Free Software for DOS
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FILE UTILITIES to WINDOWS RELATED
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[ Batch Utils ] [ Boot Utils ][ Calculators, Stats, Math ]
[ Calendar, Clock, PIM ] [ Communication ] [ Encrypt, Encode ]
[ Database, Genealogy, and Spreadsheet ] [ Desktops and GUI's ]
[ Directory Utils ] [ Disk Utilities ]
[ File Finders, Identifiers ] [ File Management ]
FILE UTILITIES- 1 of 2.
- ND- Flexible file rename with date or time, duplicate prevention.
- Fdate- Flexible file renamer using date.
- WMD2FN- Rename file to current date; customizable date formats.
- FRENUM- Rename series of files with sequential numbers, optional prefix string.
- Ren2Num- Rename file to number; sequential numbering based on existing file names.
- Swap- Swap file names of two files.
- MultiCopy & MultiMove- Copy (or Move) multiple specific or grouped files with one command.
- XXCOPY- Much enhanced and extended XCOPY clone (Win32 console and 16-bit DOS versions).
- XCLONE- Copy entire drive or directories; Win9x LFN compatible.
- DIRCOMP- Flexible directory synchronizer and copying tool.
- Zcopy- Enhanced file copy / move.
- Fill -Efficiently pack files onto floppy or other writable media.
- FFIT- Efficiently pack files onto floppy.
- JCOPY- Efficiently pack files (from single directory) onto floppy.
- Touch- (aka YATU) Enhanced file date and time modifier.
- ATTRIB- Enhanced ATTRIB replacement.
- Split- File Splitter with CRC checking and disk spanning options (rejoin with SPLIT or COPY).
- RZSPLIT- Easy-to-use file splitter with disk spanning capability.(rejoin with RZSPLIT)
- CHOP- File splitter; options to split text files at natural boundaries (rejoin with COPY).
- FCUT- Split files by size/parts (rejoin with COPY).
FILE UTILITIES- 2 of 2.
- TDEL- Sophisticated file deletion.
- DELEN-Enhanced delete with extended wildcards; Win9x LFN compatible.
- MultiDelete- Delete multiple specific or grouped files with one command. Exclusion supported.
- WIPEUTIL- Collection of secure file and disk wiping programs.
- Scorch- Effective file wiper also can wipe WIN swap file.
- Wipevk- Wipes files and scrambles deleted file names; Win9x LFN compatible.
- Real Delete- TSR wipe-delete utility with many options.
- UnWanted- Delete temp, bak, zero-size files and directories. Configurable.
- ELIM- Delete files that DEL can't (contain illegal or space filename characters).
- RME - Delete files/directories that DEL can't.
- DO- Small "all-in-one" batch utility for file management.
- DU- Comprehensive, multi-purpose c- line file management utility.
- Fileutils(GNU)- Collection of Unix file utilities for DOS (DJGPP, Win9x LFN compatible).
- LFN-Tools- DOS command suite displays Win9x long file names (LFN) under plain DOS (COPY, DIR, CD, DEL, REN, MD, RD...more).
- SYNCDIR- Synchronize source and target directories.
- MAKTST- Create dummy test files for program evaluation.
GRAPHICS UTILITIES- 1 of 2.
- PictView- Multi-format image viewer and converter in a small package.
- LXPIC- Tiny JPG, BMP, GIF, and PCX viewer with big features.
- ShowJPG- fast and small command line JPEG-viewer.
- PixView- Fast, mouse driven JPEG, GIF, and BMP image viewer.
- LWhiz- command line image viewer for JPEG, GIF and other formats.
- Display- Image viewer and converter.
- OMBRA- Fast 32-bit GIF, TGA, PCX, BMP, RAW image viewer...and more.
- QPNG/386- PNG and TGA image viewer.
- JPEG- Command line JPEG file converter/ manipulator.
- NCONVERT- Multi-format image converter/ viewer package.
GRAPHICS UTILITIES- 2 of 2.
- GRAFX- 256 color bitmap painting program.
- IMPROCES-256 color image processor and paint program.
- OGE- 256 color bitmap painting program.
- DESI-III- Professional 2D CAD system.
- bCAD- CAD program with 2D drafting and 3D modeling /rendering.
- POV-Ray- Professional ray tracing package.
- FractInt- Fractal generator.
- PaintPro- ANSI drawing application.
- CAMWORK- Download images from digital cameras.
HTML UTILITIES- 1 of 2.
- L_H- Customizable HTML and XML viewer.
- ViewHtml- View (text-mode) and navigate HTML documents offline.
- HLIST (2)- Offline HTML viewer and converter.
