Files in /pub/archimedes/utils: ------------------------------ Sunday 28 December 1997 53 kb 64coder100.arc 12 July 1996 A desktop application which allows the user to code and decode MIME base64 messages. 11 kb AcornMenu.arc 30 June 1996 !AcornMenu is a desktop application that acts much like the System 7.5 Apple Menu (including sub-directory sub-menus). Drag directorys/applications/files to its small window to add them to a simple menu. Directorys on the main menu give access to sub-directories via a sub-menu pointer. Clicking on a menu item launches the application/file/opens the directory. The window also displays one of three configurable bits of info (time, date, freeram) (but doesn't everything?). One button on the window is set up to 'tile' all open windows. 2 kb BackIcon.txt 21 November 1994 12 kb BackIcon.arc 21 November 1994 Allows you to move windows up and down the window stack as well as just sending them to the back. 746 CDPlay.txt 05 April 1997 Useful aliases. 28 kb CDPlay.zip 18 June 1997 Useful aliases. 2 kb CLIGuard.txt 21 November 1994 93 kb CLIGuard2.arc 14 January 1995 Gives you a list of modules, you can do the usual things with them (unplug, reinit etc), also get *help and do various other commands. 270 kb ClicBack2.99.zip 07 June 1996 This is a CAREWARE hard disc backup program with all the proceeds donated to CLIC, the Cancer and Leukarmia In Childhood trust. (Registered charity # 802396) The program features: . Full, Differential and Incremental backups . Selective option to preserve history integrity . Backup to floppies or another hard disk. . Backup only specified directories or files. . Exclude any files or directories from the backup. . Verify whilst backing up. . Password protection for added security. . 32 bit CRC . Restore data to any directory. . Powerful searching facility to locate Files / Directories or Applications within backup data. . Ability to restore whole directories or applications. . Variable data compression. . Estimate number of floppy disks required. . Estimate time required to complete backup. . Save settings as configuration files. . Customisation file. . Acorns Interactive help supported. 346 ConfigPlus.txt 15 April 1995 82 kb ConfigPlus.arc 15 April 1995 Attaches itself to !Configure, gives you four more icons in the main window, where you can set more options (including third party options). 282 D64ImageFS.txt 24 March 1997 Enables you to access D64 disc images (as used by most C64 emulators) in a RISC OS-conforming way. Videoware. Also includes a reader for zip disc encoded files (PD). 17 kb D64ImageFS.zip 24 March 1997 41 kb ExTARct.arc 17 August 1995 Risc OS friendly tar file extractor, version 0.1 25 kb ExtBasDis.zip 20:01 06 September 1997 Extented BASIC assembler v1.76 Extended Dissassembler v0.31 430 FastTask.txt 15 April 1995 73 kb FastTask.arc 15 April 1995 703 HardBack.txt 26 October 1996 397 kb HardBack.arc 26 October 1996 Hardback release 1.10 - A Powerful disc backup system (Backup 1.640, Restore 1.400) Powerful disc backup system, capable of backing up hard discs, optical discs, networks etc to fixed and removable media, including floppies. Lots of features, including incremental backups, automatic backups, and virtual Filer displays. StrongARM compatible. A 7700 word manual in text and Impression format is included. This is SHAREWARE, a much improved version with printed manual is available from the author for 10 pounds. Author is hardback@marketto.demon.co.uk 2 kb HourExt.txt 21 November 1994 24 kb HourExt.arc 21 November 1994 Turns the hourglass on when a task is not multitasking. Useful for boot sequences. 3 kb ISpriter2It.arc 09 January 1996 144 kb MailList.v0_16.arc 05 October 1995 Mailling list management program (and update file). Run your own mailling lists with this program. 7 kb Mailqv2.arc 16 January 1995 Mail queue examiner. 496 MemoryPie2.txt 15 April 1995 28 kb MemoryPie2.arc 15 April 1995 Pie chart memory usage on the icon bar. 2 kb MoreIBar.txt 21 November 1994 20 kb MoreIBar.arc 21 November 1994 A response to the 'Scrolling the icon bar faster' discussion on comp.sys.acorn, this provides a secondary, vertical icon bar. Mouse clicks work, menus are opened at a sensible height, file drags from the Filer work (but not from other applications), interactive help works. 2 kb MultiObey.txt 21 November 1994 13 kb MultiObey.arc 21 November 1994 Allow Obey files to multitask. Shows you the current line and the position in the file as you go along. Good for boot sequences. 6 kb Repression.arc 15 July 1996 Maintains the date-stamp of the !System folder. This program re-instates the date stamp of your system directory should it ever get changed by: 1) Broken versions of 'SysMerge' 2) Moving the 'System' directory to another disc. Some may find that this fixes 'corrupt' applications. 