| Name | Extracted | Size | Date | Description |
| ASC2COM.ZIP | Yes | 239934 | 3/10/1994 | Asc2Com 2.05 will convert a plain text file to a self-scrolling COM file. TXT2COM is a similar program that has a few more features, but ASC2COM-created files take less disk space. Features include mouse support, colors, the ability to mark individual text lines with color, and replace characters for the Taglnes. The program has a pull down menu approach. (MorganSoft) (Reg.Fee: $25) |
| AUTOCOM.ZIP | Yes | 27089 | 6/11/1991 | AutoCom converts text into self-scrolling COM files complete with multi-colored, animated (ascii) graphics. (Charles L. Wiedemann) (Reg.Fee: $14) |
| AUTOREAD.ZIP | Yes | 154492 | 7/14/1993 | AutoRead 2.0 is a file viewing utility for large files. In addition to letting you move around the file with the cursor keys, it will automatically index the files, search for keywords, find text option, remove duplicates and automatically set up chapter markers based on your specification of repeating text (eg: if every chapter heading is underlined with a string of "=" marks). A pull-down menu guides you through the program options. Unlike other text file indexing/viewing programs, you do not have to modify the files before using the program on them. (David R. Grigg) (Reg.Fee: $30) |
| BIGTXT30.ZIP | Yes | 355831 | 6/17/1994 | Bigtext 3.0 can turn text files of 700k or more into self-scrolling files which will fit on a 360k disk. (Kevin Solway) (Reg.Fee: $30) |
| DFAT.ZIP | Yes | 18309 | 1/11/1994 | Dfat 2.5 reports file fragmentation in directory format. Features include file count statistic at bottom of list, and supports nesting of up to 32 subdirectories and 32 fragments per single subdirectory listing. (Bob Eyer) (Reg.Fee: $25) |
| DISKPIE.ZIP | Yes | 47185 | 1/9/1991 | Diskpie 1.1 displays a piechart of file space consumption by space, before or after a specified date, by directory or by whether a file is backed-up or not. It is Novell compatible. (Charles Kigar) (Reg.Fee: $5) |
| DISKTYPE.ZIP | Yes | 447 | 8/10/1994 | Disktype tells you how the specified disk is formatted (eg: double-sided, 9 sector). Faster than using CHKDSK. (Reg.Fee: $?) |
| DOC2COM.ZIP | Yes | 25411 | 5/23/1994 | Doc2Com 1.31 converts a text file to a self-scrolling COM file. (Gerald DePyper) (Reg.Fee: $25) |
| DSU.ZIP | Yes | 17807 | 3/7/1990 | Disk Space Usage 1.2 displays the amount of space required by a specified group of files on a hard disk (under DOS 2 or 3) or on a floppy and the number of 360k, 720k, or 1.44meg floppies it would take to hold the files. (Ed Kidera) (Reg.Fee: $0-$5) |
| EFFIC.ZIP | Yes | 14673 | 6/22/1989 | Effic measures the storage efficiency of any group of files on any floppy or hard disk supported by MSDOS. It returns a list of files with the number of clusters used, the number of non-contiguous clusters and a measure of the efficiency of storage as it will afect read/write performance. If all clusters are contiguous, the efficiency is rated as 100%. Otherwise, the efficiency is downgraded by the percentage of clusters that are non-contiguous. (Reg.Fee: $?) |
| EXEMAS.ZIP | Yes | 48055 | 9/26/1993 | ExeMaster 4.1 displays information about EXE and COM files, including archiver used, whether it is for DOS or Windows, whether it is a compiled batch file or self-displaying text file and more. (David Smith) (Reg.Fee: $0) |
| EZVIEW54.ZIP | Yes | 52078 | 11/9/1993 | EzView 5.4 is a file viewing utility. (Charles Hill) (Reg.Fee: $20) |
| FB312.ZIP | Yes | 245385 | 4/20/1994 | FileBuddy 3.12 is a combination text, archive, and image file viewer. A file and directory window lets you easily select files and change directories with a keypress or mouse click. Archives are viewed by linking to the popular archive utilities such as PKZip press of a key. BIF, GIF, PCX, and TIF image files can be viewed and between formats. Images can be printed on an HP LaserJet or compatible printer. Other features include support for LHA, PAK, ZIP, dBASE, GIF89a, 24-bit TIF, and TARGA files; DOS and archived file deletion; support for ATI's Wonder XL and TSENG/Sierra HiColor 32,768 color video adapters for 24-bit images; word-wrapping; the ability to view embedded archive files up to 5 levels deep; multiple archived file tagging for extraction; multiple key searches; image processing, cropping, and zooming; the ability to view images in slide-show format; and much more. NEW: the ability to run multiple copies of FileBUDDY on a network, GIF89a comment block support. (Lenard Dean) (Reg.Fee: $20) |
