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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 ]


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


FILE UTILITIES- 1 of 2.

    1. ND- Flexible file rename with date or time, duplicate prevention.
    2. Fdate- Flexible file renamer using date.
    3. WMD2FN- Rename file to current date; customizable date formats.
    4. FRENUM- Rename series of files with sequential numbers, optional prefix string.
    5. Ren2Num- Rename file to number; sequential numbering based on existing file names.
    6. Swap- Swap file names of two files.
    7. Zcopy- Enhanced file copy / move.
    8. MCOPY & MMOVE- Copy (or Move) multiple specific or grouped files with one command.
    9. Fill -Efficiently pack files onto floppy or other writable media.
    10. FFIT- Efficiently pack files onto floppy.
    11. JCOPY- Efficiently pack files (from single directory) onto floppy.
    12. Touch- (aka YATU) Enhanced file date and time modifier.
    13. ATTRIB- Enhanced ATTRIB replacement.
    14. DO- Small "all-in-one" batch utility for file management.
    15. DU- Comprehensive, multi-purpose c- line file management utility.
    16. Fileutils(GNU)- Collection of Unix file utilities for DOS (DJGPP).
    17. LFN-Tools- DOS command suite displays Win9x long file names under plain DOS (COPY, DIR, CD, DEL, REN , MD, RD...more).
    18. SYNCDIR- Synchronize source and target directories.
    19. MAKTST- Create dummy test files for program evaluation.
    20. FCUT- Split files by size/parts; rejoin with COPY /B.

FILE UTILITIES- 2 of 2.

    1. TDEL- Sophisticated file deletion.
    2. DELEN-Enhanced delete with extended wildcards.
    3. MDEL- Delete multiple specific or grouped files with one command. Exclusion supported.
    4. WIPEUTIL- Collection of secure file and disk wiping programs.
    5. Scorch- Effective file wiper also can wipe WIN31 swap file.
    6. Wipevk- Wipes files and scrambles deleted file names.
    7. RealDeal- TSR wipe-delete utility with many options.
    8. UnWanted- Delete temp, bak, zero-size files and directories. Configurable.
    9. ELIM- Delete files that DEL can't (contain illegal or space filename characters).
    10. RME - Delete files/directories that DEL can't.

GRAPHICS UTILITIES- 1 of 2.

    1. PictView- Multi-format image viewer and converter in a small package.
    2. LXPIC- Tiny JPG, BMP, GIF, and PCX viewer with big features.
    3. ShowJPG- fast and small command line JPEG-viewer.
    4. PixView- Fast, mouse driven JPEG, GIF, and BMP image viewer.
    5. LWhiz- command line image viewer for JPEG, GIF and other formats.
    6. Display- Image viewer and converter.
    7. OMBRA- Fast 32-bit GIF, TGA, PCX, BMP, RAW image viewer...and more.
    8. QPNG/386- PNG and TGA image viewer.
    9. JPEG- Command line JPEG file converter/ manipulator.
    10. NCONVERT- Multi-format image converter/ viewer package.

GRAPHICS UTILITIES- 2 of 2.

    1. GRAFX- Bitmap painting program.
    2. IMPROCES-Image processor and paint program
    3. POV-Ray- Professional ray tracing package.
    4. FractInt- Fractal generator.
    5. PaintPro- ANSI drawing application.
    6. CAMWORK- Download images from digital cameras.

HTML UTILITIES- 1 of 2.

    1. ViewHtml- View (text-mode) and navigate HTML documents offline.
    2. HLIST (2)- Offline HTML viewer and converter.
    3. Arachne- Graphical browser for DOS supports EGA, VGA , SVGA .
    4. Bobcat- Text mode WWW browser can also function as offline HTML viewer.
    5. BOBCAT386- Bobcat-like DOSLynx web browser for 386+ PC's.
    6. NBMC -Convert Netscape 2.x+ bookmark file into nicely formatted html page.
    7. GPAGE- Generates formatted web page of your favorite sites from plain text file.
    8. IMGTAB -Catalogs images into a single HTML document for easy viewing.
    9. AUTOGIF- Catalogs Images to HTML with extra file information.
    10. GIFTAB- Catalogs images into single HTML page with "thumbnails."
    11. HTMLStrip- Intelligent conversion of HTML to plain text.
    12. Winent- Simple plain text to HTML converter.
    13. TXT2HTM- Simple plain text to HTML converter.

