







ExtraDOS Toolbox (tm)
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  Users Manual




















Copyright (c) 1985-93 Foley Hi-Tech Systems (ASP)  All Rights Reserved


Introduction
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ExtraDOS Toolbox is a compilation of tools useful to Microsoft DOS
users.  I originally wrote the first version of ExtraDOS under MS-DOS
because I found a need for them and there were no commercially
available products that provided these functions.  Some ExtraDOS tools
were designed to enhance programs already found in MS-DOS.  Other
tools were familiar to the Unix world, but were not available in
MS-DOS.  Over the years this collection has grown into large group of
very useful tools.  Some of these utilities are duplicates of those
found elsewhere, but often provide much better features or reduced
memory overhead than similar utilities found elsewhere.  In addition,
ExtraDOS complements PC-Tools and Norton Utilities with added tools
these programs do not provide.

Over thirty of the ExtraDOS Toolbox utilities have been selected by
Paul Somerson, former Executive Editor of PC Magazine, for Bantam
Books', DOS Power Tools, 2nd Edition, Revised and Expanded for DOS
5.0.  Many of the ExtraDOS Toolbox utilities are now appearing in many
popular DOS books that feature shareware enhancements for DOS.

I hope you find these tools useful and convienent.  Any suggestions
for enhancements, improvements or additions are welcome.  Please
contact use with your comments.


David R. Foley


License Agreement
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  This software is protected by both United States' copyright law and
  international treaty provisions. Therefore, you must treat this
  software "just like a book," with the following single exception.
  Foley Hi-Tech Systems authorizes you to make archival copies of the
  software for the sole purpose of backing up our software and
  protecting your investment from loss. By saying, "just like a book,"
  Foley Hi-Tech Systems means that this software may be used by any
  number of people and may be freely moved from one computer location
  to another, provided there is absolutely no possibility of it being
  used at one location while it is being used at another. Just as a
  book cannot be read by two different people in two different places
  simultaneously, the software may not be used by two different people
  in two different places simultaneously.

  You may not make copies of the software documentation or disk,
  except as described above. You may not distribute, rent, sublicense,
  or lease the software or the documentation. You may not alter,
  modify, or adapt the software or documentation, including but not
  limited to translating, decompiling, reverse assembling, or creating
  derivative works. You may not use the software in a network,
  timeshareing, multiple CPU, or multi- user environment unless each
  user is licensed by Foley Hi-Tech Systems.


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LIMITED WARRANTY

  Upon notification of defects in material or workmanship,
  within the warranty period of 45 days from the date of purchase,
  Foley Hi-Tech Systems will, at its option, replace the defective
  diskette or refund the license fee. If you need to return a product,
  call the Foley Hi-Tech Systems Technical Support Service Department
  to obtain a return authorization number. The remedy for breach of
  this warranty shall be limited to replacement or refund and shall
  not encompass any other damages, including but not limited to loss
  of profit, and special, incidental, consequential, or other similar
  claims.

  Foley Hi-Tech Systems specifically disclaims all other warranties,
  expressed or implied, including but not limited to implied
  warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose
  with respect to defects in the diskette and documentation, and the
  program license granted herein in particular, and without limiting
  operation of the program license with respect to any particular
  application, use, or purpose. In no event shall Foley Hi-Tech
  Systems be liable for any loss of profit or any other commercial
  damage, including but not limited to special, incidental,
  consequential, or other damages. This statement shall be construed,
  interpreted, and governed by the laws of the State of California.


TRADEMARK INFORMATION

  ExtraDOS Toolbox, TurboBAT, SpeedRAM, Screen Manager, Profiler,
  WizLabel, CDBS, Press Gate Manager, ExtraWindows Toolbox and Safety
  Disk are trademarks of Foley Hi-Tech Systems.

  MS-DOS and Windows are trademarks of Microsoft Corporation.

  Norton Utilities are a trademark of Symantec.

  PC-Tools is a trademark of Central Point Software.

CLEANFL - Clean Floppy Drive Heads
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DESCRIPTION

  CLEANFL is a utility that makes the task of cleaning floppy drive
  heads much easier and more thorough.  By moving the head of the
  floppy drive back and forth traveling the entire span of the drive
  you get a much better cleaning action and the surface of your
  cleaning diskette will last much longer.  Most cleaning diskettes
  tell you to place them in the drive and type DIR A:.  In this
  scenario the head is always over the first track using a small
  percentage of the cleaning surface all the time.  By using CLEANFL
  the cleaning surface gets a much more even wear and will last longer
  and provide a better cleaning job for your diskette drives.


