Free Software for DOS

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[ A-Virus Utils ] [ Archive Utils ] [ Batch Utils ]
[ Boot Utils ] [ Calculators, Stats ] [ Calendar, Clock, PIM ]
[ Communication ] [ Compression, Encoding, Encryption ]
[ Database, Genealogy, Spreadsheet ]
[ Directory Utils ] [ Disk Utils ]
[ File Finders, Identifiers ] [ File Management ]


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[ File Utilities (Special) ] [ Graphics Utilities ]
[ HTML Utilities ] [ Keyboard, Mouse Utils ]
[ Menu Utilities ] [ Misc. Utils ] [ Programming ]
[ Screen Utils ] [ Sound, CD Play ] [ Text Editors ]
[ Text View ] [ Text format, filter ]
[ Text Search and Replace ] [ Text Spellers, Dicts, etc ]
[ Text Misc. ] [ Win 3x/9x utils for DOS ]


ANTI VIRUS UTILITIES.

    1. F-Prot- Anti-virus scanner and disinfectant.
    2. AVPLite- Anti-virus scanner and disinfectant.
    3. NAVC- Norton command-line AV scanner.
    4. ADinf- Anti-viral, disk integrity checker.
    5. DISKSECURE- Protects basic disk files from Viruses.
    6. CHK-SAFE- Calculates MD5 hash values for files.
    7. CHKSUM- Calculates 32 bit CRC and 16 bit checksums.

ARCHIVE UTILITIES- 1 of 2.

