The IFX Group Tool Collection
These programs are written as native stand-alone Windows applications, so they are compatible with virtually all 32-bit and 64-bit Microsoft® Windows™ versions, run exceptionally fast and DO NOT require any bulky black-box
runtimes like MFC, .NET, VBRUN, Internet Explorer nor external DLL files. This also means they work and play nicely with compatibility layers (like WINE) on non-Microsoft operating systems. We believe these are hallmarks of well written software.
Unless documented otherwise, none of these programs set/change anything in the Windows registry nor add/change any files in any of the Windows system directories. They are all completely functional without installation, and uninstalling is simply erasing the program leaving no hidden files behind. We believe this is the sign of well behaved software.
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If your new version of Microsoft Windows no longer supports some of this software please contact Microsoft technical support about upgrading to an older, more compatible version of Windows. Or if you want a longer term solution consider trying one of the many non-Microsoft methods of running existing software written for Windows. It is possible your business can save a lot of time and money by using operating systems like Linux to run your existing Windows legacy
software instead of repeatedly being forced to update all custom written software every time Windows changes. We use Linux to run our custom Windows software every day both in house and for our clients. With Linux we even have unique custom written DOS software from the 1980s still in regular service side by side with the most modern software. In our view it is much easier to replace Windows than it is to replace decades of our custom written software that works perfectly well.
 | Download: Size: Updated: | asort.bat 1,262 bytes October 28, 2004 |
A tool to group a large number of files
into alphabetical subdirectories by file name. This will create 36
subdirectories with single character names using the letters A
through Z and the numbers 0 through 9 to hold the files. Files that
start with characters that don't match the letters or numbers will
be sorted by the second character of the file name. This allows
files like (Sample).JPG to be placed into the S
directory. This batch file uses recursive calling to perform the
file location and moving on each of the file names.
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| | Download: Size: Updated: | bcopy.zip 14,471 bytes December 02, 2005 |
There is a problem with some
versions of Microsoft Windows that allows programs to create and
use files larger then 2 Gigabytes, but the copy function built into
Windows Explorer and command prompts reports an error when
attempting to read those files. This program does not care how
large a file is, or where it is located. If Windows can see the
file, this program can copy it. This is a binary copy that retains
all file attributes and time/date stamp information - a true copy.
Fully commented PowerBasic source code is included. Do not use this
program to place files larger than 2 gigabytes on to an IPAD that
is not using the IPAD-OS boot loader or that has an IPAD-OS boot
loader with a build number lower than 4.20.1597.
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| | Download: Size: Updated: | bholder.prg 19,827 bytes May 30, 1995 |
This is a utility to allow users
to save tagged file queue from one call to the next. It shows
several advanced features including file transfer calls from TBBS
and file renaming. It also shows how to pass information from TBBS
to a TDBS program.
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| | Download: Size: Updated: | cdup.bat 1,355 bytes July 26, 2004 |
A DOS/Windows 9x batch file to
change to a parent directory similar to the command line FTP
command by the same name. This has been extended to allow changing
to sibling directories contained in parent directories. This is
still a work in progress and currently fails to detect empty
directories.
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| | Download: Size: Updated: | cinco.zip 44,998 bytes July 15, 2005 |
This is a game based on Go Moku
that was marketed under a different name made popular in the
1980's. It is a two player board game with the unique combination
of being easy to learn, fast to play, but with an impressive depth
of strategy. This version includes full PowerBasic source code
showing how to make graphics that look good without a library of
static bitmaps. This also demonstrates how to use multiple
languages in one program by supporting English, Spanish and Dutch
with easy expansion to add other languages.
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| | Download: Size: Updated: | clean.bat 8,848 bytes July 26, 2004 |
A Windows 9x batch file to gather
interesting files and erase all others. This started out as
a simple tool to collect audio files from news reader output and
grew into a program with the ability to call decompression programs
when needed, detect if new files are arriving and loop until they
are completed. This demonstrates recursive batch file calling and
user input with timeout.
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| | Download: Size: Updated: | coldboot.zip 415 bytes January 03, 1988 |
This is the smallest program I
have ever written. It will reboot a DOS machine from a command
prompt or batch file. On most Windows machines it will just exit
the command prompt window without much fanfare. It is only 5 bytes,
but since most web browsers don't know how to deal with the file in
binary form, it had to be zipped to a file size over 5 times larger.
