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CVO Utilities Copyright Notice and Software License ********************************************** * * * This is not free software. * * * ********************************************** This document, other accompanying written and disk-based notes and specifications, and all referenced and related program files, accompanying this document are copyrighted by CVO, a French corporation. The copyright owner hereby licenses you to: make as many copies of the software and documentation as you wish; give exact copies of the original to anyone; and distribute the software and documentation in its unmodified form via electronic means. There is no charge for any of the above. You are specifically prohibited from charging or requesting donations for any such copies, however made. Exceptions may be granted to organizations which charge a small fee for materials, handling, postage and general overhead. 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In the event a verifiable bug is found, the author's only obligation will be to make every attempt to repair the bug as soon as possible. Order Form CVO Utilities Registration Form Name: ______________________________________ Address: ______________________________________ ______________________________________ City: ______________________________________ State: __________________________ Zip: ______ Telephone: ______________________________________ Item Quantity Total -------------------------------------------------------------- One-time fee for the first machine......... 1 $ 30 for multi-users only: $ 5 fee per machine using this software within the same organization............... -------------------------------------------------------------- Total Due: _________ Payment thru: VISA or check Preferred Disk Size: 3.5" ____ 5.25" ____ Mail Completed Form to: DPTool Club BP 745 59657 Villeneuve d'Asq FRANCE ______________________________________________________________________________ A Set of Utilities, developped over the years, whenever the need arises, or a fancy. ______________________________________________________________________________ attr ______________________________________________________________________________ Usage: attr [-flags ...] filespec filespec ... Finds all specified files (wildcards allowed) with archive bit set in the current directory. Flags: -i lists files with archive bit reset. -r recursively searchs subdirectories. -c displays absolute path. -n displays only file names. -p pauses every 20 lines. -h or ?, displays a help screen ______________________________________________________________________________ bakdel ______________________________________________________________________________ Usage: bakdel Deletes all .bak files from current and subdirectories. Pauses every 20 lines. ______________________________________________________________________________ bckctl ______________________________________________________________________________ Usage: bckctl [u:]control.xxx Lists the content of a backup disk with path and file names. ______________________________________________________________________________ catcmp ______________________________________________________________________________ Usage: catcmp first_directory second_directory Compares two dictories and displays in three columns: files exclusive to the first directory, files exclusive to the second directory and common files. Use Esc and arrows to move from one list to the other. Quit with Esc. ______________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________ catlin ______________________________________________________________________________ Usage catlin [-x or -d] [-y -c] file file ... displays a list of selected files in alphabetical order. Flags: -c displays the absolute path -y chronological order -x to select and display files (See Expose) -d to select and erase files Catlin ? displays a help screen ______________________________________________________________________________ catlist ______________________________________________________________________________ Usage: catlist [-flag...] filespec filespec ... Finds all specified files (wildcards allowed) in the current directory. Flags -r recursively searchs subdirectories. -aN displays only files with mode bit N (0-7). See chmod. -d displays directories only. -c displays absolute path. -n displays only filenames. -p pauses every 20 lines. -v displays length, date and time. -o computes disk occupation in bytes and clusters of current drive. _____________________________________________________________________________ catname ______________________________________________________________________________ Usage: catname filespec Displays a list of selected files (wildcards allowed) in alphabetical order. Then you can select any file and rename it. Catname is useful in renaming a file whose name is accidentally unacceptable for DOS. _____________________________________________________________________________ catsort ______________________________________________________________________________ Usage: catsort Sorts the directory in alphabetical order. For safety reasons, it can take a while on a big directory and it does not sort root. _____________________________________________________________________________ chkdt ______________________________________________________________________________ Usage: chkdt dummy_arg chkdt [-i] With a dummy arg, chkdt displays the system date as an unsigned number. (See xdate) Without arg, chkdt waits for key entry of an unsigned date and returns 0 if this date is greater than, or equal to, system date. Otherwise it returns the difference (up to 255). Flag -I reverses the test. Chkdt is useful in testing that system date is acceptable. For instance: 1. Create a file DATE.TST as follows: c: cd \ echo 65534 >date.tst 2. add to your autoexec.bat: @chkdt <date.tst @if errorlevel 1 goto DATE_ERROR @goto DATE_END :DATE_ERROR @echo Either System Date or Battery seems out of order @echo Check date and time now DATE TIME :DATE_END @chkdt dummy >c:\date.tst 3. restart system twice. Chkdt is useful also to see if somebody makes backups regularly: First have a .bat file like: @backup c:\appl\*.* a: /s @chkdt dummy >c:\appl.tst then add to your autoexec.bat: @chkdt -i <c:\appl.tst @if errorlevel 3 goto _MISSING_BACKUP @goto _REGULAR_BACKUP :_MISSING_BACKUP @echo No APPL backup done since 3 or more days, you lazy ! :_REGULAR_BACKUP _____________________________________________________________________________ chmod _____________________________________________________________________________ Usage: chmod file_name acces_mode Changes the acces mode to 0 no qualification 1 read only 2 hidden 3 (read only, hidden) 4 system 5 (read only, system) 6 (hidden, system) 7 (read only, hidden, system) ______________________________________________________________________________ columns ______________________________________________________________________________ Usage: Columns lines chars n_tab tab1 tab2 .... <file lines: number of lines (paper height less your top margin) chars: number of char columns on your paper n_tab: number of tabs tab1, tab2... each printed column first char Example: columns 60 150 2 0 75 <doc >prn would print doc file in two columns of 60 lines on a 150 chars wide paper. First column would start at 0, second column at 75. Assuming the printer has been set up to 11 inch paper and 12cpi, you would obtain two parallel pages. Number of tabs is limited only by the number of characters acceptable on a command line. ______________________________________________________________________________ concat.c ______________________________________________________________________________ Usage: concat [-a or -b] [-d or -w] [-q] destination file1 file2... Appends file1, file2 etc. to destination. Wildcards are allowed in the file(x) names. Flags: -d deletes source files without warning -w deletes source files after YN prompt default is NO delete -q dont display progress -a all files are ascii -b all files are binary DEFAULT is binary With -a flag, end-of-file mark will be removed. Otherwise, all files are assumed to be binary. However the program would eventually find out text files and request confirmation. NOTES: as compared to many of similar programs, concat has an advantage and a drawback: 1. Naming the destination file in the list of source files DOES NOT destroy destination file. 2. Dont forget the -a flag if you concat text files. If you forget it, the end-of-file mark (hexa 1A) will not be removed and a part of destination file may not be readable. If you have made this mistake EX1A utility can repair your file. ______________________________________________________________________________ c_print ______________________________________________________________________________ Usage: c_print file_name record description destin translates a fixed length record text file to a binary file. file_name is the name of a text file, record is the length of each record (CRLF include) description is similar to a(0)6u(26)5f(6)8 where: (n) is the data offset within the record A(..)n n ascii characters I(..)n an integer to be printed into n columns U(..)n an unsigned integer L(..)n a long integer F(..)n a float D(..)n a double C(..)n a double * 100 Y(..) a date (DD MM YY) X(..)n insert n binary zeros destin is the name of the binary file. ______________________________________________________________________________ cpyext ______________________________________________________________________________ Usage: cpyext file_1 record_length_1 file_2 record_length_2 Copies file_1 to file_2, record by record. If length_2 is less than length_1, each record is truncated. Otherwise each record is padded with trailing binary zeros. ______________________________________________________________________________ delfdate ______________________________________________________________________________ Usage delfdate [-d -p] days files... deletes specified files if 'days' old as compared to system date. Wildcard are allowed, even in directory names. Flags: -d deletes the directory if empty -p requires confirmation before deleting Example: delfdate -p 90 b:\cl\fct.