VERSION

  4.01  11/01/93


COMMAND FORMAT


  CLEANFL [d:] [/Tnn] [/Pnn] [/NOH]

  d:      refers to valid floppy drive (A:, B:, etc).

  /Tnn    specifies the number of tracks

  /Sn     specifies the number of sides

  /Pnn    specifies the number of passes

  /NOH    Supress the Header Display


NOTES

  Everything requested has been done.  The parameters can be in any
  order on the command line.  The drive specifier requires the colon
  (:) since that's how I verify that the parameter is, in fact, a
  drive letter.

  The autodetect of the number of tracks and the drive type (floppy,
  fixed, or RAM) needs to be tested on systems with very old BIOSes
  (pre 1984) and also on XT class computers.  On systems where the
  feature isn't supported you should get an error message stating that
  the /Tnn parameter is required (no default).  On not sure of the
  result if you drive to CLEAN a harddrive with a very old BIOS.  If
  it let's it slip by it shouldn't be a problem since it will only
  move the head a few times without changing the data.

TECHNICAL SUPPORT
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  Often we get calls from people asking questions that can be
  solved easily by checking through the manual before calling tech
  support. We ask that you browse the manual and look for information
  pertaining to your particular problem before calling. This can often
  save you time, as we take a collection of our most common questions
  and try to address them in this manual.

  We offer alternative methods besides the conventional phone
  support, such as a multi-line 24-hour BBS system. We also monitor
  most technical conferences in the BBS Interlink and RelayNet
  networks as well as many conferences on the CompuServe
  Information System. You may send messages and questions via any of
  these services.

  Currently our Tech Support office is staffed Monday through Friday
  from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Pacific Time. There is a chance,
  however, that someone is in the office outside this time frame.
  If so, we will gladly answer your questions outside the normal
  business hours.  Registered users are given unlimited technical
  support.

  Foley Hi-Tech Systems
  Technical Support Department
  185 Berry Street
  San Francisco, CA  94107
  (415) 882-1730
  (415) 882-1733 FAX
  (415) 882-1735 BBS
  PCVENB CONF. 13 CompuServe



CREDITS
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  This collection of utilities started out as a small set of home
  grown tools that I just could not stand to live without.  Many times
  someone would see me using them and ask for a copy.  This was a big
  mistake.  All of the sudden I had to debug my code.  Someone would
  call me up and remind me of some problem with a utility that I had
  written or asked me to just add this one little feature.  Six years
  later the package has evolved to its current state.  Along the way I
  have had the help of many people in testing and ideas for products.
  I would like to thank all of those people who have of course
  registered these utilities as this is now a new incentive for
  continuing to expand them.  More specifically I'd like to thank the
  following:

  Kathy Smith
  Jay Wessel
  Roger Cross
  Brian & Tess for Channel 1
  Paul Somerson & Bantam Books
  PC Tech Journal (A Great Loss)
  PC Magazine
  Byte Magazine
  Jerry Pournelle
  Association of Shareware Professionals




PROGRAMMING

  The ExtraDOS Toolbox utilties use a wide variety of programming
  tools including:

  Borland Turbo Pascal 7.0
  Borland Turbo Assembler 3.0
  Borland Turbo C++ 1.0
  Borland Turbo Debugger 2.0
  Turbo Power Software Object Professional 1.0
  Phil Katz' PKLite Professional 1.13
  Unity Programmers Editor 3.33
  Ralph Browns' Interrupt List


  Programming by:

  Mike Blaszczak
  David Foley
  Joe Halpin
  Bill McKee
  Mike Molloy
  Mike Viens
  Ross Wentworth
  Randall Woodman


CREDITS
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ART

  Artwork for the ExtraDOS Toolbox was created using:

  Ian Davis' TheDraw 4.01
  Aldus Freehand 2.0
  Electronic Arts Studio/8 2.0


  Art by:

  David Foley
  Noel Gamboa
  Moses Gates
  Shahasp Herardian
  Pat McSween
  Ross Wentworth


DOCUMENTATION

  Documentation for the ExtraDOS Toolbox was written using:

  FHTS SuperEdit 3.04
  Word Perfect 5.1
  MS Word for Windows 2.0
  Grammatik for Windows 1.0
  Aldus Pagemaker 4.0
  Unity Programmers Editor 3.33


  Documentation by:

  Mike Blaszczak
  David Foley
  Mike Viens
  Ross Wentworth


  Printed Manuals by:

  BindCo, Brisbane, CA.


LICENSE INFORMATION

  CHIMES, EVAL and RAMDRIVE are derivatives of the Nifty James
  utilties by Mike Blaszczak.