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| | Download: Size: Updated: | create.prg 4,050 bytes May 30, 1995 |
This is a program to show how to create a
.DBF (database) file from inside a TDBS program. It is designed as
a procedure that you can include in other programs. The database
that it creates is a fixed or hard coded structure that means that
each time you run the program it will create the same database file
without user input. It would be a fairly minor change to add an
interactive part to allow the user to create a custom database file
using the structure in this program.
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| | Download: Size: Updated: | datecalc.zip 24,346 bytes August 23, 2002 |
This tool will calculate the difference
between today and another date or two different dates that you
provide on the command line. If you only provide one date, it will
be compared against the date in the system clock. If you provide
two dates the difference between them will be shown. Output may be
redirected to any file, program or device as needed.
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| | Download: Size: Updated: | daywatch.zip 41,532 bytes September 22, 1996 |
A DOS utility to read TBBS log files
(dayfile.lst) and simulate the local console screen. An excellent
tool for demonstrating activity on the TBBS local console without a
live system. This tool also generates reports useful to keep an
interested SYSOP informed.
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| | Download: Size: Updated: | dir2html.zip 29,647 bytes January 15, 2001 |
Have you ever needed to put a
whole directory of pictures online? This Windows command line tool
will make it easy. It also works with other file types besides
images. Does not work with Windows NT or 2000.
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| | Download: Size: Updated: | dirsize.zip 20,166 bytes June 30, 2004 |
This is a simple tool to
report the total file sizes of all files stored in a directory
including all subdirectories. This is very useful for service
providers that want to charge for storage space on a server without
actually imposing an artificial space limit. Fully commented
PowerBasic source code is included. Featured download for February,
2005.
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| | Download: Size: Updated: | dupefind.zip 42,416 bytes March 24, 2008 |
This tool helps
locate duplicate files on your hard drive. This is a true binary
file comparison able to detect duplicate files even if they have
very different file names or are located in different
subdirectories under the same parent directory. The complete
PowerBasic/CC source code for this utility is included. The source
code is made available to help promote the awareness of the whole
line of compilers and other programming tools available from the
fine people at PowerBasic. Tell them you saw their name on the IFX
Group web site. Featured download for August 2004.
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| | Download: Size: Updated: | editmail.bat 4,687 bytes July 26, 2004 |
A DOS or Windows batch file to
copy an IPAD Mail authority file to the local drive for editing. If
changes are made the new file is posted back to the IPAD mail
server. This batch file keeps 20 backup copies of the mail
authority file, but only if edits happen. Editing needs an external
program (e.g. Qedit) to function. Read the remarks at the top of
the batch file.
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| | Download: Size: Updated: | ename.zip 40,015 bytes April 23, 2008 |
This amazingly simple tool allows you to
rename a whole directory full of files with your favorite word
processor or text editor. Completely open editing is allowed
including search and replace, spell checking, cut and paste and
much more all without the usually tedious and time consuming single
file renaming user interface. The fully commented PowerBasic/CC
source code is included so you can see exactly how this program
works.
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| | Download: Size: Updated: | everify.zip 66,772 bytes February 22, 2004 |
The Email (SMTP) address
verification tool is a Windows program to take a text file with a
list of email addresses and connect to each of the respective SMTP
servers to see if mail for that email address can be delivered.
This tool does not send any mail DATA in performing this
verification test, so there are situations where a false positive
may be returned. Special care has been taken to ensure this tool
does not trip anti-spam or anti-virus measures running on remote
servers, but new measures may be put into place on those SMTP
servers that consider the actions of this verification tool to be
hostile. It is your responsibility to review the logs and manually
remove any addresses hosted on these servers. Featured download for
June 2005.
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| | Download: Size: Updated: | farclean.zip 26,297 bytes October 04, 1995 |
A utility to walk through all FAR and
DIR files and remove unavailable files from the listing.
