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22DSK140.ZIP Yes 190946 10/27/1993
22Disk 1.40 is a media conversion utility for
converting data from CP/M disk formats to DOS
or vice versa. The 22DISK disk conversion
package offers user-defined CP/M formats in
addition to the standard support for single-,
double-, and quad-density formats. It also
features custom keyboard mapping. This
software will not convert CP/M-80 disks used
on Apple II's with CP/M cards. (Charles P.
Guzis) (Reg.Fee: $28)
2M21.ZIP Yes 95038 6/24/1994
2M 2.1 formats all types of floppies to sizes
beyond their rated capacity. (Ciriaco Garcia
de Celis) (Reg.Fee: $0)
3FLOP.ZIP Yes 5296 5/29/1989
3Flop tells how to run three floppy drives
with a standard two-floppy controller.
However, while three drives can be made
available in the same machine, only two are
usable in the same session. (Bob Sully)
(Reg.Fee: $0)
4SPD100.ZIP Yes 63827 9/15/1993
4-Speed 1.0 graphically displays your drive's
data transfer rate. (Dustbowl Designs, Inc.)
(Reg.Fee: $0)
ADCACHE.ZIP Yes 10766 2/24/1990
ADCache 1.2 is a TSR, hard-disk cache that
uses EMS memory for caching and less than 5k
of DOS RAM for the software. It should work
on any PC compatible, including PS/2, and
will support one or two hard disk drives that
use the BIOS INT 13h interface. (David H.
Rifkind) (Reg.Fee: $15)
ADI10.ZIP Yes 25430 9/15/1993
All Drive Info 1.0 identifies all drives on a
system and displays relevant information
about each drive. (George Spafford) (Reg.Fee:
$0)
ADJRAM.ZIP Yes 37809 3/8/1994
AdjRAM lets you set up and change the size
of a RAM disk without rebooting and without
losing data on the RAM disk when the size is
changed. It also may work with expanded
memory, though it has not been thoroughly
tested. The 'C' source code is also included
on the disk. RAM.SYS/SETRAM is perhaps Josh
Cockey of Dahlgren, VA rebuts: "I agree that
RAM.SYS/SETRAM is perhaps easier and simpler
to use, but it is limited to only 32
directory entries while ADJRAM allows 128
entries and also can be used in expanded RAM.
(Gary Cramblitt) (Reg.Fee: $?)
AMOS120.ZIP Yes 88360 4/11/1994
AMOS 1.20 enables you to read and write your
HPFS-formatted hard disk drives from native
DOS. It operates as a standard OS/2-like
shell which will accept DOS and OS/2
commands. (Allan Mertner) (Reg.Fee: $31)
ANAD207.ZIP Yes 122112 10/27/1993
Anadisk 2.07 is a general purpose utility
package to analyze, inspect, edit, repair and
copy floppy diskettes. It makes extensive use
of the PC's hardware facilities. It contains
support for, but is not limited to, DOS
compatible diskettes. Almost any diskette
that can successfully be read by the hardware
contained in your machine can be processed by
Anadisk. The CompatiCard is also supported.
(Charles P. Guzis) (Reg.Fee: $28)
AUTOTES.ZIP Yes 8759 1/1/1987
Autotest shows floppy and hard disk access
times for sequential and random seeks. It
will not damage any files on the disk. Works
on RAM disks too. (Reg.Fee: $?)
BA2110.ZIP Yes 542105 6/20/1994
Back Again/2 2.10 is a 32-bit backup utility
for OS/2 2.1 which supports HPFS, long
filenames, and extended attributes as well as
processing files which are currently in use.
All OS/2 logical devices are supported for
backup, including Novell Netware, LAN Server,
and NFS network drives. This version can only
back up 2MB at a time. (Computer Data
Strategies) (Reg.Fee: $38)
BAKINI.ZIP Yes 2691 4/29/1994
BACKINI.CMD 1.0 is a small REXX program that
makes backups of all the INI files found in
the specified directory. (John H. Lederer)
(Reg.Fee: $0)
BOOT_B.ZIP Yes 5373 12/27/1990
Boot_B 1.0 creates a new boot sector for a
disk in drive A: which when booted will pass
the boot process over to the B: drive. This
allows you to run programs (mostly games)
that must be booted from the distribution
floppy when your drive A: is not the same
type as the floppy and drive B: is. (The
author can no longer be reached at the
address provided in the documentation.)
