is consistent with standard DOS syntax, which makes it easier to use. Zcopy 0.1 Pazur, Scott M. $5-$10 is a file-copying utility that warns you and asks for verification before copying over an existing file of the same name. It also displays file directory information for each file to make it easier to see if they really are the same file. A nice option would have been to allow renaming either the source or target file and continuing the copy, but maybe another day... -------------------------------- END OF SMALL PROGRAMS DISK #0784 -------------------------------- ------------------ 1441 File Deletion Small Programs Disk ------------------ Cleanup 1.2 (CLNUPRL) Litt, Robert F. $10 is a handy utility. It displays the first 10 lines of specified files and allows you to delete the file if you wish. Date Filters (DATEFLT) Mitteldorf, Josh $0 EraseOld lets you erase all files older than a specified date. WithDate lets you execute any DOS command or program on files within a specified date range. Delbut 2.1 deletes all files in the specified drive and directory EXCEPT files specified on the command line. It does not delete hidden or read-only files. Assembler source code included. DateDel Roberts, Michael $0 deletes files within a given range of dates. From the DOS command line, you enter the name of the file(s) to delete. DOS wildcards such as *.* are allowed. Then DateDel prompts you for beginning and ending dates and deletes files matching the filespec with file dates within the specified range. C source code included. DelX Wallengren, Ernie $0 deletes everything in a directory except the filenames you specify, optionally with file-by-file verification. DLT 1.6 09-93 CD Meyer, Eric $0 is an enhanced file deletion utility. In addition to verify-delete, it can delete lists or groups of files, even in different directories, including hidden, system or read-only files. It also allows selection of files by time and date (DLT /E(arlier than) or /L(ater than) MMDDYY:HHMM. It will delete all files EXCEPT specified files. Elim Eyer, Bob $0 deletes files not accessible to DOS's DEL command (eg: hidden or read-only files) and avoids the "Are you sure?" prompt you get when doing DEL *.*. There are other ways to do these things, but this is a convenient way. Hunter (HUNTR) Smith, David $10 is a merciless and quick file deletion utility. It will hunt through all your drives, find all instances of specified files and delete them. Wildcards are supported. You might want to consider using Trash-It (disk #1411 in U1-05) with this, then deleting the files from the Trashcan directory when you are sure nothing important has been accidentally deleted. KillFile 1.0 (KILLFIL) Loy C. $2 is a pop-up utility that will display a directory and let you delete or rename files without leaving the program you are in. This utility can be handy just as a pop-up directory lister, but if you find you are out of disk space and need to save an important file, it will be even handier. (res:36k) Mdel lets you delete multiple files at once that cannot be covered with wildcards. You simply specify them on the DOS commnad line. example:MDEL ABC.EXE XYZ.BAT B: QDel Moorhead, Chuck $0 is a mass delete utility. It displays files that will be deleted and file info. It can also delete read-only files and directories. RelDel Tardis DP Consultants $5 is the computer generation's version of the paper shredder. Normal deleting of a sensitive file is not secure enough, since the data remains on the disk to be read by sector editors or even undeleted. RelDel writes garbage over the data on the disk (twice, optionally) before deleting the directory entry. Naturally, this calls for greater than usual caution by the user. Remove 1.0 TriSoft Technologies $0 will delete all files specified by wild cards with the option of being able to list addition files to delete and to list files in the set to be left alone. Safe Erase 1.61 (SAFERAS) Williams, Tom $15 is a file deletion utility that ensures that files are 100% recoverable if necessary. DOS 5 has added this feature, but Safe Erase works more efficiently. Search and Destroy 1.31 (SND) Getman, Steve $5 will scan your whole hard disk for specified files (wildcards allowed) and delete those files. TC-Kill is a utility for batch deleting files with file-by-file verification. There are similar utilities around, but this one draws a cute little Trash Can (TC-Kill, get it?) on the screen to make sure that even a six-year old idiot with two heads will understand what's about to happen. We already know that some of you absolutely hate this cutesy stuff, but others love it, so give us a break on the cards and letters. TErase 1.3 cBase Technology $0 will delete specified files by date or number of days. For example, TERASE *.BAK 10 would delete all files with an extension of BAK that are more than