MS-DOS utility collections

[kb2syd]

Any good ISO or torrents of miscellaneous DOS utilities/programs?
Here are the ones I'm looking for:

• pkzip
• zoo
• telix
• list
• hdir or any good directory lister

I can find everything individually so I guess I could always make one. It's not too many items. I'm pretty lazy. Probably could have gotten all of these together in the time it took me to type this.

 

[krebizfan]

Those are all tiny. If you want an ISO with almost every shareware or free DOS utility ever, look at some of the cd-roms shown at http://cd.textfiles.com/directory.html

 

[doshea]

PC-SIG shareware library CD-ROMs (e.g. https://archive.org/details/PC-Sig_Library_13th_Edition_PC-SIG_1994) are nice since they have categories you can browse and read descriptions (if you don't mind running the DOS hypertext reader, although I almost have a HTML conversion done) although I notice zoo is missing!

 

[kb2syd]

I just put togther my own ISO based on PC-SIG shareware and my own wants. Vernon Brueg's List is another must have program for me. I used to have a registered copy of that. I found his entire collection on line and downloaded what I needed/wanted.

 

[syzygy]

I just put togther my own ISO based on PC-SIG shareware and my own wants. Vernon Brueg's List is another must have program for me. I used to have a registered copy of that. I found his entire collection on line and downloaded what I needed/wanted.

Thanks for the reminder - such a custom collection is on my to-do list. Found this after your post...

I collect all published versions of the shareware DOS utilities developed by Vernon Duncan Buerg from the 1980s until the mid 2000s

GitHub - sebras/buerg: DOS utilities by Vernon D. Buerg.

DOS utilities by Vernon D. Buerg. Contribute to sebras/buerg development by creating an account on GitHub.

github.com

 

[kb2syd]

OK, here's what I have together so far:

• PKZIP
• ARC/ARJ
• HotDir
• all of Vernon Buerg's utilities
• Several versions of EZ-SCSI
• mTCP
• UUPC (to exchange stuff with my Xenix/Unix serial machines)
• Iomega Zip drivers
• Telix (a couple of versions)
• zoo/unzoo
• kerrmit
• vim 16 and 32 bit

Any other suggestions?

 

[Roger Wilco]

I believe you may be interested in (some of, or all of) these: https://www.bttr-software.de/

 

[ajacocks]

Nice link @syzygy !

I was unaware of Vernon Buerg's utilities, but will definitely add them to my collection.

Thanks for the BTTR suggestion @Roger Wilco .

- Alex

 

[Caluser2000]

Simtel arcives

 

[seaken]

@kb2syd , I used VDE as my editor in DOS for years. It's small and uses most of the Wordstar key commands.

Seaken

 

[syntax error]

OK, here's what I have together so far:

• PKZIP
• ARC/ARJ
• HotDir
• all of Vernon Buerg's utilities
• Several versions of EZ-SCSI
• mTCP
• UUPC (to exchange stuff with my Xenix/Unix serial machi

Spinrite
Works great for hard disk errors and recovering sectors marked "Bad" by MS DOS Scandisk

 

[Roger Wilco]

DOS Utilities Collection https://www.pc-tools.net/dos/dosutils/

 

[kb2syd]

DOS Utilities Collection https://www.pc-tools.net/dos/dosutils/

That's got a lot of good ones.

 

[Roger Wilco]

Also some of the utilities by Benjamin David Lunt may be of interest: https://www.fysnet.net/misc.htm

 

[retrorage]

Nice Dos utilities

 

[Ragnarock]

PCMagazine put together a series back in the late 80s of utilities for DOS like WHERE and DDIR and MOVE. I have them.

 

[doshea]

PCMagazine put together a series back in the late 80s of utilities for DOS like WHERE and DDIR and MOVE. I have them.

https://archive.org/search?query=pc+magazine+dos+power+tools brings up the book and the accompanying floppy disk.

They had other useful utilities that weren't in that collection though, I recently found something I was looking for on a simtel CD (e.g. http://cd.textfiles.com/simtel20/MSDOS/PCMAG/.index.html). I guess they had too much to fit on one disk!