| FILED361.ZIP | Yes | 17035 | 11/19/1993 | FileDump 3.61 is a file/record dump/viewer/extract/search utility that allows viewing a file in ASCII, HEX, or EBCDIC. Output can be sent to screen, printer, or disk file. (Stanley R. Weiss) (Reg.Fee: $15) |
| FILETYP.ZIP | Yes | 14639 | 3/18/1991 | FileType 1.5 attempts to tell you what kind of file a specified file is. It may seem a little silly when it tells you that it thinks that XYZ.EXE is an EXE file, but if you have files that have been renamed (possibly by downloading) or if you have a data file of uncertain origins, FileType can be most helpful. Other features include directory recognition and a large list of program identification types. (Cliff Peterson) (Reg.Fee: $0) |
| FVIEW222.ZIP | Yes | 38710 | 2/4/1994 | Fview 2.22 is a text file viewer. (Chris Gordon) (Reg.Fee: $0) |
| GB11.ZIP | Yes | 105982 | 11/17/1993 | Graphics Browser 1.1 is a file browser with a graphical interface. You can have up to 9 sizable, moveable windows open at one time, search for text, scroll or goto a line of text, and more. Requires VGA. (John J. Newlin) (Reg.Fee: $20) |
| HEAD.ZIP | Yes | 11681 | 6/22/1989 | Head is a UNIX-like utility that will display the first 5 lines (by default) of specified text files. There are several switches that allow you to control the output. (John Simonson) (Reg.Fee: $?) |
| HEAD2.ZIP | Yes | 7776 | 6/22/1989 | Head2 displays a specified number of lines from either the beginning or end of a file or alternatively, all but the specified number of lines from the beginning or end of a file. If a file has a few lines of garbage at the beginning, you can redirect the output of HEAD to a new file while deleting those garbage lines. Pascal source code is included. (Marcos R. Della) (Reg.Fee: $0) |
| HLIST10.ZIP | Yes | 37769 | 3/2/1994 | Hlist & Plus 1.0 contains a graphical, ASCII file viewer and other utilities. It will load a file of any size and lines up to 256 characters long. RUN searches for a program on the disk, changes to its directory and runs it. GO searches for a directory and changes to it. Requires a 286 or better and VGA. (Denis G. Sureau) (Reg.Fee: $0-20) |
| JSREC.ZIP | Yes | 52575 | 10/13/1993 | JSRec 2.1 attempts to tell you what software created a specified file. (Johnathan Mark Smith) (Reg.Fee: $15) |
| LIST90H.ZIP | Yes | 99295 | 3/25/1994 | List 9.0h is the premier file viewing utility. It lets you do text searches, filter out garbage characters, change directorys and select files to view from a directory list and much, much more. (Vernon Buerg) (Reg.Fee: $20) |
| LOOK120.ZIP | Yes | 19157 | 6/22/1989 | Look120 allows viewing files of up to 120 columns wide with a standard CGA or EGA. Naturally, the text will be less legible, but we found it readable. Note that this does not leave your system in a 120-column mode, it only lets you read text files in that mode. (Doctor Debug) (Reg.Fee: $0) |
| MAKESCR.ZIP | Yes | 6080 | 1/6/1992 | MakeScroll is a very simple utility to convert text files into self-displaying files. Unlike TXT2COM and ASC2COM, it has no screen scrolling features other than displaying "[More]" when the screen fills with text, but on the plus side, it adds less than 150 bytes to the file and it is free. (Eric Gans) (Reg.Fee: $0) |
| MAN.ZIP | Yes | 11763 | 6/22/1989 | Man is a utility for searching for and reading documentation files on a hard disk. You can optionally specify a subdirectory or search PATH in the DOS environment. Example: You are running a little DOS utility program named XYZ and need to refer to the documentation, you just type MAN XYZ and MAN will search the hard disk for the file XYZ.DOC and when found, display it, optionally using Vernon Buerg's LIST program. (David L. Rick) (Reg.Fee: $?) |
| MOUSLST.ZIP | Yes | 24750 | 12/15/1989 | Mouse Lister 2.1 is a simple text lister with mouse support. (Y. G. Yoder) (ASP) (Reg.Fee: $6) |
| NG_CLON.ZIP | Yes | 28029 | 2/21/1990 | NG_Clone 1.1 reads, decrypts and displays the contents of database files in Norton Guide format. It can be run as either a resident program or non-resident file viewer. Pascal source code is included. (J. P. Pederson) (Reg.Fee: $0) |
