DOS Power Tools

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Name: tomtrouble0528
Date: June 21, 2005 at 10:34:32 Pacific
Subject: DOS Power Tools
OS: DOS
CPU/Ram: AMD Athlon, 128MB

Comment:

I purchased the PC Magazine DOS Power Tools
book in the late '80s and have lost track
of the disk. I am now teaching a DOS
command line class at a local JC and would
really like to have access to the utilities that came with this book. Can anybody help me out?

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Response Number 1

Name: jboy
Date: June 21, 2005 at 10:45:09 Pacific
Subject: DOS Power Tools

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An excellent book - unfortunately my original floppy suffered some damage - was there a particular utility you were looking for? Most are available in one form or another
Life is hard; it's harder if you're stupid. -John Wayne

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Response Number 2

Name: dtech10
Date: June 21, 2005 at 14:50:57 Pacific
Subject: DOS Power Tools

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Hi Tom
I have the 2nd edition which as 3 5-1/5" disks its the same book by the same author Paul Somerson but published by Bantam Computer Books and was revised to cover DOS 5.0.
I've already transfered these to 3 1/2" disks. I could email them to you in a zip file.

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Response Number 3

Name: Mechanix2Go
Date: June 22, 2005 at 01:04:15 Pacific
Subject: DOS Power Tools

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Hi gang.
Yeah, great books. I bought the early and the late. Disks long gone.
Most of 'em are here:
DOS Power Tools
Many thanks to Dan Penny.
M2

If at first you don't succeed, you're about average.

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Response Number 4

Name: jboy
Date: June 22, 2005 at 09:19:19 Pacific
Subject: DOS Power Tools

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I'm pretty sure (ok, positive actually) that Dan's version is not the same set of goodies that I recall - as useful & interesting as they may be
Life is hard; it's harder if you're stupid. -John Wayne

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Response Number 5

Name: Mechanix2Go
Date: June 22, 2005 at 09:25:57 Pacific
Subject: DOS Power Tools

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Hi jboy,
I'm sure you're right.
I didn't mention it when I got what I got from Dan because I didn't want to seem ungrateful.
One thing I missed was SLICE.
Finally found it on a ftp site.
M2

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Do you have PCMag DOS Power Tools? dos defrag tool? Removing blank characters in batch CMOSGET.EXE and CMOSPUT.EXE DOS internet tools	DOS Power OFF DOS power off DOS can't see hard drive after form Dos batch initializing hard drive

Response Number 6

Name: jboy
Date: June 22, 2005 at 09:39:49 Pacific
Subject: DOS Power Tools

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Oh, I'm sure Dan would understand.
I don't have ready access to my (insanely large) collection of 5¼" or the book at the moment, but there were some fairly unique little tools in that collection - some I still find useful.
Tracked down a few updated versions online over the years - it's that, buy the book, or check out dtech's offer
Life is hard; it's harder if you're stupid. -John Wayne

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Response Number 7

Name: tomtrouble0528
Date: June 24, 2005 at 09:52:26 Pacific
Subject: DOS Power Tools

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Hi folks, thanks for all of the replies.
dtech10, I would love to take you up on the offer of a zipped email. My email is:
tmike@recipes4linux.com
Mechanix2Go, I grabbed the file off of your site.
Somethings never go out of style, and these utilities fall into that category.
Take care,
-TT

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Response Number 8

Name: Mechanix2Go
Date: June 24, 2005 at 10:01:57 Pacific
Subject: DOS Power Tools

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TT,
I put a few more winners here:
More Power, Mr. Scott

Some I had to really dig for.
M2

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Response Number 9

Name: jboy
Date: June 24, 2005 at 10:29:23 Pacific
Subject: DOS Power Tools

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Tom - - your email is linked (securely) to your name here. Posting it openly as you have is not generally recommended and defeats the purpose of filling out that field in the first place
Life is hard; it's harder if you're stupid. -John Wayne

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