iav1917@ritcv.UUCP (alan i. vymetalik) (06/11/88)
Hello Rainbow-netters: Recently, I posted the Bryan Higgins' utility HISTORY V5.3 and Dan Pleasant's utility DED V2.06. In the past, I have posted some of my own utilities and programs as well other items. I would like to do a weekly posting of a useful DEC Rainbow utility. This means that at least once a week (like a Saturday, or so), I will be posting an encoded archive containing some utility that I consider a useful addition the Rainbow user's arsenal. I plan to keep the files small (~30K) and I will probably avoid posting games and the like. I don't want to turn this newsgroup into a 'comp.sys.binaries.pc' group and I also do not want to be a 'moderator' for such a thing. However, since my e-mail box continues to show me that there's a demand for this service, I will try to provide some help. Any comments will be greatly appreciated. So, this week's utility has been DED V2.06. Next week's utility will most like be Carl Houseman's AUTOTYPE/RB-BUFFER utilities which extend the keyboard/type-ahead buffer on the Rainbow and offer an IBM-like 'KEY FAKE' utility (AUTOTYPE). Upcoming Rainbow-specific utilities will include: AUTOPARK - a timed, hard-disk head-parking utility CHKMEM and MEMMAP - memory mapping utilities PRISM1 - A collection of utilities from the PRISM TOOLBOX (some of my stuff) TYPSTL - A fairly sophisticated printing utility for the LA50. Provides for formatted printouts and uses the same fonts from the FANCY FONT utilities for the Rainbow (FANCY FONT was originally done by Tony Movshon). This thing is a bit big - I may hold off. HDRPT - A couple of programs to check the status of hard disks (released by Suitable Solutions) And, anything else I can think of... Please note the following: Most of these programs are released to the world as Shareware by the authors. Please read through the documentation before using the programs. If you use and find the utilities helpful, follow the instructions and wishes of the authors and help support the Rainbow community and its software developers. Nothing will happen to you if you don't contribute except that you'll feel like SCUM! This is it folkes, the last hurrah for this machine. Suitable Solutions is about to market DOS V3.10 for the Rainbow, but that's about it. There are SO FEW Rainbow software houses left! Don't let them ALL go under. Oh, and by the by, I do not wish to receive any contributions for my efforts here (other than e-mails). I have access to nearly 50 mb of Rainbow and MS-DOS utilities so please don't e-mail me programs unless they are unavailable elsewhere. If money happens to appear in mailbox, I will not return it. I'll probably donate it or put it towards buying a second Rainbow so I can ressurect my goal of running a Rainbow BBS. Keep an eye out on Fidonet for "The PRISMatic Effect". Enjoy, Alan All e-mails to: {allegra | seismo}!rochester!ritcv!iav1917 All flames to: !lostnode!hades!flmbckt ------------------------+-------------------------------------------- Alan I. Vymetalik | Standard Disclaimer: The above statements Prism Software Designs | and opinions belong to the author. Any 44 Arborwood Crescent | resemblence to statements found in actual Rochester, New York | reality is simply coincidence. And, as 14615-3807 | always, the above opinions have absolutely (716)-458-4932 (8-10pm) | nothing to do with the little, fat man (leave message) | putting $100 bills in my pocket. ------------------------+--------------------------------------------