ten days old. TrashIt 1.8 RSE Incorporated $11 is the world's safest way to delete files. In September's PsL News, we described a method of deleting files the safe way by using a batch file and a MOVE utility to Move files into a \TRASH subdirectory. The problem with Undelete utilities such as Norton's is that the accidentally deleted file may be written over by another file before you get a chance to undelete, and then it can never be recovered. With the \TRASH approach, all you have to do is copy the file back out. Chaney expanded on our basic concept beautifully. His program is a 1k TSR that will save files written by any program that uses DOS function calls to delete files, which most programs do. Trash-It also improves on the concept by handling multiple files with the same name. (The name of one is "incremented".) And while we have a policy against describing features not included in shareware versions, we will make an exception to tell you that people who register for the very reasonable $10 fee will get a TSR that will automatically clean out \TRASHed files older than a user-specified date, plus a utility that will let you delete all Trashed files with the touch of a key, and of course you get a Free Disk coupon from PsL. If you are low on hard disk space or if you frequently use programs that create and delete temporary work files, you can run out of space in a hurry. Two utilities that can help are Patriquin's Palert (disk #1329), which warns you when free disk space drops below a specified level, and a verify-delete utility (disk #1441) to put in your AUTOEXEC.BAT file that will let delete files just selected files from \TRASH. Our only concern about Trash-It was that your hard disk could quickly fill up with junk files that you really have no interest at all in safeguarding, such as temporary work files created by some programs. You can, however, configure Trash-It to let files with specified extensions or those below a specified size be deleted. If you see junk files with extensions like .TMP or .$$$ in your TRASH subdirectory, you can configure Trash-It to not save those in the future. XDel 1.05 Unique Software ASP $0 does a really secure job of deleting files. First it writes over the file's data, then it changes the file's name to a non-displayable ASCII character, then it truncates the file to a length of zero, then it deletes the file through DOS. No way is Norton's going to bring that one back. (And it does all this in only 282 bytes!) ZDel Hanlin, Thomas $? is a multiple-file deletion utility. You may use wildcards, specify as many filenames as will fit on the command line, and ask for confirmation before deleting files. -------------------------------- END OF SMALL PROGRAMS DISK #1441 -------------------------------- --------------------- 2000 File Merge/Split Small Programs Disk --------------------- Chop 3.1 Kennamer, Walter J. ASP $? chops big files into more easily managed small files. Several options are offered to control where and how often the chopping takes place. Another feature allows you to extract a portion of a file. There are other utilities that split files, but CHOP is the most powerful and flexible. COL will convert a file's lines that are longer than 80 characters to a shorter (user-specified) length. It locates the first blank space beyond the column number you give it and breaks the line in two at that point. We have had requests for a utility to split such a file into shorter lines for printing such that the excess prints out on a separate page which can then be taped onto the edge of the first page for an extra-wide report. COL does not work that way. It just moves the excess down to the next line. Comb 2.2 Eyer, Bob $0 is a convenient way to combine files into one is a specified sort order. For example, to combine all the Utilities files on the PsL Reviews Disks, you would say COMB U*.* and the files would be combined into one and (NOTE:) the original files deleted. Cut cuts out selected fields of each line of a file. You could use this to remove columns from a table, etc. The fields can be the same length on each line or can be a specified field number in a line marked by delimiters, such as those exported by most database and spreadsheet programs. Dbmerger 1.1 (DBMERGE) Trees $50 will allow you to merge delimited database export files. Divide 2.0 Eyer, Bob $0 extracts into a file blocks of text from a file based on a user-specified search string and user-specified characters that indicate the start of blocks. For example, to extract all messages about "hard disks" from a file of messages downloaded from CompuServe, you would indicate that messages start with the characters "#:", which can be seen by looking at the file. Blank lines can also be specified as the start of blocks. Optionally, the program will create a third file containing any blocks NOT extracted. This results in dividing the original file into two. Blocks can also optionally be restricted to text within specified columns. This is a fast and powerful utility with many possible applications. Filmerge (FILMERG) Irwin, James $? lets you merge two sorted files by a specified field. Include Graham, Keith P. $0 will dynamically merge files, including graphics files created with OPTIKS, with text. Merge (MERGEDH) Haberle, Dave $? is a program which merges ASCII data files with ASCII text files. This allows you to do mail-merge, ie: to merge address files with letters to produce form letters. Note: the files INVIT.