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[ Database, Genealogy, and Spreadsheet ] [ Desktops and GUI's ]
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[ 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. MultiCopy & MultiMove- Copy (or Move) multiple specific or grouped files with one command.
  8. XXCOPY- Much enhanced and extended XCOPY clone (Win32 console and 16-bit DOS versions).
  9. XCLONE- Copy entire drive or directories; Win9x LFN compatible.
  10. DIRCOMP- Flexible directory synchronizer and copying tool.
  11. Zcopy- Enhanced file copy / move.
  12. Fill -Efficiently pack files onto floppy or other writable media.
  13. FFIT- Efficiently pack files onto floppy.
  14. JCOPY- Efficiently pack files (from single directory) onto floppy.
  15. Touch- (aka YATU) Enhanced file date and time modifier.
  16. ATTRIB- Enhanced ATTRIB replacement.
  17. Split- File Splitter with CRC checking and disk spanning options (rejoin with SPLIT or COPY).
  18. RZSPLIT- Easy-to-use file splitter with disk spanning capability.(rejoin with RZSPLIT)
  19. CHOP- File splitter; options to split text files at natural boundaries (rejoin with COPY).
  20. FCUT- Split files by size/parts (rejoin with COPY).

FILE UTILITIES- 2 of 2.

  1. TDEL- Sophisticated file deletion.
  2. DELEN-Enhanced delete with extended wildcards; Win9x LFN compatible.
  3. MultiDelete- 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 WIN swap file.
  6. Wipevk- Wipes files and scrambles deleted file names; Win9x LFN compatible.
  7. Real Delete- 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.
  11. DO- Small "all-in-one" batch utility for file management.
  12. DU- Comprehensive, multi-purpose c- line file management utility.
  13. Fileutils(GNU)- Collection of Unix file utilities for DOS (DJGPP, Win9x LFN compatible).
  14. LFN-Tools- DOS command suite displays Win9x long file names (LFN) under plain DOS (COPY, DIR, CD, DEL, REN, MD, RD...more).
  15. SYNCDIR- Synchronize source and target directories.
  16. MAKTST- Create dummy test files for program evaluation.

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- 256 color bitmap painting program.
  2. IMPROCES-256 color image processor and paint program.
  3. OGE- 256 color bitmap painting program.
  4. DESI-III- Professional 2D CAD system.
  5. bCAD- CAD program with 2D drafting and 3D modeling /rendering.
  6. POV-Ray- Professional ray tracing package.
  7. FractInt- Fractal generator.
  8. PaintPro- ANSI drawing application.
  9. CAMWORK- Download images from digital cameras.

HTML UTILITIES- 1 of 2.

  1. L_H- Customizable HTML and XML viewer.
  2. ViewHtml- View (text-mode) and navigate HTML documents offline.
  3. HLIST (2)- Offline HTML viewer and converter.
  4. Arachne- Graphical web browser for DOS supports EGA, VGA , SVGA .
  5. Bobcat- Text mode WWW browser can also function as offline HTML viewer.
  6. BOBCAT386- Bobcat-like DOSLynx web browser for 386+ PC's.
  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. Ishtar- HTML to RTF conversion.
  3. Dir2Web- Convert a directory list to HTML with local or remote links.
  4. BBS2HTML- Converts FILES.BBS list to HTML.
  5. DBF2HTML- Command line DBF to HTML Converter.
  6. TtH- TeX / LaTeX to HTML converter.
  7. HTML Tidy- Command line HTML validator and cleanup tool.
  8. htmlpp- Powerful HTML pre-processor; requires Perl.
  9. PPWIZARD- Multi-platform HTML pre-processor (requires REXX interpreter).
  10. ORB- HTML pre-processor for efficient management of multiple web pages.
  11. htp- HTML pre-processor allows efficient management of multiple web pages.
  12. StrpHTML- Cut out or keep sections of text in HTML document.
  13. TTM- Create background texture images for HTML pages.
  14. GIF-TOOLS- Create animated and transparent GIFs.
  15. HTML_Cal- Creates monthly HTML calendar with link-day-to-file option.
  16. CalHTML- Creates HTML calendar for any month.