(Solutions by the Numbers) (Reg.Fee: $10)
BOOTDUM.ZIP Yes 2052 5/29/1989
Bootdump displays technical information
about a disk's boot record. (Reg.Fee: $?)
BOOTLK.ZIP Yes 10113 2/11/1990
Bootlook reads track 0, sector 1 of a
selected drive and displays all the technical
information about the type of disk. Works on
floppies, hard disks, and other media (eg:
Bernoulli's). (William C. Scott) (Reg.Fee: $0)
BOOTREX.ZIP Yes 2879 2/11/1990
Bootrex 1.2 will read the boot sectors of a
disk (hard or floppy) and display the
parameters that are kept in the boot record
table. (Jack A. Orman) (Reg.Fee: $0)
CACHE2.ZIP Yes 3146 5/29/1989
Cache2 speeds up disk accessing. (Reg.Fee:
$?)
CACHSTA.ZIP Yes 15679 5/29/1989
Cachstat gets disk cache statistics for
IBMCACHE program. This program works ONLY
with IBM's IBMCACHE program which comes with
the PS/2 Models on the Reference diskette.
(Jack Wright) (Reg.Fee: $?)
CACHTST.ZIP Yes 60973 6/18/1993
Cache Test 5.0a tests the effectiveness of
your disk caching software. It checks
sequential write and read, random write and
read, random update, and DOS directory
services times. (George Spafford) (Reg.Fee:
$10)
CDISK2.ZIP Yes 4915 6/22/1989
CDisk is a resident utility that gives you
information about your disk drives. (Keith P.
Graham) (Reg.Fee: $5)
CHKFREE.ZIP Yes 10063 4/14/1994
CHKFree 1.01 will check all drives, including
network drives, for a specified amount of
disk space. (N.A.M. Enterprises) (Reg.Fee: $5)
CLEAN2.ZIP Yes 2605 6/22/1989
Clean2 is a drive head cleaner that works on
single or double sided or quad density
drives. (Marty Smith) (Reg.Fee: $0)
CMB113.ZIP Yes 48424 2/3/1994
Combi-Disk 1.13 lets you set up a RAM disk
and disk cache in the same area of extended
memory. C source code included. Requires an
extended memory manager. (Vadim V. Vlasov)
(Reg.Fee: $0)
CMDISK.ZIP Yes 16678 5/4/1994
CMFloppy 1.0 is a utility for copying,
formatting, and sector-by-sector viewing of
diskettes. It allows you to store the image
of a diskette on your hard drive as a file
for later use in making diskette copies.
(Charles F. Martin) (Reg.Fee: $10)
CRAM.ZIP Yes 5135 5/29/1989
Cram is a Compressed RAM disk. It takes an
existing diskette and compresses it down into
a dos file and then this compressed disk can
be loaded into memory as a ram disk. Many
times a ram disk is used to hold utilities
and applications, but is never written to.
CRAM is a read only-ram disk. (Keith P.
Graham) (Reg.Fee: $?)
CRC.ZIP Yes 22843 6/22/1989
CRC 1.0 provides a method for comparing two
files from different computers to determine
if they are identical. (William D. Hause)
(Reg.Fee: $15)
CRITTER.ZIP Yes 12474 7/31/1991
Critter 1.2 is a TSR that replaces DOS's
"abort, retry, ignore" message with a pop-up
window that restores the screen when finished
processing the error. It also features the
ability to log errors encountered to a
printer. (Dana W. Cline) (Reg.Fee: $20)
CUVL.ZIP Yes 20603 6/24/1989
Colorado Utilities Volume Labeler 1.0
automates diskette volume labeling. You give
a starting number and feed in disks. The
program will increment the number and record
it on the next disk as the volume label.
Pascal source is included. (Fred C Hill)
(ASP) (Reg.Fee: $0)
DCOPY20.ZIP Yes 47786 5/2/1994
PM Dcopy 2.0 is a diskette copy utility for
OS/2 program manager. It allows diskettes to
be copied directly to each other, or to an
image file for copying to diskette at a later
time. (J.R. Shannon) (Reg.Fee: $10)
DF.ZIP Yes 63950 5/11/1994
DF 3.60 creates an image of a floppy on your
hard disk for production diskette copying.