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| | Download: Size: Updated: | fixname.zip 45,242 bytes November 06, 2007 |
The FixName tool is designed to
change Windows file names that include characters not compatible
with common Internet services or other operating systems into more
correct names. This tool also has the ability to detect
binary-level file duplicates to help recover storage space when two
or more files end up with the same fixed name. This is a must-have
tool for everyone needing to post files on a web server or FTP
site. The complete, fully commented PowerBasic source code is
included. Please check out the full line of high performance and
easy to use compilers at PowerBasic.com and tell them you saw their
name mentioned on the IFX Group web site. Featured download for
August 2005.
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| | Download: Size: Updated: | fld2smtp.zip 43,280 bytes April 17, 2013 |
The FLD2SMTP
utility is similar to Lynn Taylor's UNFLD program with the addition
of full command line (or batch file) function. This program reads a
single POP3 folder file from your IPAD and exports all of the mail
into the SMTP mail out directory. Fully commented PowerBasic/DOS
source code is included.
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| | Download: Size: Updated: | free.prg 12,354 bytes May 30, 1995 |
This program shows a display of the free
storage space on your TBBS system. It has a sysop mode that
will allow the sysop to add drives to the list on-line while other
users are accessing the display. In this program you will learn how
to find available drive space and build graphs (using IBM graphic
characters and ANSI codes if the user has that ability) from the
information available.
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FreeWipe Disk Free Space Cleaner
| | Download: Size: Updated: | freewipe.zip 24,180 bytes July 11, 2016 |
Erasing files on
a disk drive does not remove the file contents, only the file name.
This program scrubs all of the free space on a disk drive to make
sure old files and data are really gone. This has added benefits in
virtual computers where cleaning the free space may improve
performance and can allow the virtaul computer supervisor to return
dynamic storage to the host computer or other virtual machines.
This program runs on all Win32 compatible operating systems. The
wipe function is compatible with disk formats that do not support
files larger than 2 gigabytes such as FAT32. The fully commented
PowerBasic/CC source code is included.
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| | Download: Size: Updated: | ftpd.zip 55,426 bytes March 13, 2008 |
A Windows command line tool to connect to
almost any FTP server on the Internet and download a single file, a
whole directory of files, or a whole directory tree of files from
the command line or on a scheduled basis. This tool is designed for
automated downloads and supports FTP resume (restart) and a number
of other techniques to make sure the files get through ok. One of
the stronger functions is the ability to move files from an FTP
server to the local drive (so the file is no longer on the server).
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Greylisting Exception List Translation Tool
| | Download: Size: Updated: | grey_not.zip 20,109 bytes September 08, 2006 |
The
IPAD 5.5 Greylisting feature can be a powerful tool to detect and
block broken SMTP servers with an incomplete feature set like those
in spam engines and email virus infections. The problem is that
some legitimate mail servers do not work well with Greylisting
technology. This tool will translate the public list of problem
SMTP servers that are known to fail the Greylisting tests into IPAD
format. Complete PowerBasic/CC source code is included.
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| | Download: Size: Updated: | guid.zip 8,553 bytes December 20, 2010 |
This program locally
retrieves a new 16-byte globally unique identifier from Windows
each time it runs. This can be used to generate amazingly hard to
guess account names and passwords for use by security conscience
users and automated systems. Fully commented PowerBasic/CC source
code is included.
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| | Download: Size: Updated: | harvest.zip 44,979 bytes September 23, 2003 |
This utility will read an
Eudora mailbox (.MBX) file and locate the first paragraph in the
body of each message which contains an email address. If that
paragraph also contains some key words indicating that this might
be a bounce message, the address is flagged as bad and is recorded
to a log file for later removal from your mailing list.
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| | Download: Size: Updated: | howtime.prg 4,715 bytes May 30, 1995 |
This is a replacement program
for the TBBS Type 11 (Time Left) menu command. It uses full text to
display the information to the user along with the location of the
BBS. If the user requests the number format then the real TBBS Type
11 is called. It also shows how to pass information from TBBS to a
TDBS program.
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HTML to Delimiter Separated File
| | Download: Size: Updated: | html2dsv.zip 24,215 bytes February 25, 2005 |
This
program will recursively read all of the HTML files found in a
directory including all subdirectories and output only the BODY
content into one delimited text file for importing into a database.
Fully commented PowerBasic CC source code is included.
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| | Download: Size: Updated: | http10.zip 34,906 bytes December 31, 2008 |
A Windows command line utility to
push buttons on web forms and optionally grab HTML files.