- Arachne- Graphical web browser for DOS supports EGA, VGA , SVGA .
- Bobcat- Text mode WWW browser can also function as offline HTML viewer.
- BOBCAT386- Bobcat-like DOSLynx web browser for 386+ PC's.
- GPAGE- Generates formatted web page of your favorite sites from plain text file.
- IMGTAB -Catalogs images into a single HTML document for easy viewing.
- AUTOGIF- Catalogs Images to HTML with extra file information.
- GIFTAB- Catalogs images into single HTML page with "thumbnails."
- HTMLStrip- Intelligent conversion of HTML to plain text.
- Winent- Simple plain text to HTML converter.
- TXT2HTM- Simple plain text to HTML converter.
HTML UTILITIES- 2 of 2.
- Martha- RTF to HTML conversion.
- Ishtar- HTML to RTF conversion.
- Dir2Web- Convert a directory list to HTML with local or remote links.
- BBS2HTML- Converts FILES.BBS list to HTML.
- DBF2HTML- Command line DBF to HTML Converter.
- TtH- TeX / LaTeX to HTML converter.
- HTML Tidy- Command line HTML validator and cleanup tool.
- htmlpp- Powerful HTML pre-processor; requires Perl.
- PPWIZARD- Multi-platform HTML pre-processor (requires REXX interpreter).
- ORB- HTML pre-processor for efficient management of multiple web pages.
- htp- HTML pre-processor allows efficient management of multiple web pages.
- StrpHTML- Cut out or keep sections of text in HTML document.
- TTM- Create background texture images for HTML pages.
- GIF-TOOLS- Create animated and transparent GIFs.
- HTML_Cal- Creates monthly HTML calendar with link-day-to-file option.
- CalHTML- Creates HTML calendar for any month.
KEYBOARD AND MOUSE UTILS.
- TODDY- Command line editor with file name completion, macros, history.
- CmdEdit- Command line editor with file name completion, command history, macros, Win9x LFN support.
- DosEd- Edit command line, command history, filename completion.
- Filec- Command line filename completion TSR; support for Win9x LFN's under Win9x.
- NEWCOM- Command line enhancer with many features.
- Key-Fake- Sends keystrokes to programs on startup.
- StuffIt- Enhanced keystroke stuffer utility.
- DDKEY- Good keystroke macro processor with on-the-fly key definition.
- Quickey- Keystroke macro processor with on-the-fly key definition..
- SCANCODE- Flexible TSR keyboard stuffer and key macros util.
- CuteMouse- Mouse driver uses less than 4K memory.
MENUS AND PROGRAM EXECUTION AIDS.
- DougMenu- Rock-solid, mouse and keyboard-driven DOS command menu.
- MOO- Mouse compatible menu with auto configuration, network, and password features.
- DESKTOP2- GUI desktop shell with program and file managers, text editor, more.
- ACCESS- SVGA auto-configurable, category based menu system. (text mode version also available)
- RVMS- Simple, effective keyboard-only menu.
- AUMenu- Keyboard-only menu handles large number of menu items.
- PCMENU- Lean and clean menu with password protection.
- Menux- 15K, memory efficient menu with mouse support.
- Medley- 6K menu with easy configuration, submenu capability, more.
- Power Menu- Small keyboard-only menu uses little memory.
- WBAT- Versatile batch tool /menu with support for mouse, input fields, buttons, more.
- PMENUE- Batch-based menu with mouse support.
- RUN- Launch programs in directory using pop-up list.
- CHOOSE - Pick files from pop-up list to pass to command line programs.
- PICK- Pick files from pop-up list to pass to command line programs.
- EXEC- Run programs not in path.
- X- Run programs packed in ZIP file.
MISCELLANEOUS PROGS- 1 of 2.
- Hexv- small hex editor handles big files.
- HIEW- Hex editor for power users.
- BIEW- Hex Editor for power users.
- HexIt- Hex editor with macros; can insert and delete bytes.
- KZAP- Dual file hex editor and viewer with TSR option.
- Pygmy Linux- Small Linux distribution coexists in DOS/Win partition, easy install (UMSDOS).
- BasicLinux- A RAM disk Linux for older PC's; boot from DOS partition, floppy disks, or CDROM.
- DOSEMU- Provides DOS emulation under Linux.
MISCELLANEOUS PROGS- 2 of 2.
- Linkln- Link executable files to file names in other directories.
- PRN2FILE- Redirects print jobs to a disk file.
- Tee- Send program's output to both screen and file.
- TCAP- TSR logs console text input/ output to file.
- TSR Utilities (TSRCOM)- Remove memory resident programs that can't remove themselves.
