[Bamboo Software]
An assortment of free software tools for working with HTML and ASCII files, NT/W2K system administration and other miscellaneous utilities for Microsoft and DEC operating systems. Minimal help for all tools is available by running with /? or /help. Click 'Platforms' link to download appropriate version.
Name: Description: Version: Platforms:
Alpha Complete A ZIP file containing all Bamboo utilities available for Alpha NT computers as of 08-January-1998. Someone should write a book about the history of the DEC Alpha technology. multi Alpha-NT
Intel Complete A ZIP file containing all Bamboo utilities available for Intel computers as of 03-Jul-2001. multi Intel
AddTask Commandline utility to add new scheduled task for W2K and NT4/SP4 or above. Lets you specify username and password to run the task as. 1.1 W2K
AvgFs Report appropriate cluster sizing for a disk by checking average file size, or just report the existing cluster size. 1.1 NT-Intel
CAL Display calendar of the current month on a VT terminal. 1.0 VMS
CHTYPE Reports if a text file is ascii or unicode. 1.0 Win32-Intel
CLEANCACHE Delete cookies and temporary internet files from your Windows PC. 1.0 Win32-Intel
COMPUTERNAME A command-line utility to view or change the computer name. 1.0 NT-Alpha NT-Intel
CPUSPEED A command-line utility to report CPU speed on Intel Pentiums only! 1.0 Win32-Intel
CRC Bare-bones utility to calculate the CRC32 for a file or string 1.0 Win32-Intel
DATEDIR Displays file listings by date. ("DATEDIR /SINCE=YESTERDAY *.DOC") 1.4 MS-DOS
DE-HTML Creates ANSI or ASCII text files from HTML files. MS-DOS version also supports Windows 95 long file names. 1.5 MS-DOS
DI Disk Information utility. Provides a list of all disks on the computer, and their characteristics from the command line. 1.4 Win32-Alpha Win32-Intel
DIRO Displays a directory listing with file owners on an NTFS volume (NT systems only). Version 1.2 adds subdirectory option. 1.2.1 NT-Alpha NT-Intel
DMPHISTORY Dump URLs from MS Internet Explorer history files. 1.0 Win32-Intel
DOSDEVS List all DOS device links on an NT machine. 0.1 NT-Intel
DS Directory Size utility reports total number of bytes used by all files (including any subdirectories) in a directory. 1.1 Win32-Intel Win32-Alpha
DSFMX Directory Size utility implemented as a Windows NT File Manager extension. Display total directory usage by clicking on a File Manager toolbar button. 1.0 NT -Intel
DSR Disk Space Reporter - Windows NT utility with an explorer-like interface which reports the amount of disk space used by domain users for a given directory. Sorts, prints & saves. 1.2 NT-Intel
DU Disk Usage utility. Jeez, how many disk utilities do you need anyway? This one simply reports bytes used, free, or total capacity for a disk. Select bytes, kb or MB display. I use it inside perl scripts. 1.0 Win32-Intel
EVENTCNT Console utility reports the number of entries in an NT event log. 1.0 NT-Intel NT-Alpha
EXPORTEVENTS Exports entries from an Event Log to a CSV file; optionally clears the event log. It's a command-line utility suitable for scripts. Reads remote machines and lets you filter by event type and specify date range. 1.7 NT-Alpha NT-Intel
FCOUNT Counts the number of files in a directory from the command line. 1.0 Win32-Intel
FENCE Put some limits on your wandering Windows! Creates a virtual 'fence' around the desktop. 1.0 NT-Intel
FINDWND Search your workstation for a window containing a specified string in its title, and list its HWND, process ID and thread ID. 1.0 NT/W2K-Intel
FIP Find IP utility for Windows NT. Finds netbios computer name for specified IP address or vice versa; also checks a range of IP addresses. 1.1 NT-Alpha NT-Intel
FORCEX Force image exit on a running process. In many cases this is a cleaner way to terminate a process than using STOP PROCESS, as it lets the process close open channels and handles. 1.0 VMS
FTPB Add FTP commands to your batch files with FTPB. FTPB also reads input from command files for added flexibility and speed. (Console utility; requires WININET.DLL.) 1.0 Win32-Intel
fVer Display product version information for a Win32 program file. 0.1 Win32-Intel
GETACCESS Query MSACCESS database files from the command line, using SQL. 1.0 Win32-Intel
getlnk Get the args and path for a Windows shortcut (.lnk) file from the command line. 1.0 Win32-Intel
GETRMTVER Discover what operating system is running on a remote machine on a MS network (command-line utility). 1.0 NT-Intel
GETSID Command line utility returns the SID and, optionally, the roaming profile for an NT/W2K domain user. Requires W2K or above. 1.0 W2K
HEAD Displays the first n lines (default = 6) of a text file. 1.0 MS-DOS VMS