    1. Aview (NCAV)- Multi-archive shell with pack, convert, unpack, file view functions.
    2. AinViewer- Multi-archive shell supports numerous archive formats. Unpack/ file view functions.
    3. RVS- Multi-archive shell with directory browser, unpack, and file view functions.
    4. LGFV- Small and fast multi-archive viewer; support for 80+ archives.
    5. ZIEW- Multi-archive viewer lists contents of two archives side by side.
    6. QAZ- Multi-archive viewer supports numerous formats.
    7. RV- Archive viewer can add/strip arc comments, reset arc dates, more.
    8. UU- Command line archive unpacker and identifier; Win9x LFN support.
    9. JUP- Command line archive identifier, file lister, unpacker.
    10. MUP- Command line archive identifier, lister and unpacker with easy configuration.
    11. FASTI- Easy ZIP, ARJ, LZH unpacker creates directories for contents of each archive.
    12. Shaid (Archid)- Command line archive identifier.
    13. IDArc- Identifies ~160 different archive formats; Win9x LFN support.
ARCHIVE UTILITIES- 2 of 2
    1. FACT- Command line archive format conversion utility.
    2. ARC2ARC- Convert among PKZIP LZH ARJ and RAR archives.
    3. FileID- Create description list of zip/arj/lha archives -with many options.
    4. CDesc- Creates BBS-style description list of archive/ image files.
    5. FiD- FILES.BBS creator with flexible formatting.
BATCH UTILITIES.
    1. ADVSET- SET enhancer.
    2. ASET- SET enhancer.
    3. STRINGS- SET enhancer.
    4. ERR2ENV- Set current errorlevel to an env. parameter.
    5. TESTIF- Test for system, disk, time, and file cond. in batch files.
    6. TEST- Test for file/directory status in batch files.
    7. INPUT- Get console input from within a batch file.
    8. XECHO- Echo replacement useful for batch generation and logfiles.
    9. SEND- ECHO enhancer.
    10. BATCHMAN- Multi-function batch program.
    11. HORST- Excellent batch utility collection.
    12. Batpower- Old but useful batch util collection (do, no, sweep, pushdir, popdir).
    13. FORTUNE- Enhanced FOR. Translate var. into drive, path, or filename root-ext-chars.
    14. BatLite- Batch file to COM converter.
    15. Bat2Exec- Batch file to COM converter.
    16. RAMBAT- Stores batch files in one file, use in RAM disk.
    17. FDATE (2)- Multi-purpose date manipulation/format utility for batch files.
    18. HoldIt- PAUSE replacement time-outs after specified time.
    19. Press- PAUSE substitute with OK button box, mouse support, time-out option.
    20. MPause- PAUSE replacement uses mouse or keys to answer prompt.
    21. SLEEP- Batch util sleeps until event occurrence.
    22. COUNTDN- Launch program after elapsed time -with keypress abort option.
    23. REXX (REGINA, BREXX)- Powerful alternative to DOS batch.
BOOT UTILITIES.
    1. SyMon- Small boot manager for multiple OS's.
    2. OSLoader- Boot manager; boots up to 32 operating systems.
    3. MWRLOAD- Boot loader runs up to 4 OS's on 1 PC.
    4. Autocon- Dos boot manager.
    5. ONBOOT- Run programs only during warm, cold, or daily boot.
    6. Reboot- Warm or cold boot PC, with cache flushing.
CALCULATORS, STATS.
    1. Addit- TSR addition-only calculator.
    2. ScrCalc- TSR calculator.
    3. 2Calc- TSR calc with tape and paste result.
    4. CALC (3)- Small programmer's TSR calculator.
    5. EE- Programmer's expression evaluator with TSR option.
    6. Math- Non-TSR, command-line calculator with memory registers.
    7. TCalc- Non-TSR, command-line calculator.
    8. EVAL- Advanced variable precision command-line calculator.
    9. Eval- Command line calculator.
    10. CALC387- Tiny 1K command line calculator (requires FPU).
    11. Fraction- Fraction calculator.
    12. CALC (2)- Simple full screen calculator with file logging.
    13. VpCalc- Expression calculator with many options.
    14. RPN30- Advanced scientific RPN calculator (HP-29c) with file logging.
    15. JKCalc- Full screen, advanced RPN calculator program is mouse and menu-driven.
    16. CONVERT (1)- Command line units conversion program.
    17. Convert (2)- Menu-driven units conversion program.
    18. UNIT- Full screen units converter supports over 900 conversions.
    19. NPS- Small mouse/menu driven non-parametric stats package.
    20. STATS- Basic statistical program.
    21. HISTO- Calculates descriptive statistics, generates histograms.
    22. SST- Parametric/ non-parametric stats program can output results/graphs to text file.
    23. ISU- Advanced statistical package.
    24. STATistics- User friendly, interactive statistics programs.
    25. T - Statistical tables program.
CALENDARS, CLOCKS, PIM.
    1. CAL(1)- Mouse compatible calendar with holidays.
    2. Calendar- 620 byte interactive calendar.
    3. Cal (2)- Displays months to standard output, with appointment notes.
    4. Cal (3)- Displays calendar to standard output
    5. CALPAGE - Displays boxed calendar to standard output.
    6. Journal- Appointment calendar and expense account program with TSR option.
    7. Schedule- Appointment calendar with TSR option.
    8. INTERMEM- Non-TSR event reminder and scheduler (VGA).