(Mark Vitt) (Reg.Fee: $20)
DF_JN.ZIP Yes 3274 6/6/1994
Disk Free will display free memory and
available disk space for any drive. (John
Norton) (Reg.Fee: $0)
DFACC.ZIP Yes 1775 5/29/1989
Dfacc is a small resident utility that can
accelerate file access in many programs.
DFACC predicts when your program will want to
read from a file and reads the data into a
buffer before it is asked for. This is the
opposite of a cache type program. A cache
keeps data AFTER it has been used; DFACC gets
data BEFORE it is needed. (Reg.Fee: $?)
DFIX.ZIP Yes 6482 8/10/1994
Dfix 1.1 will search for and lock out bad
disk sectors. (Back up data before trying.)
(Howard Rumsey) (Reg.Fee: $?)
DFREE11.ZIP Yes 27789 7/9/1993
Disk-Free 1.10 displays hard drive
information including volume label, capacity,
how much space is used, free to use, and the
percentage of free space. (Greg King)
(Reg.Fee: $0)
DISCEX.ZIP Yes 22949 12/28/1989
PC Disk Excerciser 1.03 is used to burn in a
disk drive or test for intermittent errors or
to force a dying disk to fail. (Steven D.
Stern) (Reg.Fee: $?)
DISKCOPY.ZIP Yes 8574 6/21/1993
DiskCopy 1.0 allows you to copy diskettes
without disk-swapping and without formatting
the destination disk. (Feico P J Nater) (ASP)
(Reg.Fee: $5)
DISKFLG.ZIP Yes 38068 10/26/1989
DiskFlag 3.1 keeps track of used vs available
disk space, and notifies user when space used
is more than a user-preset percentage. It
supports up to ten drives - hard disk or
floppies. It could be placed in your
AUTOEXEC.BAT file to check the drives on
start-up, or run at any time. It is NOT a
TSR. For a TSR that continuously monitors
your disk usage, see PAlert on the Patriquin
Utilities disks. (Stephen C. Lenz) (Reg.Fee:
$20-$30)
DISKLITE.ZIP Yes 1302 5/29/1989
Disklite puts a graphics block in the corner
of the screen when your disk drives (even
hard disks and RAM disks) are active.
(Reg.Fee: $?)
DISKPIX.ZIP Yes 57102 7/16/1990
Diskpix 1.9 graphically displays the archival
status of your hard disk or floppies,
including any partitions. The pie charts show
the percentage free, archived, and still
needing to be backed up. (Charles J. Okstein)
(Reg.Fee: $0)
DISKTRAK.ZIP Yes 12234 6/22/1989
DiskTrak helps keep track of disks. It
creates a database with a list of disks,
files names, free space, comments and more.
It extracts files stored inside a ZIP, PAK,
ARC, and LZH archive file. It labels disks,
delete and/or restore any set of files in its
database, and produce five types of hard
and/or soft copy reports of its database
contents. (Birk Binnard) (Reg.Fee: $15)
DISKUSE.ZIP Yes 173414 1/18/1994
DiskUse 4.01 shows disk utilization in bytes
and percent of total of all files and
subdirectories at any user-specified
directory level. (R. A. Pabst) (Reg.Fee: $15)
DKI190.ZIP Yes 60348 1/14/1994
Best Disk Analyser 1.9 will display a
colorful graph detailing the usage of all
active drives. It can identify the operating
systems, Windows, disk compression utilities,
networks, disk type - floppy, hard disk,
CD-ROM, etc. The program also contains a
search and delete utility. (Philippe Duby)
(Reg.Fee: $10)
DKP410DA.ZIP Yes 177835 5/11/1994
EZ-DisKlone Plus 4.10da is an enhanced
version of DOS's Diskcopy. Features include
single pass duplication of any DOS diskette,
compressed file images, compare, clean,
fastformat, bios calls, and menu or command
line operation. (Ed Marion) (Reg.Fee: $59)
DMAN120.ZIP Yes 81413 12/31/1993
Driv_Man 1.20 displays usage data for up to
26 drives, including logical and network
drives. It will display information such as,
drive capacity, used and free memory, a graph
of usage for each drive, volume label, etc.