| NOTE.ZIP | Yes | 8194 | 6/22/1989 | Note 1.1 is a 3k TSR which lets you scroll through a text file without leaving the program you are in. Because it uses video RAM, it will not work on monochrome systems or other systems that lack the extra video RAM, as do some Tandy computers. It did work fine on a VGA system at the PsL. (Bob Kaye) (Reg.Fee: $0) |
| NUMLINES.ZIP | Yes | 8228 | 10/11/1993 | NumLines 1.0 counts the number of lines in text files. (Douglas Marquardt) (Reg.Fee: $0) |
| PERUSE.ZIP | Yes | 289540 | 3/10/1994 | Peruse is a file reader that allows you to view multiple files of any size in ASCII text or hex formats. Peruse features text search, block and printing capabilities, mouse support, and a pop-up DOS shell. It is DESQview aware. You can also load it as pop-up that uses as little as 7k of DOS RAM by swapping to EMS or a hard disk, which is ideal for keeping the documentation file for a program handy while you run the program. (Bob Falk) (ASP) (Reg.Fee: $0) |
| PROBE.ZIP | Yes | 113026 | 5/26/1994 | KeeProbe 4.80 is a file viewer and editor which can display files in hex, ASCII or EBCDIC. Users can search and replace, sample, translate, convert, reformat, and more. (Kee Software) (Reg.Fee: $23) |
| R48.ZIP | Yes | 272118 | 4/29/1994 | Professional Reader 4.8 is a file viewing utility with many different formats, including a large, high resolution graphic text. (JSoft International) (Reg.Fee: $20) |
| RALPH.ZIP | Yes | 33879 | 2/3/1990 | Ralph the Reader 2.0 is a text file lister. It is not about to dethrone Vern Buerg's LIST, but it does have two distinctions: it will read WordPerfect and WordStar files without conversion and it is designed to work for the blind user using a speech synthesizer. (Kansys, Inc.) (Reg.Fee: $10) |
| RAM_MAN.ZIP | Yes | 33618 | 11/12/1991 | Ram-Man 2.5 is a 31k pop-up file viewer. It will let you view any length text file while running other text-based programs. In addition to moving through a file with the cursor keys, it will search for text. (Rob W. Smetana) (Reg.Fee: $20) |
| READ.ZIP | Yes | 40617 | 5/18/1994 | Read 1.0 is a file viewing utility. It includes built-in pause by page, searching, printing, blocking, print block, and save block. It works with any size file and is super fast and easy-to-use. (Jonathan D. Stanley) (Reg.Fee: $0) |
| README.ZIP | Yes | 26534 | 1/29/1991 | Readme is a simple utility for viewing those README files that come with software. It will show you a scrollable list of any files whose names start with READ. When you pick one, it will invoke an external file viewer, such as Vernon Buerg's LIST, to display the file on screen. (Kenneth Albanowski) (Reg.Fee: $0) |
| SCAN_FI.ZIP | Yes | 5446 | 5/9/1986 | Scan displays only the portion of a disk file made up of printable (alphanumeric) characters.SCAN ignores sequences of less than four printable characters in order to screen out non-text. The purpose of SCAN is to search through downloaded programs for embedded messages like "Copyright IBM. Violators will be squashed." or other text in program files. (Reg.Fee: $?) |
| SHOW.ZIP | Yes | 11913 | 6/22/1989 | Show is a bare-bones file viewer. It has none of LIST's numerous features except the ability to page or scroll back and forth through text files. Show's advantages are that it only takes 2k of disk space, and it is public domain. Assembler source code is included. (Reg.Fee: $0) |
| SHOWV20.ZIP | Yes | 23428 | 2/2/1994 | Show 2.0 allows you to create self displaying text files from plain text. These COM files will display your text, complete with scrolling and color control functions. (Gary M. Raymond) (Reg.Fee: $5) |
| SIMDOC20.ZIP | Yes | 120280 | 7/12/1993 | Simply Docs 2.0 will convert any plain text file into a self-displaying executable, complete with text search, page numbering, color configuration, and more. Included are utilities for capturing portions of a screen for use in your files and for making the files work as pop-up TSRs. (Robert E. Pitcher) (ASP) (Reg.Fee: $30) |
| SSV10.ZIP | Yes | 131165 | 9/15/1993 | S3 Doc View Utility 1.2 is a simple ASCII file browsing utility. (George Spafford) (Reg.Fee: $5) |
