Control your files

PC users, administrators and Webmasters need to constantly update their systems by keeping track of files that may change, expire or become obsolete. This week's pick of files is designed to help them gain greater control over their files.

Comparator 2.2

Keeping track of files and protecting them from loss or damage is a never-ending chore for any active PC user. This is a simple utility that will take some of the insecurity and the tedium out of finding, deleting and copying over duplicate or version files.

With Comparator, you won't need to open two Explorer windows to make painstaking comparisons but you can still have the Windows system menu available to you by right-clicking a file.

It is an alternative to Microsoft Briefcase to keep shared files in sync. Users can make full use of Comparator to quickly update a small backup set before getting down to some serious work.

You can also run Comparator in multi-language interface all menus, dialog texts and messages, or create your own language by editing the language file directly.

Filesize: 0.468 M

Purchase Info: Freeware

Platform: Windows 95/98, NT 4

Download Location: www.softbytelabs.com/comparator

CS-RCS 2.5

ComponentSoftware RCS CS-RCS manages document revisions and comes in handy to monitor changes made in files that are accessed on stand-alone or networked workstations.

Based on the widely used GNU RCS, it is fully integrated with Windows applications and Explorer. CS-RCS supports multi-platform workgroups, and is a fine solution for sites that share common files on Unix and Windows platforms.

It handles all types of documents including program files, HTML documents, MS Word documents and pictures and drawings. CS-RCS can use any file server or local drive to store the archive repository.

Network connection to the archive repository can be LAN, corporate wide area network, dial-up connection or the Internet itself.

Filesize: 1.43 M

Purchase Info: Freeware

Platform: Windows 3.x, Windows 95/98, NT 3.51/4

Download Location: http://abscs.cjb.net/

MultiSQL 1.0

This is a tool to keep your SQL scripts portable and multi-platform. Users of SQL know the difficulty in maintaining all the various versions needed for the different platforms that clients require.

Whenever you need to make modifications to the SQL source code, you not only have to revise all your scripts but run the risk of missing something, which results in inconsistencies in one or more versions.

MultiSQL puts an end to this headache by making the job of writing and maintaining your SQL scripts easier than ever, because MultiSQL has a built-in pre-processor that generates different versions of your scripts to each platform you wish to make your database available.

Filesize: 0.589 M

Purchase Info: Shareware

Platform: Windows 95/98, NT 3.51/4

Download Location: www.legitima.com

Librarian from JSSL 1.1

Librarian is a powerful source code management system that includes version control, access control, distribution, and branching and merging.

This client-server application suite also comes with excellent publishing capabilities, making it suitable for managing multiple applications, application versions and variants of versions.

Filesize: 2.4 M

Purchase Info: Shareware

Platform: Windows 95/98, NT 4

Download Location: www.winlib.com

I-CONtrol DateStamper 1.2

I-CONtrol DateStamper lets users add custom tag lines, including approved legal copyright information and origination and revision dates, to the Web site.

The search bots on the Web use the revision dates to trigger revisits to your pages. DateStamper also allows you to easily establish and maintain this valuable information.

Filesize: 0.62 M

Purchase Info: Shareware

Platform: Windows 3.x, 95/98

Download Location: www.futurearts.com/stamper.html

HCU95 1.05

HCU95, which stands for HTML/ASCII Change Utility for Windows 95/NT, allows you to make global changes to a collection of HTML or ASCII files.

Whenever you need to manually update a site in which a lot of repeated actions are done over multiple pages, HCU95 simplifies the task and save time.

Filesize: 0.467 M

Purchase Info: Shareware

Platform: Windows 95/98, NT 3.51/4

Download Location: www.xs4all.nl/miv/HCU95/

ExamDiff 1.6

ExamDiff is a freeware Windows 95/98/NT tool for visual file comparison that has a number of simple and convenient features not found in most file comparison tool.

Purchase Info: Freeware

Platform: Windows 95/98, NT 4

Download Location: www.nisnevich.com/examdiff/examdiff.htm

Compiled by C. Ramesh