* go with MERGE. Resize lets you truncate or expand a file to a new specified size. If the new size is larger, more space is allocated as needed from the disk's free space. This could be used to recover data lost by accidental deletion or truncation of files. Shred and Glue (SHRED) Gruson, Matt $0 allows you to break large files into smaller files for easier management on floppies. It will work with 360k disk to 1.4mg disk. Glue allows you to combine the files back together into one large file. Shred and Glue has more features than similar programs. You can tell Shred a maximum file size to create or simply let it automatically split a file into chunks to fit on floppies until done. Split 6.0e (SPLITMD) 08-93 CD Dingacci, M. $0 divides a file into smaller files at specified points. Three auto-split options are to split the file into files of equal size, to specify the number of bytes in each new file, or to specify the number of lines in each new file. Other features include the ability to split a file manually, as well as automatically. Superbreaker 3.1A (SBREAK) Lundin, Thomas A. $10 splits large files into smaller files through a variety of options: by size, by match string, or by line count. Works on text files or binary files (such as large ARC files). Files are recombined by using DOS's COPY x+y command. Files can be split at every Nth occurrence of a break string, or can be split to a certain size up to the next occurrence of a break string. -------------------------------- END OF SMALL PROGRAMS DISK #2000 -------------------------------- ---------------------------- 2461 Rearrange Data in Files Small Programs Disk ---------------------------- CutEm 1.6 Mentor Systems $10 extracts records from text files based upon key values you supply. This is useful for mailing lists, log files, or any file you want to clean up based upon any given string. Filetalr (FILETAL) LB Software File Tailor allows you to reformat a file with records up to 1500 bytes long each. The process allows you to shorten a long record, put a blank between fields, comma-delimit a file, enclose text fields in quotes, strip dollar signs and commas from numeric fields, and skip records at the beginning or end of a file. Paste merges the same lines (by line number) of several files or subsequent lines of one file into one continuous line. This could be used, for example, to merge comma-delimited data files output by some programs into one file with longer records containing the data from two or more files. QAD 1.2 Gash, Kenneth B. $15 converts straight text files, such as those downloaded from mainframes, and break down each line into a standard "delimited" file which can be imported into most spreadsheet and database programs. QAD can also do some data conversion as it goes, such as converting all uppercase words to uppercased first letters only. BASIC source code is included. Quick Extract 1.10 (QEXSHAR) Olsen, J. W. $10-$20 extracts marked passages from a text file. Files can be created and passages marked with virtually any text editor. One code starts the capture, another stops it, and a third stops the whole process, so marking sections is quick and easy. The program will optionally remove the marking codes from the original file when done. Slyce 1.1 MorganSoft $15 is a general purpose file conversion utility for text and database files. You can overwrite fields, delete, insert, encrypt and decrypt them, make upper or lower case, or even lower case all except first letters of sentences. You can convert WordStar programs, strip ASCII control codes, expand tabs, and filter out or substitute selected characters. -------------------------------- END OF SMALL PROGRAMS DISK #2461 -------------------------------- ASCII-PRO 4.5ES Hell-Turler, Konrad $20 #4115 will allow you to change, transform, search, replace, eliminate, sort, format, list, ASCII files is a wide variety of ways. It will eliminate some or all printer codes, search/replace up to ten text strings simultaneously, add line numbers to text, and remove or add spaces in front or end of every line. This is just a partial list of the programs capabilities which is surprisingly very easy to use with its