*\*.tmp ______________________________________________________________________________ dirdel ______________________________________________________________________________ Usage: dirdel Displays name and removes subdirectories if empty. ______________________________________________________________________________ dprint ______________________________________________________________________________ Usage: dprint file_name [>output] where file_name is the name of a parameter file. Dprint formats a binary file to standard output, a file or a printer. Parameter file contains for instance: F filename the name of the binary file L 26 its record length D a(0)6u(6)5y(8)d(10)+12.2x(0)12 first line description of the output D x(0)6x(0)5x(0)8x(0)12d(18)+12.2 second line description O -g a flag O -p66.5 another flag Except for D'lines, parms order is immaterial. Max.D: 10 lines D lines describe the input and its formatting, like: a(0)6u(26)5f(6)+8.2d(20)10.2 (x) is the data offset within the record A(x)n n ascii characters I(x)n,U(x) prints an Integer (Unsigned) into n columns L(x)n a long integer F(x)n.m prints a float into n col. including . and m decimals D(x)n.m a double C(x)n.m a double which will be divided by 100 Y(x) a numerical date MM DD YY X(0)n a dummy variable to be replaced by n blanks. + (like I(5)+4 or D(9)+10.2) summs the variable. See -a below Flags: -sSTRING uses STRING as separator - default is a space, -sNULL no separator -s124 uses | as separator ('<' and '>' are illegal) -pn.m formfeeds m lines before nth line (default is nothing) -n counts pages starting at 2 (valid only with -p) -cnn counts lines starting at nn up to 65500 -g adorns with semigraphics (or *,|,- if -s124 is active) -d inserts blank lines -a prints + noted variables summation. -ttexte add 'texte' as a title to first page. Can be repeated. -fname prints 'name' file on top of first page. -mnn nn chars left margin -hn 1 = 10cpi, 2 = 12cpi, 3 = 16cpi. ______________________________________________________________________________ easter ______________________________________________________________________________ Usage: easter easter YY easter YYYY Displays the full dates of Easter, Holy Thursday and Whitsunday. Default to current year. YYYY is valid from 1950 to 2049. YY default to 19xx (50-99) or to 20xx (0-49) ______________________________________________________________________________ elimpr ______________________________________________________________________________ Usage: elimpr I dislike that PrintScreen key, don't you ? Elimpr is a very slim resident (26 bytes) which prevents its action. ______________________________________________________________________________ esctst ______________________________________________________________________________ Usage: esctst number letter .... Example: esctst 27 C 66 >prn Esctst suppress blanks and prints args in binary form. Divert output to printer or file or the like. ______________________________________________________________________________ ex1a ______________________________________________________________________________ Usage: ex1a file_name Ex1a strips embedded end-of-files characters 1Ah. ______________________________________________________________________________ expose ______________________________________________________________________________ Usage: expose file_name Expose is a simply minded wiewer for ascii files. Printer commands imbedded in the file are transparent to expose. Virtually all IBM PROPRINTER sequences are made unvisible. ______________________________________________________________________________ expr ______________________________________________________________________________ Usage: expr Expr is a calculator which can evaluate an infix expression. You can freely creates variables, by giving them a name in the left part of an expression. Use logically the parenthesis. Grammar: [variable =] expression evaluates the expression and set the variable if present. Example: (1 + sqrt 16) * 2 r = (1 + sqrt 16) * 2 Then r receives the value and can be used later on like this: result = r + 1 Operators: + - * / ^ ( ) acos - asin - atan - cos - sin - tan - cosh - sinh - tanh - log - log10 - exp - ceil - fabs - floor - sqrt Constants: PI, E , R2 or pi, e , r2 ______________________________________________________________________________ ext ______________________________________________________________________________ Usage: ext [dummy] Displays all extensions used in the current directory. With a dummy arg, recursively searchs subdirectories. ______________________________________________________________________________ f13 ______________________________________________________________________________ Usage: f13 f13 YY f13 YYYY Let's be straight. There in this world careless people who dont believe in ghosts, who would start a new business on a Friday, or pat a black cat on the left side of the street. You and me know better and appreciate f13. Try it. ______________________________________________________________________________ factor ______________________________________________________________________________ Usage: factor number Factors numbers between 1 and 2,497,525,535. ______________________________________________________________________________ filesplit ______________________________________________________________________________ Usage: filesplit file f1 f2 pattern_file copies file partially to f1 and f2 as defined in the pattern file. f1 will receive record whose keys compute to less or equal, f2 will receive records whose keys compute to greater than the test key described in the pattern file. The pattern file contains the record length, and, for each key, its type, length, offset and content. For instance: 226 ... record length 14 ascii, ascending, uper case or lower case 25 key length 0 its