PUADOS

Power Users' Aliases for DOS

All files in this set are public domain. That means that you are free to use these batch files for anything and are asked to pay nothing. I might add more tools or update these in the future, but since they are public domain no promises. There are many tools here. You may read complete descriptions about all of them in DESCRIPT.ION. Note that in some batch files, you will have to modify them depending on any certain programs you might want to use or not use.

Purpose

I wrote all of these utilities in only a few minutes, because I just want to save time. That is why I called this set PUA. I could type:

CHKDSK /F

DEFRAG

SCANDISK

or:

FIXDSK

I could type:

DEL ABC

or:

D ABC

I know a big thing with computer users nowadays is to save time, and I think this tool set accomplishes that.

4D

Maybe the most important utility in the entire set is 4D. 4D checks whether 4DOS is being used with a little BASIC magic and the VER command. People are complaining all the time on how will they make 4DOS compatible batch files, so this will be a good solution since it sets an environment variable if 4DOS is found.

.COM files

I did not write any of the .COM files included, they were from various sources which are public domain.

.BAS files

There are some batch files, namely 4D.BAT and DT.BAT which rely on GW-BASIC. You will need to change all references to GW-BASIC to:

QBASIC /RUN

This should allow them to work under QBASIC if GW-BASIC is not available to you. Newer DOS systems (from 5 up) do not have GW-BASIC at all.

Other notes

I included some tools which are not designed to replace any DOS commands, but just to make life a little easier. These files are 4D, ALLFILES, DIZ and others.

All Batch

All included .BAT or .BTM files is written 100% by me and may be included or used in anything the user sees fit. There are no .EXE files, only a couple .COM files, no graphics and no other junk one usually finds nowadays.

Contacts

baechler@cts.com or 1:202/1333. At the time of this document I am not yet in the nodelist.