Sensible Freeware and Shareware

by Keith Parkansky


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Below is a listing of Freeware and Shareware offerings from nationally-recognized shareware author,
Keith Parkansky. You can download these programs now by clicking on the icons located in the
program descriptions.


FREEware




Bestdam Logger Lite v3
A Sophisticated CGI Counter/Logger

This Perl CGI script collects detailed information on visitors to your Web pages, as well as hit statistics, and have the data e-mailed to you on a daily or weekly basis. Loaded with features and very customizable.

The Bestdam Logger Web site includes pages geared toward those who have never used CGI scripts before featuring detailed information on how to take advantage of the CGI capabilities your Web host or ISP may offer.  www.execpc.com/~keithp/bdlogger.htm





Apollo 11 Mission Screensaver
An Educational Screensaver Of Man's First Mission To The Moon.

Full details of this free award-winning multimedia screensaver for Windows 95/98/NT are available at www.execpc.com/~keithp/kpsavers.htm





SAPCHECK v1.2
A Utility To Check Your Network Connection !

A DOS command-line utility which checks to make sure a workstation can "see" Netware® file servers on a network. If it can, SAPCHECK will display a list of the file servers and a count of all servers found (in the broadcast domain). If it can't, an appropriate error message will be displayed along with possible causes. It is not necessary to be logged in to the network to run this utility.

Download this program (SAPCHECK.EXE) now.





SAPPRINT v1.2
A Utility To Check Your Print Servers !

A DOS command-line utility which checks to make sure a workstation can "see" Netware® print servers on a network. If it can, SAPPRINT will display a list of the print servers and a count of all servers found (in the broadcast domain). If it can't, an appropriate error message will be displayed along with possible causes. It is not necessary to be logged in to the network to run this utility.

Download this program (SAPPRINT.EXE) now.





TIMEFLYS v1.7
An Auto Pop-Up Date Reminder !

Selected by PC World (5/95) as one of the 30 Best low-cost shareware programs in cyberspace !

*** Nothing to learn! Just install it and forget it! ***
This DOS program alerts you to upcoming national holidays and events with non-nagging reminders 11, 4, and 1 day(s) before an event. There is absolutely NOTHING to learn with this program. The reminders will pop up automatically when it's time. Dates for "fixed day" holidays and Easter (which is based on the moon's cycle) are automatically updated each year. This program is 21st Century-ready and Windows compatible !

Download this program (TIMFLY17.ZIP) now.





AUTOHB v1.0
Colorful, Musical, Birthday Greeting !

No sound card or graphics monitor required!
This DOS program will play the "Happy Birthday" song through the PC speaker while displaying a birthday cake and the lyrics in various colors. The birthday person's name is read into the program (for the lyrics) via the DOS environment variable which you enter using the DOS SET command. There is an optional second environment variable that can be set to the person's birthdate, and the program will compare that date to the system date and only run if the two match. This program is also useful in Novell networked environments where the person's name can be entered into the DOS environment using Netware's DOS SET login script command. The QuickBasic source code is also included.

Download this program (AUTOHB.ZIP) now.





Microsoft Java Chat Client 1.0j

This is NOT my freeware but it's here
because it is getting incredibly hard to find.
If you have Microsoft Exchange Server 5.5 (also part of BackOffice 4.5) and you want to use the included Chat Service software to set up a chat server, you can use this version 1j Java chat client (mschat1j.exe) to embed a chat window in a Web page. That way chat participants wouldn't need a separate chat client program to participate in your chat room. They use their Web browser instead. This is preferable on PCs that are shared by multiple users such as in labs and libraries.

I had a horrible time trying to find this software on the Web when I was setting up a chat page so I decided to make it available here for download. The mschat1j.exe file is also contained in the Microsoft Internet Client SDK if you can find a copy of that (good luck).

Even though the MS Chat Service server is included with MS Exchange, it doesn't need Exchange at all to run. Just an NT server running IIS and the chat server package supplied with Exchange/BackOffice will get you a chat server.

Once you've got the chat server running, create an HTML file with a name like mychat.htm and paste the following code somewhere between the <body> tags. Create a directory (call the directory something like chatroom) under the wwwroot directory on the chat server. Then copy the mychat.htm page file and all of the files that come with the mschat1j.exe client into the chatroom directory.

<APPLET CODE="MSChat.class" ARCHIVE="mschat.jar" WIDTH="590" HEIGHT="450">
<PARAM NAME="cabbase" VALUE="mschat.cab">
<PARAM NAME="port" VALUE="6667">
<PARAM NAME="room" VALUE="#MyChatRoom">
<PARAM NAME="autodisconnect" VALUE="true">
</APPLET>

Change the value of the room parameter to match the name of the chat room you set up on your server but be sure to leave the pound sign (#) in front of the room name.

Note that the Web page containing the above code MUSE BE on the same IIS server that is running the MS Chat Server software.

The mschat1j.exe file is a self-extracting archive type of file. Simply extract the files into a temporary directory and copy all of them to your chat server. The default.htm file that is included in the archive list all of the applet parameters. The URL to the Web page containing the above code would them be something like:
http://www.mywebsite.com/chatroom/mychat.htm

Download this program (MSCHAT1J.EXE) now.




Shareware



Ezy-D Dialer v2.2
A Unique Pager/Phone Dialer !

This DOS command-line dialer program features Auto-Modem-Locate so no knowledge of port configurations is necessary. It's command-line design allows it to be used in batch files to place unattended pager calls in response to system or applications events, such as when a virus is detected during a scan. You can use it to create menu items such as "Page Ralph" or "Call Norton". Optionally prompt users for either or both telephone numbers. Operation can be allowed to time out automatically or manually terminated with a key press. The number(s) are displayed for verification purposes. The registration fee is only $8.

Download this program (EZYD22.ZIP) now.


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