    9. Dates- Date reminder (non-tsr).
    10. DirTel- Address book can also save data to RTF and HTML formats.
    11. ShareCon- Phone number/ address manager for individual or group use.
    12. LPhone- Address and Phone database.
    13. Friends- Basic address book with phone dialing function.
    14. AutoChk- Checkbook program.
    15. CLOCK- Reliable memory resident, real time clock with alarms.
    16. CDAY- Calendar Almanac.
    17. Dtime- Simple time-date program (12 hour format).
    18. DateTime- Time-date program (24 hour format).
COMMUNICATION UTILITIES.
    1. QMODEM Test Drive- Excellent terminal program with script language, host mode.
    2. BananaCom- Easy to use terminal, z-modem transfers; now freeware.
    3. RBcomm- Small, memory efficient comm program with script support; uses external transfer protocols.
    4. Panther- Full featured terminal with script support.
    5. FreeComm- Full featured Delrina term with script support.
    6. Conex- Small terminal program with Zmodem-TCP/IP support.
    7. Cyclone- Comm program with VT100 emulation, script support, Zmodem.
    8. Texas Zmodem- A small terminal emulator with Zmodem file transfer support.
    9. COMTOOL- Tiny (3.6K) terminal program -no file transfer.
    10. NFX- Offline Qwk and Soup Mail Reader.
    11. SLMR- Offline Qwk Mail reader with mouse support.
    12. OLX21td- Offline Qwk Mail reader with mouse support.
    13. ReadMail- Offline multi-format message reader/ creator.
    14. PDZM- Public domain Zmodem protocol.
    15. CE-XYZ- File transfer protocol module (X, Y, Zmodem, and variants).
    16. ZEST- Zmodem protocol module for EGA/VGA displays.
    17. Renegade BBS- A free and relatively easy-to-use BBS.
    18. Maximus- Full-featured BBS; free for non-commercial use.
    19. Telegard- Full-featured BBS.
    20. Oblivion/2- BBS with powerful menuing system.
    21. Synchronet- Multi-node BBS.
    22. SERIAL- TSR serial port monitor, adjustable on-screen display.
COMPRESSION, ENCODING, ENCRYPTION UTILITIES.
    1. InfoZip- PKZip compatible archiver.
    2. UC2- Archiver compresses files tighter than PKZIP.
    3. X1 -Super tight file archiver can also compress to common archive formats.
    4. LHA- Archiver also creates freely distributable self extracting archives.
    5. LHARK- LHA variant, faster and tighter.
    6. UnRAR- Unpacks RAR-compressed archives.
    7. ARJ- Popular shareware archiver, free for private use only.
    8. SKY- Freeware archiver, auto disk spanning as with ARJ, good compression, sfx creation, single exe.
    9. ESP- Freeware archiver, small, fast, tight, sfx, file split and easy to handle.
    10. GZIP- port of Unix GZIP.
    11. TAR- Versatile TAR version supports both UNIX and DOS media.
    12. UNTAR- UNTAR handles Win9x LFN's.
    13. QFC- TAR-like util with v. small headers.
    14. ZOO- Old archiver for unpacking ZOO files.
    15. UPX- Tight and versatile DOS and Win32 exe compressor.
    16. 32LiTE- Tight and versatile 32-bit DOS exe compressor.
    17. aPACK- Super tight EXE and COM compressor.
    18. LzExe -Compresses many executables (*.exe) into smaller, functional programs.
    19. Diet -Compresses executables (including overlays) and com files.
    20. DJP- Compressor/ decompressor for 32-bit DJGPP EXE's.
    21. UNP -Unpacks compressed executables.
    22. CUP -Unpacks many compressed executables.
    23. ComToExe -Converts com files to exe.
    24. UUdeview- UUE, XX, Base 64 (MIME), encoder, decoder.
    25. Z-Crypt- Fast, small, "anonymous" file encryption program.
    26. Tiny IDEA- secure file encryptor and decryptor.
    27. TinyFish- 5K Blowfish file encryptor.
    28. Blowfish-CBC- Blowfish file encryptor.
    29. SNOW- Conceal text message in an ASCII file.
    30. KeyGen- Auto-generates multiple passphrases; saves to file; configurable.
DATABASE, GENEALOGY, AND SPREADSHEET.
    1. PC-File- Award-winning flat file database manager.
    2. Nanobase- xBASE, DBF compatible database.
    3. DataPerfect- Relational Database.
    4. DBM- Database for DOS.
    5. InMagic- Database program for textual information.
    6. Freebase- Simple database uses plain text files.
    7. Trilogy- Note retrieval system.
    8. DBV- dBASE (*.dbf) file viewer and editor.
    9. VFPVIEW- (V)FoxPro, DBF table viewer and editor, Win9x LFN's.
    10. Titanic- Rescue/ repair damaged DBF files.
    11. Convert- Convert among dBASE, delimited text, fixed text, Lotus 1-2-3 formats.
    12. dg -Search for complete records based on search phrase.
    13. Roots Master- Genealogy database with GEDCOM import/export.
    14. GEDView- GEDCOM file viewer.
    15. SC- Spreadsheet Calculator.
    16. Account Pro- Professional accounting program.
DIRECTORY UTILITIES- 1 of 2.
    1. ACD- Quickly change to any directory; Win9x ready.
    2. CCD- Enhanced directory changer and directory tool.
    3. WCD- Directory changer with regular expression searches, Win9x ready.
    4. CDX- Small, enhanced CHDIR doesn't use data file.
    5. DDIFF- (aka DIFF) Log changes in directory tree.
    6. DEDIT- Create and maintain 4DOS compatible file descriptions.
    7. Csap- Sorts directories and files on disk.