HTML UTILITIES- 2 of 2.

    1. Martha- RTF to HTML conversion.
    2. Dir2Web- Convert a directory list to HTML with local or remote links.
    3. BBS2HTML- Converts FILES.BBS list to HTML.
    4. DBF2HTML- Command line DBF to HTML Converter.
    5. TtH- TeX / LaTeX to HTML converter.
    6. CalHTML- Creates HTML calendar for any month.
    7. htmlpp- Powerful HTML pre-processor; requires Perl.
    8. Tidy- Command line HTML validator and cleanup tool.
    9. ORB- HTML pre-processor for efficient management of multiple web pages.
    10. htp- HTML pre-processor allows efficient management of multiple web pages.
    11. StrpHTML- Cut out or keep sections of text in HTML document.
    12. TTM- Create background texture images for HTML pages.
    13. GIF-TOOLS- Create animated and transparent GIFs.

KEYBOARD AND MOUSE UTILS.

    1. TODDY- Command line editor with file name completion, macros, history.
    2. CmdEdit- Command line editor with file name completion, command history, macros, Win9x LFN support.
    3. DosEd- Edit command line, command history, filename completion.
    4. NEWCOM- Command line enhancer with many features.
    5. Key-Fake- Sends keystrokes to programs on startup.
    6. StuffIt- Enhanced keystroke stuffer utility.
    7. Quickey- Keystroke macro processor.
    8. SCANCODE- Flexible TSR keyboard stuffer and key macros util.
    9. CTMOUSE- Mouse driver uses less than 7K memory.

MENUS AND PROGRAM EXECUTION AIDS.

    1. DougMenu- Rock-solid, mouse and keyboard-driven DOS command menu.
    2. MOO- Mouse compatible menu with auto configuration, network, and password features.
    3. DESKTOP2- GUI desktop shell with program and file managers, text editor, more.
    4. ACCESS- SVGA auto-configurable, category based menu system. (text mode version also available)
    5. RVMS- Simple, effective keyboard-only menu.
    6. AUMenu- Keyboard-only menu handles large number of menʦï ems.
    7. Menux- 15K, memory efficient menu with mouse support.
    8. Medley- 6K menu with easy configuration, submenu capability, more.
    9. Power Menu- Small keyboard-only menu uses little memory.
    10. WBAT- Versatile batch tool /menu with support for mouse, input fields, buttons, more.
    11. PMENUE- Batch-based menu with mouse support.
    12. RUN- Launch programs in directory using pop-up list.
    13. CHOOSE - Pick files from pop-up list to pass to command line programs.
    14. PICK- Pick files from pop-up list to pass to command line programs.
    15. EXEC- Run programs not in path.
    16. X- Run programs packed in ZIP file.

MISCELLANEOUS PROGS- 1 of 2.

