ExtraDOS Toolbox Professionalþ is a compilation of powerful and sophisticated tools for MS-DOS users. The programs offer functionality; some enhance programs already found in MS-DOS, other tools were familiar to the Unix world and are now available in MS-DOS. ExtraDOS also compliments PC Tools and Norton utilities by offering many features not found in these packages. The quality of our tools will allow you to work faster, smarter and better. Paul Somerson, former Executive Editor of PC Magazine, has selected over 30 of ExtraDOS' utilities for his Bantam Books publication, DOS Power Tools, 2nd Edition, Revised for DOS 5.0. Features Of ExtraDOS Toolboxþ ADDCOMM* allows you to define the actual address of your communications ports in the DOS lower memory segment allowing older machines to support COM3 and COM4. ALARMCLK* provides a simple alarm clock for MS-DOS machines. ALLSUB* Allows any command or program to be run on the current directory as well as all on subdirectories of the current directory. This is useful for deleting groups of files or performing tasks with programs that don't normally allow for subdirectories. AREACODE* AREACODE is a utility that will help you locate the region to which an area code applies or to locate the area code for a specific region. BANNER* Create a large banner using a standard ASCII printer. BOOT Reboot PC from within a batch file or from the DOS command line. BOOTCTL Boot system on hard drive even with a non system floppy disk in the A: drive. BOOTLOCK* Locks out the [CTRL]C, [CTRL][BREAK] and [CTRL][ALT][DEL] keystroke functions. Disable one or any combination of these functions. BRKBOX* Software version of a breakout box. Displays the status of the Serial or Parallel ports on the screen. This is a very handy tool when trying to debug communications or printing problems. CALENDAR* Display monthly or yearly calendar CAT* Unix like CAT utility for displaying, printing, and combining files. CHIMES* Quarterly hour clock chimes. Westminster, Saint Michael, or Whittington chimes. CLEANFL Makes the task of cleaning floppy drive heads much easier and more thorough. Moves the head of the floppy drive to travel the entire span of the cleaning floppy rather than just using a small portion of the cleaning diskette. CLEANUP Cleanup allows you to recover valuable space that is eaten up by unused or duplicate files on your hard and floppy drives. Quickly isolates unused and duplicate files and removes them. COUNT Counts the number of characters, words and lines in a file. CURLOCK* CURLOCK locks the cursor shape (optionally set with CURSOR) so that no matter what software you use the cursor will not be changed. CURSOR* Let's you change the size and shape of the DOS cursor. CUT* Unix like utility for displaying and printing text files in different formats by eliminating columns and other formatting options. CUTPASTE Small clipboard utility for MS-DOS. CUTPASTE allows you to pop up over any DOS application and copy a portion of the information displayed on the screen and paste it into another application, to the printer or to a file. DELAY* Sets a user defined delay in batch files or CONFIG.SYS. DETAB* Strips any tab characters from an ASCII text file and converts them into spaces. This is especially useful when working with old formatted files that you would like to work with in an editor which treats fixed tabs differently. DISKINFO Reads the boot sector of a disk and then makes a DOS call to find out the information that DOS has for that disk. It will then list out the information in a side by side format so that you may compare the reports from DOS and the boot record. EDIT SuperEdit full screen editor many features including multiple windows, text formatting options and pull down menus. EVAL* DOS command line calculator that evaluates mathematical expressions input on the command line. FILEATTR Allows you to set or change the attributes of a group of files. FILEINFO Alleviates the problem that DOS has created by only allowing 8 characters to describe a file. FILEINFO provides a way of adding comments to files in any directory. FILESIZE* Displays a list of files and their respective sizes with summary that gives total sizes, number of files, totals space on disk and space available both in bytes and percentage. FILETREE* Scans the directory structure of a disk and gives a top down tree listing of the entire disk's directory structure. FINDFILE* Will locate files by searching the entire disk for a specified file. Also searches within compressed files to searchfor filenames. When it finds a matching file it will display the directory the file was found in, the complete file name, the file size, creation date and time, and any attributes associated with the file. HELP HELP prints out help messages on some of the more useful and popular DOS commands. HEXDUMP* Provides you a quick dump of the contents of any file. The advantage of HEXDUMP is that you can quickly dump the contents of any file to the screen without having to load the overhead of a shell program. HUSH* A utility that can eliminate a majority of the sounds generated by the PC's internal speaker. KILLDIR* Makes eliminating a directory and all of it's contents a lot easier. It displays information about the directory that includes the number of files and their sizes as well as any subdirectory information. LASER Helps you set your laser printer's mode and also makes it easy for you to send control codes to it. LS* Unix like file listing utility. It has many advanced features beyond that of the DIR command found in DOS. MONITOR MONITOR displays an adjustment pattern for your monitor. It is useful when trying to align and adjust monitors. Support HERCULES through VGA cards MOVE Moves any file from one place to another. MOVE Move files to different locations on the hard disk without having to copy and delete manually. Supports multiple hard drives including network drives. NAMEDIR* Renames directories without emptying or modifying their it's contents. NO File exlusion utility. Let's you run a command on all files except specified groups. PATHFIND* Allows you to search the file path for any files. Will display the files that it finds in order of appearance within the path. This is handy when you are trying to locate a similar program or file that could exist in multiple places in your path statement. PSPRINT Allows you to print DOS ASCII Text files on a PostScript device without the usual conversion. SCRNATTR* Sets the foreground, background and border colors at the DOS prompt. SPEEDRAM* Increases the speed of your system CPU by changing the refresh rate of your system's 8253 timer chip. SpeedRam should increase your CPU's performance from 2% to 10%. TEXTSRCH* Searches for all occurrences of a given string inside of a specified text file. TIDY* Scans drives for any .BAK and 0 length files and deletes them automatically. TOUCH* A unix like utility used to stamp a file's attributes with the current system date and time. TURBOBAT* Compiles batch files into .COM binary programs. This will greatly increase the speed of large batch files by allowing them to run in machine code rather than interpreted DOS commands. USEMEM Program allows you to use up memory for testing programs and applications with a minimal memory setting. USEMOUSE Gives any DOS application the ability to use the mouse. VIDMODE Set the current video mode from the DOS prompt. Allows switching to any of the supported text modes. VOLLABEL Allows you to view and modify the volume label on any disk. * denotes utilities included in DOS Power Tools. ExtraDOS Toolbox Professional is available at your local computer dealer or directly from Foley Hi-Tech Systems for $59.95. MasterCard, Visa and COD orders are accepted. xdosfly 7/23/91