offset 2 unsigned short integer 2 its length 61 its offset Types are: ascending descending length ascii 0 7 arbitrary signed short int 1 8 2 unsigned short int 2 9 2 long int 3 10 4 float 4 11 4 double 5 12 8 numerical date 6 13 2 ascii (uper or lower case) 14 15 arbitrary ______________________________________________________________________________ first ______________________________________________________________________________ Usage: first mon[day] first mon[day] YY MM first mon[day] YYYY MM Displays the full date of the first specified week day of current month or of specified month and year. YYYY is valid from 1950 to 2049. YY default to 19xx (50-99) or to 20xx (0-49) ______________________________________________________________________________ fltgraph ______________________________________________________________________________ Usage: fltgraph <input >output fltgraph is a filter which replaces the semi-graphic characters by *, | or -. ______________________________________________________________________________ freedisk ______________________________________________________________________________ Usage: freedisk Displays disk occupation, like: Disk C 15512 clusters 4 sectors / cluster 512 bytes / sector 31768576 bytes (total disk) 950272 bytes (unused) ______________________________________________________________________________ freemem ______________________________________________________________________________ Usage: freemem Displays memory occupation, like: total memory: 524288 available memory: 433984 ______________________________________________________________________________ gcd ______________________________________________________________________________ Usage: gcd number_1 number_2 Computes the greatest common divisor of the two numbers. _____________________________________________________________________________ home ______________________________________________________________________________ Usage: home Home is a customized menu which can be conveniently installed on the root directory. Assuming you have three applications, home would present: ┌─────────────────┐ │ Word processing │ │ Invoicing │ │ Graphics │ └─────────────────┘ Use the arrows to move in the list and Enter to select an item. (If they all have different initials, you can use the first letter instead). To customise Home, type: home home.cmd home.cmd (or any other suitable name) would contain: word processing c: . cd \wp invoicing c: . cd \inv graphics d: cd \grph Rules: 1. two lines for each command: one for the displayed text, one for a DOS command or a program name. 2. if more commands are needed, add a line with only a period and a line for another command. 3. a command like ■prog would execute the program 'prog'. This should be avoided if prog is a very big program. 4. in some configurations, you may find that your intended last command in a sequence 'falls' upon the next sequence. Then terminates the sequence by . exit ______________________________________________________________________________ impcol ______________________________________________________________________________ Usage: impcol [flags] file c1 c2 .... [>output] impcol [flags] file @param [>output] impcol config prints selected columns from a file. Example: impcol file_x 80 92 50 62 would displays columns 80-92 and 50-62 of file_x, using some formatting rules: 1. impcol compares resulting width to 80, 96 and 132 and eventually sets 10cpi, 12cpi or 16cpi or fails with a warning. 2. impcols returns to DOS the columns width it has selected (80, 96 ...) 3. centers the text 4. assumes a 72 lines paper (12') and a bottom margin of 5 lines. 5. if semigraphic characters are used in source file, checks if the four angles are ┌ ┐ └ ┘. Flags: -tfile insert file on top of output. -fN numbers pages -g replaces semi-graphics with *, - and |. -mN suppress centering and set left margin at N. -hN forces to 1 = 10 cpi, 2 = 12cpi et 3 = 16 cpi. -l assumes a 132 columns printer (default is 80) and uses 132, 160, 218. -lN1,N2,N3 forces three other printer width formats. -pm.c m lines/page, n lines bottom margin. Typing: impcol config you may change permanently the default parameters. Selected columns must be given by pairs. Their numbers is limited only by the DOS command args limit. If you need more column spec, place them in a separate file, params, (each on a line) and use the syntax: impcol [flag] file_name @params ______________________________________________________________________________ impess ______________________________________________________________________________ Usage: impess Impess is useful in testing printer adjustment before printing a large number of preprinted forms. You might for instance have a batch file like: :PRN_TST @impess >prn @xprompt N Y "Another try ? (Y/N) " @if errorlevel 1 goto PRN_TST Impess would first be customized by typing: impess config and filing parameters. Example: ┌────┐ ┌──────┐ Characters per inch (10, 12, 16) │ 10 │ Lines per page │ 66 │ └────┘ └──────┘ ┌───────trial text───────┬─line──┬─column──┐ │third line ------X │ 3 │ 10 │ │same--Y │ 0 │ 15 │ │fifth line ------------Z│ 5 │ 0 │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ └────────────────────────┴───────┴─────────┘ Test stops at the first empty trial text. Enter absolute number for the first line, relative numbers afterwards (0 is