This tool is very useful for automating IPAD functions such as
Backup or Disk maintenance with your standard task scheduler.
Sample command lines that can be directly used in batch and
scheduler events are listed in the included documentation. These
command can also be used to create desktop shortcut icons to the
same functions if desired. Featured download for December 2004.
Updated for IPAD 5.0 with enhanced performance.
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| | Download: Size: Updated: | ipadchk.zip 90,250 bytes November 03, 2015 |
A plain DOS utility to validate
IPAD-OS configuration files starting with the IPAD.CTL file and
scanning through many of the secondary server and account files.
This version has improvements designed to detect and report more of
the common errors caused by hand editing. If you use anything other
than the IPAD's web manager to create and maintain your control
files, this tool will save you time and frustration by quickly
locating and reporting anything that could potentially cause
problems. Note that long file names are only supported when using
the official IPAD-OS Boot Loader.
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| | Download: Size: Updated: | itime.zip 31,773 bytes October 22, 2010 |
This is a tiny tool to set the clock on a
Windows workstation with information from your local IPAD mail
server. This does not need NTP (Network Time Protocol) or SMB/CIFS
to get the time information. Add this program to run from the
scheduler on your workstation to update the clock as often as you
want and you will always have the right time. This works with any
version IPAD, but a newer IPAD-OS mail server with the alternate
SMTP port enabled is suggested for best results.
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| | Download: Size: Updated: | listopt.zip 36,174 bytes October 31, 2008 |
A Windows utility
to sort the members file for any IPAD hosted list server with
optional include (white list) and exclude (blacklist) lists of
members. This is an update to the DOS version of the LISTTOOL.ZIP
with much improved sorting ability. The fully commented PowerBasic
CC source code is included. Featured download for March 2005.
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| | Download: Size: Updated: | listtool.zip 61,102 bytes July 05, 2004 |
A DOS utility to sort the
members of any IPAD hosted list server into domain order. This will
group all list members by their domain name so delivery to the same
server can happen in the most efficient way. A separate tool to
help create a batch file to work on your IPAD is included along
with the full PowerBasic for DOS source code.
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| | Download: Size: Updated: | location.prg 4,155 bytes May 30, 1995 |
This allows the user to change the
location field in their record. It shows how you can access and
change information in the user account as well as a custom input
routine that will only accept a limited number of characters.
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| | Download: Size: Updated: | longname.prg 5,383 bytes August 24, 1995 |
A long filename upload
wrapper for TBBS. This is a replacement for the TBBS Type 47
command. It adds a bar above the input prompt to show the user how
long the filename can be as well as beeping when the user tries to
enter the 31st character. This program is designed to work equally
well for ANSI or ASCII BBS users.
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| | Download: Size: Updated: | mailman.prg 17,697 bytes May 30, 1995 |
This is a replacement for the TBBS Type 7
(message write) command. It allows the user to type only part of a
user name and have a list of possible matches displayed. After a
name is selected it is passed to TBBS with a real Type 7 command
call. This program shows text file access and direct access to the
USERLOG.BBS file with the TDBS flat file routines. It also shows
how to pass information from TBBS to a TDBS program.
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| | Download: Size: Updated: | makefilt.zip 23,915 bytes February 13, 2005 |
This tool will generate any
sized list of IPAD filters for testing. The IPAD router supports a
maximum of 1000 filters, which should be more than enough for
everything but the most extreme IPAD application. This is for
testing the IPAD router only and should not be used on production
systems. Fully commented PowerBasic for DOS source code is
included.
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| | Download: Size: Updated: | makerev.zip 28,857 bytes January 18, 2007 |
A program to create
custom reverse DNS files for all of the 17 million IP addresses in
the RFC1918 private blocks. This can improve the perception of high
performance by allowing your IPAD's DNS server to directly reply to
reverse DNS requests without needing to ask the root DNS servers.
Complete documentation is included with many suggestions for
controlling file sizes and disk storage demands. Fully commented
PowerBasic/CC source code is included.