    1. ASQ- System analysis tool from QUALITAS
    2. NSSI- System information tool with excellent CPU identification capability.
    3. PC DIAGNOSTICS- Hardware diagnostics tool.
    4. Y2000- Test PC for Year 2000 compliance (Y2K).
    5. Argus- DOS function tracer logs file access, other parameters (DOS only).
    6. KGB- DOS function tracer logs file access (DOS only).
    7. Hexv- small hex editor handles big files.
    8. HIEW- Hex editor for power users.
    9. HexIt- Hex editor with macros; can insert and delete bytes.
    10. KZAP- Dual file hex editor and viewer with TSR option.
    11. PYGMY LINUX- Small Linux distribution coexists in DOS/Win partition, easy install (UMSDOS).
    12. Dragon Linux- Small Linux distribution coexists in DOS/Win partition, easy install (UMSDOS).
    13. DosLinux- Small Linux distrib.; coexists in DOS partition; uses efficient virtual partition (ext2 filesystem).
    14. Cache Control- Mouse compatible control center for MS-DOS SmartDrive.
    15. InkUtils - Valuable collection of DOS/ Win9x-ready utilities.
    16. UXUTL- Comprehensive collection of Unix utilities for DOS.
    17. BP7PAT- Patches Borland Pascal 7 compiled exes which generate runtime error 200 on fast Pentiums.
    18. TP7P5FIX- TSR runtime fix for Borland Pascal 7 compiled exes with runtime error 200 on fast Pentiums.
    19. LFNDOS- TSR provides Win9x Long Filename (LFN) API to DOS programs

MISCELLANEOUS UTILS- 2 of 2.

    1. Linkln -Link executable files to file names in other directories.
    2. PRN2FILE- Redirects print jobs to a disk file.
    3. Tee- Send program's output to both screen and file.
    4. TCAP- TSR logs console text input/ output to file.
    5. TSR Utilities (TSRCOM)- Remove memory resident programs that can't remove themselves.
    6. SLOWDOWN- Slows down PC to allow running of older programs.
    7. MakeLog- Create and maintain time-date logs for program usage.
    8. UPCT- Ultra precision command timer.
    9. man- ("PCMan") Helpfile system for DOS.

PROGRAMMING.

    1. NASM- Netwide Assembler.
    2. ALINK- Linker for the DOS/Win32 environment.
    3. DJGPP- 32-bit C/C++ development system for Intel 80386 (and higher) PCs running DOS.
    4. RHIDE- Borland-like IDE w/ built-in debugger and editor (SETEdit).
    5. Turbo C (Borland)- versions 1, 1.5, 2.01.
    6. Pacific C- C compiler with IDE.
    7. Free Pascal- (aka FPK Pascal) 32-bit PASCAL compiler.
    8. Turbo Pascal (Borland)- versions 1, 3.02, and 5.5.
    9. Pascal Pro- 32-bit Pascal compiler.
    10. P32- 32-bit Pascal compiler for DOS, Win32.
    11. Perl- High-level programming language popular for text/data processing, Web CGI development.
    12. 386SWAT- Protected mode debugger.

SCREEN UTILITIES.

    1. PERUSE- TSR allows scrolling of screen output.
    2. VMODE- Display or set the current video mode and/or screen rows.
    3. NNANSI- Fast ANSI.SYS driver replacement.
    4. Warp- Device driver speeds up standard output.
    5. ForcExt- TSR forces extended text mode display (43, 50 lines).
    6. MONO- TSR forces B/W display of text mode screens.
    7. Mousebuf-Copy and paste screen text with mouse.
    8. Xpcmouse-Copy and paste screen text with mouse and can save to file.
    9. Dosclip-Copy and paste screen text with keys and copy to Win clipboard.
    10. Snipper -Copy and paste screen text with keys and can save to file.
    11. TextCap- TSR text mode screen capture utility.
    12. Capture- Capture text mode screens to file (non-TSR).
    13. Screen Thief- Captures Text, VGA+ screens to BMP, TIFF, PCX, TXT.
    14. VideoThief- Captures VGA, X-mode, SVGA screens.
    15. CtrlAlt- TSR that pops-up ASCII charts, Hex table, ANSI codes, mark/paste, more.
    16. ASCIITab- TSR, mouse compatible ASCII chart.
    17. T-CHAR- Non-TSR ASCII chart.
    18. SIZEIT- TSR ruler with horizontal and vertical positioning.
    19. DimVESA- DPMS power-saving screen blanker.
    20. DpmSave- DPMS power-saving screen blanker.
    21. Blackout- Small TSR screen blanker allows background processes to continue.
    22. Metamorf- Screen saver displays rotating 3D objects.
    23. Acid Warp- Hallucinogenic patterncycler (usable as non-tsr scr. saver).
    24. Stary's Scr. Savers- 5 nice non-tsr screen savers.

