patrick@crcmar.crc (Andrew Patrick) (05/13/88)
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DX is a shareware program with payment required for use beyond two
weeks. This one appears to be version 1.60.
The DX documentation is in a binary format meant for IBM printers. I
think this is not a good way of distributing documentation.
Fortunately the program will let you convert this documentation to
plain text, but you wouldn't know until you ran the program.
DX goes through the ROM-BIOS for input. I don't like programs that do
this without a good reason, for it prevents you from doing any I/O
redirection through MS-DOS. Fortunately, I'm told that an option lets
you tell DX to go through MS-DOS. But I haven't tested this version of
DX.
Many users love DX for its power and flexibility. Among its many good
points are its intelligent wildcard matching. Most MS-DOS programs go
through MS-DOS for wildcard matching and will match "*A.*B" the same as
"*.*", ignoring any characters after the * wildcard character. DX is
smarter and will match the entire wildcard string.
-- Rahul Dhesi
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Date: 6 May 88 15:18:03 GMT
From: patrick@crcmar.crc (Andrew Patrick)
Organization: CRC, Ottawa CANADA
After having downloaded many useful DOS utilities from the net in
the last few months, I decided it was time to give something back. Here
is one of the most useful ShareWare utilities I have seen. DX
(Directory eXtended) is a very powerful disk and file management tool.
It provides the ability to display directories in a variety of formats,
and supports unlimited wildcards (e.g., *help*.*). Also, it provides
useful routines for copying, moving, and erasing files or groups of
files. Here are some of its more interesting features:
- multiple file specifications (e.g., *.bak+*.tmp)
- set and clear all file attributes
- select files by date, time, size, etc.
- will generate DOS batch files for complex functions
- extensive formatting options for directories including colours,
upper & lower case, 12 & 24 hour times, pausing on full screens,
etc.
Although DX is large and awkward to use, when it is combined with an
alias utility like CED it allows a complete customization of the DOS
interface. We have found DX to be well worth the effort!