This program will allow you to shorten all the filenames in a directory to the pattern that your DOS programs will need in order to see them, the 8.3 notation. To use the program simply open an OS/2 window go to the directory containing...

AC add prefix-programs to .EXE .COM/.BIN - files. Source code available.

Program for use in Makefiles for building programs (Rexx). Helps create version headers, linker command files, etc. For use in Makefiles for building programs.

This package provides an interface from Apache to IBM Object REXX and Regina REXX under OS/2. To use the package you do not need to know how to write Apache modules, but you do need a general understanding of how Apache processes...

Archive Viewer is a very simple GUI tool for viewing and extracting archive files of various types. It originated as a system utility included in eComStation (and it remains so to this day). It...

Attribute manager is a small application that allows to view and edit file comments, subject, keyphrases, date and time.

File comments can be imported from 4DOS-OS/2 description files, file_id.diz in archives, ecc.

The...

Autinic detects at boot time the PCI card and autoload it's driver. Includes source code.

Batch Editor is a PM multithreaded application which allows to replace data of one or more rows in one or more files with various options (recur subdirectories, case insensitive, non printable characters). You can use BE also to modify...

Beesoft Commander is a two-panel file manager (like Norton Commander).

Tool that will create a delete icon called blackhole on your desktop. You can send any object you don't like to the other side of the desktop's universe. Just drop it on the Black Hole and it will disappear...

With BS_FF you can search files with many criterias (filter, dates, size, text, ...) and allows to execute several actions (rename, delete, copy, change attributes, ecexute command, ...)

Some files that you download will come with a .sfv file. This is used to verify that the files that you received are the same as the originals. CKSFV is a program that can use the .sfv file to verify the downloaded files....

CHK4DLLS.EXE is a tool to verify the DLL dependencies used by a .EXE or a .DLL file.

CHMDump is a tool to extract data from Microsoft HTML Help (CHM) files.

Clone Killer is a freeware duplicate file finder with DB. Source code included.

Features:

• Freeware under the GPL
• comes with source,...

Checks a CONFIG.SYS file for errors. This is a work in progress. New checks will be added as they are needed. Some checks may not be exactly correct but should give you an idea when things are not as they should be.
...

This program generates a repodata dir and xml files for a repository of rpm packages. This repository is compatible with apt/yum/smart/yast and many other package-repository-related tools.

run createrepo -h for...

Batch update of CONFIG.SYS-like, .INI files and WorkPlaceShell class. CUBE modifies a Target ASCII file, given a set of commands in a Procedure file.

DaemonFS is a real time file watcher. This tool lets you track modifications to your files. This software may be used for reverse engineering, hard disk usage tracking, software analysis and more....

This package contains a collection of utilities for use with DB2/2.

Denynone permits "old" programms multimple access to the same file (DOS). Source code available.

DirMaster is a powerful Directory Opus (Amiga) inspired file manager for OS/2's presentation Manager. Fully HPFS aware, DirMaster is very fast, highly configurable, and easy-to-use, but so complete that even...

Port of Distributed File Repair Utilities, compiled with IBM VisualAge C++ 3.08. This set of tools is designed to help people repair a corrupted file or restore a patched file with the help of someone who got the original file. Large 2...

DO.EXE is a set of very useful batch enhancements and command line utilities. This version replaces a handful of old freeware exe programs which stopped running properly due to integer overflow. DO.EXE also works if the...

Dos Navigator is a comprehensive shell for DOS operating system. It is a freeware open-source product.

DN/2 project - it is attempt to transfer...

This program creates and maintains exact copies of files, directories or the whole disks in/on the other directory/disk.

One can specify any number of directories and files for excluding from copy process, and any number...

DupeFinder looks for identical files.

Syntax:

dupefinder startdir [outputfile] [-sortdirs]

where startdir is the filesystem to analize and outputfile the...

Finds duplicate files in PATH and LIBPATH and others. The default path is PATH taken from the environment variable PATH. For PATH the default search file mask is *.exe. For LIBPATH the default search file...

