The MicroHelp Utility The Ultimate DOS Enhancement Published by MicroHelp, Inc. 2220 Carlyle Dr. Marietta GA 30062-5841 (404) 973-9272 (800) 922-3383 The MicroHelp Utility (TMU) is an incredible combination of practical enhancements that save you time, trouble and money. All the little "helpers" you need in one small (as little as 10K) resident program. We've included the best features from a host of other utility packages, plus some features you won't find anywhere else. Forget about CED, PCED, Fansi Console, FlickerFree, Cruise Control, Tall Screen and all the others - we provide you with the best features of all of them in a single, small controllable program. TMU supports CGA, monochrome, EGA, VGA and Multisync monitors. This includes 43 line and 120/132 column modes, or any number of screen lines and columns that are set using the BIOS. In addtion, it is compatible with PS/2 systems, 80386, SuperKey and SideKick. If you have Lotus/Intel/Microsoft Expanded Memory, TMU takes only 10K of DOS memory! In addition to the features shown below, TMU provides FAST, full support for ANSI screen control commands. This means that you can remove ANSI.SYS from your CONFIG.SYS (unless you need keyboard redefinition). Here's a description of the features of the program, grouped by major function: Video Displays -------------- No more flicker on IBM Color Graphics Adapters. Speed up data displays by as much as 1500%! All programs that use the BIOS will operate faster and the speed improvement when in DOS must be seen to be believed. Set your choice of foreground and background colors when in DOS and programs that send data to the screen without specifying attributes. This includes colors you didn't know were possible on CGA monitors. Turn snow checking on and off at will. Timed or "hot key" screen burn-in protection. Use your selectable hot key to turn off your monitor(s) when somebody looks over your shoulder while you are working with confidential data. This works with TWO monitors. A 26th line (yes, 26) system display for monochrome and CGA monitors. (EGA's and laptops can use bottom screen line when in DOS). Have the date, time and status of Caps Lock, Num Lock, Scr Lock and Insert state. View data that has scrolled off the top of your screen. If you have two monitors, you can view the data on the inactive monitor. You can "freeze" the data in your scrollback buffer anytime you're looking at the data. With two monitors, you can duplicate the contents of the active display onto the inactive display. Do this every n ticks or with a selectable hot key. (Timed duplication is disabled if snow checking is on.) If you have a composite monitor, or monochrome monitor attached to a color board, you can tell TMU to use white on black displays. Keyboard -------- Set your own keyboard repeat rate. Boost cursor speed and stop cursor "run-on". If you use slow cursor programs like Microsoft Word and Lotus 1-2-3, you're going to love this feature. Full editing power for commands entered at the DOS prompt. Use standard editing keys without erasing characters. Recall, edit and execute previously entered DOS commands. Delete one or all commands from the buffer. Multiple DOS commands on a single input line. Optionally tell TMU to cancel the remaining commands if the DOS errorlevel is set by a command. You select the hot key that separates multiple commands on one line. Expanded keyboard buffer (127 characters) that can be turned off when using other buffering programs, like SuperKey. Use F11 and F12 keys as "hot keys", including combinations with Alt, Ctrl and either or both shift keys. Case filtering of DOS input - you can force upper or lower case entry. Intercept Shift-PrtSc when no printer is attached or the printer is off line. Have a solid, non-blinking cursor when in DOS. Choose your own cursor sizes in DOS and all programs that set the cursor size via software - you set the size for overstrike and insert mode. Send a form feed to your printer with a selectable hot key. When in DOS, press and hold the Scroll Lock key and your display is suspended. Release the key and the display resumes. We also include the ability to suspend the display with Ctrl-Num Lock - resume with any other key. Aliases ------- Use aliases as "shorthand" or replacements for batch files. For example, you tell The MicroHelp Utility that when you type in "Orange", it should translate it to all or part of: CD \fruits\citrus\oranges QB orange; LINK orange; orange cd \dos Miscellaneous ------------- Set a wake-up alarm to beep at you when the alarm time is reached. You can set and reset the alarm anytime from DOS. TMU can be turned off and on or even removed from memory entirely. Most features can be set from the configuration menu - naturally, on-line help is available. All features can be set and changed from the DOS command line. Memory Usage ------------ The MicroHelp Utility will use LIM Expanded Memory if it is available. The program takes 10K of DOS memory plus buffer space. One buffer holds the DOS commands available for recall (minimum of 1K), another holds the "scrollback" data (no minimum) and the third holds "ALIAS" definitions. Since you can configure the buffer sizes (as well as all the other features), the total amount of memory used is up to you. Note that a maximum of 64K can be used for total buffer space. Therefore, memory usage is as follows: With EMS No EMS -------- ------ Minimum DOS RAM Used (1K Command buffer) 10K 11K Maximum DOS RAM Used (64K buffers) 10K 75K