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. Filec- Command line filename completion TSR; support for Win9x LFN's under Win9x.
  5. NEWCOM- Command line enhancer with many features.
  6. Key-Fake- Sends keystrokes to programs on startup.
  7. StuffIt- Enhanced keystroke stuffer utility.
  8. DDKEY- Good keystroke macro processor with on-the-fly key definition.
  9. Quickey- Keystroke macro processor with on-the-fly key definition..
  10. SCANCODE- Flexible TSR keyboard stuffer and key macros util.
  11. CuteMouse- Mouse driver uses less than 4K 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 menu items.
  7. PCMENU- Lean and clean menu with password protection.
  8. Menux- 15K, memory efficient menu with mouse support.
  9. Medley- 6K menu with easy configuration, submenu capability, more.
  10. Power Menu- Small keyboard-only menu uses little memory.
  11. WBAT- Versatile batch tool /menu with support for mouse, input fields, buttons, more.
  12. PMENUE- Batch-based menu with mouse support.
  13. RUN- Launch programs in directory using pop-up list.
  14. CHOOSE - Pick files from pop-up list to pass to command line programs.
  15. PICK- Pick files from pop-up list to pass to command line programs.
  16. EXEC- Run programs not in path.
  17. X- Run programs packed in ZIP file.

MISCELLANEOUS PROGS- 1 of 2.

  1. Hexv- small hex editor handles big files.
  2. HIEW- Hex editor for power users.
  3. BIEW- Hex Editor for power users.
  4. HexIt- Hex editor with macros; can insert and delete bytes.
  5. KZAP- Dual file hex editor and viewer with TSR option.
  6. Pygmy Linux- Small Linux distribution coexists in DOS/Win partition, easy install (UMSDOS).
  7. BasicLinux- A RAM disk Linux for older PC's; boot from DOS partition, floppy disks, or CDROM.
  8. DOSEMU- Provides DOS emulation under Linux.

MISCELLANEOUS PROGS- 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. UPCT- Ultra precision command timer.
  8. man- ("PCMan") Help-file/ manuals management system for DOS.
  9. MoonCalc- Lunar phase, position calculator with v. good graphics.
  10. Cache Control- Mouse compatible control center for MS-DOS SmartDrive.
  11. InkUtils - Valuable collection of DOS/ Win9x-ready utilities.
  12. UXUTL- Comprehensive collection of Unix utilities for DOS.
  13. BP7PAT- Patches Borland Pascal 7 compiled exes which generate runtime error 200 on fast PC's.
  14. CRTFIX- Patches BP7 EXE's generating RTE 200 on fast PC's; adapts to CPU freq.
  15. PROT 200- TSR runtime fix forBorland Pascal 7 compiled exes with runtime error 200 on fast PC's.
  16. TP7P5FIX- TSR runtime fix for Borland Pascal 7 compiled exes with runtime error 200 on fast PC's.
  17. HBREAK- TSR aids in escaping DOS programs, avoiding system crashes.
  18. LFNDOS- TSR provides Win9x Long Filename (LFN) API to DOS programs (under *plain* DOS).

PRINTING HELPERS. (not yet indexed- go to page)

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. Perl- High-level programming language popular for text/data processing, Web CGI development.
  11. 386SWAT- Protected mode debugger.

SCREEN UTILITIES.

