The IFX Group DOS Collection
These tools were designed for use under plain DOS (e.g. MS-DOS, PC-DOS, FreeDOS, ROM-DOS) but may work under Microsoft® Windows™ or through emulation. Some of these are designed for the TBBS or IPAD-OS products created and no longer supported by eSoft, Inc. They are presented here for those who still operate those products and the curious.
Please note that the IPAD Owners Association, Inc. (IOA) is now actively developing new features for the IPAD-OS based product line. The TBBS.org site has quite a few other resources for the TBBS operator in addition to the tools listed here.
Sort by Date  | Download: Size: Updated: | coldboot.zip 415 bytes August 28, 2016 |
This is the smallest program I
have ever written. It will reboot a DOS machine from a command
prompt or batch file. On most Windows machines it will just exit
the command prompt window without much fanfare. It is only 5 bytes,
but since most web browsers don't know how to deal with the file in
binary form, it had to be zipped to a file size over 5 times larger.
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| | Download: Size: Updated: | datecalc.zip 24,346 bytes August 28, 2016 |
This tool will calculate the difference
between today and another date or two different dates that you
provide on the command line. If you only provide one date, it will
be compared against the date in the system clock. If you provide
two dates the difference between them will be shown. Output may be
redirected to any file, program or device as needed.
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| | Download: Size: Updated: | daywatch.zip 41,532 bytes August 28, 2016 |
A DOS utility to read TBBS log files
(dayfile.lst) and simulate the local console screen. An excellent
tool for demonstrating activity on the TBBS local console without a
live system. This tool also generates reports useful to keep an
interested SYSOP informed.
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| | Download: Size: Updated: | farclean.zip 26,297 bytes August 28, 2016 |
A utility to walk through all FAR and
DIR files and remove unavailable files from the listing.
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| | Download: Size: Updated: | fld2smtp.zip 43,280 bytes August 28, 2016 |
The FLD2SMTP
utility is similar to Lynn Taylor's UNFLD program with the addition
of full command line (or batch file) function. This program reads a
single POP3 folder file from your IPAD and exports all of the mail
into the SMTP mail out directory. Fully commented PowerBasic/DOS
source code is included.
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| | Download: Size: Updated: | ipadchk.zip 90,019 bytes May 07, 2017 |
A plain DOS utility to validate
IPAD-OS configuration files starting with the IPAD.CTL file and
scanning through many of the secondary server and account files.
This version has improvements designed to detect and report more of
the common errors caused by hand editing. If you use anything other
than the IPAD's web manager to create and maintain your control
files, this tool will save you time and frustration by quickly
locating and reporting anything that could potentially cause
problems. Note that long file names are only supported when using
the official IPAD-OS Boot Loader.
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| | Download: Size: Updated: | listtool.zip 61,102 bytes August 28, 2016 |
A DOS utility to sort the
members of any IPAD hosted list server into domain order. This will
group all list members by their domain name so delivery to the same
server can happen in the most efficient way. A separate tool to
help create a batch file to work on your IPAD is included along
with the full PowerBasic for DOS source code.
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| | Download: Size: Updated: | makefilt.zip 23,915 bytes August 28, 2016 |
This tool will generate any
sized list of IPAD filters for testing. The IPAD router supports a
maximum of 1000 filters, which should be more than enough for
everything but the most extreme IPAD application. This is for
testing the IPAD router only and should not be used on production
systems. Fully commented PowerBasic for DOS source code is
included.
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| | Download: Size: Updated: | makerout.zip 25,299 bytes August 28, 2016 |
This tool will generate any
sized list of IPAD routes for testing. The IPAD router supports a
maximum of 1000 static routes, which should be more than enough for
everything but the most extreme IPAD application. This is for
testing the IPAD router only and should not be used on production
systems. Fully commented PowerBasic for DOS source code is
included.
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| | Download: Size: Updated: | minclude.zip 29,650 bytes August 28, 2016 |
A command line
utility to include text files in an IPAD mail authority file, or
almost any other control file that supports comment lines. This
tool retains compatibility with the IPAD Web Manager and the
included file can be edited and re-included without risk of
duplication. This is designed to make your life as an IPAD mail
server administrator much easier. One of the more common IPAD
requests is for the ability to include multiple files into one
large mail authority file while still retaining the ability to use
the IPAD's web management interface to monitor and keep track of
everything. More details about exactly how this tool can make your
life easier is found in the included documentation. Full PowerBasic
source code is included in this distribution.
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| | Download: Size: Updated: | netcalc.zip 41,564 bytes August 28, 2016 |
A command line utility to
calculate TCP/IP netmasks. One of the more confusing parts of
creating networks with the TCP/IP protocol is creating a network
mask that correctly defines the size of the network. This tool was
originally written to visually demonstrate how a router views a
netmask and at the same time allow a human to interactively gain
valuable what-if knowledge of their network. This is a
must-have tool for any network engineer.
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| | Download: Size: Updated: | off.zip 5,107 bytes August 28, 2016 |
A program to send the power off
signal to ATX motherboards. This is a one-way trip, so be careful
using this on a production router or server. The COLDBOOT.ZIP
utility is suggested if a reboot is desired.
