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This heterogenous "second" list was created to hold programs that didn't find a spot on the primary (main) list for one or more reasons: 1) Too specialized to warrant space for an extended description; 2) Incoming (I haven't had time to write an extended description); 3) essentially redundant compared with other programs already on the primary list.
[Archive Utilities] [ Calculator, Math, Stats]
[Calendar, Clock, PIM] [Communication]
[Compress, Encode, Encrypt]
[Database, Genealogy, Spreadsheet]
[Directory Utils ] [Disk Utils]
[File Finders, Identifiers] [File Management]
[File Utils (Special)] [Graphics Utils]
[HTML Utils] [Keyboard, Mouse Utils]
[Menu Utils] [Misc. Utils] [Screen Utils]
[Sound] [Text Editors] [Text View]
[Text format, filter] [Text Search /Replace]
[Text Spellers, Dicts, etc] [Text Misc.]
[Win31 related utils]
[Archive Utilities]
- PKzoom- Menu driven file finder and ZIP file extractor. (80K)
[Calculators, Math, Stats]
- Calc (1)- Simple, easy TSR calculator. (33K)
- Deskcalc- Simple full screen calculator requires mouse. Looks like a pocket calculator. (20.5K)
- ADDCOL- command line program adds column of numbers from a text file. D.D. Anderson (10K).
- Units- Command line units conversion program. Good but no temp conversion.
- UC- Basic units converter with tape calculator; logs results. A novelty, but useful.(122K)
- Conv-It- Simple interactive units converter. Author: David Pye, Australia (1998) [added 04-24-99].
[Calendar, Clock, PIM]
- WhkCal- Full screen calendar. (17K)
- AB -TSR address book holds up to 64 addresses. So so.
- EZClock- 12 hour (AM/PM) TSR clock won't obscure overlayed screen text. (3K)
- DAYCN- Calculates the number of days between two dates. Useful. (6K)
- Sunrise- Sunrise and Sunset calculator. (44K) U
- Tonite- Sunrise/ Sunset/ Moon phase calculator. (77K) U
[Communication]
- TUNIX- Connect to Unix hosts through network or modem. (untested)
[Compress-Encode-Encrypt]
- UCEXE -Tight EXE file compressor (only free for individual use; can't distribute exe's without license).
- Username- Password protect and encrypt DOS exe and com programs. Not for exe's with overlays.
- BF- Blowfish file encryptor. Author: Milan Kosina. Czech Rep. (2000). Home Page. [added 3-5-99 updated 11-01-00].
[ Database, Genealogy, Spreadsheet ]
- dBTAB- DBF to fixed text conversion.
- SOUNDER- Create name-Soundex dbf database from GEDCOM file (genealogy)
- Meal Master: Full featured recipe database; formerly shareware (good). Author: Scott Welliver (1998) [added 2-28-99]
[Directory Utils]
- ADIR- Dir lister displays Win9x LFN's in plain DOS mode.(Potentially useful to non-Win9x users; e.g., it will display LFN's on a floppy.) No FAT32 support. Author: Chris Jones (1998). [added 3-16-99]
- EXE- Enhanced full screen directory lister with file viewer.
- DU (2)- Display disk usage for directory tree.
- Dirnotes- Add descriptions/ comments to files (700 file/dir limit).
[Disk Utils]
- Disk Manager- Clipper based floppy diskette file cataloging program.
- DiskWaste- Calculates wasted disk space for fat16 and fat32 drives. (2000)
- Shred- Overwrites free space on disk.
- Revive- floppy disk recovery program w/ source. Author: Emil LAURENTIU, Romania. [added 3-5-99]
[File Utils]
- Sequence- Renames series of files possessing same extension up to 255.EXT.
- Ren2Date (1)- Rename file.ext to filemmdd.ext, where mmdd is the current date.
- Donames- Flexible file renamer.
- GCOPY- Recursive file copier won't recreate directory structure.
- AdjFDate- Adjusts file date plus or minus n days.
- WIPE- Wipes files and scrambles deleted file names.
[HTML Utils]
- Tagcase- simple HTML tag case converter.
- GifTrans- Produce transparent GIF files for web pages. (45K)
[Menus and Program Exec. Aids]
- PMS (1)- Single or multi-user password menu system.
- DoMenuT- Create windowed menus for batch files.
- SMenu- Lists and launches program files.
[Misc. Utils]
- DOSPROGS- Package of DOS programs by Les Leist. (text editor, scr. mode changer, dir changer, color dir lister, CR/LF remover, more.). Some require ANSI.SYS. [updated 01-07-01]
- HOLMESFX- tsr fix for old bios RTC Y2K failures. Author: Lester C Holmes, M..J. Ray (1998), Sugg. by H. Schwartz. [added 05-04-99]
- CMOS- Save and restore CMOS settings. Author: Charles Dye (1999). [added 09-19-99]
- SETVER- Replacement for MS SETVER. Load in config.sys or as TSR; compares code and finds version application is searching for. Author: David McIlwraith (1998) [added 04-04-99]
- DRVLOAD- Load device drivers from command line.
- NTCP- NTFS driver for MSDOS, "...access in read/write mode to your NTFS partition files from MSDOS." Author: Christopher Grenier, France. (1999) [added 07-03-99]
- PAWS- PAUSE w/ mouse button specific error levels (DEBUG script only).
- Notepad- Simple program displays user text in pop-up window.
- MakeLog- Create and maintain time-date logs for program usage.
- CWSDPMI- Provides DPMI services to DJGPP (V2) 32 bit programs. [updated 10-26-00]
- Periodic- Simple, useful Periodic Table of Elements. Author: unknown (1988). Notes: press "q" to quit. EGA required.
[Screen]
- SASSI- tsr allows adjustment from keyboard of screen brightness (e.g., old monitors) and/or soundblaster volume. [added 3-15-99] Sugg. by Lars-Erik Sandberg. Author: RSE Inc.
- MARTIN- Older non-tsr screen saver displays Martin fractals.
[Sound Progs]
- TSR_CD- TSR audio CD player with database function. Req 40K RAM.
- GSPlay- MIDI player (requires MIDI interface)
[Text Editors]
- Medit- Multi-window graphics mode editor with multiple undo and large file support. Needs 256 color VGA/ 386+. Author: Vincenzo Morello, Italy (1997)
[Text View]
- Smooth- Tiny (1.8K) text viewer with variable speed smooth scrolling.
[Text Format/ Filter]
- Wrap- Wrap long lines in standard output.
- TFormat- Easy text file margin adjuster and justifier. Easy but so so.
- KILLEOF- Remove end of file (EOF) characters. 16 & 32 bit versions.
- CHKTXT- Removes suspicious control characters (e.g., page breaks) from text files.
[Text Search/ Replace]
- GSR- 32-bit interactive or c-line mode multi-file search and replace tool. GPL w/ source. Author: Phil Barnett (1999), Sugg. by H. Schwartz. [added 05-03-99]
[Text Utils- Misc.]
- WP2LaTeX- converts WordPerfect 4.x - 7.x document files to LaTeX. (good). HTML to LaTeX patch also available. Maintainer: Jaroslav Fojtik, Czech Republic. Home Page. Sugg. by Scott Nesbitt. [updated 11-01-00]
- LC- Simple page counter (66 lines/page) for ASCII files; also counts lines, accepts wildcards. Source included. Author: Eric E. A. Schreiber (1998).
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