Quik-Edit and associated programs.

A DOS program I first wrote in 1987 but heavily updated to take advantage of Windows 95 features. When Windows takes a dump take heart that this program will still run. Quikedit.exe/qe.bat is a DOS shell similar in concept to the Windows Explorer or File Manager. However it is easier to use and has more features:

• Runs and/or starts DOS and Windows applications or opens applications when their associated file type is run.
• Mark files or directories for copying, moving or deleting and point to destination directories to keep from having to remember all those directory names.
• Automatically prompts when diskettes fill up during copying.
• Allows you to span large files across multiple disks in a DOS copy compatible format.
• Three different overwrite modes.
• Built in powerful search utility to find lost files quickly. Will even search inside any file for a word.
• Print and view files.
• Change their attributes and date stamps. Even can change Windows 95 creation date stamp.
• Define your own function keys to run programs.
• Tree display to navigate your drives and showing network mappings.
• Built in text ASCII Editor with some Word Processing capability.
• Editor has Block and Move features, macro recording and sorting.
• Editor also has a useful Binary mode to edit any type of file.
• So many more features they can't all be listed.
• All programs are fully Windows 95 Long file name compatible when running under Windows.

QE.EXE

EXITWIN.EXE is an easy way to shutdown, restart or exit to MSDOS and run a program from Windows. Also take REBOOT.COM in case your machine doesn't respond to just exitwin.exe and give the command> exitwin reboot to do a restart.

DTR.EXE is a DOS program that measures the throughput in KiloBytes per second to a drive. You can use it on a local drive, a LAN or dialup connection so long as you have read/write access to the drive letter.

LFN.ZIP is a Turbo Pascal/BPW V7 unit that allows DOS, DPMI and Windows 3.1 code to access Long file names when they are running under Window95. Essentially LFN is substituted for the DOS and WINDOS units in the uses clause of the program. The LFN unit replaces System and DOS procedure calls with Long filename compatible ones if running under WIN95 and revert to normal calls otherwise. In addition to replacing Turbo's built in routines, several extra routines such as locking/unlocking file regions are included.

Cardfile is a tiny database program that I originally hacked out in a week because there were no multi-user phonebook programs available that did what we needed in our office. Records in a cardfile can be printed/exported, edited, added, deleted, undeleted, searched, have long notes attached, restructured and imported. There is even a comprehensive file repair routine though data is saved so automatically that you will probably never need it. Context sensitive help assists when you get stuck. Each record in a file can have up to 99 descriptive fields and each file can be up to 2 gigabytes in size. Additionally each record can have a linked note file which can each be up to 2 gigabytes in size. Cardfile is fully multiuser capable with record locking, automatic screen update for all users, private printer definitions for each copy of the program with six different printer definitions for each database. The user interface was a hack as well and could use some revision to make it "nicer" to use. Look for a revision soon. The most difficult part is setting up the printer templates for your printers (ie cards labels envelopes etc). Reference to the online help will help here. Cardfile is a DPMI program so it will require at least a 80286 with 1MB of memory (not a big deal these days).

SETINI.EXE
Syntax: SETINI INI_File Variable=Setting [Header]
Example: SETINI win.ini run=hello.exe [windows]
Setini will set the specified variable to the specified setting in a specified INI file. You may optionally give it a header section under which you want the variable. If the variable exists, it is changed. If it doesn`t exist, it is created. If the header or the INI file doesn`t exist, they are created.

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Please check back for other releases and additions. I will probably be making available some of the other software I have written in the near future.