Misc OLD files

All of the programs listed here except VSORT and TSORT (along with it's memory extender DOS4GW) and OMNIR.EXE were written by me over the course of the past couple of decades. Although many of these utilities are useful to those using Folio VIEWS or other Folio Corporation products, none of the programs are are produced, maintained or otherwise supported in any way by Folio Corporation.

Most of these programs were produced with a very specific project or purpose in mind, so no one will find all of them useful. However, some of the utilities are generic enough that many will find some use for them at one time or another. Many are written in C and execute quite fast. Several are just control programs (CHKLKS.EXE, DSPELL.EXE, DSTAT.EXE, FFFSTATS.EXE, LISTS.BAT and WORDS.EXE) that call others with specific command line arguments appropriate to the particular situation.

Included here for your quick reference is a one-line description of each program. Many have more than one use and these one-liners just don't do them justice, so as I mentioned, they are just for quick reference.

Full help for some programs is available in text files, but for most, just typing the command by itself will give a short reminder of its usage. For all programs, using '/?' on the command line will also give some help about the program. Unfortunately, these programs were not documented by a professional documentation specialist. Some barely have a need for documentation, but others do and I know they're sorely lacking in this respect. Hopefully those with a need will be able to figure them out, but if not, let me know and I'll do what I can to help out as much as I can with whatever time and resources I have available.

Many of these are DOS command line programs and all will run under Windows (3.1/95/NT/XP/etc.) as well.

I hope you find a use for some of these programs. Although I can't promise anything, if you have any suggestions or comments, please contact me.

Thanx!
...Doug

Last update FILENAME - short description
If a utility listed here does not have a link on the filename, I can't find it. If you need a copy, let me know and I'll make the effort to find a copy and make it available.

06-10-1992 APND.EXE - appends one file to another - DCOPY also does this
04-09-1992 CHANGE.EXE - globally changes characters to strings in a file
07-31-1992 CHG.EXE - globally changes characters to characters in a file
11-10-1994 CHKLKS.CSC - OmniMark Compiled Source Code for check links utility
12-02-1994 CHKLKS.EXE - 3.x flat file check links reports bad/unused links/destinations
10-12-1992 COMBINE.EXE - combines multiple files into one file with separator tokens
06-08-1992 DASCII.EXE - counts occurances of characters - like ASCII.EXE, only 60 times faster.
05-01-1995 DCOPY.EXE - a replacement for the DOS copy command - many useful functions
08-21-1992 DCOUNT.EXE - counts and verifies VIEWS 2.x flat file codes
08-30-1993 DDIFF4.ZIP - determine which files have changed since last run (3.x format)
02-16-1995 DDIRSIZE.EXE - similar to FSIZE with different options for CD-ROM production systems
08-31-1992 DDUPE.EXE - removes and reports on duplicate lines in a file
05-19-1993 DELFOL.EXE - removes folios (2.x) using a separate input file with numbers
06-11-1993 DFIND.EXE - finds and runs commands on files/directories
09-06-2006 DGETLINES.EXE (Windows) - grabs lines from a text file
05-13-1992 DIRUTIL.EXE - lets you create, remove and use "invalid" directory names
12-15-1993 DOS4GW.EXE - DOS extender used with TSORT.EXE
03-22-2005 DRENAME.EXE (Windows) - Renames files in a directory tree using Regular Expressions.
05-13-1994 DSPELL.TXT - documentation for DSPELL.EXE and DSPELLER.EXE
05-13-1994 DSPELL.EXE - uses DSPELLER.EXE to produce word lists for QA/QC purposes
05-13-1994 DSPELLER.EXE - uses a text dictionary to find "good" and "bad" words
09-14-1994 DSTAT.ASC - used with FFSTATS to generate character count list - do not edit
02-23-1995 DSTAT.CSC - compiled OmniMark source code for DSTAT
02-23-1995 DSTAT.DOC - documentation for DSTAT
02-23-1995 DSTAT.EXE - control program for DSTAT
02-23-1995 DSTAT.STS - sample output from DSTAT
12-08-1994 DTHUMB.EXE - compress any bitmap images to JPEG and thumbnails for 3.x infobases
05-04-1994 DUPCNT.EXE - counts and removes duplicate lines
05-19-1993 DUPREF.BAT - removes duplicate folios (2.x) based on reference lines
06-10-1992 FDATE.EXE - sets date/time of file(s) - TOUCH didn't use to work like this
10-12-1993 FLFCNV.DOC - documentation for FLFCNV.EXE
10-12-1993 FLFCNV.EXE - fixed length field data conversion program
07-06-1992 FREE.EXE - reports and logs free space on disk drives over time
03-23-1992 FSIZE.EXE - calculates size of files or directories including wasted space
05-27-1993 GETGRP.EXE - gets all groups from a 2.x flat file
10-06-1992 GETREF.EXE - gets all reference lines from a 2.x flat file
03-09-1992 GRPMAP.EXE - map of all the groups/reference lines in 2.x flat file
07-31-1992 LAST.EXE - grabs last n characters from a file - fast even with huge files
06-23-1993 LISTS.BAT - creates 2 different lists of 2.x flat file reference lines.
08-19-1993 LOG.EXE - logs date/time and a comment to a log file for process control, etc.
04-05-1994 OMNIR.EXE - runtime version of Exoterica's OmniMark V2R2 required for DSTAT
01-07-1993 RDUPE16.EXE - removes duplicate folios from a 2.x infobase fast CRC based checking
01-07-1993 RDUPE60.EXE - same as RDUPE16.EXE only handles up to 60,000 folios/file
02-06-1995 REPLIC.EXE - provides FSR with global variable functions for data replication
08-06-1993 RTEST.EXE - read only file access benchmark for CD-ROM etc.
04-15-1993 RWTEST.EXE - read/write file access speed benchmark - nice for networks
12-15-1993 TSORT.EXE - a VERY fast virtual sorting program used with some utilities here. (Requires DOS4GW.EXE memory extender)
11-11-1990 VSORT.COM - a VERY fast virtual sorting program used with other utilities here
06-10-1992 VT.EXE - a shell for the VTRANS utility that ships with VIEWS 2.x
11-16-1993 WIDTH.EXE - calculates the width of the longest line in a file (3.x table)
05-03-1994 WORDS.BAT - counts occurances of words in a file - FFFSTATS does this too. Batch file controls other programs - also get: DUPCNT.EXE, VSORT.COM and WRDLST.EXE.
04-15-1995 WORDS.ZIP - 3 different case sensitive words lists for use with DSPELLER
08-30-1993 WRDLST.EXE - lists all of the different words that occur in a file

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