HTMLizer The functionality of DE-HTML & MKHTML combined into one Win32 program. This (and the utilities it sprang from) is for mass conversion of multiple files. If you want a cool HTML editor, look elsewhere. If you want fast assembly-line conversion of lots of files, try the HTMLizer. 1.02 Win32-Intel
ICONVIEW View all of the icons in a file. (Try SHELL32.DLL.) 1.0 Win32-Intel
ISADMIN Tests if a user has administrator privileges; if no username provided, the currently logged-in account is checked. 1.0 NT-Intel
ISCOMPRESSED Command-line utility tests if a file is compressed or not. 1.0 Win32-Intel
IsServer Command line utility reports if a machine is a workstation or NT/W2K server. 1.0 NT/W2K
ISSVCRUNNING Command line utility reports if a service is running on an NT/W2K computer. 1.0 NT-Intel
LOGOFF Logs off the current user on an NT workstation from a command prompt. 1.0 NT-Intel
MCR Adds or removes carriage returns (CRs) to/from an ascii text file. Also reports whether a file contains CRs. 1.0 MS-DOS Win32-Intel ultrix
MKHTML Creates HTML files from ascii text files. 1.0 MS-DOS ultrix VMS
MKLNK Who would want a command line utility which creates a windows shortcut (.lnk file)? Useful in install scripts. Use '/desk' to place on desktop; works on Win95, Win2000 and NT 4.0. 1.5 Win32-Intel Win32-Alpha
MODDATE MS-DOS utility to modify a file's date. 1.0 MS-DOS
MOTDW Windows message utility for LAN administrators; displays a text file in a read-only window for reading and/or printing. Intended to be called from network users' login script. 1.0 Win16
MTCOPY Multithreaded copy program for copying file(s) to multiple computers across a MS network. Orders of magnitude faster than a script. 0.4 Win32-Intel
NETCOMPUTERS Similar to the NET VIEW command with additional args: /type so you can specify SERVER or WORKSTATION or just see what type the computers are, and /count to just get the number. 2.2 Win32 - Intel
NETDISKS Examine diskspace for all disks on any or all computers on an NT network; automatically scan them all to generate a list of those below a minimum free space threshhold. 1.0 NT-Intel
NETGROUPS Lists the global groups an NT domain network user belongs to. 1.0 Win32-Alpha Win32-Intel
NOLINES Reports the number of lines in a text file. 1.0 Win32-Intel VMS
NOP A program that does nothing! Occasionally useful when performing registry experiments. 1.0 Win32-Intel
NOPW A program that does nothing (just like NOP), but uses WinMain instead of main as the entry point to eliminate the flickering console window. 1.0 Win32-Intel
OSVER A slightly fancier version of the 'ver' console utility. 1.0 Win32-Intel
PCINFO Reports PC configuration to a file or the screen. 2.3 MS-DOS
PCINFO32 Win32 version of PCINFO for Windows 9x, NT and 2000 systems (console utility). 1.2 Win32-Intel
PRIVNAMES List NT privileges and their associated display names to the console. 1.0 NT-Intel
PRUNE Deletes a specified folder (and contents) from all subdirectories in a given directory. Note this utility is case-sensitive. For instance, suppose you wanted to remove all instances of the Accessories folder in every user directory under winnt\Profiles... 1.0 Win32-Intel Win32-Alpha
PURGE Deletes files before, on, or after a specified date. Version 1.4 now includes '/list' option! 1.4 Win32-Alpha Win32-Intel
SetSysEnv Displays, sets or removes system environment variables. 1.0 Win32-Intel
SHOW VMS-like SHOW utility displays assorted system, disk, memory, process, boot and user information for Windows NT systems. 0.2 Win32-Alpha Win32-Intel
SINGLE Assures only a single instance of a Windows application is started. 1.2 Win32-Intel
SOUNDTASTER Listen to your sound files by clicking them from a list, and store/display associated descriptive text for each file. 0.3 Win32-Intel
SPQ Show Print Queues utility for VAX/VMS systems displays status for all print queues on the system, listing stopped, paused and stalled queues at the bottom. 1.0 VMS
STRIP Strip all text between a set of matched tags in an HTML or other tagged text file. (Strip all the html out of your digest before mailing it.) 1.0 Win32-Intel
TCOPY Tape copy program. Console utility to copy tapes on NT systems with two tape drives. 0.1 Win32-Alpha Win32-Intel
TFORMAT Tape format utility -- format tapes from the command line. Works on NT 3.1, 3.5 and 3.51 only. 0.3 Win32-Alpha Win32-Intel
TOUCH A touch utility for Win32 files - supports long file names and directories. 1.0 Win32-Intel
WHOOPENED Find out what user has a file open on an NT server. 0.2 NT-Intel
WS2TEXT Got any old WordStar files lying around? Convert them to ascii text with this Win32 utility. 1.0 Win32-Intel

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