The display data may also be recorded to a
file. (MicroMetric) (Reg.Fee: $25)
DMD.ZIP Yes 12133 6/22/1989
Disk Meter Deluxe 2.0 displays free space
remaining on disk both graphically and
numerically for one or more drives. The
graphic display shows space used in yellow
for over 50% and in red for over 90%. The
author suggests that consultants put DMD in
client's AUTOEXEC.BAT file with instructions
to call when red blocks start showing up. It
will also work on monochrome systems and
includes a similar memory checker. (P.C.
Consulting) (Reg.Fee: $5)
DPRESET.ZIP Yes 3636 7/23/1991
Dpreset overrides a feature of DOS 3-5 that
normally causes freed-up disk space not to be
used until remaining contiguous free space
has been used up, which is supposed to reduce
file fragmentation, but may have the opposite
effect sometimes. (Jim Kyle) (Reg.Fee: $0)
DRESET.ZIP Yes 3366 11/22/1993
DReset forces DOS to reread a floppy drive
instead of using the directory listing which
it has in memory for the drive. This fixes
problems when DOS does not recognize that a
floppy has been changed and continues to show
the prior disk's directory. (Trillium
Resources) (Reg.Fee: $0)
DRIV15.ZIP Yes 18096 3/7/1994
Drives 1.5 will display the volume label,
total space, used and free space in kilobytes
or megabytes for a specified range of logical
drives. (Mike Marshall) (ASP) (Reg.Fee: $0)
DRIVE.ZIP Yes 9441 10/28/1993
Drive 1.03 allows you to turn on or off your
drives (A through E) and indicates what mode
you're in. A drive that is turned off cannot
be accessed unless your turn it back on or
reboot. (Mark Vitt) (Reg.Fee: $0 (01-94)
DRIVE4.ZIP Yes 5690 6/14/1987
Drive4 tells you how to install four
internal floppy drives. (Jim Gainsley)
(Reg.Fee: $?)
DRIVLED.ZIP Yes 1434 4/15/1993
DriveLED is a 1k TSR that displays a disk
activity indicator in the corner of screen.
It works for hard and floppy disks. (Tom
Markowski) (Reg.Fee: $5)
DRVPAD.ZIP Yes 3176 4/4/1993
DrivePad is a dummy device driver which uses
up a drive letter. If your system may or may
not be hooked up to a network drive, CD-ROM,
removeable drive, etc, you know how annoying
it is when the letters assigned to those and
other drives change depending on what you are
using at the time. With this device, you can
keep them constant. (Greg Shenaut) (Reg.Fee:
$0)
DRVSPC.ZIP Yes 9822 4/25/1994
DrvSpc 2.0 is a disk drive space and resource
reporting utility. (Wayne E. Birch) (Reg.Fee:
$6)
DRVSWP.ZIP Yes 2572 9/15/1993
DRVSWP 1.0 is a device driver which allows
you to reassign the drive letter sequence
from your CONFIG.SYS file. (Reg.Fee: $0)
DSIZ_CJ.ZIP Yes 10531 3/16/1992
Disk Size is a 9K TSR that displays your
free hard disk space in a small window in the
upper right corner of your monitor. (Clive
Jones) (Reg.Fee: $0)
DSKPCT.ZIP Yes 76747 5/17/1994
DiskPct 1.1 monitors disk utilization on your
OS/2 system. It will display utilization as a
pie chart, along with disk label and
percentage of use. (Jan Hansen) (Reg.Fee:
$0)
DSKWATCH.ZIP Yes 1603 6/22/1989
Dskwatch reports disk errors that DOS may
retry and overcome. This lets you know that
you have a potential problem before it gets
critical. (Reg.Fee: $0)
DWATCH12.ZIP Yes 43193 3/25/1994
Disk Watch 1.2 sounds an alarm if the amount
of available disk space is reduced below a
specified minimum. (Logan Industries, Inc.)
(Reg.Fee: $27)
EMC110.ZIP Yes 8413 9/27/1987
EMC110 is a disk caching program that uses
expanded memory to cache hard disks (not
floppies). Features include the ability to
resize, disable and uninstall the cache, and
caching on both read and write. (Frank
Lozier) (Reg.Fee: $?)
EMMCACH.ZIP Yes 8756 5/29/1989
Emmcache is a disk cacheing program for
Expanded Memory. (Reg.Fee: $?)