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| | Download: Size: Updated: | optimail.zip 44,936 bytes August 28, 2016 |
OPTIMAIL: Mail directory
compacting tool. This tool addresses a problem called Directory
Extension. Every subdirectory on a disk volume is actually a
special case file exactly the size of one disk cluster (a
collection of disk sectors). There are a finite number of file name
entries each cluster can hold. When more than that number of file
names are put into a subdirectory, DOS will extend the subdirectory
by adding one or more clusters to the directory sufficient to hold
all of the file names. This problem is more pronounced when smaller
cluster sizes are used like FAT32 formatted disk volumes. This tool
recovers and compacts these clusters to improve performance on IPAD
mail servers.
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| | Download: Size: Updated: | optipop.zip 86,644 bytes May 09, 2017 |
OptiPOP is an IPAD POP3 mail
storage maintenance and repair tool. This program is designed to be
run directly on the IPAD itself or optionally through any SMB/CIFS
connection (if supported by your OS) to repair, maintain and
compact POP3 mailboxes stored on the latest IPAD version. It
automatically opens locked and multi-state mailboxes. It can
optionally age out old POP3 mail taking up your valuable storage
space and can even find orphan POP3 mailboxes caused by
hand-editing the mail authority file. Fully commented
PowerBasic/DOS source code is included.
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| | Download: Size: Updated: | pcb2tbbs.zip 26,936 bytes August 28, 2016 |
A tool to translate PCBoard BBS
file description listings into TBBS .DIR format.
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| | Download: Size: Updated: | qsochk.zip 30,037 bytes August 28, 2016 |
Diagnose common QSO, the TBBS offline
mail gateway option module, problems with this tool. This is the
same tool used by eSoft TBBS technical support staff to locate and
solve setup problems with the QSO option module.
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| | Download: Size: Updated: | rbb2tbbs.zip 24,667 bytes August 28, 2016 |
A tool to translate RBBS format file
description listings into TBBS .DIR format.
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| | Download: Size: Updated: | screen.zip 29,271 bytes August 28, 2016 |
A screen save/restore tool able to
save a stack with thousands of text screen images and restore them
when requested. This program keeps a simple stack of text screen
pages in a queue and is very useful for command line programs that
mess up the display, or do not work in the currently selected
screen resolution (number of lines on the display). The full
PowerBasic for DOS source code is included in this distribution for
your personal and educational use. All other rights are reserved.
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| | Download: Size: Updated: | sdldiag.zip 28,324 bytes August 28, 2016 |
Diagnostic tool for TBBS menu SDL
files that reports flag usage and broken links. This is a must-have
tool for managing any TBBS system that has more than a hand full of
menus especially if any combination of MEDIT, SDLDC and SDL are
used.
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| | Download: Size: Updated: | tbbsbusy.zip 28,435 bytes August 28, 2016 |
Reads the TBBS DAYFILE.LST and
reports number of calls on each line. This tool was used to monitor
the number of actively used lines on the eSoft TBBS site to warn
when more lines were needed or when unused lines could be removed
to lower costs.
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| | Download: Size: Updated: | tigerchk.zip 33,676 bytes August 28, 2016 |
Diagnostic tool to check the
TIGER.CFG file for common setup errors. This is the tool used by
eSoft TBBS tech support to locate Internet email errors with TIGER.
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| | Download: Size: Updated: | tipx.zip 19,528 bytes August 28, 2016 |
The complete TIPX virtual
serial port drivers for use with DOS programs that wish to connect
to an IPAD 1.5 or higher and TBBS 2.3 or higher. Complete assembler
source code is included and is released by Philip L. Becker, the
author, into the public domain.
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| | Download: Size: Updated: | ulchk.zip 24,299 bytes August 28, 2016 |
TBBS User log validity tool.
Reports flags used and SYSOP level users. This tool allows you to
find all of the accounts that have been set to sysop privilege
level, even those you didn't know about. The flag report at the end
shows a combination of all of the flags set in all user accounts.
This is very useful in cleaning out menu flags that are either
never used or impossible for anyone to reach.
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| | Download: Size: Updated: | ulmerge.zip 28,780 bytes August 28, 2016 |
Merge two TBBS userlog files into
one. This detects duplicate accounts and marks all but first as
deleted. The delete flag on any included account may be manually
reversed by the SYSOP.
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| | Download: Size: Updated: | userdiag.zip 31,230 bytes August 28, 2016 |
A simple diagnostic tool to
read a TBBS format USERLOG.BBS file and show all user permissions
and access levels.
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| | Download: Size: Updated: | userlist.zip 25,076 bytes August 28, 2016 |
Create distribution lists of all
users on a TBBS system. Easy to make and manage.
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| | Download: Size: Updated: | wc2dir.zip 24,228 bytes August 28, 2016 |
Wildcat! file description listing to
TBBS FILES.DIR format conversion tool.
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| | Download: Size: Updated: | webcal.zip 52,629 bytes August 28, 2016 |
A DOS utility to create HTML calendars
like the one used on the IFX Group web site. This is a pre-release
version and is likely to contain some bugs.
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| | Download: Size: Updated: | xfdisk.zip 1,554 bytes August 28, 2016 |
This batch file uses a
short script passed to DEBUG.EXE to totally remove all partitions
on your hard disk along with all of the data contained in those
partitions in less than a second. This is a very destructive tool
and will cause loss of data. If you have a disk with partitions
that Microsoft FDISK is not able to remove, this is the quickest
way to zap them and get a clean disk. This batch file is designed
to be run from a drive (floppy disk, CD or USB device) that is not
the disk you want to erase. WARNING! USING THIS BATCH FILE WILL
CAUSE LOSS OF DATA!
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