                             DABUTIL Version 2.00
                              Simian Id Software
                  Copyright (c) 1988,1989,1990,1991 by Don Branson
                  Mailing address: 
                             Simian Id Software
                             P.O. Box 430011
                             St. Louis, Mo. 63143

DABUTIL is a collection of "system-completing" utilities. It contains the basic
tools you need to manage various aspects of your computer system, all in one
package! It contains file and disk management utilities, a menu utility, a
printer utility. Also, be sure to check out EVENTMAN, an event and process
management utility, and see what it can do. Run programs unattended at any time
of day or night, and repeat them daily, weekly, monthly, or whenever! DABUTIL
includes a full-screen editor called SBE (much easier to use than other text
editors.) FF finds lost files, even in many types of archives!

  This is Shareware software.  If you try this package and decide you like it,
then please support shareware and pay the requested registration fee. Please
make copies of this package for your friends and associates. You may not sell
this software, or charge more than what it costs for you to copy it.

  The registration requirements are given in the file DABUTIL.REG. Registration
fees are due after you try this package and decide to use it on an ongoing
basis. Please feel free to distribute COMPLETE, UNMODIFIED copies of this entire
package to your friends and associates. 

         Simian Id Software
         P.O. Box 430011
         St. Louis, MO. 63143

Registered users are entitled to free upgrades for minor versions, low-cost
upgrades on major versions, telephone support, and a printed User's Manual.
The source code for DABUTIL is no longer available, starting with version 2.00.
Please include comments and suggestions for improvements.
Thank you for supporting shareware!


Files on this disk:
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README               This file
GO.BAT               Executes the installation program
DABINST.COM          The installation program
DABUTIL.DC1          The user's manual for all programs on the disk, part I
DABUTIL.DC2          The user's manual for all programs on the disk, part II
DABUTIL.REG          A registration form. Print it out to use it.
DABUTIL2.EXE         A self-extracting archive containing these files:
-CATALOG.COM         List files and archive contents on a disk
-DI.COM              Display disk format information, file location information
-DIRM.COM            Full-screen subdirectory maintenance
-DOSMENU.COM         DOS Menu facility, very handy
-DOW.COM             Batch utility, returns day of week, use with EVENTMAN
-DTIME.COM           Displays date and time in human-readable format
-ENC.COM             Copy file, encrypting it in the process
-EVENTMAN.COM        Create and manage events and processes
-FF.COM              Find File utility
-FILEMAN.COM         Full-screen file management utility
-LD.COM              List Directory utility
-PROCESS.COM         Process events and processes created by EVENTMAN
-SBE.COM             Full-screen text editor
-SD.COM              Sort current directory
-SETPRT.COM          Set fonts and options on any printer




There are also many assorted help files in the archive, and some demonstration
files for EVENTMAN and DOSMENU, which are discussed in DABUTIL2.DC1 and
DABUTIL2.DC2.

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Summary of version 2.00 changes:

Added /h option to all programs to display help.

CATALOG  - List contents of many types of archive files

DI       - DOS 4.01 compatibility

DIRM     - New program

DTIME    - New program

DOW      - New program

DOSMENU  - New program

EVENTMAN - New program

FF       - Search archives, all disks

FILEMAN  - New program

LD       - Display total files and files sizes when summary is requested

PROCESS  - New program

SBE      - New program

SD       - In the previous versions, this program ignored the system files by
           looking for them by name. Since the system files can have different
           names on some systems, the new version avoids moving all hidden
           files. Use FILEMAN to hide system files if they are not already
           hidden. Also added DOS 4.01 compatibility

SETPRT   - New program

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Plans for future versions as of January 1991 (Subject to change):

- Add mouse support where appropriate

- Many changes and additions to SBE

- Additional programs
