FFCAT is a small
DOS utility to concatenate files together. Much better than having to type
"COPY file1+file2 file3" (which would produce a file3 totalling the size of
file1 and file2, effectively doubling the disk usage until you deleted file1
and file2, and quite annoying when you want to copy MANY files into one),
since it simply tacks the contents of file2 to the end of file1 (which means
that the only additional disk requirement is the size of file2 -- if file1
grew to 10MB, and you wanted to add a 1K file to it, FFCAT would only require
an additional 1K of disk, whereas the DOS copy mechanism would require 10MB
more). This is freeware. There isn't any documentation (it is a quickie,
simple program), so just run it without parameters to get the usage
information. FFCAT isn't a "new concept" -- DOS just doesn't implement file
concatenation efficiently.
XCRLF
is a small DOS utility to simply convert a TEXT file between different
operating environment formats (MS-DOS, UNIX, and Macintosh), which identify
ends of lines differently. Simply run the utility without anything on the
commandline for usage instructions. Useful for converting from UNIX format
files to MS-DOS (like so: XCRLF DOS filename). Copyrighted freeware. Again,
this isn't a new concept (format converters have been around about as long as
there have been different formats to convert), but it is a free utility to do
it, and DOS doesn't come with one.
Download
the current (v02.04g) version of PKZIP from PKWARE. This is a must-have
utility for just about anyone exchanging information via computer, Internet
or otherwise. Many programs are compressed with it (thus the .ZIP
extension). This link is directly to PKWare's (the author) FTP site, so you
are assured of integrity. The program is self-extracting (that is, it is an
EXE you run which produces a bunch of files, which are the program).
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