    8. XRD- Directory remover with enhanced wildcards.
    9. DELTREE- Enhanced DELTREE clone.
DIRECTORY UTILITIES- 2 of 2.
    1. WDIR- DIR clone with file type color-coding and archive/ image description capabilities.
    2. ADir- Hybrid DIR clone and file identifier.
    3. NewDIR- Colorized directory lister with configuration program; Win9x LFN support.
    4. XDIR- Color coded directory lister with multi-language support.
    5. DL- Scrolling directory lister. Unix ls-like output.
    6. IMD- Dir lister displays image properties, 4DOS descriptions, id's archives.
    7. LSD- (formerly LSR) Directory lister, file finder, and disk & system information tool.
    8. DDR- Versatile directory lister also finds files in archives.
    9. STREE- Enhanced TREE replacement.
    10. Space Map- Enhanced TREE replacement.
    11. Dirtotal- Document drive contents to report.
DISK UTILITIES- 1 of 2.
    1. 2M- Formats floppies to higher capacities.
    2. Fdformat- Format floppies to higher capacities.
    3. HD-COPY- Very fast diskette copier and formatter.
    4. D2D- Floppy copier uses conv, ems, (ram)disk and/or xms memory.
    5. IMG- Create/ restore floppy image, add-extract files to/ from image.
    6. QUIKCOPY- Copies floppies in one pass using extended memory.
    7. Floppy Tool Kit- Floppy drive analyzer, tuner, cleaner utilities.
    8. CD Navigator- Floppy, HD, and CD cataloger.
    9. Defrag- Defragments FAT-16 Disks.
    10. Disk OrGanizer- Defragments FAT-16 disks.
    11. IDEATA -Displays detailed IDE-ATA drive identity information.
    12. ATAHD- IDE-ATA drive identitifier and analyzer.
    13. ATAPICD -Displays detailed ATAPI CD-ROM drive identity information.
    14. JAM- Disk compression package.
    15. Partition Manager- Disk partition and boot manager, FAT16/32.
    16. PRESIZER- Non-destructively resize disk partitions, FAT16/32.
    17. FIPS- Non-destructive partition splitting program, FAT16/32.
    18. ZPart- compresses/ restores IDE disk partitions on multiple computers.
    19. TestDisk- Checks partition and boot sectors, recover lost partition.
    20. STBFP- Save and/or restore Boot Record, Partition Table, and FAT Table.
    21. PTS DiskEditor- Disk editor and viewer (FAT16/32 HD's).
    22. DiskEditor- Disk editor and viewer (FAT16).
    23. Zap-It- Hex and disk editor.
DISK UTILITIES- 2 of 2.
    1. CD Recording Utilities (Golden Hawk)
    2. CD-BENCH - Benchmark program for CD-ROM drives.
    3. XMSDSK & EMSDSK- RAM disk can be created, resized, destroyed from c-line.
    4. NTFSDOS- NTFS File System Driver for DOS/Windows.
    5. DFSee- Filesystem browser and analyser ([V]FAT[32], HPFS, NTFS).
    6. WIPEM- Enhanced disk shredder overwrites unused disk space, Win swap files.
    7. WipeFree- Wipe over free disk space (DOS and Win32 versions).
    8. SleepHDD- Power-saving hard disk spindown (sleep) tool.
FILE FINDERS AND IDENTIFIERS.
    1. Locate- Small, very fast file finder transcends DOS wildcard limitations.
    2. SNiF- Versatile file finder.
    3. XFF- File finder with enhanced wildcards and options to perform move, copy, del actions.
    4. FArc- System & archive file finder: 60+ archive formats, enhanced wildcards, Win9x LFN's.
    5. Archive Finder- Finds files in Arj, PkZip, Lha, and other archives.
    6. LGAFIND- Small fast file finder searches in arcs too; enhanced wildcards.
    7. SFF- File finder can also search in arcs (including RAR and EXE's).
    8. DDup- multi-drv dup file finder with delete/rename prompting.
    9. ShowDupe- Multi-drive duplicate file finder with compare, view, and delete options.
    10. Repeats- Find duplicate file names.
    11. Flarge- Find largest files on single drive.
    12. TODAY- Find files by date.
    13. Filex- File identification based on extensions.
    14. Analyzer- File identification based on signature.
    15. GetTyp- File identification based on signature.
    16. Typ- Full screen file identifier (reads file signatures).
FILE MANAGEMENT.
    1. DOS Controller (DC-SK)- FAST file manager/menu for DOS, Norton Commander clone.
    2. FW- (File Wizard) Feature-packed file manager with WIN9x support.
    3. DOS Navigator- Excellent multi-window file manager- now freeware.
    4. UFO- Norton Commander style file manager; Win9x support.
    5. Connect - ("IBM Handshaker") Integrated shell with impressive NC style file manager.
    6. HFM- Powerful file manager for DOS, with many features- now free.
    7. File Maven- File manager with PC-to-PC file transfer capabilities.
    8. Directory Freedom- Comprehensive directory utility/ file manager; Small, fast, configurable.
    9. Terminate Commander- Good file manager tuned for use with comm programs.
    10. Pinco's Commander- Dual pane file manager with fast XMS copy, RAR archive support.
    11. PC Valet- Small file manager with hex editor and more.
    12. Tutordo- Good file manager/shell with mouse support.
    13. PMS (2)- Small program launcher/ file manager with built-in editor.
    14. Tree86 Lite- Directory tree and file management utility.
    15. DirMatch- Compare directories with file actions.

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