EAs,I do! is a program to manage EA's file in VIO mode. Source code included.

EF Commander is a complete file manager for the OS/2 desktop.

If you've ever used and liked Norton Commander, you'll like this dual-windowed program, which comes complete...

Encode/decode binary files into printable files.

The EPM TeX Front End is an additional module for the OS/2 `Enhanced Editor' (EPM). It turns the EPM into an integrated TeX environment, providing (La)TeXing, previewing, executing BibTeX, makeindex etc. from the EPM menu.

Link multiple EXE-files. Source code available.

A FAT files sorting program. This program sorts directory entries on FAT drives. Options for ''DIR /o'' are available.

A full-featured PM file manager that comes complete with an internal Zip Viewer as well as some features designed especially for networks. Help on line.

FM2 is an excellent file manager for eComStation and OS/2 WorkPlaceShell, with a lot of functions!

FileJet is a powerful filemanager and editor for WIN-XP,WIN-2K,NT/95/98,DOS and OS/2,usermenus, tree, long filename support for WIN95+OS/2
programmable function keys,all filefunctions multiple fileeditor with syntax coloring,...

FileSynq is a free and open-source program for uploading files and downloading them from a different computer. Program developed using Qt4.

Wildcard filename search withing a directory or a set of directories. Optionally you may specify a string to search for inside the files.

Bunch of free utils (including HPFS defrag) text mode only. This is a collection of utilities that may prove useful in conjunction  with FM/2 (File Manager/2), or even without it...

Command line tool to examine TrueType/OpenType fonts.

Fumetto is an easy way to catalogue your comic books, find out the value of your collection and many other features. You can export the data into a variety of programs for further processing. There is a comment field so you can type in...

Port of the popular OpenSource GNU GREP for UNIX: Search for corresponding strings in specified files.

Ported using Open Watcom C/C++ & Fortran77.

WPS Class to provide divided folder.

Harddisk image converter: DFSee/SVISTA/Virtual PC. Source code available.

Do X to all files fitting specification Y.

A REXX script which extracts HTML-tags from HTML-files used in Internet www-communication and stores the remaining text into an ASCII-file.

IAT (Iso9660 Analyzer Tool) is a tool for detecting the structure of many types of CD-ROM image file formats, such as BIN, MDF, PDI, CDI, NRG, and B5I, and converting them into ISO-9660.

ICONTOOL allows you to do the following things:

• Change an objects icon by dropping an icon on it.
• Change the name shown on the workplace shell without...

INISED is a command line utility that can read and write values to/from Windows-style profile  files (INI files). It is intended to automate the reconfiguring  of programs without the need to maintain multiple versions on INI  files....

InstFont is a simple command-line tool for installing a font under OS/2 Presentation Manager.

This program was written in order to facilitate automated font install...

IP Spool is a queue processor that manages the pipe between a printer and a network address. It is designed to drive modern networked printers using raw print data on port 9100. Most modern printers use this...

ISOren is an utility to rename files and directories to ISO level 2 or to DOS convention.

With this program you can easily create scripts file for the NSIS installer. Application developed using the Qt...

An utility to retrieve files from un-mountable JFS volumes, unavailable due to any of a lot of reasons: phase 3 chkdsk fail etc. Includes JUne, PM undelete utility. Works with any level of OS/2 and doesn't need jfs.ifs or LVM.

A file manager for OS/2 integrating local and remote file operations

A powerful, flexible and user friendly GUI file manager and command processor for OS/2 Warp. In addition to the two classic file panels Larsen Commander has a built in command line and a scrollable console monitor.

Available in...

OS/2 Port of LHArc archiver. Y2K compliant.

A simple usage - Backup OS/2 Desktop:

lh a desktop.lzh \os2\os2.ini \os2\os2sys.ini "...

Multi-format archive and compression library.

The libarchive library features:

• Support for a variety of archive and compression formats....