  FILEATTR, NAMEDIR and SWAPFILE are derivatives of the Fantastic
  Utilities by Mike Viens.



FHTS Products
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Safety Disk (tm)

  Safety Disk saves all of your systems vital information and will
  solve most problems due to:  Loss of battery power, Loss of CMOS
  information, accidental deletion of boot files, virus damage to boot
  disk.


  "Use Safety Disk and your PC is Safe.", Computer Shopper, March 1992

  "Used in Conjuntion with a conventional backup utility, Safety Disk,
   for $59.95 will provide as bulletproof a backup as you're likely to
   find in the PC marketplace.", InfoWorld, February 10, 1992

  "Safety Disk is so deceptively easy to use that it makes hard-drive
   and computer maintenance seem impossibly easy.", PCM Magazine, May
   1992

  "I have discovered the most unique and useful system maintenance
   utility since Spinrite came along.", MBUG PC Newsletter, December,
   1991


ExtraDOS Toolbox (tm)

  A large collection of over 50 utilities that DOS forgot. Includes
  many helpful utilities that enhance MS-DOS machines. Featured in the
  DOS Power Tools, 2nd Edition, Revised for DOS 5.0 book by Bantam
  Books.


WizLabel (tm)

  Print Sharp Wizard phone listings directly to your SLP Printer
  without having to convert your data.


Coach Database Systemț.

  CDBS provides a method for tracking and evaluating NBA teams, NBA
  players, and college players. It supplies a comprehensive report
  generator for building decision support reports on scouted players.


FHTS Products
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Press Gate Managerț.

  Software for event organizers. Creates and maintains a database of
  events and guests with the ability to track seating by type,
  location, and person. Produces seating charts and labels for press
  passes.


FINDBț.

  Financial Database System for tracking shareholders in a company.
  Allows the instant retrieval of information based on any part of a
  persons account id, ss#, zip code etc.  Has support for completely
  customized HP Laserjet tax forms.  Ideal for generating K1 tax
  reports for limited partnerships.



EXTRADOS TOOLBOX UPCOMING ADDITIONS
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We are constantly adding new utilities to the ExtraDOS Toolbox
collection.  Some are developments of ideas from our customers.  If
you know of a utility that you would find handy or updates to
existing utilities please let us know about them.


BATPLUS     Collection of enhancements for DOS Batch files.  BATPLUS
            enhancements will also be supported by TurboBAT.

BOOTMGR     Boot Manager will allow you to choose from many different
            boot up configurations by displaying a menu of choices
            at boot time.  Each configuration can have a seperate
            AUTOEXEC.BAT and CONFIG.SYS associated with it.

DIALIT      Small TSR that allows you to pop up over any text screen
            and capture a phone number and then dialing with your
            modem.

DIFF        Full screen file comparison utility.  Will display the
            differences between two different files.

DIRSORT     Sort directories by Name, Extension, Date, Time or Size.

DISKTEST    Command line utility to perform testing functions on disk
            drives looking for bad sectors or clusters.

EMSX86      EMS 4.0 Memory Manager that converts Extended Memory into
            LIM EMS 4.0 Expanded memory.

FKEYSET     Allows you to assign customized values for all the function
            keys.

LQPRINT     Allows 9 pin dot matrix printers to print near letter
            quality output by converting text into high resolution
            graphics.

NBSTIME     Will set your PC clock to National Atomic Clock time by
            calling NBS with your modem.

PRMPTMGR    Prompt Manager gives you access to a library of DOS prompts
            and allows you to create your own DOS prompts.

PRINTCTL    Print Controller is a multiple printer spool and configuration
            utility.  Supports EMS or DISK spooling and up to three
            printer ports.


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SORT        Advanced SORT utilty for DOS.  Features many enhancements o
            over the DOS version.

SPEEDFL     Increase access to some floppy disk drives.

SPLITFL     Split files into multiples for modem or diskette transfers.

STOPWTCH    Stop Watch allows you to time programs at the DOS prompt.

SWAPFILE    Swap to file names with the associated files.

XCD         Smart CHDIR command.  Will accept partial names.

XDEL        Advanced delete command.  Allows many options and exclusions.

XDIR        Updated DIR command with sort options.

ZIPCODE     TSR to allow the searching of US Postal Zip Code Database.




  The latest versions of the ExtraDOS Toolbox utilities can be found on:

  FHTS PC GURU III BBS, San Francisco, CA  (415) 882-1735

  CHANNEL 1 BBS, Cambridge, MA             (617) 354-8873

  COMPUSERVE INFORMATION SERVICE           PCVENB CONF. 13

