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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