LOCKDOWN.CMD is a simple REXX script to change folders and icons  with known objectid's to prevent deleting, copying, moving, renaming,
shadowing or changing of their settings. This would be particularly  useful for the LAN...

LogViewer/2 is powerfull program to view,analyze and manage logfiles locked or unlocked  as well normal text files in a PM 32bit interface.
Features full drag&drop and many more.

LPTool enables file transfer and remote execution via a "laplink" cable connection between parallel ports of two machines running OS/2 3.0 or newer.

Make Message File Utility clone and decompiler. Source code included.

Midnight Commander UNIX port. Midnight Commander is a 32 bit text mode file manager and shell that allows you to locate, copy, move, delete, view, edit and execute your files in a quick, convenient and customizable manner.

MKWINOS/2 is a program for OS/2 that creates the equivalent of your Windows Program Manager as an OS/2 Desktop folder named "Program Manager Desktop Equivalent". Your Windows groups and the program entities...

Module Replacer for OS/2 is a text mode executable which unlocks running DLL and EXE files, optionally replacing them with a new file and saving a backup copy of the old file. ENGLISH.EXE and ITALIANO.EXE are the English and the Italian...

A REXX install script+executable to install Mozilla apps. Mozinst will create program icons on your desktop + deinstall Innotek Font Engine (IFE) support. Works for Seamonkey/Thunderbird/Firefox.

See also more recent...

msgtool is a multiplatform MSG file "decompiler": it expects the MSG file as parameter, writes the "decompiled" information in the standard output and other information in the standard error.

MultifileDetector allows you to detect multiple files. Once a file already exists is detected, it can be manually or automatically deleted. MultifileDetector calculate MD5 of each file to know if it already...

Necromancer's Dos Navigator [NDN] is a clone of the famous "Norton Commander". It uses an easy to use and learn text-mode interface, is highly customizable, and has a lot of features.

Some programs produce output with double carriage returns before the newlines. When sent to the screen the output appears normal, but some programs interpret the extra CR as another blank line and double-spaces lines. This simple REXX...

NovaBACKUP is a very fast and easy-to-use backup program for OS/2.

NovaBACKUP is comprised of two programs:

• NovaBACK  is specifically for...

This package includes two scripts (trcinit.cmd and trcctl.cmd) that  implement an interface to the OS/2 Trace Facility. These scripts are  designed to make it easier to capture the specific trace data needed...

Unsupported utility to allow third-party FF/SM/TB-related DLLs to use high memory.

OWPZip PKZIP Archive Class extends WPS with PKZIP archive folders supporting compressing, decompressing, opening and viewing their entries through drag-and-drop.

ParseXML is an an XML parser written in REXX that does not require external libraries. The main prograrm is written in SAA REXX and will work on OS/2 and other compatible systems unmodified but the OOREXX port provided in a subfolder is...

Pdlzip is a lossless file compressor based on the LZMA (Lempel-Ziv-Markov chain-Algorithm) algorithm designed by Igor Pavlov.

PM Disk Map is a PM program intended to help you manage disk space. With it you'll be able to graphically see how much of your disk space is consumed by directories.

Opens current CMD.EXE-directory in a WPS view, Dutch (PMDIR_NL.EXE) and English (PMDIR.EXE) version.

PMSearch is a fast and useful file search engine. Includes features like file search by attribute type (archive, hidden, read-only and system). These bits can be set or clear as well as * and ? queries in file text search parameters....

PNG Check, a command-line program to check and report information or subimages from PNG/MNG image/animation files.

Progref is a PM utility to quickly and easily generate Program reference objects from executables (ie typically exe, com, cmd and bat type files). Progref uses one dialog panel for most of the commonly used...

A Graphical Disk Usage Analyzer. QDiskUsage generates a navigable pie chart of your directory so you can easilyy find the largest directory or file on your disk.

RAR 2.50:

RAR is a powerful tool which allows you to manage and control archive files.

RAR 3.93:

It is 32-bit RAR version for DOS and OS/2. Unlike 16-bit RAR/DOS it is able to...