SOUND UTILITIES.

    1. ACP- Programmable text mode audio CD player.
    2. CD-V- Programmable, VGA CD player.
    3. SJGPlay- Audio CD player with cataloging and lyric features.
    4. CDPLAYER- Non-TSR, command line CD player.
    5. CDPTSR- Memory efficient TSR CD player with pop-up status line.
    6. SBPlay- SND, VOC, WAV, AIF, IFF, RAW sound files player.
    7. LxVox- Tiny WAV file player (8-bit mono)- no sound card required.
    8. XTCPlay- Multi-format sound file player (requires sound card).
    9. Megamid- Full-featured DOS MIDI Player.
    10. MIDIplay- Play MIDI files through PC speaker.
    11. Midget- Easy to use MIDI composer.
    12. Cubic Player- MOD player (requires soundcard)
    13. IPLAY- MOD player doesn't require sound card.
    14. MMP- SVGA MOD player.
    15. OPLAY- SVGA 4 channel-only MOD player; sound card not required.
    16. DOSamp- Play MPEG Layer 3 files (MP3).
    17. DOSAMPEX- Extender for DOSamp MP3 player.
    18. MPXPLAY- Audio Mpeg (MP3) and uncompressed Wav player, CD ripper.

TEXT EDITORS- 1 of 2.

    1. NE- Editor with multiple windows, spell checker.
    2. EditV- Multiple window text editor with mouse support, smaller files.
    3. Pedit- EDIT-like editor with many added features, spell checker, thesaurus.
    4. VDE- Text editor designed for word processing.
    5. Multi-Edit Lite- Multi-window editor. Mouse/menu driven. Large files.
    6. IE- Mouse/ menu driven editor handles large files.
    7. Pico- Pine text editor for DOS.
    8. EzEdit -Tiny text editor
    9. Terse -Tiny text editor
    10. E - Tiny, easy to use editor for word processing.
    11. SuperTed -A tiny text editor with word wrap, file import.
    12. SLED - Small text editor with big features.
    13. SHHED- Small text editor, limited mouse support, dir browser.
    14. Tiny Editor - Small (9K) customizable multi-file text editor.
    15. Tiny EMACS- 4K text editor w/ EMACS key bindings, macros, multi-undo.

TEXT EDITORS- 2 of 2.

    1. Vim- Excellent Vi-like text editor for power users.
    2. Elvis- Excellent Vi-like text editor for power users.
    3. EMACS- EMACS style text editors.
    4. SETEdit- (Set's Editor) Multi-window programmer's editor; mouse support, pulldown menus, large files.
    5. JED- Programmer's editor; supports EMACS, BRIEF, Borland IDE, other modes.
    6. FTE- Versatile power editor with an easy to use interface.
    7. FED- Folding text editor with a friendly interface.
    8. TDE- Multi-window text editor.
    9. Hessling Editor (THE)- xedit (VM/CMS) and kedit (DOS)-like editor with support for REXX command language macros.
    10. ZED- Highly configurable 32-bit text editor.
    11. VBX- Full-screen, character mode box drawing program.

TEXT VIEWERS.