57 kb SQSource.arc 11 January 1995 2 kb SetAlias.zip 14 April 1997 Useful aliases. 2 kb ShortHelp.txt 21 November 1994 6 kb ShortHelp.arc 21 November 1994 A set of library routines for people programming modules in BASIC, that allow you to crunch *help messages using OS_PrettyPrint (and thus making the module smaller). 253 ShrnkRMA.txt 16 January 1996 592 ShrnkRMA.zip 16 January 1996 21 kb Tag113.arc 01 December 1996 !Taglines is an application which allows taglines to be added to any file which has the current text input. It stores taglines in different files, each one relating to a specific topic. Topic files can be switched on or off to control the variety of taglines available. Simple effects can also be applied to the tags, such as forcing the use of upper or lower case letters, printing the tagline in reverse or using a random mixture of upper and lower case letters. The application is freeware, has been tesed on an A5000 and A4000. It requires the ABCLib module to reside in !System 12 kb Tldc.arc 07 December 1996 63 kb UUcoder123.arc 28 February 1997 Combines and decodes files downloaded on a PC (or via the Risc PC PC card) which have at the end of each line rather than in RISC OS. Handles the non-standard headers from ANT's Marcel uucode and base64 better, extracting the correct filename and type. Better at finding the filename for base64 files. More tolerant when uudecoding. 12 kb WimpKeys.arc 25 March 1994 Popup function key strip - macros at the click of a mouse button. 691 WinceP.txt 22 June 1996 35 kb WinceP.arc 22 June 1996 355 ZoomChar.txt 29 May 1995 12 kb ZoomChar.arc 29 May 1995 372 amnsf.txt 20:24 09 August 1997 56 kb amnsf.zip 11:45 09 August 1997 AmnesiaFlags Allows easy setting of flags in Amnesia (v1.01) You can easily set the flags required and then the number in Hex and Decimal is given for you. 194 arctune.txt 25 July 1995 47 kb arctune.zip 25 July 1995 123 base64.readme 29 December 1994 17 kb base64.zip 29 December 1994 6 kb bj-130.zip 06 March 1996 BJ-130 Printer driver for BJ-130 384 kb blackhol.arc 14 April 1997 BlackHole II version 4.04 BlackHole II provides a sophisticated drag and drop wastebin with automatic 'ageing' of files. It can also intercept files deleted from the filer menu and the command line. As well as this it includes a fast, sophisticated file finder, an application saving thingy that can't be described, a screen saver, an iconbar clock, a module killing utility, and a 'Fast Wipe' thing for floppy discs. I think that's about it. 330 bud.txt 10 June 1996 42 kb bud.arc 10 June 1996 Batch UUDecode utility. Will UUDecode multi-part binaries, catering for out-of-order arrival, regardless of the convention used for identifying the parts. Operates on news or mail batches. Version 0.10 39 kb cft.arc 04 January 1996 2 kb closer.arc 01 February 1996 9 kb compileUPGRD.zip 25 July 1996 Upgrade for Compile (just swap !RunImage) 76 kb compile.zip 24 July 1996 Makes detailed Basic info files This is an 'easy to use' basic info file compiler, which will put together detailed information files (in the form of text files), set out neatly. The files can be imported and exported from !Zap,!StrongEd,!Edit directly or just saved to a directory display. 11 kb ctrlbox.zip 06 March 1996 CtrlBox Desktop toolbox 5 kb dosmappr.zip 06 March 1996 DOSMapper Lots of DOSFS filetype mappings 1 kb eteled.arc 31 May 1995 18 kb file_split_join.zip 23 September 1996 Utilities for splitting large files into multiple chunks and for joining them back together again. 186 kb fileicon.arc 01 April 1995 83 filters.txt 20 February 1995 23 kb filters.arc 20 February 1995 228 foo.txt 09 January 1996 9 kb foo.arc 09 January 1996 6 kb framerte.zip 06 March 1996 FrameRate Adds 'Frame rate' section to DisplayManager 5 kb freeptch.zip 06 March 1996 FreePatch Patches 'Free' section 95 kb fsck121.arc 09 February 1995 13 kb grab.zip 06 March 1996 Grab Wimp sprites grabber 15 kb graff.zip 06 March 1996 Graff Function plotter 2 kb groups020.txt 20 May 1997 51 kb groups020.arc 20 May 1997 Newsgroup list maintenance program. 339 hmrfnt.txt 20:24 09 August 1997 59 kb hmrfnt.zip 11:46 09 August 1997 Hammer Front Frontend for the Hammer module (v1.00) This is a simple frontend to Andy Southgates Hammer compression module. 12 kb hourtest.zip 06 March 1996 HourTest Hourglass control 13 kb iconiser.arc 06 January 1996 Replacement iconiser for use with Pinboard. 358 jtrans.txt 20:25 09 August 1997 97 kb jtrans.zip 11:46 09 August 1997 JpegTrans Frontend to JpegTran (v1.10) This is a small frontend to JpegTran. You can create optimised or progressive jpegs from normal jpegs. 337 lpr010.txt 10 February 1997 54 kb lpr010.zip 10 February 1997 311 lzhfnt.txt 20:25 09 August 1997 62 kb lzhfnt.zip 11:47 09 August 1997 LZHFront Frontend to the LZH compression module (v1.01) Frontend to the LZH compression module. 