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| | Download: Size: Updated: | makerout.zip 25,299 bytes February 13, 2005 |
This tool will generate any
sized list of IPAD routes for testing. The IPAD router supports a
maximum of 1000 static routes, which should be more than enough for
everything but the most extreme IPAD application. This is for
testing the IPAD router only and should not be used on production
systems. Fully commented PowerBasic for DOS source code is
included.
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| | Download: Size: Updated: | mavica.bat 1,159 bytes July 26, 2004 |
A Windows 9x batch file to move
contents of a Sony Mavica digital camera disk to the hard drive of
your computer. This demonstrates use of the CHOICE command for user
input.
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| | Download: Size: Updated: | minclude.zip 29,650 bytes November 02, 2007 |
A command line
utility to include text files in an IPAD mail authority file, or
almost any other control file that supports comment lines. This
tool retains compatibility with the IPAD Web Manager and the
included file can be edited and re-included without risk of
duplication. This is designed to make your life as an IPAD mail
server administrator much easier. One of the more common IPAD
requests is for the ability to include multiple files into one
large mail authority file while still retaining the ability to use
the IPAD's web management interface to monitor and keep track of
everything. More details about exactly how this tool can make your
life easier is found in the included documentation. Full PowerBasic
source code is included in this distribution.
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| | Download: Size: Updated: | netcalc.zip 41,564 bytes October 13, 2013 |
A command line utility to
calculate TCP/IP netmasks. One of the more confusing parts of
creating networks with the TCP/IP protocol is creating a network
mask that correctly defines the size of the network. This tool was
originally written to visually demonstrate how a router views a
netmask and at the same time allow a human to interactively gain
valuable what-if knowledge of their network. This is a
must-have tool for any network engineer.
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| | Download: Size: Updated: | noattrib.zip 22,286 bytes August 19, 2007 |
This tool removes all Hidden,
System, Read-Only and Archive attribute flags from files and
optionally subdirectories too. It works even in places where the
Microsoft ATTRIB program can't. If you are tired of fighting to get
full access to all of the files on your Windows workstation, this
tool will help. Fully commented PowerBasic/CC source code is
included.
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| | Download: Size: Updated: | off.zip 5,107 bytes June 22, 2002 |
A program to send the power off
signal to ATX motherboards. This is a one-way trip, so be careful
using this on a production router or server. The COLDBOOT.ZIP
utility is suggested if a reboot is desired.
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| | Download: Size: Updated: | optimail.zip 44,936 bytes January 17, 2012 |
OPTIMAIL: Mail directory
compacting tool. This tool addresses a problem called Directory
Extension. Every subdirectory on a disk volume is actually a
special case file exactly the size of one disk cluster (a
collection of disk sectors). There are a finite number of file name
entries each cluster can hold. When more than that number of file
names are put into a subdirectory, DOS will extend the subdirectory
by adding one or more clusters to the directory sufficient to hold
all of the file names. This problem is more pronounced when smaller
cluster sizes are used like FAT32 formatted disk volumes. This tool
recovers and compacts these clusters to improve performance on IPAD
mail servers.
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| | Download: Size: Updated: | optipop.zip 87,062 bytes July 27, 2015 |
OptiPOP is an IPAD POP3 mail
storage maintenance and repair tool. This program is designed to be
run directly on the IPAD itself or optionally through any SMB/CIFS
connection (if supported by your OS) to repair, maintain and
compact POP3 mailboxes stored on the latest IPAD version. It
automatically opens locked and multi-state mailboxes. It can
optionally age out old POP3 mail taking up your valuable storage
space and can even find orphan POP3 mailboxes caused by
hand-editing the mail authority file. Fully commented
PowerBasic/DOS source code is included.
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| | Download: Size: Updated: | password.prg 6,690 bytes May 30, 1995 |
This is a replacement for the TBBS
Type 25 (password change) command. It adds a bar above the password
input prompt to show the user how long the password can be as well
as beeping when the user tries to enter the 9th character. This
program shows custom input routines that have a limited length and
echo stars instead of the key the user pressed.
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| | Download: Size: Updated: | pcb2tbbs.zip 26,936 bytes May 12, 1995 |
A tool to translate PCBoard BBS
file description listings into TBBS .DIR format.