Rename Enhancer makes easy renaming group of files in an automated way.

RepairSystemDumpFile is a tool that attempts to repair corrupted System Dump files.
Typical usage is RepairSystemDumpFile dumpfile where dumpfile is the name of the file to be repaired.

Operating System/2 Resources Translator. Using for translate resource files, dialog files, XWorkPlace message files, ect. from english into different (e.g. russian) language. Powerful and very fast!

RexxXML provides an interface to libxml and libxslt. It provides routines for parsing and manipulating XML and HTML files, using both Rexx and XSLT. The package includes the OS/2 excutable of RexxXML and related support files. Source...

LongnameEA.CMD uses RootDir.EXE to list the names, and then adds a .LONGNAME extended attribute to each file with a deadname. Simply run this program (which requires that RootDir.EXE be in the...

Open source utility that provides fast incremental file transfer.

Utility to delete "EA DATA. SF" on FAT drives. Source code available.

usage: R_EADATA drive:

example: R_EADATA A:

With schnitt you can copy parts of a file. Source code available.

Shortens all files referenced in an HTML (A HREF as well as IMG SRC, FRAME SRC and all others) to 8.3 characters. Useful for modifying your great HPFS web site to be compatible with all those poor fools who still use FAT...

ShowSub displays the .SUBJECT EA of a single file, so the WPS doesn't have to be used to obtain a copyable value which may have been set by, for example, Firefox. Long filenames and wildcards are supported.

Simple Zipshell is the smallest program available to pack and unpack ZIP files (or ARJ) from the graphical desktop. Freeware. English, German language.

Simple Zipshell is...

StartDos is an OS/2 program to start virtual DOS mode (VDM) sessions under OS/2. The nature of DOS sessions under OS/2 is controlled by DOS settings strings. StartDos accepts these strings via a REXX command...

Goes thru the specified files and replaces strings therein. This program was part of the XFolder source package. the first name of XWorkplace.

A program to sincronize directories.

TeXIT is a Worksshell for emTeX or other OS/2 TeX-packages.

TEXTREIN removes control-characters and converts tabs and linebreaks in textfiles. Source code available.

This program displays a folder in a view similar to OS/2's Tree View. However after the name of each directory the size of that directory (and its subdirectories if the tree is collapsed) is shown.

Double-clicking on a folder...

Recognition of filetypes: compilers, execompressors, viruses, drivers, musik, graphic, archive lister, file descriptions, system files, DOS-extenders, ICO, enhanced attributes and more.

Undot.cmd is a Rexx procedure to replace one or more dots, commas, spaces, brackets and braces in filenames by an underscore character, except the last dot: the extension is preserved!...

UniView querys the file type of the opened help file (OS/2, Windows or plain text) and opens the file with the right program for this help file type.

Program developed...

A Rexx script that scans text files for URLs, creating URL objects in a  folder on your desktop. You need a browser web to open a WPS URL object.

VFAT2EA converts VFAT Long Filenames to OS/2's .LONGNAME Extended Attributes, which is the standard way in OS/2 to store the long filenames for every file or directory on a partition which does not support long filenames.

It can...

WDRepairFile is a program, that copy a demage VOB-File e.g. from a DVD.

Port of the "which" command for UNIX: report the complete path for a command/file or the shell alias in use.

Rexx-file for viewing Microsoft Word 97 non-FAT documents with Microsoft Word 6 for Windows 3.x. This program requires the converter between Microsoft Word 6.0, 95 and 97.

An enhancement to WPFileSystem and WPSystem classes, that helps in copying files to USB mass storage devices FAT16 formatted, where the long filenames may occasionally suffer truncation into 8.3 type.

It also forces the system to...

A program to view and extract contents from IBM Extended Density Format files.

Usage:

• List the XDF file contents: ...

View, extract and create archive files.

Zippy is a most advanced archive manager for ArcaOS, eComStation and IBM's OS/2 operating systems. Allow to easy to browse and...

OS/2 Port of the Zoo Archiver, by Rahul Dhesi.