- SLOWDOWN- Slows down PC to allow running of older programs.
- UPCT- Ultra precision command timer.
- man- ("PCMan") Help-file/ manuals management system for DOS.
- MoonCalc- Lunar phase, position calculator with v. good graphics.
- Cache Control- Mouse compatible control center for MS-DOS SmartDrive.
- InkUtils - Valuable collection of DOS/ Win9x-ready utilities.
- UXUTL- Comprehensive collection of Unix utilities for DOS.
- BP7PAT- Patches Borland Pascal 7 compiled exes which generate runtime error 200 on fast PC's.
- CRTFIX- Patches BP7 EXE's generating RTE 200 on fast PC's; adapts to CPU freq.
- PROT 200- TSR runtime fix forBorland Pascal 7 compiled exes with runtime error 200 on fast PC's.
- TP7P5FIX- TSR runtime fix for Borland Pascal 7 compiled exes with runtime error 200 on fast PC's.
- HBREAK- TSR aids in escaping DOS programs, avoiding system crashes.
- LFNDOS- TSR provides Win9x Long Filename (LFN) API to DOS programs (under *plain* DOS).
PRINTING HELPERS. (not yet indexed- go to page)
PROGRAMMING.
- NASM- Netwide Assembler.
- ALINK- Linker for the DOS/Win32 environment.
- DJGPP- 32-bit C/C++ development system for Intel 80386 (and higher) PCs running DOS.
- RHIDE- Borland-like IDE w/ built-in debugger and editor (SETEdit).
- Turbo C (Borland)- versions 1, 1.5, 2.01.
- Pacific C- C compiler with IDE.
- Free Pascal- (aka FPK Pascal) 32-bit PASCAL compiler.
- Turbo Pascal (Borland)- versions 1, 3.02, and 5.5.
- Pascal Pro- 32-bit Pascal compiler.
- Perl- High-level programming language popular for text/data processing, Web CGI development.
- 386SWAT- Protected mode debugger.
SCREEN UTILITIES.
- Mousebuf-Copy and paste screen text with mouse.
- MouseClip -Copy/ paste screen text; several marking modes, Win clip support
- xPCMOUSE-Copy and paste screen text with mouse, save to file, more.
- Dosclip-Copy and paste screen text with keys and copy to Win clipboard.
- Snipper -Copy and paste screen text with keys and can save to file.
- TextCap- TSR text mode screen capture utility.
- Capture- Capture text mode screens to file (non-TSR).
- Screen Thief- Captures Text, VGA+ screens to BMP, TIFF, PCX, TXT.
- VideoThief- Captures VGA, X-mode, SVGA screens.
- CtrlAlt- TSR that pops-up ASCII charts, Hex table, ANSI codes, mark/paste, more.
- VBHEZ- Set refresh rates for DOS programs that use VESA Video Modes.
- SS- Toggle between 25 and 50 (43 EGA) line modes.
- Text Mode- (TM) - provides control of various text screen settings.
- VMODE- Display or set the current video mode and/or screen rows.
- NNANSI- Fast ANSI.SYS driver replacement.
- Warp- Device driver speeds up standard output.
- ANSISET- Conveniently sets colors / reassign keys using ANSI driver.
- ForcExt- TSR forces extended text mode display (43, 50 lines).
- MONO- TSR forces B/W display of text mode screens.
- ASCIITab- TSR, mouse compatible ASCII chart.
- T-CHAR- Non-TSR ASCII chart.
- SIZEIT- TSR ruler with horizontal and vertical positioning.
- DimVESA- DPMS power-saving screen blanker.
- DpmSave- DPMS power-saving screen blanker.
- Blackout- Small TSR screen blanker allows background processes to continue.
- Metamorf- Screen saver displays rotating 3D objects.
- Acid Warp- Hallucinogenic patterncycler (usable as non-tsr scr. saver).
- Stary's Scr. Savers- 5 nice non-tsr screen savers.
- PERUSE- TSR allows scrolling of screen output.
SOUND UTILITIES.
- ACP- Programmable text mode audio CD player.
- CD-V- Programmable, VGA CD player.
- SJGPlay- Audio CD player with cataloging and lyric features.
- CDPLAYER- Non-TSR, command line CD player.
- CDPTSR- Memory efficient TSR CD player with pop-up status line.
- SBPlay- SND, VOC, WAV, AIF, IFF, RAW sound files player.
- LxVox- Tiny WAV file player (8-bit mono)- no sound card required.
- XTCPlay- Multi-format sound file player (requires sound card).
- Megamid- Full-featured DOS MIDI Player.