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| | Download: Size: Updated: | pingpop.zip 20,542 bytes September 23, 2002 |
A Windows console (command
line) utility to open a POP3 mailbox on a server that has
POP-before-SMTP security enabled on a schedule or only once. This
tool has the ability to loop by itself with no need for an external
scheduler or even a batch file. It will also report the number of
message in the POP3 mailbox so other utilities can notify the
appropriate user. Distribution is limited to owners and operators
of IPAD-OS based products. Fully commented PowerBasic/CC source
code is included. Featured download for November 2004.
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| | Download: Size: Updated: | pingport.zip 20,215 bytes July 26, 2004 |
This tool is designed to detect the
ability of a server to accept a TCP Connection on a selected port
number. If the server is not able to open a valid TCP port, this
program will return an error number that allows a batch file to
call a notification utility or some other tool to help recover from
the problem. Featured download for January 2005.
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| | Download: Size: Updated: | qsochk.zip 30,037 bytes March 15, 1996 |
Diagnose common QSO, the TBBS offline
mail gateway option module, problems with this tool. This is the
same tool used by eSoft TBBS technical support staff to locate and
solve setup problems with the QSO option module.
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| | Download: Size: Updated: | rbb2tbbs.zip 24,667 bytes October 10, 1995 |
A tool to translate RBBS format file
description listings into TBBS .DIR format.
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| | Download: Size: Updated: | rdempty.zip 19,695 bytes December 19, 2007 |
This is a Windows command
line tool to remove empty directories from almost any path that
your workstation can see locally or through a file sharing network.
It automatically protects directories marked with the hidden,
system or read-only attributes. This is a nice companion to the
DupeFind tool. This version is many times faster and also shows the
number of files found in non-empty directories as it scans. Fully
commented PowerBasic source code is included.
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| | Download: Size: Updated: | rdns.zip 26,560 bytes February 23, 2009 |
A simple tool to scan a
block of IP addresses for reverse DNS entries. This is very useful
for everyone running servers and providing user connections to make
sure all of your IP addresses have correct reverse DNS. This is
designed on purpose as a single-threaded application that waits for
the DNS timeout on all IP addresses without reverse DNS
information. This insures minimum impact when scanning remote
networks. The fully commented PowerBasic/CC source code is
included.
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ASR Shareware Registration Tool
| | Download: Size: Updated: | reg_asr.zip 27,360 bytes July 09, 1994 |
In the early 1990's
there was a company named Advanced System Research (ASR) that
published many shareware programs for the TBBS platform. It appears
that the company has been out of business for over a decade now and
all of the authors that made products for ASR are also out of the
business, but their fine TBBS and TDBS shareware programs still
remain. This is a tool that the IFX Group wrote for authorized ASR
distributors to imprint the shareware files with the customer
information. It has the effect of unlocking extra features and
abilities in most of the programs. There are no instructions
included with this file other than the command line syntax help
included in the program itself. Make a backup of your shareware
file before using this tool. If you can locate the author of the
shareware program you are registering, please send them some money
to thank them for their efforts.
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| | Download: Size: Updated: | rendate.zip 22,900 bytes February 28, 2011 |
This tool renames a file or
directory based on the last modified date of the target. This uses
long file names to record the date information and is not
compatible with the IPAD through a SMB/CIFS connection. Fully
commented PowerBasic/CC source code is included.
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| | Download: Size: Updated: | sbschat.prg 18,206 bytes May 30, 1995 |
This is a replacement for
the TBBS Type 23 (sysop chat request) command. It shows a fake menu
of different sounds that the user can select from to use as a sysop
page request. The sound on the sysop side is always the same, but
the user does not need to know that. It shows how to change the
look of internal TBBS functions and how to pass information from
TBBS to a TDBS program.
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| | Download: Size: Updated: | screen.zip 29,271 bytes July 16, 2004 |
A screen save/restore tool able to
save a stack with thousands of text screen images and restore them
when requested. This program keeps a simple stack of text screen
pages in a queue and is very useful for command line programs that
mess up the display, or do not work in the currently selected
screen resolution (number of lines on the display). The full
PowerBasic for DOS source code is included in this distribution for
your personal and educational use. All other rights are reserved.
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| | Download: Size: Updated: | sdldiag.zip 28,324 bytes October 13, 1995 |
Diagnostic tool for TBBS menu SDL
files that reports flag usage and broken links. This is a must-have
tool for managing any TBBS system that has more than a hand full of
menus especially if any combination of MEDIT, SDLDC and SDL are
used.
