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ExtraDOS Toolbox (tm)
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Users Manual
Copyright (c) 1985-92 Foley Hi-Tech Systems (ASP) All Rights Reserved
Introduction
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ExtraDOS Toolbox is a compilation of tools useful to Microsoft DOS
users. I originally wrote the first version of ExtraDOS under MS-DOS
because I found a need for them and there were no commercially
available products that provided these functions. Some ExtraDOS tools
were designed to enhance programs already found in MS-DOS. Other
tools were familiar to the Unix world, but were not available in
MS-DOS. Over the years this collection has grown into large group of
very useful tools. Some of these utilities are duplicates of those
found elsewhere, but often provide much better features or reduced
memory overhead than similar utilities found elsewhere. In addition,
ExtraDOS complements PC-Tools and Norton Utilities with added tools
these programs do not provide.
Over thirty of the ExtraDOS Toolbox utilities have been selected by
Paul Somerson, former Executive Editor of PC Magazine, for Bantam
Books', DOS Power Tools, 2nd Edition, Revised and Expanded for DOS
5.0.
I hope you find these tools useful and convienent. Any suggestions
for enhancements, improvements or additions are welcome. Please
contact use with your comments.
David R. Foley
License Agreement
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This software is protected by both United States' copyright law and
international treaty provisions. Therefore, you must treat this
software "just like a book," with the following single exception.
Foley Hi-Tech Systems authorizes you to make archival copies of the
software for the sole purpose of backing up our software and
protecting your investment from loss. By saying, "just like a book,"
Foley Hi-Tech Systems means that this software may be used by any
number of people and may be freely moved from one computer location
to another, provided there is absolutely no possibility of it being
used at one location while it is being used at another. Just as a
book cannot be read by two different people in two different places
simultaneously, the software may not be used by two different people
in two different places simultaneously.
You may not make copies of the software documentation or disk,
except as described above. You may not distribute, rent, sublicense,
or lease the software or the documentation. You may not alter,
modify, or adapt the software or documentation, including but not
limited to translating, decompiling, reverse assembling, or creating
derivative works. You may not use the software in a network,
timeshareing, multiple CPU, or multi- user environment unless each
user is licensed by Foley Hi-Tech Systems.
EXTRADOS TOOLBOX
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LIMITED WARRANTY
Upon notification of defects in material or workmanship,
within the warranty period of 45 days from the date of purchase,
Foley Hi-Tech Systems will, at its option, replace the defective
diskette or refund the license fee. If you need to return a product,
call the Foley Hi-Tech Systems Technical Support Service Department
to obtain a return authorization number. The remedy for breach of
this warranty shall be limited to replacement or refund and shall
not encompass any other damages, including but not limited to loss
of profit, and special, incidental, consequential, or other similar
claims.
Foley Hi-Tech Systems specifically disclaims all other warranties,
expressed or implied, including but not limited to implied
warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose
with respect to defects in the diskette and documentation, and the
program license granted herein in particular, and without limiting
operation of the program license with respect to any particular
application, use, or purpose. In no event shall Foley Hi-Tech
Systems be liable for any loss of profit or any other commercial
damage, including but not limited to special, incidental,
consequential, or other damages. This statement shall be construed,
interpreted, and governed by the laws of the State of California.
TRADEMARK INFORMATION
ExtraDOS Toolbox, TurboBAT, SpeedRAM, Screen Manager, Profiler,
WizLabel, CDBS, Press Gate Manager, ExtraWindows Toolbox and Safety
Disk are trademarks of Foley Hi-Tech Systems.
MS-DOS and Windows are trademarks of Microsoft Corporation.
Norton Utilities are a trademark of Symantec.
PC-Tools is a trademark of Central Point Software.
CLEANUP - Disk Drive Cleanup & Space Recovery
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DESCRIPTION
With the ever increasing size and lowering cost of disk
space, it isn't uncommon to find PC's with an average of 80MB.
Having larger disk drives has also made managing them becomes more
complex. It is no longer feasible to remember the name and location
and purpose of every file on your system. Often files and programs
will be installed on a temporary basis only to be forgotten and
either outdated or left behind. You can quickly devote as much as
25% of your hard disk to unused or duplicate files. Cleanup provides
a comprehensive way of dealing with this problem by quickly
isolating unused and duplicate files and removing them, freeing up
valuable hard disk space. Cleanup displays the name of each file as
it is deleted and a summary showing the total amount of disk space
that has been recovered.