menu-driven interface and the amount of things it will allow you to do. Cutzit Roper, David $0 #1737 cuts up files into smaller files, as well as allowing several other cutting, trimming, and pasting chores. One of the main uses for a file chopper is to get a large file onto several disks. That one task can be done by several of the utilities on disk 1-UT-2000, File Merge/Split Utilities, but if you want most of the separate functions on that disk rolled into one program, get Cutzit instead. ----------------- 1190 File Sorters Small Programs Disk ----------------- AlphaSort 1.0 (ASORT) Arrow Connection $20 is a menu driven program that sorts text files, comma delimited files, and WordPerfect mail merge files. It will send output to the screen or disk. It can print mailing labels. You can sort on any field, select any fields for output, and output fields in any order. Up to 8000 records can be processed, with up to 10 fields per record and each field up to 30 characters long. Nifty James' Famous Sort Tool 1.11 (NJSORT) Blaszczak, Mike $10 is a fast and powerful sorting tool capable of sorting very large lists. Options include stripping out blank or duplicate lines, case-insensitive sorts, ignoring leading blanks and tabs, and sorting in reverse order. It will sort variable-length with user-specified delimiters or fixed-length fields and up to five key fields can be specified. However, it does not appear that ascending/descending sort selection can be specified differently for each field (ie: all fields will be sorted in either ascending or descending order). NJSORT will also sort binary files with fixed-length records. NJSORT allows skipping a specified number of lines at the start of a file when sorting to allow for headings, etc. C and assembler source code is included. Qsort 3.12 Baker, Ben $20 is a file sorting utility which uses the very fast Quicksort sorting algorithm. It will sort files with fixed-length or variable-length records of any record size. QSORT has several special purpose compare routines, and it selects the most efficient based on the combination of parameters you use on the command line. It will sort files whose size is limited only by disk space. Multiple key fields may be specified. Files with binary data can also be sorted as long as only straight text fields are used as key fields. QuikSort 3.10 (QUIKSRT) Omniware Corp. $20-$40 is a file sort and merge utility. Features include the ability to sort an unlimited number of files and merge up to 16 files; process files up to 32 meg; to have an unlimited number of key fields of many different data types; to have fixed or variable length records of up to 32k; to use wild card characters in file names; to use simple or complex record selection conditions; to use extensive output record formatting; to sort Btrieve and dBase III files; and support for Pascal and C string key types. Sorter works from 2 to 20 times faster than IBM's SORT depending on amount of records in the file and will sort files up to 40 megabytes, comapred to IBM's limit of 64k. It will sort either random or sequential files using the Quiksort algorithm. SortF 2.35 Buerg, Vernon D. $15 is a powerful file sorting utility. Sortf lets you specify up to 16 key fields to sort on; allows you to sort fields in reverse order and to produce an output file of key fields only; allows case-insensitive sorts and to be able to specify the length of the sort key field. QB4-linkable OBJ file is included. Sorts (SORTSWP) Parke, William C. $? is a file sorting utility with many nice features. It is written in assembler for speed, it can handle files up to 7.5 megabytes or 30,000 records, it can perform multiple field sorts, and more. -------------------------------- END OF SMALL PROGRAMS DISK #1190 -------------------------------- LSort 3.41 08-93 CD London Computing $20-$35 #7476/433 [2 disks] will sort and merge ASCII (straight text) dBase files. (dBase III databases cannot be sorted if they contain memo fields.) dBase databases may not be merged. The program accepts scientific notation of the form x.xxxExxx. LSMenu allows you to select dBase fields to sort by name and allows you to mark sort fields in type F and type V files. LSRT will sort up to 16,000,000 records or the maximum file size that will fit in memory. The program will run under OS2 as a Family Mode Application, with filenames up to 256 characters. Object code is provided, which you can use to create a customized version. A Visual Basic front end to LSRT and a version that runs under Microsoft Windows is also included. VBRUN is required for the VB version. 