- MIDIplay- Play MIDI files through PC speaker.
- Midget- Easy to use MIDI composer.
- Cubic Player- MOD player (requires soundcard)
- IPLAY- MOD player doesn't require sound card.
- MMP- SVGA MOD player.
- OPLAY- SVGA 4 channel-only MOD player; sound card not required.
- DAMP- Command line MP3 player with music-synchronized graphical display.
- MPXPLAY- Audio Mpeg (MP3) and uncompressed Wav player, CD ripper.
- JUKEMP3- MP3 player with music speed/ direction controls and other effects.
- DOSamp- Play MPEG Layer 3 files (MP3).
- DOSAMPEX- Extender for DOSamp MP3 player.
SYSTEM UTILITIES
- NSSI- System information tool with excellent CPU identification capability.
- AIDA- System information and benchmarking program.
- ASQ- System analysis tool from QUALITAS (for older PC's)
- PC DIAGNOSTICS- Hardware diagnostics tool.
- Y2000- Test PC for Year 2000 compliance (Y2K).
- PCI- PCI bus information tool.
- Argus- DOS function tracer logs file access, other parameters (DOS only).
- KGB- DOS function tracer logs file access (DOS only).
TEXT EDITORS- 1 of 2.
- NE- Editor with multiple windows, spell checker.
- EditV- Multiple window text editor with mouse support, smaller files.
- Pedit- MS-DOS EDIT-like editor with many added features, spell checker, thesaurus.
- VDE- Excellent text editor designed for word processing.
- Multi-Edit Lite- Multi-window editor. Mouse/menu driven. Large files.
- IE- Mouse/ menu driven editor handles large files.
- Pico- Pine text editor for DOS.
- Nano- Open source, enhanced clone of Pico (Pine) text editor.
- EzEdit -Tiny text editor
- Terse -Tiny text editor
- E - Tiny, easy to use editor for word processing.
- SuperTed -A tiny text editor with word wrap, file import.
- SLED - Small text editor with big features.
- SHHED- Small text editor, limited mouse support, dir browser.
- Tiny Editor - Small (9K) customizable multi-file text editor.
- Tiny EMACS- 4K text editor w/ EMACS key bindings, macros, multi-undo.
- PcWord- Free word processor.
TEXT EDITORS- 2 of 2.
- Vim- Excellent Vi-like text editor for power users.
- Elvis- Excellent Vi-like text editor for power users.
- EMACS- EMACS style text editors.
- JASSPA MicroEmacs- EMACS style text editor, Win-friendly console interface.
- SETEdit- (Set's Editor) Multi-window programmer's editor; mouse support, pulldown menus, large files.
- JED- Programmer's editor; supports EMACS, BRIEF, Borland IDE, other modes.
- FTE- Versatile power editor with an easy to use interface.
- FED- Folding text editor with a friendly interface.
- TDE- Multi-window text editor.
- ZED- Highly configurable 32-bit text editor.
- Hessling Editor (THE)- xedit (VM/CMS) and kedit (DOS)-like editor with support for REXX command language macros.
- SEDT- Multi-platform text editor (emulates VAX EDT).
- AE- Assembly language editor.
- VBX- Full-screen, character mode box drawing program.
TEXT VIEWERS.
- LIST- Excellent text file viewer, Win9x LFN support.
- LESS- File pager / viewer and MORE replacement.
- ViewS- Text file viewer with automatic smooth scrolling.
- HighViewer- Norton-like text/HEX viewer with many features, HTML filter.
- READ- Another text file viewer.
- CVIEW- Fast scrolling text file viewer with dir browser.
- HLIST- Graphics mode text viewer can also read files in ZIP archives.
- DrLIST- Special LIST version for CTTY and ANSI files.
- PUFF- TSR text viewer and file manager.
- TFB- TSR text viewer.
- Peruse (2)- Text viewer with TSR option.
- PASVIEW- Text viewer with PASCAL syntax highlighting.
- CVIEW (2)- Text viewer with C/C++ syntax highlighting.
- QVIEW- Text viewer for programmers (Text/Hex/ASM).
- Browse- 1K ASCII file viewer and MORE substitute with mouse support.
- SHOW- 6K mouse-compatible ASCII text file viewer also handles piped input.
- FMORE- Fast MORE clone uses direct video output.
- View86- 9.4K text viewer with dual file display, no mouse support.
- XDOC- Converts text file to executable viewer.
- Vtxt2Exe- Converts text documents (<64K) into executable viewer.
- ReadMake- Converts text documents (any size) into executable viewer.
- DRC- Create menu-based viewer from text file.
TEXT UTILS: FORMATTERS, FILTERS- 1 of 2.