WARNING
The main function of Cleanup is to recover lost disk space by
removing duplicate and unused files. You have total control over
which files will and will not be deleted, but with large hard disks
it is easy to overlook single file names and accidently delete a
desired file. It is suggested that you backup your disk before
running Cleanup. This will assure that you have a means of
recovering files that you delete by accident. The other alternative
is to have a copy of Norton Utilities UnErase or a similar type
product.
VERSION
2.06 12/09/92
CLEANUP - Disk Drive Cleanup & Space Recovery
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COMMAND FORMAT
CLEANUP [/L50]
/L50 Force into 43/50 Line mode on EGA/VGA monitors
NOTES
Cleanup is a menu driven program. After initializing the program
you are prompted with a list of disk drives in your system. In this
list you are allowed to toggle the search amongst any installed
drives in your system. Drives that are allowed, but not attached are
"grayed" out and you cannot select these drives. When you select a
drive a check mark û will note when a drive is selected. You may
select any combination of all available drives. All of the drives
selected will be treated as one large volume across which all
duplicates and file marking will take place. This is particularly
handy if you have more than one hard drive on which you keep files,
and you might end up with duplicate files across the drives. Once
you have selected the drives to scan, press the [F10] key to start
scanning.
After all of the directories have been scanned you will be located
at the main menu of Cleanup. In the upper right hand corner of the
screen is the Current Status window. This window will always
display information about the programs status. The number of
directories, files and duplicate files is calculated after selecting
the drives and will not change until you exit the program and run
again. The number of tagged files and bytes will show you the
current statistics for the files that have been tagged for deletion.
These numbers will be updated as you tag or untag files for
deletion.
There are two methods for tagging files for deletion. The first
method is to use the Auto Tag and Auto Untag menus. These menus are
identical in options, and perform exactly the opposite tasks. The
Auto function allows you to tag groups of files all at one time.
Once tagged, you may then go in and manually untag individual files
using the manual tag option. Below are the options available from
the Auto Tag and Auto Untag menus.
CLEANUP - Disk Drive Cleanup & Space Recovery
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ALL All allows you to tag/untag all of the files
scanned. This is generally only useful for
untagging files. Be careful as if you use this
to tag files, you will tag all of the files on
the selected drives for deletion.
SMALLER DUPLICATES This will look at the list of duplicate files
and whenever there is a difference in size, the
smaller file will be marked for duplication.
OLDER DUPLICATES This is quite handy and will compare all of the
duplicate files and mark the oldest files.
This is useful when you wish to only keep the
most recent version of a file on your system.
BACKUP FILES This option will mark all files ending in .BAK.
This was the original function of the TIDY
program from which Cleanup evolved. Many
programs and editors create a backup of a file
when updating it. After a while these backups
can clutter up your system.
TEMP FILES There are many programs that make use of
temporary files while processing work.
Sometimes, if these programs are interrupted or
crash, the temporary files will be left of your
drive. Most software uses the convention of
naming temporary files with a .$$$ extension.
This option will mark all files ending in .$$$
EXT xxx This allows you to tag a group of files with a
particular extension that you know should be
removed. With this option you can specify any
group of files by giving the extension name.
All files ending in the extension that you
provide will be tagged. Be careful that you
wish to delete all files ending in the
extension before running the Erase option.
CLEANUP - Disk Drive Cleanup & Space Recovery
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ZERO LENGTH This was the other option available on the TIDY
program. Another type of temporary file that
can often be created is one that was opened but
never properly closed. This will often result
in a file entry in your directory with a file
size of 0 bytes. The zero length is
misleading. Every file entry requires at least
one cluster thus the minimum disk space used by
a 0 byte file is the cluster size (512 bytes or
more). Having a lot of 0 byte files can
actually take away space from your drive.
Choosing this option will mark all files with a
size of 0 bytes for deletion.
LENGTH n Like the Zero length files above, there may be
instances where you create a lot of small files
that you wish to tag for deletion. This option
allows you to input a specific file size. All
files matching this file size will be tagged
for deletion.
CLEANUP - Disk Drive Cleanup & Space Recovery
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The MANUAL TAG option from the Main Menu allows you to view the list
of files and to manually tag or untag files. When you first enter
this screen you will be presented with the list of duplicate files.
To view all of the files in the system press the [F6] key. Then to
switch back to the list of only duplicate files, again press the
[F6] key. Tagged files will be marked with a check mark û next to
the name, and will appear in red on color monitors. To view the
list use the up and down arrow keys. To tag a particular file press
the [ENTER] key. Pressing it a second time will untag the file. To
untag a tagged file, highlight the file and press the [ENTER] key.
