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A powerful lot of my programming has been, and still is, done in the Microsoft Windows environment, using the 'make' tools, provided and maintained by Microsoft ... then my own tools will also be mainly in that form ... this started in DOS, and progressed into windows 3.1, windows 95, NT, 98, ME, 2000, XP, Vista ...

Personal Tools -

link description
ps ps: - WIN32 process listing tool
poly-view poly-view: A WIN32 tool for loading and displaying certain array files.
fc4 FC4: Compare two files, like GNU unix 'diff'
cwd CWD: Write current work directory to a batch file
datefile DATEFILE: Reset the date and time of a file, to specific date, time, or per a reference file
dump DUMP4: A hexified file dump utility, with lots of twists...
urlhistory View of the history list kept by Internet Explorer
diskspace A simple utility to show disk size, and free space in WIN32
joyinfo Getting the name of a joystick, using DirectInput enumeration ...
xdelete XDELETE: A powerful 'delete files and folders' tool ... but today most can be done by the built-in enhanced DEL, or ERASE command.
ask ASK: A simple command line tool to output a prompt, wait for the keyboard, and exit setting ERRORLEVEL accordingly
Editors What editor to use in Windows XP, Vista, ...?
Fix File FixF32: Modified a block of text, or other things, in a file, to be able to 'view' it better ...
Compare DC4w: Is there a more important function to a programmer? The comparison of two folders, and files ... my dc4w, Beyond Compare, FileZilla, MD5, SHA1.
Find FA4: Very important! ... find a "reference" in a set-of-files, like *.c*, -r, to reiterate into subs ... sort of my version of 'grep' ...
Images Dv32: (DibView) - How the computer 'displays' all that binary information, and it can look so good ...
Dirg Directory Group - To review folder sizes, ready for CD-ROM 'archiving' ... never really finished it ...

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Microsoft Tools -

link description
Batch Files Just some personal notes on batch file use in Windows ...
MSVS / MSVC Microsoft Visual Studio C/C++ plays a major role ...
Remote Assistance First, get a .NET Passport account, then onto Windows Messenger
Windows Messenger Some quick pointers on using Windows Messenger, or MSN Messenger

Some unix-windows jokes, while the link stays active! I particularly liked the 'nearly-true-history' contained in - 'Windows 95: 32 bit extensions and a graphical shell for a 16 bit patch to an 8 bit operating system originally coded for a 4 bit microprocessor ...' - but not how it carried on, although still funny ... ;=)) and this is on a site 'documenting' VMS ...


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Miscellaneous

link description
declspec Musing on the MS Specific __declspec(dllexport) and __declspec(dllimport) macros, for MSVC DLL/LIB and EXE building.
WIN32 Musing on WIN32 versus _WIN32, and choose WIN32 as the #ifdef WIN32, despite all the odds ;=))
ImageMagick A software suite to create, edit, compose, or convert bitmap images. It can read and write images in a variety of formats (over 100) including DPX, EXR, GIF, JPEG, JPEG-2000, PDF, PhotoCD, PNG, Postscript, SVG, and TIFF. See ImageMagick site - http://www.imagemagick.org/script/index.php
JS Error Some musing on javascript errors ...
PHP Enabling PHP to run through localhost in a browser ...
UNICODE A simple list of UNICODE values, list in ASCII form, &#nnnnn; ...
Memory Leaks A debug memory sample application ...
Magnify Some experiments with magnifying a section of the screen ...
Color Wheel Generated bitmap, as a color wheel ... or the color wheel values, if your browser can load it ;=)) ... it is a 5MB html file!
Sound Getting a microphone connected in XP, but should be same or similar in other Windows version.

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Zip Index - This is an index to some zip files containing some of my PERSONAL TOOLS, both the source, and WIN32 runtime executables. Note, this is not always a fully up-to-date list! It is better to view the specific pages.

Some font experiments ... an XP 'experience' ... more zips


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