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The Xanadu Utilities 1.1
(c) Copyright 1987 by Tony Overfield and Robert Woeger. All rights reserved.
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The Xanadu utilities are a collection of useful small utilities which
were designed to help you get the most out of your PC. The utilities may be
freely copied and given to other PC users with the following restrictions:
1. You must distribute the Xanadu utilities in their original form
with no modifications, additions, or deletions.
2. No fee may be charged for the Xanadu utilities other than a disk
duplication fee (not to exceed $10).
3. Software authors and software companies may include the Xanadu
utilities with their programs as long as it is made clear that the Xanadu
utilities are "bonus" programs and that the customers have not paid for the
right to be registered Xanadu utility users.
4. The software in the Xanadu utilities is copyrighted by Tony
Overfield and Robert Woeger, and only they or their authorized representatives
may accept payments (registrations) for the programs. Xanadu Compusoft is the
only company authorized by the authors to accept payments and registrations
for the Xanadu utilities.
The Xanadu utilities are a continually evolving collection of small,
useful utilities which are written in assembly language for speed. The
utilities are distributed via the Shareware software distribution method and
may be given to others as long as the above conditions are met. With
Shareware, you get to try out the programs before you decide whether or not to
buy them. This prevents you from being "stuck" with programs you don't want
or can't use. We strongly back the idea of Shareware and continue to improve
our software because we feel that our satisfied users deserve the best from
us.
If you find the Xanadu utilities useful, we ask that you send us a
registration fee and become a registered Xanadu utility user. In doing so,
you will be helping us further the development of this software, plus you will
gain many benefits that we hope you will enjoy. Registration gives you the
legal right to use our software on your machine. Corporate and governmental
users of the Xanadu utilities are required to register each copy of our
software that is used on separate machines. Site licenses, quantity
discounts, and special arrangements are all available. Please write for
details.
We offer 2 unique registration options:
1) For $25, you will become a registered user and receive a diskette with the
latest version of the Xanadu utilities along with some bonus program(s),
registration verification, news of new versions and products, and special
discount offers for new software.
2) For $35, you will receive the above benefits, plus you will receive a
customized version of the Xanadu utilities which will contain a unique serial
number embedded in it. This number can make you money - all you have to do is
pass your copy around to your friends, bulletin boards, and other computers.
Everyone who registers their copy with us for $35 and uses your serial number
will cause a $4 check to be sent to you. In this way you will get an extra
benefit each time a person downloads a copy of the Xanadu utilities which has
your serial number embedded in it and chooses to register that copy. You
could make $40 a month if only 10 people/month register with your serial
number! This more than pays for the $35 registration, and those $4 checks can
really add up.
Note: We add 6.25% Texas sales tax to orders within Texas. All shipping
charges are INCLUDED in the above $25 and $35 prices.
To Order by Phone
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Please call (409) 693-6286 and be ready to give us the following information:
*Or send electronic mail via MCI MAIL to address 312-8914.*
Please state that you want to order the Xanadu Utilities.
Choose either the $25 or $35 registration option (see above).
Please state the quantity that you are ordering.
Have your credit card (MC/VISA) number and expiration date handy.
Also please give the operator the serial number of your copy (if available).
Orders are normally processed within 1-2 days. We ship both through UPS and
via regular mail. All orders are sent regular mail (First class) if you don't
specify. The office hours for orders are 9am to 5pm Monday through Friday,
and 10am to 1pm on Saturday (Central Time). After those hours you may leave a
message on our machine with your order (please include the product name,
price, your name, address, phone, and credit card number and expiration).
To Order by Mail
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Send check or money order along with the appropriate Texas sales tax (6.25%)
if you reside within Texas. Please include your name, company name
(optional), address, phone (optional), and the serial number of the copy you
have (type HDIR/i to get the serial number).
Item Texas Address Out of state
Xanadu Utilities (Disk, $ 26.56 $ 25.00
Registration, News)
Xanadu Utilities (Disk,
Registration, News, Serial $ 37.19 $ 35.00
Number)
Mail to:
Xanadu Compusoft
P.O. Box FF
College Station, TX 77841
Description of the programs in the utilities
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The Xanadu utilities currently consists of 5 programs which are all
included in the XANADU.ARC distribution file. The names of the files that
make up the Xanadu utilities are:
HDIR.COM - The HotDIR, colorful sorted directory program 2.0
Displays different colors based on file extension.
Many options too! Works on Monochrome, Color, & EGA.
PCSTAT.COM - PC Status Utility 3.11 - Displays Disk/RAM statistics
and other information in a well organized format.
It is much faster than CHKDSK too! New colors added.
SFIND.COM - Super File Find 1.02X - Finds files fast anywhere on
your disk (even inside ARC files).
CURSORM.COM - Resets your cursor back to normal on a monochrome
display. Useful after a program changes your cursor
to a blinking blob, etc.
CURSORC.COM - Same as CURSORM, except it is for color monitors.
XANADU.DOC - This documentation file
HDIRCOLS.DOC - Documentation on how to customize colors in HotDIR
PCSTAT
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PCSTAT is our PC Status Utility which performs many functions similar
to the DOS CHKDSK command. The advantage in using PCSTAT is that it is much
smaller on the disk and faster than CHKDSK! PCSTAT also displays more
information than CHKDSK and provides an organized output format. A new
feature in PCSTAT 3.11 is the use of vivid colors within the program. The
colors really show you your PC's status. It runs on a monochrome, color, and
EGA systems.
The format for running PCSTAT is:
PCSTAT d: (where d: represents the disk drive
you want information about. If you do not
specify a drive, the default drive is used.)
PCSTAT will respond by displaying the date, time, day of week, disk
volume label, DOS Version, DOS VERIFY status, BREAK status, disk statistics
for the drive, and amount of RAM installed and free.
SFIND
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SFIND, Super File Find, is a utility which searches the entire disk
and returns back a list of the location of all matching files. For instance,
if you wanted to find all files on a disk ending in .COM, your would type:
SFIND *.COM
The beauty of SFIND is that it is lightning fast and searches inside
of .ARC files also to locate the specified files. This is very handy for