600K of disk space is also required. Fast Sort Hernandez, David A. $25 #7476/2297 is an extremely powerful, general purpose file sorting and handling utility. Features include the ability to sort-merge up to 32 input files into one. Files can have fixed or variable length records, carriage return delimited records, or even be relative (COBOL) files or special files like .DBF (dBase). Up to 32 sort fields may be specified, and in ascending or descending or user-specified order (eg: EBCDIC or lexical) It will sort normal text, binary fields, BCD, fixed point, floating point (single or double precision), LO-HI and many more. Up to 32 select/exclude parameters may be specified, as well as ranges of records from each input file. You can have it convert among file types: uneven length to fixed length, dBASE III to relative, etc. It will generate special files containing sorted keys, record numbers, selected fields or even byte offsets into the original file. You can put commands into a text file to be executed at any time. It will use all available memory to maximize sorting speed. EditRand Whitehead, Scott $20 #2371 allows you to browse and edit random access data files. Features include search and replace, cut and paste, absolute and relative record gets and puts, and the ability to edit records in text, hex, or BASIC-type MK$ conversions. Records can be copied, moved, deleted, appended and sorted. Values of numbers stored in compacted binary are normally shown in compacted form, but the value of such a number can be displayed at the press of a key. Ounce Of Prevention Maclean, Pete ASP $35 #3188 allows deleted or overwritten files to be restored, as well as trapping attempts to format the hard disk. Up to eight generations of a file can be recovered. It also offers file security, write protection, the ability to free up disk space when the drive gets full, and critical disk error handling. ------------------------ 0435 File/Sector Editors Small Programs Disk ------------------------ Note: These are byte-level editors. Regular text editors are in the Word Processing Section. Disked is a sector editing program but could be used as just a "snooping" device. Unlike many others, it can read the "special" sectors that various programs use in their copy protection schemes. Diskette Editor can undelete files like many utilities, except it is not automatic; but this gives you more power. Dump Argan Software $5 allows you to search through data, modify the file and presents information to you in an easy to understand display unlike many text processors or TYPE. Dwalk Telemacus Associates $0 (formerly TRAXXON) lets you salvage data from a damaged disk by viewing sectors and optionally copying them to a filename on a different disk. While Traxxon did not work properly on some machines, Dwalk worked fine during testing on the same machines. Edit3 Babyok, Al $15 is for editing files, disk sectors or memory segments. This is not a text editor. It allows changing of bytes, but not inserting or deleting bytes. Editing can be done in ASCII or Hex. FAUXdBUG 07-92 (FDB) Roper, David $10 lets you edit EXE, COM and text files. HEX values, words and strings can be changed. Unlike DOS Debug, FAUXdBUG is not limited to 64k files. FM (for File Modify) Schafer, Doug $? is a little utility which allows you to easily edit files at the individual byte level. It is especially useful in situations where one might use DEBUG to modify a byte in order to patch a program, to change the wording of messages in your programs which bother you (its search capabilities are useful for this) or to change color attributes in a program. Hexedit 3.0 REM Software Inc. $20 lets you edit a file in hex. JAZ ("Just Another Zapper") is a file/sector editor. Look12 Gruenke, G. B. $? lets you examine and edit any sector on their floppy drives. The author said that he wrote this one because he could not find a similar utility that would work on his 1.2meg drives. Traxxon lets you view disk sectors and optionally copy the contents into a specified disk file on the same or a different drive. TxtBin 1.0 Ecclesine, Peter $0 will convert a binary file (such as an EXE or COM file) to a text file that can be edited with any text editor. It will then convert the edited text file back to binary. This is intended only for the technically oriented user, as mucking with EXE and COM files is not like editing your AUTOEXEC.BAT file. ZipZap 7.0 KeyStrokes Computer Works and Chuvala, Keith G. $15 is a disk file and sector editor. -------------------------------- END OF SMALL PROGRAMS DISK #0435 -------------------------------- Parse-O-Matic 2.32 Pinnacle Software $25 #4957 is a programmable text-file parsing utility. It converts text files into formats which can be converted into other programs. You use a simple programming type format in configuration files to tell POM how to convert a file. This provides the maximum in flexibility and configurability while still being relatively easy to use. Requires 500K RAM. PC-Zap Pelt, Markus $35 #283 is a utility program which allows easy modification