ERRWAS.ZIP Yes 17289 11/7/1989
ErrWas 1.0 is a small TSR that remembers the
last ten disk errors and tells you what the
error was caused by, in case your software
only flashes it for a moment, or doesn't
display errors when it needs to. (Dr. Masaaki
Sawada) (Reg.Fee: $10)
EXHUME.ZIP Yes 10974 1/25/1992
Exhume 3.0 will rescue data which has been
lost on a disk after the directory or FATS
have been corrupted. (Norman Newman)
(Reg.Fee: $20)
EZCP330B.ZIP Yes 237355 3/22/1994
EZ-DiskCopy PRO 3.30b is a disk duplication
utility that includes serialization,
bypassing of BIOS for speed, compression of
file images, and more. (Ed Marion) (Reg.Fee:
$136-141)
FAT.ZIP Yes 11514 5/29/1989
Fat includes three programs useful for
recovering lost files, such as ones that are
mistakenly deleted, or a patching up an
incorrect FAT. (Steve Turley) (Reg.Fee: $?)
FAT2.ZIP Yes 14661 1/25/1990
Fat2 1.09 displays the chain of clusters that
belong to a disk file, to determine which
file owns a specified cluster or sector, and
to display general information about a disk.
It will also display general information
about a disk. This also has support for large
partitions under DOS 4+. (Christopher J.
Dunford) (Reg.Fee: $0)
FATFIX.ZIP Yes 8250 2/24/1989
FatFix is a FAT repair utility, for those
who are SURE their first File Allocation
Table is messed up. It will read the second
FAT and let you copy entries back to the
first FAT. Do not use this unless you know
what you are doing and your hard disk is
already trashed anyway. (Michael A. Hotz)
(Reg.Fee: $0)
FDCLEAN.ZIP Yes 132141 4/6/1994
Floppy Drive Clean 1.0 is designed for use
with diskette drive cleaning programs. It
will keep a maintenance log of each cleaning,
along with dates and any additional comments.
(Kevin H. Murphy) (Reg.Fee: $9)
FLASH1.ZIP Yes 6453 12/8/1993
Flash Facts Add Subtract is a flash card
style game which is designed to test your
child's knowledge of addition and
subtraction. Parents can adjust the skill
level of the game. The child's grade will be
displayed at the end of the game. A sound
card is required for voice and sound effects.
(David Teach) (Reg.Fee: $10)
FLASHLD.ZIP Yes 6705 12/9/1991
FlashLED 1.01 is a TSR that indicates disk
drive activity by flashing the keyboard LEDs
and, optionally, the system speaker. This is
useful on systems in which the system case is
on the floor or otherwise out of sight.
(Seagate Technology, Inc.) (Reg.Fee: $0)
FLOPTOOL.ZIP Yes 14078 6/21/1993
FlopTool 1.0 reads anything there is on a
floppy disk, whether it is a DOS disk or not.
The results are written as a ASCII-file on
your hard disk. (Feico P J Nater) (ASP)
(Reg.Fee: $15)
FLUSH.ZIP Yes 2399 5/25/1994
Flush 1.0 allows you to override the delayed
write feature found in many disk caches, and
write the cache contents instantly to disk.
It supports SmartDrive, NCACHE, SpeedDrive,
Superpck, PCache, and Qcache.
(Richard A. Bross) (Reg.Fee: $0)
FM57.ZIP Yes 96900 6/7/1994
FormatMaster 5.7 is a full-featured floppy
diskette format utility. Disk verification
and the ability to format a 360k floppy to
800k in a 1.2meg drive or to 400k on a 360k
drive are included. It also has the the
capability of running FMTMAS.EXE from a
drive. A DOS block device control format
options is available. Other features include
a runtime check for SYS.COM and COMMAND.COM
location; automatic verification and FAT
update following a rapid format of a disk
that contained marked bad sectors; and much
more. (John J. Newlin) (Reg.Fee: $30)
FMAT65.ZIP Yes 22277 4/25/1994
FMat 6.5 is a does-it-all diskette formatter.