| ST12.ZIP | Yes | 2882 | 5/29/1989 | ST12 is a smooth text scroller for EGA/VGA. Use it to read through a file and you can adjust the speed of the scroll or stop it momentarily. With DOS piping, it can also be used to scroll through a directory by entering DIR | ST12. (Reg.Fee: $?) |
| STRINGS.ZIP | Yes | 7461 | 6/22/1989 | Strings displays all strings in a file consisting of a user-specified number of consecutive printable characters. This could be useful in looking for copyrights, version numbers or other text in program files. (Steve Sampson) (Reg.Fee: $0) |
| TAIL.ZIP | Yes | 6375 | 6/22/1989 | Tail prints the last 10 lines of a file, by default, or you can specify as a positive integer the number of lines, characters or "blocks" from the start of the file to begin printing, or as a negative integer, the distance from the end of a file to print. The documentation refers to a "-f" option for which we could not figure out a use, but which didn't work anyway. (Reg.Fee: $?) |
| TEXE.ZIP | Yes | 69138 | 9/15/1991 | TEXE 2.0 converts any text file into a self-scrolling EXE file. It can convert files up to 2000 pages long. It provides support for Windows and for a mouse. It adds 15k to the text size. Also included is TEXEPOP, a pop-up text file viewer. (Panda Studio Inc.) (Reg.Fee: $30-$52) |
| TWOFILE.ZIP | Yes | 13933 | 3/24/1991 | TwoFiles allows you to view two files at the same time and scroll the files up and down independently. (David Smith) (Reg.Fee: $0) |
| TXT2COM.ZIP | Yes | 28785 | 6/22/1989 | Txt2Com lets you create self-scrolling COM files out of text files. Features include printing the text, converting the COM file back to a text file and the ability to use colors and to display a title on each screen. Function keys can be used to branch to parts of the file from an opening menu screen. The ability to make the file stay resident and to be able to pop it up while in other programs make this an easy way to create your own help files. Txt2Com also lets you search the file for specific text. (Keith P. Graham) (Reg.Fee: $5) |
| TXTEXE.ZIP | Yes | 25903 | 3/14/1994 | TXT2EXE 2.2 creates self-displaying files from ASCII text files. (John De Palma) (Reg.Fee: $0) |
| TXTRUN.ZIP | Yes | 74767 | 5/19/1991 | TXTRun turns text files into COM files with pop up pages, the ability to run programs with a keypress, and more. This is like a cross between hypertext and a DOS menu program. Viewing boxes can be smaller than full-screen and moved about the screen by the user. Many other features are included. (Dr. Masaaki Sawada) (Reg.Fee: $10-$20) |
| VIEW.ZIP | Yes | 6116 | 6/21/1993 | View 2.1 is a very small (1k) file viewing utility, ideal for inclusion on distribution disks. In fact, we include View on most of our disks and in the PsL CD-ROM root directory. (David M Dibble) (ASP) (Reg.Fee: $0) |
| VIEWFILE.ZIP | Yes | 61220 | 3/25/1994 | View - MD 9.2a is a file viewer for WordPerfect 5.0-6.0, Microsoft Word 4-5, WinWord 1-6, Win Write, Ami Pro, Wordstar, and ASCII. (Malcolm Drury) (Reg.Fee: $20) |
| WHATIS.ZIP | Yes | 10282 | 12/11/1990 | WhatIs 1.2 tells you if a file is an executable or not, which is useful if you have downloaded a file and didn't put an extension on it. It can also tell what compiler was used to create it, though we are not sure what you can do with that information. It will detect LZEXE-compressed files, as well. (J.E. Smith) (Reg.Fee: $5) |
| WINDIR.ZIP | Yes | 83107 | 3/6/1994 | WinDir is a simple, but intelligent, directory and file viewing utility. It displays the current directory, but you can easily move to other directories. If you press Enter, it invokes your specified file viewer (eg: LIST) to view the file unless the file is an archive, in which case it invokes the proper archiving utility to list the contents. You can also view (LIST) files that are inside an archive. WinDir takes full advantage of 4DOS, including its ability to place multiple DOS commands on a single line, and awareness of the 4DOS description feature. Mouse support is included. (Gil Yoder) (ASP) (Reg.Fee: $15-$20) |
| WRITEME.ZIP | Yes | 88066 | 11/20/1991 | The WriteMe System lets you create self-scrolling documents. Features include smooth scrolling, up to 250 colors, easy box drawing, up to 500 lines of text, and a "what you see is what you get" approach. (Sitting Duck Software) (Reg.Fee: $45) |