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| | Download: Size: Updated: | setup.prg 21,080 bytes September 13, 1995 |
This program checks new user accounts
for valid (first and last) name. It erases accounts with bad words
and wrong looking info. It also allows new user to define settings
of ANSI color, IBM graphic characters and length of screen. It
shows low level user account control including marking a user
account deleted as well as how to pass information from TBBS to a
TDBS program. This program requires passed information.
(If you want to direct others to this file, please use this quick link.)
| | Download: Size: Updated: | shutdown.zip 6,458 bytes May 17, 2000 |
A Windows command line utility to shut
down or reboot your system from the command prompt, any batch file
or even on a scheduled basis. Options include log off user, halt or
power off.
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| | Download: Size: Updated: | skill.zip 34,356 bytes November 04, 2008 |
A Smart Kill Windows utility
to scan the raw SMTP files on an IPAD email server to locate
messages that contain your search text. This is much safer than a
simple find/erase because all parts of the matching messages will
be erased and the correct file locking methods are used. This can
be used to help clean out the email directory from a denial of
service attack or when a virus infected email client bombards your
system. This works through any CIFS/SMB connection to the IPAD and
will not conflict with IPAD email service while it is running.
Fully commented PowerBasic/CC source code is included. Featured
download for May 2005.
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| | Download: Size: Updated: | speak.zip 42,345 bytes June 05, 2008 |
A Windows command line or scheduler utility
to speak text files and literal text using the Microsoft speech
engine. Instructions to download the Microsoft speech engine are
described in the documentation. This is a tool used in the IFX
Group offices to issue voice reminders based on different
conditions or scheduled events. This includes the fully commented
source code which compiles with either PowerBasic/CC or
PowerBasic/DLL without modification.
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| | Download: Size: Updated: | spy_not.zip 126,461 bytes July 10, 2007 |
This is a tool to
translate a public list of known spyware web sites into IPAD format
for including into the BOOT.NAM on your DNS server. The list is
very large (over 12,000 domains) and may cause extra work load on
your IPAD if you have hardware over 5 years old. A DNS list this
large is not compatible with older IPAD versions (5.52 or older)
and can cause the web management interface to crash. It is
important to note that the IFX Group does not maintain the master
list of domain names, we just provide the format conversion tool.
The fully commented PowerBasic/CC source code is included so you can
freely modify to meet exact your needs.
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| | Download: Size: Updated: | st.zip 21,958 bytes May 23, 2008 |
A Windows command line utility to connect
to an IPAD's telnet supervisor maintenance prompt and issue
commands. Output may be redirected to allow logging over time. This
tool is very specific for use only with an IOA-IPAD router.
Featured download for September 2004.
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| | Download: Size: Updated: | tbbsbusy.zip 28,435 bytes November 06, 1995 |
Reads the TBBS DAYFILE.LST and
reports number of calls on each line. This tool was used to monitor
the number of actively used lines on the eSoft TBBS site to warn
when more lines were needed or when unused lines could be removed
to lower costs.
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| | Download: Size: Updated: | ten-k.zip 1,000,022 bytes July 26, 2004 |
This is a collection of ten
thousand empty files for testing the condition called directory
extension. Be aware that some versions of Windows are not able to
handle a large number of files in one directory and may crash. If
you are considering a different disk format for your IPAD, this
collection of files can help you find out just how fast your disk
will be. Sometimes FAT16 is faster than FAT32 if the partition size
is small.
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| | Download: Size: Updated: | testset.prg 17,608 bytes May 30, 1995 |
This program checks new user
accounts for valid (first and last) name. It erases accounts with
bad words and wrong looking info. It also allows new user to define
settings of ANSI color, IBM graphic characters and length of
screen. It shows low level user account control including marking a
user account deleted as well as how to pass information from TBBS
to a TDBS program. This program requires passed information.
(If you want to direct others to this file, please use this quick link.)
| | Download: Size: Updated: | tigerchk.zip 33,676 bytes April 10, 1996 |
Diagnostic tool to check the
TIGER.CFG file for common setup errors. This is the tool used by
eSoft TBBS tech support to locate Internet email errors with TIGER.