    1. LIST- Excellent text file viewer.
    2. LESS- File pager / viewer and MORE replacement.
    3. ViewS- Text file viewer with automatic smooth scrolling.
    4. READ- Another text file viewer.
    5. CVIEW- Fast scrolling text file viewer with dir browser.
    6. HLIST- Graphics mode text viewer can also read files in ZIP archives.
    7. DrLIST- Special LIST version for CTTY and ANSI files.
    8. Peruse (2)- Text viewer with TSR option.
    9. PASVIEW- Text viewer with PASCAL syntax highlighting.
    10. CVIEW (2)- Text viewer with C/C++ syntax highlighting.
    11. QVIEW- Text viewer for programmers (Text/Hex/ASM).
    12. Browse- Tiny text file viewer and MORE substitute with mouse support.
    13. FMORE- Fast MORE clone uses direct video output.
    14. View86- 9.4K text viewer with dual file display, no mouse support.
    15. XDOC- Converts text file to executable viewer.
    16. Vtxt2Exe- Converts text documents (<64K) into executable viewer.
    17. ReadMake- Converts text documents (any size) into executable viewer.
    18. DRC- Create menu-based viewer from text file.

TEXT UTILS: FORMATTERS, FILTERS- 1 of 2.

TEXT UTILS: FORMATTERS, FILTERS- 2 of 2.

TEXT UTILS: SEARCH AND REPLACE.

    1. MiniTrue- Search/replace text across multiple files, regular expression support.
    2. TexRep- Easy, multi-string text search and replace tool.
    3. Alter- Small and fast global search and replace tool.
    4. GSAR- Multi-file search and replace.
    5. Change- Contextual search and replace tool.
    6. sed - Text search & replace (and more) using regular expressions.
    7. U-SEDIT- sed text processing tool with good documentation.
    8. Fgrep386- Finds files with given text.
    9. Xgrep- Tiny text finder with regular expression support.
    10. grep, fgrep, egrep- Search for text; basic and extended regular expression support.
    11. AGREP- Fast GREP-like util with approximate pattern matching capability.
    12. TSP- Interactive text search program.
    13. YANK- Replace or delete entire lines in text file(s) containing search string.
    14. KLINE- Delete all lines in text file(s) containing search phrase.

TEXT UTILS: SPELLERS, DICT, ENCYL., WORD COUNT.

    1. TI- ("Text Information") Comprehensive text file statistics generator.
    2. WCNT- Count and analyze words in plain or html text documents.
    3. WC- Simple word count program.
    4. WC22- Word counter also counts sentences, calculates "readability index."
    5. JSPELL- Excellent interactive spell checker (English dictionary).
    6. SpellTest- Spell checker for plain or html text; interactive or file report.
    7. GDSpell- Easy to use stand-alone spell checker can handle big files (English dictionary).
    8. ISPELL- Interactive spell checker.
    9. Tschek- Spell checker outputs list of all misspelled words to screen or file (English dictionary).
    10. Words- ASCII English word list also functions as dictionary for some spellers.
    11. Jorj- "Small" dictionary for DOS.
    12. Penc- Text-only encyclopedia.

TEXT UTILS: MISC.

    1. Visual Compare- Feature-rich file comparer.
    2. @COMPARE- File comparer for large files.
    3. jDif- Fast file difference utility.
    4. diff- Unix-ish file difference package.
    5. FINTRSCT - Compare 2 files; outputs shared/ unique lines to 3 report files.
    6. catdoc- Convert MS Word files to plain text (or other user-customized output formats).
    7. HelpDC- Convert Win3/95 HLP files to RTF format.
    8. PSX- convert postscript documents to plain text.
    9. Text2PDF- Convert text files to PDF.
    10. Acrobat Reader for DOS- AcroDos may print better than the Win version.

WIN 3X/9X UTILS FOR DOS.

    1. SmilerShell Lite- A simple DOS command line for Win3.1
    2. Imposter- DOS emulator for Win3.1
    3. Zoomshell- GUI command shell for Win9x.
    4. Sched and Run- Run any Win3.1 app from DOS prompt under Windows.
    5. PFE- WIN text editor can capture DOS standard output.
    6. Dosbar-Add system menu toolbar to Windows DOS boxes.
    7. WOAFON- Additional fonts for Windows DOS boxes.
    8. WCLIP- (DOS) Redirect text to Win3/9x clipboard from STDIN or from clipboard to STDOUT.


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