It allows maxi-formats that, for example,
format a 1.2MB diskette as a 720K and much
more. Requires DOS 4.0+. (Chris Buijs)
(Reg.Fee: $0)
FMT.ZIP Yes 5591 4/13/1994
FMT formats any disk in any drive in which
it fits. A couple of keystrokes will format
any disk with a normal format or a with a
quicker format. Requires DOS 5+. (Fred
Howard) (Reg.Fee: $5)
FREE3.ZIP Yes 22960 4/25/1994
Free III 2.0e+ will display disk space usage
of all hard drives and network drives in your
system. (Greg Merideth) (Reg.Fee: $0)
GCDROM.ZIP Yes 13109 12/22/1991
GCDROM 1.0 is a generic CDROM driver that
supports SCSI controllers. (James C. Davis)
(Reg.Fee: $0)
HD_INFO.ZIP Yes 227118 12/16/1990
Info-Base2 is a database of technical specs
for 865 different types of hard disks. (James
Rohrer) (Reg.Fee: $25)
HITS62.ZIP Yes 33780 1/18/1994
Hits62 1.0 measures the success rate of the
SmartDrive disk caching software from the
command line. Requires DOS 6.2 and SmartDrive
5.0. (Bob Moroz) (Reg.Fee: $0)
HP15S201.ZIP Yes 16723 10/28/1993
HP150Sys 2.0 is a set of two DOS device
drivers for Hewlett-Packard's HP-150 and
HP-150 series II DOS diskettes. (Charles P.
Guzis) (Reg.Fee: $20)
HRAMDISK.ZIP Yes 5889 2/28/1994
Hramdisk lets you use the memory area
between 640k and 704k for a RAM disk.
(Reg.Fee: $?)
INVIS.ZIP Yes 11376 6/22/1989
Invis-I-Disk fixes your floppies so that
they will be invisible to the system on
bootup without your having to open the drive
latch. (Note: Some systems let you set an
option in system set-up of BIOS to boot from
C: before A:, so try that first.) (Reg.Fee:
$0)
IOMON.ZIP Yes 1857 6/22/1989
Iomon displays an indicator of disk activity
in the top-right corner of your screen.
During a Read, Write, Format or Verify, a
R,W,F or V, respectively, is displayed. An
asterisk indicates other activity. RAM disk
activity is not shown, just floppy and hard
disk activity. (Samuel H. Smith) (Reg.Fee: $0)
JPRDY.ZIP Yes 54367 9/3/1993
Jeopardy Detector 1.0 monitors disk caches
for periods when the disk structure is in
jeopardy. Many disk caches produce periods
when directories point to files which have
not yet been allocated in the File Allocation
Table on the disk. If a crash occurs during
these jeopardy periods, cross-linked files
can result. (Reg.Fee: $?)
LIST1_20.ZIP Yes 50310 5/4/1994
LIST2 1.20 is a text file viewer for OS/2.
Features include case-sensitive and
insensitive regular expression and plain text
searches, horizontal scrolling, ability to
load OS/2, MAC and Unix text files, and more.
(John Allen) (Reg.Fee: $0)
MACETTE3.ZIP Yes 44189 4/25/1994
Mac-ette 3.01u will read, write, format and
duplicate Macintosh HFS format 1.4 Meg
diskettes on a PC equipped with a 3.5 inch
high density diskette drive. (Paul E.
Thomson) (Reg.Fee: $34)
MAP_CS.ZIP Yes 11732 8/10/1989
Map 1.0 displays a graphic and numeric chart
showing usage of all of your logical drives
from C: up. (Common Systems) (Reg.Fee: $5)
MOREDIR.ZIP Yes 2283 6/22/1989
MoreDIR will change the maximum number of
directory entries on a 5-1/4 inch floppy. The
maximum can be increased up to 255 or
decreased to as low as 16. When a small
number of directory entries are reserved the
diskette can hold several K more of data.
MoreDIR did not work on 3.5" and 1.2MB 5.25"
drives when tested by PsL. (Keith P. Graham)
(Reg.Fee: $0)
NDI.ZIP Yes 11068 3/13/1994
Network Disk Info monitors and displays
graphically disk space usage on network
drives. It is intended to be left running,
and it updates the display every 10 seconds;
however, it can also be used on a one-shot
basis on non-network drives. (Mark Vitt)
(Reg.Fee: $0)
NJRAM.ZIP Yes 26211 5/29/1989
NJRam is a RAM disk for EMS memory. When the
RAM disk is accessed, the speaker clicks
softly to let you know that some activity is
taking place. The clicking can be disabled,
but seems like a very good idea. (Mike
Blaszczak) (Reg.Fee: $?)
