OS/2 Utility Programs
OS/2 Freeware by Don Hawkinson
The programs on this web page are free downloads, but offering encouragement to the author may result in more programs being posted. Methods of encouragement.
License agreement for programs available on this web page.
Sequential Utilities: sequential copy and rename utilities.
Description of Sequential Utilities
Download Sequential Utilities as seq.zip (33005 bytes)
DH_Notify: a simple PM notification or alarm utility.
Description of DH_Notify
Download DH_Notify as notify.zip (41422 bytes)
C_DEL: an OS/2 command line utility for deleting files.
Description of C _DEL
Download C_DEL as c_del.zip (9177 bytes)
PREP: convert text chars to HTML character entities
PREP is a free command line utiltiy that will read a text file and convert text chars to HTML character entities. I wrote PREP to convert program documention into HTML format. PREP supports codepages 850 and 437. This program is free, but the author retains all rights. Version .91 converts blank lines into <P> to maintain paragraphs.
Download PREP 0.91 for OS/2 as prep.zip (34658 bytes)
Download PREP 0.91 for DOS as PREP_DOS.ZIP (20084 bytes)
UNH: a utility to strip HTML codes from saved web pages
UNH is a free OS/2 command line utility which strips HTML codes from Web pages leaving some formatting intact. It will optionally put the URLs found in a 2nd output file. UNH uses the same logic as PMStripper to remove HTML codes. This program is free, but the author retains all rights.
Download version 2.22 as UNH222.ZIP (39900 bytes)
NUMBERS: shows total size of files in each directory
Numbers is a utility that scans the directories and files on one or more drives. It displays a list of the directories and shows the total size in bytes of the files in each directory. This program is free, but the author retains all rights.
Download NUMBERS 1.0 as numbers.zip (11462 bytes)
UPTIME: reports the time since the last boot.
The C++ code in the file uptime.cpp was posted in the usenet newsgroup comp.os.os2.utilities by John Allen <john.allen@ie.ibm.com>. It reports the time an OS/2 system has been running since the last boot.I have compiled the code with BCC++ and made it available as a public download on my web page. This is an update that fixes an error that occured when the time since the last boot was less than 1 hour.
This source code program and the executable are made available on an
"as is" basis.
Download UPTIME as uptime.zip (9595 bytes)
Don's Quips n Quotes: an OS/2 fortune cookie program
Don's Quips n Quotes is an OS/2 program that displays a quote, quip or tagline that is randomly selected. There is a command line and a PM version of the program and a qnq.dat file of quotes, quips and taglines. This program is free, but the author retains all rights.
Download Don's Qips n Quotes as qnq_101.zip (418633 bytes)
Head & Tail: two OS/2 text programs
These are similar to the unix head and tail programs.Head displays the first few lines of a text file.
Tail displays the last few lines of a text file.
Compiled for OS/2 Warp 3.0 and later.
Download Head & Tail as headtail.zip (23731 bytes)
RM: a clone of the UNIX RM utility
A command line file and directory removal program. It will remove subdirectories and files including those that are marked as read-only and hidden. The subdirectories do not need to be empty.
Download RM as rm.zip (17212 bytes)
PIPEOUT: displays the contents of one or more files to STDOUT
The files may be specified on the command line and may include wildcards, or the input list may piped from another application.I use PIPEOUT to pipe the contents of text files with long fileneames into the List utility.
PIPEOUT *.txt | List
This is very useful in looking at some of the description files downloaded via FTP from the http://hobbes.nmsu.edu in the /pub/incoming directory.
Download PIPEOUT as pipe.zip (11067 bytes)
ClearClip: Clears the OS/2 clipboard
This utility clears the OS/2 clipboard by inserting a single space character in the clipboard. Some OS/2 applications do not free the clipboard after use, and that stops well behaved appications from putting anything in the clipboard. ClearClip does not check to see if the clipboard is free and clears the obstruction.ClearClip is a command line utility, but the install program will create a desktop program object.
ClearClip will beep if it is succesful in freeing the clipboard.
Download ClearClip as clrclip.zip (23889 bytes)
FS: displays the free space on one or more drives
FS is an OS/2 command line utility that shows the free and total space on each partiton starting with the C: drive or partition.Drive Free Total Current Directory C: 87.93 M 251.02 M C:\ D: 78.34 M 101.94 M D:\ E: 77.01 M 250.98 M E:\bin F: 129.49 M 203.92 M F:\ G: 183.29 M 203.92 M G:\ H: 74.51 M 203.92 M H:\ I: 105.24 M 203.92 M I:\ J: 82.13 M 203.92 M J:\ K: 46.20 M 203.92 M K:\ L: 192.00 M 196.07 M L:\ M: 1.10 G 1.47 G M:\ N: 858.88 M 1.47 G N:\ O: 1.17 G 1.47 G O:\ P: 1.38 G 4.04 G P:\myweb\www Q: 95.76 M 95.78 M Q:\ R: 0 K 33.59 M R:\
Download FS as fs.zip (23448 bytes)
DHFILT01: Several text filter programs
Description of dhfilt01
Download DHFILT01 as dhfilt01.zip (25431 bytes)
RM_Z: A simple utility to strip control-Z from the end of text files
Download RM_Z as rm_z.zip (10941 bytes)
CAL: command line utility that displays a 3 month calendar
Download CAL as cal.zip
BACK_ME: PM and command line utility that does a quick file backup
Description of BACK_ME
Download BACK_ME as back_me.zip
WS: A command line utility makes word search puzzles
Download WS as ws.zip
ENV: A simple utility to address envelopes on HP DeskJet and compatible printers.
Download ENV as envelope.zip (43343 bytes)
DJPrint: A program for formatted printing on HP DeskJet compatible printers
Description of DJPrint
Download DJPrint as djprint103.zip (30013 bytes)
CMD_IT: A program to generate CMD files
Description of CMD_IT
Download CMD_IT as cmd_it.zip
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