Once again, the [ENTER] key will continue to toggle the tag on and
off. When you are done viewing the manual tag list press the [F10]
key.
Once you are happy with the list of tagged files, choose the ERASE
TAGGED option from the main menu. This will erase all files that
were previously tagged. There is no UNDO feature on this program so
once they are deleted you will have to use an unerase program such
as Norton Utilities Quick Unerase to recover any erased files. If
you have accidentally deleted a file, do not use the disk drive
until the file has been unerased. Changing data anywhere on the
disk could result in permanently loosing the information in the
file.
NOTES
There have been some reports of problems when using Cleanup in a
machine that is running both FASTOPEN and SMARTDRIVE. The best
solution is to remove the usage of FASTOPEN as it can cause sorting
problems with the file list on large disk drives.
TECHNICAL SUPPORT
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Often we get calls from people asking questions that can be
solved easily by checking through the manual before calling tech
support. We ask that you browse the manual and look for information
pertaining to your particular problem before calling. This can often
save you time, as we take a collection of our most common questions
and try to address them in this manual.
We offer alternative methods besides the conventional phone
support, such as a multi-line 24-hour BBS system. We also monitor
most technical conferences in the BBS Interlink and RelayNet
networks as well as many conferences on the CompuServe
Information System. You may send messages and questions via any of
these services.
Currently our Tech Support office is staffed Monday through Friday
from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Pacific Time. There is a chance,
however, that someone is in the office outside this time frame.
If so, we will gladly answer your questions outside the normal
business hours. Registered users are given unlimited technical
support.
Foley Hi-Tech Systems
Technical Support Department
185 Berry Street
San Francisco, CA 94107
(415) 882-1730
(415) 882-1733 FAX
(415) 882-1735 BBS
70262,1463 CompuServe
CREDITS
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This collection of utilities started out as a small set of home
grown tools that I just could not stand to live without. Many times
someone would see me using them and ask for a copy. This was a big
mistake. All of the sudden I had to debug my code. Someone would
call me up and remind me of some problem with a utility that I had
written or asked me to just add this one little feature. Six years
later the package has evolved to its current state. Along the way I
have had the help of many people in testing and ideas for products.
I would like to thank all of those people who have of course
registered these utilities as this is now a new incentive for
continuing to expand them. More specifically I'd like to thank the
following:
Kathy Smith
Jay Wessel
Roger Cross
Brian & Tess for Channel 1
Paul Somerson & Bantam Books
PC Tech Journal (A Great Loss)
PC Magazine
Byte Magazine
Jerry Pournelle
Association of Shareware Professionals
PROGRAMMING
The ExtraDOS Toolbox utilties use a wide variety of programming
tools including:
Borland Turbo Pascal 6.0
Borland Turbo Assembler 3.0
Borland Turbo C++ 1.0
Borland Turbo Debugger 2.0
Turbo Power Software Object Professional 1.0
Phil Katz' PKLite Professional 1.13
Unity Programmers Editor 3.33
Ralph Browns' Interrupt List
Programming by:
Mike Blaszczak
David Foley
Joe Halpin
Bill McKee
Mike Molloy
Mike Viens
Ross Wentworth
Randall Woodman
CREDITS
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ART
Artwork for the ExtraDOS Toolbox was created using:
Ian Davis' TheDraw 4.01
Aldus Freehand 2.0
Electronic Arts Studio/8 2.0
Art by:
David Foley
Noel Gamboa
Moses Gates
Shahasp Herardian
Pat McSween
Ross Wentworth
DOCUMENTATION
Documentation for the ExtraDOS Toolbox was written using:
FHTS SuperEdit 3.04
Word Perfect 5.1
MS Word for Windows 2.0
Grammatik for Windows 1.0
Aldus Pagemaker 4.0
Unity Programmers Editor 3.33
Documentation by:
Mike Blaszczak
David Foley
Mike Viens
Ross Wentworth
Printed Manuals by:
BindCo, Brisbane, CA.
LICENSE INFORMATION
CHIMES, EVAL and RAMDRIVE are derivatives of the Nifty James
utilties by Mike Blaszczak.
FILEATTR, NAMEDIR and SWAPFILE are derivatives of the Fantastic
Utilities by Mike Viens.