- LM- Power user text file formatter, search-replace, and more.
- AWK- Powerful text processor.
- FU- Multi-purpose text filter.
- Filter- Multi-purpose text filter can also remove ANSI sequences.
- TS Filters- Special purpose text filters.
- Txtutils (GNU)- Collection of Unix text utilities (DJGPP).
- Fixtext- Character translation, DOS/MAC/UNIX conversion, more.
- XLAT- Create custom character translation programs.
- CWATCH- TSR character translator with 4 built-in translation tables.
- Paginate- Format ASCII documents (tables/ headers/ footers/ indent/ wrap).
- RPSORT- Sorts large files extremely fast.
- PCSORT- Full screen text sort program supports block, word, and multi-line sorting.
TEXT UTILS: FORMATTERS, FILTERS- 2 of 2.
- RUM- Convert a file between UNIX and DOS text formats.
- FLIP- Convert file(s) between UNIX and DOS text formats.
- Remove- Remove carriage returns in ASCII documents.
- REMDUP0- Removes duplicate lines from a sorted file.
- UNIQ- Remove or display duplicate lines from sorted file.
- Just- ASCII text justifying filter.
- Justify- Flexible text justifying filter.
- Xray- Extract plain text from binary files.
TEXT UTILS: SEARCH AND REPLACE.
- MiniTrue- Search/replace text across multiple files, regular expression support.
- TexRep- Easy, multi-string text search and replace tool.
- Alter- Small and fast global search and replace tool.
- GSAR- Multi-file search and replace.
- Change- Contextual search and replace tool.
- sed - Text search & replace (and more) using regular expressions.
- U-SEDIT- sed text processing tool with good documentation.
- Fgrep386- Finds files with given text.
- Xgrep- Tiny text finder with regular expression support.
- grep, fgrep, egrep- Search for text; basic and extended regular expression support.
- AGREP- Fast GREP-like util with approximate pattern matching capability.
- TSP- Interactive text search program.
- YANK- Replace or delete entire lines in text file(s) containing search string.
- KLINE- Delete all lines in text file(s) containing search phrase.
TEXT UTILS: SPELLERS, DICTS, TEXT ANALYSIS.
- TI- ("Text Information") Comprehensive text file statistics generator.
- WCNT- Count and analyze words in plain or html text documents.
- WC- Simple word count program.
- wc24- Word counter also counts sentences, calculates "readability index."
- JSPELL- Excellent interactive spell checker (English dictionary).
- SpellTest- Spell checker for plain or html text; interactive or file report.
- GDSpell- Easy to use stand-alone spell checker can handle big files (English dictionary).
- ISPELL- Interactive spell checker.
- Tschek- Spell checker outputs list of all misspelled words to screen or file (English dictionary).
- Words- ASCII English word list also functions as dictionary for some spellers.
- Jorj- "Small" dictionary for DOS.
- Penc- Text-only encyclopedia.
TEXT UTILS: MISC. (compare, etc.)
- Visual Compare- Feature-rich file comparer.
- @COMPARE- File comparer for large files.
- jDif- Fast file difference utility.
- diff- (Diffutils) Unix-ish file difference package.
- FINTRSCT - Compare 2 files; outputs shared/ unique lines to 3 report files.
- catdoc- Convert MS Word files to plain text (or other user-customized output formats).
- HelpDC- Convert Win3/95 HLP files to RTF format.
- PSX- convert postscript documents to plain text.
- Text2PDF- Convert text files to PDF.
- Xpdf- Toolkit for extracting text/information/images from Adobe PDF files.
- Acrobat- Acrobat Reader for DOS (old).
WIN 3X/9X UTILS FOR DOS.
- SmilerShell 3.1 and 95- A GUI command line for Win3.1 and Win9x.
- Imposter- DOS emulator for Win3.1
- Zoomshell- GUI command shell for Win9x.
- MCL- GUI command line for Win9x.
- EasyConsole- Simple Win9x GUI command line.
- Sched and Run- Run any Win3.1 app from DOS prompt under Windows.
- PFE- WIN text editor can capture DOS standard output.
- Dosbar-Add system menu toolbar to Windows DOS boxes.
- WOAFON- Additional fonts for Windows DOS boxes.
- NewDOS Fonts- Additional fonts for Windows DOS boxes.
- WCLIP- (DOS) Redirect text to Win3/9x clipboard from STDIN or from clipboard to STDOUT.
- ToClip- Manipulate the Win 3x or Win 9x clipboard from a DOS box.
- Drop to DOS- Adds "drop to dos" menu item to Win9x rght-click folder menus.
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