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3]MORE JEWELS FROM THE PUBLIC DOMAIN
3]Second in a Time-to-Time Series
3]By SCOTT WILCOX, Rimrock, AZ
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     I am always scanning the universe for good PD programs, so here are
some nominations for the honor of being named public domain jewels.
     In the listings, F stands for the Fred Fish library, A for the Amicus
library.

3]UTILITIES
     Utilities make running a computer easier. They are usually small
programs that do some useful task, saving time and effort. 

     Machclk - F130 - This one's on the top of the list. Machclk exemplifies
what a utility should be. It is loaded with features and can be easily
modified. It is a title bar clock, showing fast and chip memory. It is a
"mouse-accelerator," which speeds the pointer across the screen more than
Preferences. The speed can be adjusted from zero to 9. It has a built-in
screen blanker that can be set at whatever interval you wish, as well as an
instant blank feature activated by pressing a couple of keys. It has a set
of definable "hot keys," also called "macros," plus a built in NewCLI
hotkey. It has a sunmouse feature that causes whatever window the pointer is
over to be activated without clicking. There is a click-to-front feature
that lets you click anywhere on a window to bring it to the front. There is
also a beeper, an online cost meter for setting you set dollars per hour, a
screen shuffler for managing several screens on your monitor, and more. All
these features are modifiable, toggle off and on, and can be set up when you
load the program. It's all in 12k. Brian Moats put together a nice utility
in this one. There is a similar program, Dmouse, by Matt Dillon on F145.
     DFC - F131 - A good, small disk copier that will make multiple copies.
There can be several destination drives, and a disk can be read into memory,
if you have enough. Verify can be turned on and off. It won't copy protected
software. I renamed it "Diskcopy" and stuck it in the system drawer of my
Workbench disk, after throwing out the Diskcopy that came with the disk.
That way I can bring up the copier from Workbench by selecting a disk and
choosing "Duplicate" from the Workbench menu. There is a format feature that
is a great concept, but doesn't seem to work. I've tried it on several
different machines (500's, 1000's, &2000's), but always come up with "NDOS"
as the name of the disk. The diskcopy is the best part anyway. It is also on
the August 1988 issue of JUMPDISK.
     TimeRam - F96 - Do you have extra memory? Did you ever wonder how fast
your "fast" memory is? This little program will time your fast and chip
memory for you. By B. Takahashi
     Mouseclock - F96 - This turns your mouse pointer into a digital clock.
     Morerows - F54 - This is a one-shot utility that you can use to enlarge
your Workbench screen and CLI windows. It adds rows and columns to work
space on your monitor, then saves it in the system-configuration file. It
can give you a few more rows with your word-processor or text editor, and 80
columns of text.
     MIDI Utilities - F101 - If you program music applications, here are
some good examples, source code, and a MIDI.library for writing your own
programs. If not, there is still useful material in this collection. There
is a midi monitor for receiving midi information, a program to receive
system-exclusive information and store it in a file, a program to transmit
system-exclusive info from a disk file, and more. I don't have a patch
editor/librarian for my Ensoniq ESQ-1, so I am using the two Sys-ex handlers
in this set as a librarian. I can send a bank of 40 patches over MIDI and
store it in a disk file. I can also send a single patch and store it on
disk. It is fast. These utilities should work on any MIDI-capable instrument
that can receive and transmit Sys-ex info. By Bill Barton. If you have a
DX7, there is a voice filer program on F82 made for your synth.

3]SHELLS
     You won't hear the ocean if you put your ear to these shells, but they
will help with file handling. So whether you're copying, deleting, renaming,
making directories or whatever, a good DOS shell is an indispensable tool. 
     Dirutil2 - F40 - For an easy, compact DOS shell, Dirutil2 by Chris
Nicotra and enhanced by others, works well. It requires less than 16K and
does all the things a shell should do. It opens a half-screen window and
doesn't use much memory.
     DuX5 - F67 - This is a bigger, fuller featured shell that takes about
three-fourths of the screen and has two windows for directory listings of
two devices. You can edit, format, diskcopy, global rename, check the number
of bytes in marked files, space on a disk, and more. Many authors
contributed to this one.
     Dum2 - F75 - Still another DU but written in Modula 2. This has many
good features for a one-window shell, including a "VD0:" gadget for using
ASDG's Recoverable Ram disk, the ability to show IFF files, do a directory
listing of up to 300 files, and other features. Uses 24K. By Greg Browne.

     There haven't been many good PD shells floating around lately. Some,
even on some later disks, are clumsy or crash at inconvenient times. These
are on older disks, in the Amiga time frame, but are relabel programs.
     I hope to return with words on more PD jewels.

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