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Honk 1.5 (Downloads: 249)
Plays one or more of the Standard Windows sounds or wav files. Plays one or more of the Standard Windows sounds, triggered
purely from the command line.
use:
honk
- Plays the default system sound.
honk SystemStart SystemHand SystemQuestion
- Plays the given list of standard system sounds (usually just one).
- they are case-insensitive (you can get the case wrong and it will still work).
Possible sound names are listed in the registry...
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BOOTSave 2.8 (Downloads: 290)
BootSave saves/restores the master boot sector BootSave saves/restores the master boot sector on the
hard disk. Suite of three utilities BootSave, BootRest and
BootChk. Protects against damage to the partition table or
boot sector done by rogue programs, viruses or accidents
with tools like Norton NU.
The BootSave suite will work under DOS, Windows 3.x, Windows
95/98/ME, OS/2, but not NT, Windows 2000, XP, Vista or Windows 7.
These OSes block low level disk I/O as...
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FontShower 2.9 (Downloads: 505)
Displays all the fonts available to Swing in Java. Displays all the fonts available to Java on your
machine. Displays the fonts in a variety of styles, sizes
and colours, rendered either with anti-aliased or plain.
FontShower displays the fonts available on *your* machine
to *Java*. Other people will have different fonts installed
and will see different selections available via Java on
their machines. Your browser will see a slightly different
set of fonts than Java ...
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Converter 5.5 (Downloads: 423)
How to Interconvert any of the Java primitives. Conversion Amanuensis. Conversion teaching tool. Shows you how to convert any of the 17 basic Java types into any of the other. Conversion Amanuensis as your side whenever you need Java code to convert anything to anything else. Runs an as Applet or application.
To install, Extract the zip download with WinZip, available from
winzip.com (or similar unzip utility) into any
directory you please, often C:\ -- ticking off the (user
folder names) option. To run ...
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Echoserver 1.3 (Downloads: 242)
See what browsers and programs are sending to an HTTP Server. See what browsers and programs are sending to an HTTP Server.
Simple server just dumps whatever it receives on the console.
Echoserver is misnamed because it does not actually echo what it receives
back to the browser....
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Tabout 2.7 (Downloads: 233)
converts tabs to spaces in an ASCII text file. converts tabs to spaces in an ASCII text file
usage : TABOUT Myfile.TXT
Don't use it on word processor files. Assumes tab stops
are 8 columns apart. Also trims ^Z and corrects any
malformed CrLf line endings. C source included.
Copyrighted, but may be distributed freely and used for
any purpose except military....
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Password 1.7 (Downloads: 558)
Generates random passwords that are hard to guess. Generates random passwords that are hard to guess. It uses a crytographic quality random number generator. The passwords are generated locally in a Java Applet. They are never transmitted over the Internet, even in encrypted form.
You can also run it as a standalone program, invoking it with
java com.mindprod.password.Password
or
password.jar
You can also run it online at the mindprod.com website without installing it....
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Holiday Calculatior 4.7 (Downloads: 765)
Calculate when 66 holidays occur in any given year. Calculates when various holidays occur in any given year BC or AD.
Designed to be cannibalised to include the calculation routines in your
own programs. You might use it to prepare paper calenders well in
advance or electronic calendars. You might also use the logic in computer
programs that compute payrolls, bus schedules, or club meetings. You
might use it in writing novels or researching historical events. It can
als...
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InWords 4.6 (Downloads: 368)
Java code to converts number to words in any of 24 languagues. Shows you how to count in any of the following languages:
Bahasa Indonesia
Binary
Decimal (several variants)
Dutch (modern, old and banker's)
English (British, North American, Ordinals)
Esperanto
French
German
Grams
Hexadecimal
Icelandic
Italian
Japanese
Martian
Metric Metric Prefixes (grams)
Norwegian
Octal
Polish
RAM (bytes)
Roman Numerals...
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FileTimes 1.9 (Downloads: 275)
Read and set Windows file/dir times from Java: Create/LastModified/LastAccessed Java class library to get/set file and directory times: Create/LastModified/LastAccessed. For Windows only.
Create time is when the file was first written. Modified
time (sometimes called lastModified) is when the file was
last written. Accessed time is when the file was last read
or written. Checking its date, looking at its attributes or
checking to see if it exists does not count as reading it.
Get/Set Windows Fil...
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Ini 1.4 (Downloads: 512)
Windows *.ini file verifier, tidier and sorter. Windows *.ini file verifier, tidier and sorter.
Tidies and sorts windows *.ini files, ones that look like this:
[section]
; a comment
item=value;
To use:
java.exe -jar ini.jar C:\somedir\somefile.ini UTF-8
Where UTF-8 in the encoding.
Opera uses UTF-8. You can leave it to the default for most others.
The original is named somefile.ini.old when you are done.
Don't run ini ...
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HeapSort 1.7 (Downloads: 263)
HeapSort is an implementation of Williams and Floyd classic HeapSort. HeapSort is an implementation of Williams and Floyd's TopDown HeapSort.
HeapSort is a fast internal sort written in Java that uses a
sorting algorithm analogous to power struggles for higher
positions in a hierarchical bureaucracy. Source provided. It
is faster than QuickSort, but slower that RadixSort. It
sorts using a comparison routine you provide to compare two
elements to be sorted.
You can test it with:
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CMOSSave 4.6 (Downloads: 346)
Check CMOS for corruption and automatically restore it. CMOSSave CMOSRest CMOSChk restore corrupted CMOS from
backup and check that CMOS has not been tampered with.
Naive users sometimes meddle with CMOS settings. We need a
fast way to put the scores of subtle CMOS configuration
settings back the way they were.
Power surges can corrupt CMOS. We need a way for a naive
user to quickly restore all the CMOS settings.
If the battery fails, the contents will be los...
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Untouch 2.4 (Downloads: 448)
Reverts files dates back if the files have not really changed. Documentation on the original student project outline
mindprod.com/projects/untouchproj.html
This explains how it works and some of its uses.
Untouch supports the following command line switches which appear
before the directories.
-c or -clear = clear history first and take current file times as the new revert-to point.
-f or -force = revert files back to previous dates whether they have changed or not.
-h or -help =...
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Compactor 3.4 (Downloads: 609)
Compresses HTML by removing unnecessary white space. Compresses HTML by removing unnecessary white space.
Compacts HTML so that web pages are 20% smaller and hence
20% faster. It does this by removing all unnecessary white
space. To fluff files up again, I suggest using SlickEdit
beautify. The file will render on browsers exactly as they
did before. Any [pre] sections are left intact. No comments
are removed.
NOTE THE COMPACTOR JUST COMPACTS YOUR HTML. IT DOES N...
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Pluck 1.0 (Downloads: 210)
Scans multiple files looking for a REGEX pattern, and summarised what it finds. Scans multiple files looking for a REGEX pattern, and
summarised what it finds as a CSV file.
java -jar C:\com\mindprod\pluck\pluck.jar "\.[a-z]+\." E:\temp\temp.csv E:\somedir
adjusting as necessary to account for where the jar file is.
The first parameter is the regex pattern. See regex in the java glossary
for how to compose them.
The next parameter is where the output in to go. use the
wo...
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CanadianTax 4.2 (Downloads: 627)
Calculates Canadian sales taxes: GST HST and PST today or in the past. Calculates Canadian sales taxes: GST HST and PST today or as they were in the past.
Java Applet that can also be run as an application.
Requires Java version 1.5 or later.
Java source code and sample HTML included.
This version computes by adding GST HST and PST to a base
price. It als works in reverse given the
final price working backwards to get the taxes and base
price. In other words it will tell ...
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