(If you want to direct others to this file, please use this quick link.)
| | Download: Size: Updated: | tipx.zip 19,528 bytes August 13, 2006 |
The complete TIPX virtual
serial port drivers for use with DOS programs that wish to connect
to an IPAD 1.5 or higher and TBBS 2.3 or higher. Complete assembler
source code is included and is released by Philip L. Becker, the
author, into the public domain.
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| | Download: Size: Updated: | today.prg 24,572 bytes May 30, 1995 |
A utility to display a different
text file for each day. The sysop may upload any number of text
files into future dates with a calendar to display that days have
text files for display or not. This program shows forced name
uploads and date functions. It also shows how to pass information
from TBBS to a TDBS program.
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| | Download: Size: Updated: | ulchk.zip 24,299 bytes November 02, 1995 |
TBBS User log validity tool.
Reports flags used and SYSOP level users. This tool allows you to
find all of the accounts that have been set to sysop privilege
level, even those you didn't know about. The flag report at the end
shows a combination of all of the flags set in all user accounts.
This is very useful in cleaning out menu flags that are either
never used or impossible for anyone to reach.
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| | Download: Size: Updated: | ulmerge.zip 28,780 bytes October 31, 1995 |
Merge two TBBS userlog files into
one. This detects duplicate accounts and marks all but first as
deleted. The delete flag on any included account may be manually
reversed by the SYSOP.
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| | Download: Size: Updated: | uname.zip 26,357 bytes November 18, 2005 |
This program will make sure
that all of the files in a directory (including all subdirectories)
have unique file names. This is useful for those with digital
cameras and large collections of pictures with similar and
sometimes meaningless machine-generated file names. Once all file
names are unique, they may be freely organized or combined into any
directory within the starting directory tree without conflict. The
original file name is preserved, but long file name support is
required. Complete PowerBasic source code is also included with a
nice example of how to scan very full directories with many
thousands of files in only a few seconds.
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| | Download: Size: Updated: | unmap.bat 547 bytes July 26, 2004 |
A batch file to release all
mapped network drive connections using drive letters. This
demonstrates the FOR command to loop through a list and perform the
same command.
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| | Download: Size: Updated: | urltrans.zip 31,549 bytes September 20, 2002 |
A Windows GUI utility to help
translate hidden URL addresses into human readable form. This tool
uses the rules explained on the IFX Web
Tricks page. Protect yourself from bogus Internet addresses by
knowing how to read them.
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| | Download: Size: Updated: | userdiag.zip 31,230 bytes October 13, 1997 |
A simple diagnostic tool to
read a TBBS format USERLOG.BBS file and show all user permissions
and access levels.
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| | Download: Size: Updated: | userlist.zip 25,076 bytes June 02, 1994 |
Create distribution lists of all
users on a TBBS system. Easy to make and manage.
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| | Download: Size: Updated: | wc2dir.zip 24,228 bytes October 10, 1995 |
Wildcat! file description listing to
TBBS FILES.DIR format conversion tool.
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| | Download: Size: Updated: | webcal.zip 52,629 bytes December 28, 2000 |
A DOS utility to create HTML calendars
like the one used on the IFX Group web site. This is a pre-release
version and is likely to contain some bugs.
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| | Download: Size: Updated: | winsweep.zip 19,339 bytes March 21, 2011 |
This is a program inspired by the
SWEEP utility created by Charles Petzold. It recursively performs
the same command in every subdirectory below the starting
directory. The original Petzold DOS version did not work with the
excessively deep directory structures and long file names common in
most modern Windows operating systems. The fully commented
PowerBasic/CC source code is included.
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| | Download: Size: Updated: | xfdisk.zip 1,554 bytes December 02, 2005 |
This batch file uses a
short script passed to DEBUG.EXE to totally remove all partitions
on your hard disk along with all of the data contained in those
partitions in less than a second. This is a very destructive tool
and will cause loss of data. If you have a disk with partitions
that Microsoft FDISK is not able to remove, this is the quickest
way to zap them and get a clean disk. This batch file is designed
to be run from a drive (floppy disk, CD or USB device) that is not
the disk you want to erase. WARNING! USING THIS BATCH FILE WILL
CAUSE LOSS OF DATA!
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