THEOS Contributed Software

This command converts a zip file downloaded from the THEOS web site into a single image file that can be installed from hard disk. This single image file may be used for all THEOS product installs except the full operating system installation (service pack is okay).

With this command installed on your system you can quickly install other THEOS products by:

1. Download the zip file for the product. This example uses THEO+Net, which is a four-disk image set.
2. Use MakeImg to convert to a single image file:
   >MakeImg tn41000
3. Attach the resulting image file:
   >Attach I tn41000.img
4. Install the product:
   >Install I
5. Detach the image file:
   >Attach I
6. Erase the image file unless you want to copy to another system.
   >Erase tn41000.img

IMG2FLP is a DOS command that will copy an .IMG file to a diskette, in the process making the diskette THEOS formatted. You would typically use this command after downloading and UNZIPping a file from the THEOS Download page. Simply execute this command and you end up with THEOS diskettes!

ZIP/UNZIP is converted from the Linux library GNU sources. The source code is available separately by sending e-mail message to Jean-Michel.

SUBSCRIBE is a CGI application written in THEOS C for THEO+Server, which will subscribe a user to a mailing list. The online documentation is here. After downloading and unzipping, place the command file in your configured CGI directory.

MAILFILE is a CGI application written in THEOS C for THEO+Server, which will convert any file to base64 encoding, attach to an email message and send to a user. This application is used on the THEOS download page. The online documentation is here. After downloading and unzipping, place the command file in your configured CGI directory.

Attached is a port of a unix-like "sed" (stream editor) command. It's completely unsupported and undocumented. Maybe it's useful enough for the library. Example:

sed -e "s/ABC/DEF/" x.x

where x.x is an input text file.

This utility was adapted by Andre Mendes from sources published in "The Working Programmer's Guide to Serial Protocols" according to its license terms. Development of this program was funded by American Medical Systems.

The venerable "full screen" EDIT command. For those of you who just can't live without it.

FCHECK is a freeware program to check THEOS indexed files which have been created and manipulated with BASIC WRITE statements for errors. THEOS C source code, makefile, and an executable file are included.

The purpose of the program is to provide a means to convert multiWRITE document files into a more widespread standard, since we can't get multiWRITE to work on the THEOS Workstation! It converts the document into Rich Text Format (RTF) ready for output to a DOS machine. The file can then be imported into other word processors like Word for Windows. The advantage of RTF is that character attributes such as bold and underline are translated. For our own purposes, we translate the hash # character to a pound sign.

Converts DBF files into a THEOS stream file. The IMG contains a DBFX.README file explaining its use and syntax.

WindoWriter for DOS is a text editor compatible with THEOS WindoWriter version 1. We use it at THEOS for some of our DOS projects. It is sometimes nice to have an editor in both environments that you don't have to learn new keyboard commands for.