of any DOS file (typi- cally a .COM or .EXE file) without the use of the DOS DEBUG command. The program can dump a file in hexadecimal and ASCII dump format, verify data in a file, and replace data in a file. -------------------- 1713 File Encryption Small Programs Disk -------------------- Cdes Melnick, Arthur $? is a file encryption program that is sophisticated, fast and easy to use. Cipher 1.0 (CIPR-RI) Ivie, Rex B. III $0 is a file encryption program. Designed to encode files so they can be securely stored or sent and then later decoded. It has some special features which make it unique. Among these features is the ability to encode files in such a way that the receiver can be certain who sent the file (no bogus messages) and the sender can be certain that no one but the intended recipient can decode the file. The program uses several complex encoding algorithms which makes its encryptions quite secure and it is written in "C" which makes it quite fast. Crypt Vass, Garry J. $0 is a simple, general purpose encryption/decryption utility. An often-asked question is how to lock a subdirectory to keep people from getting into files that they should see. An easier approach is to use a file encryption program such as this one to encrypt sensitive data. Our feeling is that despite this and other file encryption programs in the library being fast and simple to use, few people ever bother to take the steps to protect their data, and frankly, we are no different. Maybe one day when we come back from the grocery store to find our hard disk full of credit card info and steamy letters to Bo Derek stolen, we will at last see the error of our slovenly ways. Crypt (CRYPT2) $0 is a very quick and easy file encryption program. You simply enter CRYPT SOMEKEY <FILE1 >FILE2 to either encrypt or decrypt a file. "SOMEKEY" is whatever key or password you want to use. "FILE1" is the name of the file to encrypt/decrypt and "FILE2" is the name of the output file. C source code is included. Cryptf Blum, Christopher $? is a file encryption program. It's a good idea to stop and consider what data you have stored on floppies or your hard disk that you really wouldn't want to be read by a thief, much less your co-workers (or even your spouse - I mean, it could be a shopping list for your anniversary, right?). A file on my hard disk contains my credit card numbers in case I lose my wallet, but I never gave any thought to a someone stealing my computer. Be forewarned that forgetting the keyword or losing power during use of Cryptf is fatal to the file, so MAKE BACKUPS FIRST. For example, if you encrypt a file with a keyword of MYKEY and try to decrypt it with MYKY, Cryptf will instead encrypt the file a second time. You can still decrypt the file completely by running once again and entering MYKY and then one more time to enter MYKEY, but it's obvious you could get balled up easily. DataCrypt 2.5 (DCRYPT) Borris Technologies $24 is an encryption program that offers several different types of file security. Super Encryption is fast encryption with moderate security. DES Encryption is the Government Standard encryption, slow, high security. Decryption has Auto mode detection and is password sensitive. The Range will allow you to specify starting/ending encryption/decryption range. DataLock 2.6 (DTALOCK) Borris Technologies $24 is an easy, menu-driven program for encrypting your sensitive files. You can select a fast encryption method or one that is slower but more secure. If you keep lists of passwords, credit card numbers, bank account numbers or other confidential information on your system, you should use an encryption program. ICE Graham, Keith P. $0 Intrusion Contermeasure Electronics Security Program is a program which scrambles and compresses COM files (not EXE files) yet allows them to be fully functional. The program makes it difficult to alter the orginal program and it has the added bonus of compressing COM files without detracting from their usefulness. ICEd COM files still run as they did before except that they are usually smaller and disk load times are shorter. ICE offers protection against viruses in that ICE can scramble COMMAND.COM and make it difficult for viruses to attach themselves to the scramble program. If you are a programmer, ICE can help protect your work from being altered by others. Playfair (PLAYFAI) Shapiro, Charles $0 encodes or decodes an input file into an output file using the Playfair cipher, a cipher system invented in the nineteenth century. -------------------------------- END OF SMALL PROGRAMS DISK #1713 -------------------------------- File Encryption MegaDisk #27249 [5 disks] contains five different file encryption programs including Confidant & DES Module (#297), Digital Crypto Programs (#1938), Encryption (#1756), PC-Code (#298), and Private Line (#1294). ]]]]]