same line). Column number is relative whithin same line, absolute otherwise. ______________________________________________________________________________ isafact ______________________________________________________________________________ Usage: isafact number Finds out if number is a factorial and displays its base. ______________________________________________________________________________ keypack ______________________________________________________________________________ Usage: keypack [-e] [-lN] [-m] file_name [>output] reads and formats a file made trough keyword. Flags: -e only eliminates multi-entries. -lN set text width to N characters (default is 79). -m change keywords to uppercase. ______________________________________________________________________________ keyword ______________________________________________________________________________ Usage: keyword [flags] file file .... read the listed files, display the text, stopping on each new word for the operator to decide to retain or discard it. Output file is a list of retained words following their page number. Flags: -kfile1 file for retained words; default: KEEP -dfile2 file for discarded words; default: DISPOSE -sfile3 output file; default: FKEY -fN set the first page number to N -l writes line numbers rather than page numbers -i reverse process order (KEEP before DISPOSE) Page numbers are defined by formfeed character (decimal 12). If there is no formfeed, use the -l flag. KEEP and DISPOSE can be edited and reused. See keypack for eliminating multiple entries. ______________________________________________________________________________ laser ______________________________________________________________________________ Laser memorises and sends to printer command characters and control sequences. As a matter of fact, laser is useful with any kind of printers, not only lasers. Usage: 1. laser ? Displays a help screen. 2. laser config To entrer commands. The screen would display the like: ─Symbol───── ─Description────────────────── ─Sequence───────────────────── 10 10 c.p.i. 18 12 12 c.p.i. 18,27,58 16 16 c.p.i. 18,15 66 11 inches 27,67,66 Symbol is a short name (12 chars, no blank). Description shoud be self- explanatory. Sequence must conform to your printer manuel spec. 3. laser -x laser.cmd Another way to enter commands. Laser.cmd is a text file, in the exemple: 10 10 c.p.i. 18 12 12 c.p.i. 18,27,58 16 16 c.p.i. 18,15 66 11 inches 27,67,66 4. laser Displays the column 'Description'. Use the arrows to move in the list, Enter to broadcast the command, ESC to quit. 5. laser symbol symbol ... broadcasts the commands corresponding to listed symbols. Example: laser 66 12 6. laser -p file_name [>output] Laser works as a filter which translates printer commands imbedded in the file. Those commands must be quoted with tilde (~) like: ~12~~66~text..... ...~16~....... ______________________________________________________________________________ last ______________________________________________________________________________ Usage: last mon[day] last mon[day] YY MM last mon[day] YYYY MM Displays the full date of the last specified week day of current month or of specified month and year. YYYY is valid from 1950 to 2049. YY default to 19xx (50-99) or to 20xx (0-49) ______________________________________________________________________________ lcm least common multiple ______________________________________________________________________________ Usage: lcm number_1 number_2 Computes the least common multiple of the two numbers. ______________________________________________________________________________ litteral ______________________________________________________________________________ Usage: litteral number [units] [fracts] Displays full written form of a number. Example: litteral 1234.56 litteral 1234.56 $ litteral 1234.56 $ cts ______________________________________________________________________________ modulo ______________________________________________________________________________ Usage: modulo number_1 number_2 Displays the remainder or the division number_1 / number_2 ______________________________________________________________________________ mvdir ______________________________________________________________________________ Usage: mvdir path_1\filename_1 path_2\filename2 Moves filename_1 to the directory designated by path_2, changing its name in the process. Path_1 and path_2 must be on the same drive. ______________________________________________________________________________ pgpr ______________________________________________________________________________ Usage: pgpr file_name page_1 page_2 Prints one or several printer pages from a file. Pages are defined by formfeed charactere (decimal 12) ______________________________________________________________________________ primes ______________________________________________________________________________ Usage: primes primes number Displays primes numbers less than 'number' (default to 10000) ______________________________________________________________________________ removetab ______________________________________________________________________________ Usage: removetab [-e ou -nN] [dummy arg] reads standard input and write to standard output, replacing the tabs by an appropriate number of blanks. Flags: -e to be used if the source