OS9FMT.ZIP Yes 35691 3/9/1994
Universal Format 1.02 will format OS9 floppy
disks on an MSDOS system. The common OS9
format uses double density disks with 79 to
80 tracks and 16 sectors per track. The
sector size is 256 bytes. C source code is
included. (Wilfried Weigelt) (Reg.Fee: $0)
PALERT.ZIP Yes 17052 6/22/1989
Palert monitors a specified disk drive while
you use other programs and warns you when the
amount of free space falls below a specifed
percentage or number of kbytes. Optionally,
you can use Palert in a batch file that calls
your program and have the batch file not
start the program if the disk doesn't have
sufficient free space. (Norm Patriquin) (ASP)
(Reg.Fee: $?)
PMDIFF27.ZIP Yes 88380 5/24/1994
PMdiff 2.7 compares files side by side,
highlights the differences, and shows how the
files are related. (Daniel J Neades)
(Reg.Fee: $40)
QCACHE.ZIP Yes 506204 3/8/1994
QuickCache II is a disk caching program. It
provides both read-ahead and write-buffering
facilities that significantly reduces the
number of physical accesses that must be made
to the drive. Typical speed increase vary
from 4x on a 55ms hard disk to 14x on a
floppy. The 10k of memory for the system does
not include cache memory, but extended or
expanded memory may be used for that. You can
also Lock Down disk directory sectors, which
insures that they will always be available in
cache. This can increase your disk throughput
significantly for some applications. (P. R.
Glassel & Assoc.) (Reg.Fee: $25)
QCOPY40.ZIP Yes 81890 12/12/1992
QCopy - UF 4.0 is a disk copying and format
utility which will allow you to copy and
format any size disk. Fragmented files on the
source disk will be written in one block on
the target disk. (Ulrich Feldmueller)
(Reg.Fee: $22)
QUIKFLP.ZIP Yes 6234 2/11/1990
QuickFlop 2.01 speeds up the heads on your
floppy drive and turns the drive off
immediately so you can change floppies
without waiting for the drive to slowly quit
turning. It is not a TSR and the effect can
be reversed at will. We tested it on a picky
486 and it worked fine, so it should work on
almost anything. Assembler source code is
included. (Dave Williams) (Reg.Fee: $0)
RAM.ZIP Yes 2719 5/29/1989
Ram.SYS is a RAM-disk-emulator that allows
you to adjust the size of the RAM-disk
without rebooting the system. (Reg.Fee: $?)
ROCKDI.ZIP Yes 24876 1/21/1991
Rock Disk Info 1.13 displays a chart of
information about one or all disk drives.
Info includes their type, volume labels,
sizes, space used/available, sector size,
cluster size, number of FATs, sectors,
clusters, and system identifications. (Rock
Systems) (Reg.Fee: $21)
RWALL.ZIP Yes 14460 2/11/1990
RWAll will allow you to read and write Amiga
and Atari ST floppies with your PC. (ZIS
Software) (Reg.Fee: $15)
SBCD2.ZIP Yes 13597 5/5/1994
SBCD2 is an OS/2 device driver for the
following CD-ROM drives: Creative Labs
OmniCD, IBM ISA CD-ROM Drive, and Panasonic
CR-521,522,523,562,563. (Reg.Fee: $0)
SCAV23.ZIP Yes 1697 6/21/1986
Scav23 reads all blocks on the disk, and
marks unused bad ones in the FAT so that DOS
will not use them later. It will not touch
files with bad blocks. Copy the file which
contains a bad block to another disk, delete
it, then run SCAVENGE again to map out the
bad block. (Back up before trying.) (Reg.Fee:
$0)
SCROS2.ZIP Yes 139073 5/5/1994
SGPRODD.SYS contains the Beta version of an
OS/2 driver that allows Pro 16 Sound Card to
run under IBM OS/2 V2.1 environment.
(Reg.Fee: $0)
SCSI.ZIP Yes 2119 12/10/1993
SCSI 1.0 explains how to convert a
Mac-formatted SCSI drive to a DOS-formatted
SCSI drive. (Richard Goldman) (Reg.Fee: $0)
SETVDISK.SYS No 1408 3/27/1986
Setvdisk lets you set the size RAM disk you
during bootup. Put SETVDISK.SYS plus
VDISK.SYS from DOS 3.1 in your root
directory. In your CONFIG.SYS file, insert
the line: DEVICE=SETVDISK.SYS. When booting,
you will get a prompt asking how much ram to
allocate to the ramdisk. (Reg.Fee: $?)