13 kb makro.zip 06 March 1996 Makro Desktop macro system 237 man_nroff.txt 04 October 1995 80 kb man_nroff.tgz 04 October 1995 14 kb mode.zip 06 March 1996 Mode Desktop mode changer [Not Risc PC] 7 kb mousey.zip 06 March 1996 Mousey Mouse coords display 4 kb mpack152.txt 21 October 1996 57 kb mpack152.zip 21 October 1996 MIME encoder/decoder. Munpack also decodes UUCode and binhex. Handles files split over several messages, copes with parts in any order. Wimp GUI front end. 7 kb openfile.zip 06 March 1996 OpenFiles Close open files 1 kb osliblfn.zip 06 March 1996 OSLibLFNs Rename OSLib filenames to their 'long' form [Needs LongFilenames] 1 kb patch.README 18 February 1995 28 kb patch.arc 18 February 1995 11 kb pctext.zip 06 May 1996 !PCtext is a short utility to convert DOS files to TEXT files and vice versa. It is especially useful for use with !Edit (producing CONFIG.SYS & AUTOEXEC.BAT files for the PC cards). 26 kb pd-flopfs.arc 28 August 1995 Floptical filing system. 17 kb pd-magfs.arc 28 August 1995 M-O filing system. 235 kb pdftops_0.5.arc 09 June 1996 This utility takes Adobe Portable Document Format files and does its best to translate them into Adobe PostScript format, thus enabling viewers such as RiScript to preview the files on screen, or allowing PostScript printers to generate hard copies. This is a port of part of the xpdf software package, and is supplied with a binary plus only the necessary sources, some of which have been modified. [DIR] programmer/ Utilities mainly of use to programmers. 378 prot0.bas.bin 14 February 1994 BASIC program to write protect 'page zero' of the Archimedes base memory - stops programs from accidentally overwriting the main software vectors. 13 kb ptrwrap.zip 06 March 1996 PtrWrap Pointer 'wrapper' 14 kb pullup.zip 13 April 1997 This Program is a time saving utility. It allows you to setup quick methods of running programs. It does this by allowing the creation of bars just above the icon bar. You can then add files to these bars. Simply that's it but there are more advanced features such as : The ability to sort the items The ability to create a series of submenus in the bars The ability to perform *commands instead of running a program 3 kb qedit058.txt 13 May 1997 23 kb qedit058.spk 13 May 1997 14 kb qzap.arc 24 November 1994 54 kb qzapsrc.arc 24 November 1994 QZap desktop disassembler --- and source code. [DIR] riscpc/ Utils with only work on RiscPCs 232 rot13.txt 09 January 1996 11 kb rot13.arc 09 January 1996 325 kb rpm.arc 11 January 1997 [DIR] sayit/ Language training programmes 13 kb scrnmode.zip 06 March 1996 ScrnMode Screen mode changer 84 kb self-extracting-sparkplug-225.basic.bin 23 September 1996 Spark is the most commonly used compressor/archiver for the Arc, and this BASIC program will generate SparkPlug (the read-only version). This will handle all the other files in /pub/archimedes, including any zip files. 8 kb serbuf_ro2.arc 30 November 1994 750 serbuf_ro3.arc 30 November 1994 Serial buffer for RiscOS2 and RiscOS3 282 singular.arc 16 May 1995 13 kb smilies.zip 06 March 1996 Smilies Desktop smiley button-bar 13 kb status.zip 06 March 1996 Status Desktop message monitor 598 swiref.msg 22 March 1995 55 kb swiref.arc 22 March 1995 126 kb tarZ.arc 11 May 1994 Archimedes version of unix tar with a kind of front end which help with archiving. (This includes Frank Lancasters v1.1e Tar, Paul Moores gawk and a version of compress.) 31 kb tri.arc 01 August 1996 Tri.arc contains a mulit-tasking application called Triangles. This is a maths program which uses the trig laws to resolve information about any given right angle triangle. All working out is shown on screen together with a scale diagram of the triangle. All trig' functions relating to triangles are supported. Also has a graph window allowing the graphs of Sin and Cos to be plotted. Moving the cursor around the graph displays the values of x and fn(x). Fully supports interactive help etc and tested on A5000 / A4000. Works on RiscOS 3.1 and 3.11 but NOT RiscOS 2 Shareware for schools and organisations only, otherwise no registration fee. 7 kb tyme.zip 06 March 1996 Tyme Time display 67 kb u2_313.arc 09 February 1995 Uudecoder V3.13 - for when all else fails. 14 kb utility.zip 13 April 1997 Version 1.11 A whole bunch of utilities sitting on the icon bar. 52 kb wimpmon135.arc 10:04 17 December 1997 Wimp message monitor V1.35 14 kb winctrl.zip 06 March 1996 WinCtrl Move & resize no-gadget windows 394 wombat.readme 29 December 1994 27 kb wombat.zip 29 December 1994 Maintained by Geoff Riley. If you have any comments about or suggestions for these pages, please email me at archive@arcturus.demon.co.uk. 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