  1. Mousebuf-Copy and paste screen text with mouse.
  2. MouseClip -Copy/ paste screen text; several marking modes, Win clip support
  3. xPCMOUSE-Copy and paste screen text with mouse, save to file, more.
  4. Dosclip-Copy and paste screen text with keys and copy to Win clipboard.
  5. Snipper -Copy and paste screen text with keys and can save to file.
  6. TextCap- TSR text mode screen capture utility.
  7. Capture- Capture text mode screens to file (non-TSR).
  8. Screen Thief- Captures Text, VGA+ screens to BMP, TIFF, PCX, TXT.
  9. VideoThief- Captures VGA, X-mode, SVGA screens.
  10. CtrlAlt- TSR that pops-up ASCII charts, Hex table, ANSI codes, mark/paste, more.
  11. VBHEZ- Set refresh rates for DOS programs that use VESA Video Modes.
  12. SS- Toggle between 25 and 50 (43 EGA) line modes.
  13. Text Mode- (TM) - provides control of various text screen settings.
  14. VMODE- Display or set the current video mode and/or screen rows.
  15. NNANSI- Fast ANSI.SYS driver replacement.
  16. Warp- Device driver speeds up standard output.
  17. ANSISET- Conveniently sets colors / reassign keys using ANSI driver.
  18. ForcExt- TSR forces extended text mode display (43, 50 lines).
  19. MONO- TSR forces B/W display of text mode screens.
  20. ASCIITab- TSR, mouse compatible ASCII chart.
  21. T-CHAR- Non-TSR ASCII chart.
  22. SIZEIT- TSR ruler with horizontal and vertical positioning.
  23. DimVESA- DPMS power-saving screen blanker.
  24. DpmSave- DPMS power-saving screen blanker.
  25. Blackout- Small TSR screen blanker allows background processes to continue.
  26. Metamorf- Screen saver displays rotating 3D objects.
  27. Acid Warp- Hallucinogenic patterncycler (usable as non-tsr scr. saver).
  28. Stary's Scr. Savers- 5 nice non-tsr screen savers.
  29. PERUSE- TSR allows scrolling of screen output.

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. DAMP- Command line MP3 player with music-synchronized graphical display.
  17. MPXPLAY- Audio Mpeg (MP3) and uncompressed Wav player, CD ripper.
  18. JUKEMP3- MP3 player with music speed/ direction controls and other effects.
  19. DOSamp- Play MPEG Layer 3 files (MP3).
  20. DOSAMPEX- Extender for DOSamp MP3 player.

SYSTEM UTILITIES

  1. NSSI- System information tool with excellent CPU identification capability.
  2. AIDA- System information and benchmarking program.
  3. ASQ- System analysis tool from QUALITAS (for older PC's)
  4. PC DIAGNOSTICS- Hardware diagnostics tool.
  5. Y2000- Test PC for Year 2000 compliance (Y2K).
  6. PCI- PCI bus information tool.
  7. Argus- DOS function tracer logs file access, other parameters (DOS only).
  8. KGB- DOS function tracer logs file access (DOS only).

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- MS-DOS EDIT-like editor with many added features, spell checker, thesaurus.
  4. VDE- Excellent 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. Nano- Open source, enhanced clone of Pico (Pine) text editor.
  9. EzEdit -Tiny text editor
  10. Terse -Tiny text editor
  11. E - Tiny, easy to use editor for word processing.
  12. SuperTed -A tiny text editor with word wrap, file import.
  13. SLED - Small text editor with big features.
  14. SHHED- Small text editor, limited mouse support, dir browser.
  15. Tiny Editor - Small (9K) customizable multi-file text editor.
  16. Tiny EMACS- 4K text editor w/ EMACS key bindings, macros, multi-undo.
  17. PcWord- Free word processor.

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. JASSPA MicroEmacs- EMACS style text editor, Win-friendly console interface.
  5. SETEdit- (Set's Editor) Multi-window programmer's editor; mouse support, pulldown menus, large files.
  6. JED- Programmer's editor; supports EMACS, BRIEF, Borland IDE, other modes.
  7. FTE- Versatile power editor with an easy to use interface.
  8. FED- Folding text editor with a friendly interface.
  9. TDE- Multi-window text editor.
  10. ZED- Highly configurable 32-bit text editor.
  11. Hessling Editor (THE)- xedit (VM/CMS) and kedit (DOS)-like editor with support for REXX command language macros.
  12. SEDT- Multi-platform text editor (emulates VAX EDT).
  13. AE- Assembly language editor.
  14. VBX- Full-screen, character mode box drawing program.

TEXT VIEWERS.