SIO130.ZIP Yes 151954 5/18/1994
SIO.SYS and VSIO.SYS 1.30 are OS/2 device
drivers. SIO.SYS provides an interface
between application programs and the serial
communications hardware. VSIO.SYS is a
Virtual Device Driver that provides services
for DOS programs executing under OS/2.
(Raymond L. Gwinn) (Reg.Fee: $28,48)
SIZE.ZIP Yes 6153 3/30/1994
Size 1.0 will display the size of the
subdirectory this file is executed from. It
will also show files larger than a specified
size, deepest directory in the tree, largest
subdirectory and the size of all subdirectory
trees one below the current subdirectory.
(Steve Jackson) (Reg.Fee: $0)
STAT.ZIP Yes 433 8/10/1994
Stat displays disk cluster size and other
disk info. (Reg.Fee: $0)
SWVDISK.ZIP Yes 4282 5/13/1994
SwVdisk 1.0 is a modified version of the OS/2
2.1 VDISK.SYS; it uses swappable memory.
(A:WARE Inc.) (Reg.Fee: $0)
SYSTAT.ZIP Yes 2270 6/22/1989
Systat when executed from DOS will display
on your screen the capactity of each drive
and the free space on each. Also if you have
placed on each disk an ASCII file with the
extension of .NAM, it will display the Name
you have given the disk and a comment about
the disk. (Jeff Garber) (Reg.Fee: $?)
TESTDRV.ZIP Yes 35256 12/7/1990
Test Drive 1.4 tests floppy disk drive speed
and performs a read-write test. The
documentation is an extensive course in the
working of diskettes and disk drives.
(Microsystems Development) (Reg.Fee: $0)
TRAKPIC.ZIP Yes 18175 2/18/1993
TrackPic patches a floppy to replace the
"non-system disk" message (that you get when
booting up with a non-system disk) with an
attractive graphic display. TrackPic stores
the graphic in an otherwise unused area of
the disk. For example, on a 40-track, 360k
disk, TrackPic formats a 41st track and
stores the graphic there. This does not
affect normal use of the disk in any way.
(Thomas Opheys) (Reg.Fee: $10)
VASN128.ZIP Yes 47024 11/8/1993
Volume and Serial Number 1.28 allows changing
the serial number and volume name on disks.
(Samual Kaplin) (Reg.Fee: $6)
VEXD.ZIP Yes 28351 6/1/1994
VitCom Intl Extended Diskette Format 1.0 is a
set of two diskette formatting utilities.
E144 formats 1.44M diskettes with an
additional 52.5K of storage space,
effectively turning it into a 1.51MB disk.
E720 will increase 720K diskettes to 750K in
the same manner. (Mark Vitt) (Reg.Fee: $0)
VGACOPYG.ZIP Yes 374977 3/17/1994
VGA-Copy-Pro - German 6.0 is a German
language version of a fast one-pass disk copy
and format program. It will format up to
2.88MB disks including special formats like
1.74MB. Requires EGA/VGA and mouse. Sound
effects can be heard with the use of a
Soundblaster compatible sound card. (Thomas
Moenkemeier) (Reg.Fee: $40)
WDDUPE.ZIP Yes 54326 2/25/1994
Willow Creek Diskette Duplicator 1.0
duplicates and checks floppy diskettes. It
supports 360K, 720K, 1.2M, and 1.44M
diskettes. It can save diskette images on
your hard disk for convenience, and it checks
diskettes two ways - BIOS level track by
track verify, and DOS level file scan to
insure all files are present, readable, and
correct. (Timothy J Yaukey) (ASP) (Reg.Fee:
$29)
WFDS.ZIP Yes 90024 11/16/1993
Free Disk Space 3.21 monitors and displays in
numeric or graphical form the amount of free
disk space on all (or specified) hard drives.
(Mark Hamilton) (Reg.Fee: $0)
WFF17H.ZIP Yes 75166 4/11/1994
What Floppy Format? 1.7h is a menu shell for
Christophe Hochstatter's FDFormat.(which is
on PsL disk #2459 and on the PsL Utilities
CD.). (Angel Babudro) (Reg.Fee: $0)