FHTS Products
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Safety Disk (tm)
Safety Disk saves all of your systems vital information and will
solve most problems due to: Loss of battery power, Loss of CMOS
information, accidental deletion of boot files, virus damage to boot
disk.
"Use Safety Disk and your PC is Safe.", Computer Shopper, March 1992
"Used in Conjuntion with a conventional backup utility, Safety Disk,
for $59.95 will provide as bulletproof a backup as you're likely to
find in the PC marketplace.", InfoWorld, February 10, 1992
"Safety Disk is so deceptively easy to use that it makes hard-drive
and computer maintenance seem impossibly easy.", PCM Magazine, May
1992
"I have discovered the most unique and useful system maintenance
utility since Spinrite came along.", MBUG PC Newsletter, December,
1991
ExtraDOS Toolbox (tm)
A large collection of over 50 utilities that DOS forgot. Includes
many helpful utilities that enhance MS-DOS machines. Featured in the
DOS Power Tools, 2nd Edition, Revised for DOS 5.0 book by Bantam
Books.
WizLabel (tm)
Print Sharp Wizard phone listings directly to your SLP Printer
without having to convert your data.
Coach Database Systemþ.
CDBS provides a method for tracking and evaluating NBA teams, NBA
players, and college players. It supplies a comprehensive report
generator for building decision support reports on scouted players.
FHTS Products
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Press Gate Managerþ.
Software for event organizers. Creates and maintains a database of
events and guests with the ability to track seating by type,
location, and person. Produces seating charts and labels for press
passes.
FINDBþ.
Financial Database System for tracking shareholders in a company.
Allows the instant retrieval of information based on any part of a
persons account id, ss#, zip code etc. Has support for completely
customized HP Laserjet tax forms. Ideal for generating K1 tax
reports for limited partnerships.
EXTRADOS TOOLBOX UPCOMING ADDITIONS
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We are constantly adding new utilities to the ExtraDOS Toolbox
collection. Some are developments of ideas from our customers. If
you know of a utility that you would find handy or updates to
existing utilities please let us know about them.
BATPLUS Collection of enhancements for DOS Batch files. BATPLUS
enhancements will also be supported by TurboBAT.
BOOTLOCK Updates to BootLock to make it a Device Driver or TSR.
BOOTMGR Boot Manager will allow you to choose from many different
boot up configurations by displaying a menu of choices
at boot time. Each configuration can have a seperate
AUTOEXEC.BAT and CONFIG.SYS associated with it.
DIALIT Small TSR that allows you to pop up over any text screen
and capture a phone number and then dialing with your
modem.
DIFF Full screen file comparison utility. Will display the
differences between two different files.
DIRSORT Sort directories by Name, Extension, Date, Time or Size.
DISKTEST Command line utility to perform testing functions on disk
drives looking for bad sectors or clusters.
EMSX86 EMS 4.0 Memory Manager that converts Extended Memory into
LIM EMS 4.0 Expanded memory.
FKEYSET Allows you to assign customized values for all the function
keys.
KBDMGR Keyboard Manager allows you to customize the repeat rate
of keys as well as expanding the typeahead buffer. Also
features custom key clicking options.
LQPRINT Allows 9 pin dot matrix printers to print near letter
quality output by converting text into high resolution
graphics.
NBSTIME Will set your PC clock to National Atomic Clock time by
calling NBS with your modem.
PRMPTMGR Prompt Manager gives you access to a library of DOS prompts
and allows you to create your own DOS prompts.
PRINTCTL Print Controller is a multiple printer spool and configuration
utility. Supports EMS or DISK spooling and up to three
printer ports.
EXTRADOS TOOLBOX UPCOMING ADDITIONS
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SORT Advanced SORT utilty for DOS. Features many enhancements o
over the DOS version.
SPEEDFL Increase access to some floppy disk drives.
SPLITFL Split files into multiples for modem or diskette transfers.
STOPWTCH Stop Watch allows you to time programs at the DOS prompt.
SWAPFILE Swap to file names with the associated files.
XCD Smart CHDIR command. Will accept partial names.
XDEL Advanced delete command. Allows many options and exclusions.
XDIR Updated DIR command with sort options.
ZIPCODE TSR to allow the searching of US Postal Zip Code Database.
The latest versions of the ExtraDOS Toolbox utilities can be found on:
FHTS PC GURU III BBS, San Francisco, CA (415) 882-1735
CHANNEL 1 BBS, Cambridge, MA (617) 354-8873
COMPUSERVE INFORMATION SERVICE See CIS Listings
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