file has been made with edlin -nN N being the number (1-32) of blanks (default is 8) dummy arg displays a help screen. ______________________________________________________________________________ split ______________________________________________________________________________ Usage: split infile file1 file2 length [factor] copies infile to file1 from 0 to length - 1 to file2 from length to end of infile If factor is present, length is multiplicated by factor, allowing a record * length definition. One of file1 or file2 may be the NUL device. ______________________________________________________________________________ strip ______________________________________________________________________________ Usage: strip [-d] file_name [>output] Strips off control characters and escape sequences. Virtually all IBM PROPRINTER sequences are recognized. With -d flag, replaces formfeed by new line. ______________________________________________________________________________ touch ______________________________________________________________________________ Syntax: touch [-dMM/JJ/AA] [-hHH:MM:SS] file ... changes date and time of designated files. Without flags, uses the system date and time. Flags: -d uses specified date -h uses specified time ______________________________________________________________________________ tstarg ______________________________________________________________________________ Usage: tstarg %1 %2 %3 ... Counts args and returns their numbers. Example: @tstarg %1 %2 %3 %4 @if error_level 4 ... @if error_level 3 ... .... ______________________________________________________________________________ tstempty ______________________________________________________________________________ Usage: tstempty file_name Example: @tstempty \dir1\file1 @if errorlevel 2 ... @if errorlevel 1 ... tstempty returns: 2 if file_name is empty 1 if file_name does not exist 0 otherwise ______________________________________________________________________________ ucopy ______________________________________________________________________________ Usage: ucopy file_name record_length drive: Example: ucopy manual 512 a: Copies big files to several removable disks. (copy back from ucopy disks can be made with 'copy ' for the first and 'concat' for the others). During copying, ucopy totaly deletes destination disk. (the last ucopy disk should not be used for another ucopy) Ucopy labels disks ucopy_001 etc. Record_length is used to round up each disk to a integer number of records. Ucopy checks record_length for consistency and stops if there is an error. However, if record_length is 512, no check is made. Use 512 to copy files with no fixed record definition. ______________________________________________________________________________ where ______________________________________________________________________________ Usage: where filespec Looks for specified files (wildcards allowed) in the current directory and its subdirectories. ______________________________________________________________________________ xdate ______________________________________________________________________________ Usage: xdate Shows the numerical parameters of a date (between 1/1/1901 and 6/3/2080): ┌──date──┬─D/P─┬lpy┬─────────┬wk─┬D/Y┬─last Y─┬─last M─┬─this M─┐ │03 16 92│33313│0 │Monday │11 │76 │ 33237│ 33297│ 33328│ └────────┴─────┴───┴─────────┴───┴───┴───end──┴───end──┴───end──┘ and a command bar ┌─────────────────────────┐ │ Date Period day End │ └─────────────────────────┘ to select another date or another day-of-the-period. ______________________________________________________________________________ xdel ______________________________________________________________________________ Usage: xdel [-q -r -d] file ... deletes specified files in the current directory after a Yes/No prompt. Flags: -q requests global confirmation once, instead of individual prompts. -r recursively deletes files in the subdirectories. -d removes subdirectories if empty. ______________________________________________________________________________ xfind ______________________________________________________________________________ Usage: xfind filespec [anywhere] Finds all specified files (wildcards allowed) in the current directory and its sub-directories. With the 'anywhere' clause, searchs the entire disk. If no wildcard has been used, indicates the most recent version and prompts to update others, one at a time. If no wildcard has been used and two or more files are identical, prompts to delete all but one, one at a time. ______________________________________________________________________________ xprint ______________________________________________________________________________ Usage: same as print ( >prn ) xprint takes care of presence or absence of IBM LAN and emit a simple print or a net print ... prn, as appropriate. ______________________________________________________________________________ xprompt ______________________________________________________________________________ Usage: xprompt template_1 template_2 message Example: @xprompt black white "Is your car black or white ? " @if errorlevel 1 .... Displays the message and waits for key entry, which must be one of the templates, upper or lower case. Returns 0 or 1 accordingly. ______________________________________________________________________________