  1. LIST- Excellent text file viewer, Win9x LFN support.
  2. LESS- File pager / viewer and MORE replacement.
  3. ViewS- Text file viewer with automatic smooth scrolling.
  4. HighViewer- Norton-like text/HEX viewer with many features, HTML filter.
  5. READ- Another text file viewer.
  6. CVIEW- Fast scrolling text file viewer with dir browser.
  7. HLIST- Graphics mode text viewer can also read files in ZIP archives.
  8. DrLIST- Special LIST version for CTTY and ANSI files.
  9. PUFF- TSR text viewer and file manager.
  10. TFB- TSR text viewer.
  11. Peruse (2)- Text viewer with TSR option.
  12. PASVIEW- Text viewer with PASCAL syntax highlighting.
  13. CVIEW (2)- Text viewer with C/C++ syntax highlighting.
  14. QVIEW- Text viewer for programmers (Text/Hex/ASM).
  15. Browse- 1K ASCII file viewer and MORE substitute with mouse support.
  16. SHOW- 6K mouse-compatible ASCII text file viewer also handles piped input.
  17. FMORE- Fast MORE clone uses direct video output.
  18. View86- 9.4K text viewer with dual file display, no mouse support.
  19. XDOC- Converts text file to executable viewer.
  20. Vtxt2Exe- Converts text documents (<64K) into executable viewer.
  21. ReadMake- Converts text documents (any size) into executable viewer.
  22. DRC- Create menu-based viewer from text file.

TEXT UTILS: FORMATTERS, FILTERS- 1 of 2.

  1. LM- Power user text file formatter, search-replace, and more.
  2. AWK- Powerful text processor.
  3. FU- Multi-purpose text filter.
  4. Filter- Multi-purpose text filter can also remove ANSI sequences.
  5. TS Filters- Special purpose text filters.
  6. Txtutils (GNU)- Collection of Unix text utilities (DJGPP).
  7. Fixtext- Character translation, DOS/MAC/UNIX conversion, more.
  8. XLAT- Create custom character translation programs.
  9. CWATCH- TSR character translator with 4 built-in translation tables.
  10. Paginate- Format ASCII documents (tables/ headers/ footers/ indent/ wrap).
  11. RPSORT- Sorts large files extremely fast.
  12. PCSORT- Full screen text sort program supports block, word, and multi-line sorting.

TEXT UTILS: FORMATTERS, FILTERS- 2 of 2.

  1. RUM- Convert a file between UNIX and DOS text formats.
  2. FLIP- Convert file(s) between UNIX and DOS text formats.
  3. Remove- Remove carriage returns in ASCII documents.
  4. REMDUP0- Removes duplicate lines from a sorted file.
  5. UNIQ- Remove or display duplicate lines from sorted file.
  6. Just- ASCII text justifying filter.
  7. Justify- Flexible text justifying filter.
  8. Xray- Extract plain text from binary files.

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, DICTS, TEXT ANALYSIS.

  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. wc24- 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. (compare, etc.)

  1. Visual Compare- Feature-rich file comparer.
  2. @COMPARE- File comparer for large files.
  3. jDif- Fast file difference utility.
  4. diff- (Diffutils) 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. Xpdf- Toolkit for extracting text/information/images from Adobe PDF files.
  11. Acrobat- Acrobat Reader for DOS (old).

WIN 3X/9X UTILS FOR DOS.

  1. SmilerShell 3.1 and 95- A GUI command line for Win3.1 and Win9x.
  2. Imposter- DOS emulator for Win3.1
  3. Zoomshell- GUI command shell for Win9x.
  4. MCL- GUI command line for Win9x.
  5. EasyConsole- Simple Win9x GUI command line.
  6. Sched and Run- Run any Win3.1 app from DOS prompt under Windows.
  7. PFE- WIN text editor can capture DOS standard output.
  8. Dosbar-Add system menu toolbar to Windows DOS boxes.
  9. WOAFON- Additional fonts for Windows DOS boxes.
  10. NewDOS Fonts- Additional fonts for Windows DOS boxes.
  11. WCLIP- (DOS) Redirect text to Win3/9x clipboard from STDIN or from clipboard to STDOUT.
  12. ToClip- Manipulate the Win 3x or Win 9x clipboard from a DOS box.
  13. Drop to DOS- Adds "drop to dos" menu item to Win9x rght-click folder menus.

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