Bamboo Utilities as of 03-jul-2001

All of the files listed below are shareware.  Tech support is available by purchasing a license from:

Bamboo Software
4401 Baker Ave. NW
Seattle WA 98107

Send email to bamboo@inwa.net to request license prices and terms.  Copyrights for all of the Bamboo Utilities are held by Bamboo Software as identified by running the individual programs, with the exception of TCOPY, FIP, DSR and SINGLE which are copyright by Frank Brown and the Seattle Fire Department.

All of the utilities run on Windows NT or Windows 2000 unless otherwise noted.

Help for all of the command-line utilities is available by passing /? as an argument (for example, COMPUTERNAME /?).

ADDTASK: Commandline utility to add new scheduled task for W2K and NT4/SP4 or above (scheduled tasks supercede, but do not replace, the old AT command). Lets you specify username and password to run the task as.
AVGFS: Reports the appropriate cluster size for a disk by checking average file size.
CHTYPE: Reports if a text file is ascii or unicode.
ComputerName: Command-line utility to view or change the computer name. (NT)
CPUSPEED: Command-line utility reports speed for Intel Pentium CPUs.
DATEDIR: MS-DOS command-line utility to display file listings by date. (sample: "DATEDIR /SINCE=YESTERDAY *.DOC")
DE-HTML: Creates ANSI or ASCII text files from HTML files.  (MS-DOS with Win95 long file name support).
DI: Disk Information command-line utility lists all disks on the computer, and their characteristics. (Win32)
DIRO: Displays a directory listing with file owners on an NTFS volume (NT).
DISCONNECT: disconnects a user from a network server.
DMPHISTORY: Command-line utility to dump URLs from MSIE 3.0 history files. (Win32)
DOSDEVS: Command-line utility lists all "DOS device links" on an NT system.
DS32: Directory Size utility reports total number of bytes used by all files (including any subdirectories) in a directory. (Win32)
DSFMX: Directory Size utility implemented as a Windows NT File Manager extension.  Displays total directory usage by clicking on a File Manager toolbar button. (NT)
DSR: Disk Space Reporter reports disk space by user on an NT file system (NTFS-formatted disk).
DU: Disk Usage command-line utility reports bytes used, free, or total capacity for a disk in kb or MB. (Win32)
EVENTCNT: Console utility reports the number of entries in an NT event log. (NT)
EXPORTEVENTS: Command-line utility exports entries from an Event Log to a CSV file; optionally clears the event log. (NT)
FCOUNT: Counts the number of files in a directory.
FENCE: Enables a virtual fence around the NT 4.0 desktop, preventing windows from being moved outside.
FINDWND: Search your workstation for a window containing a specified string in its title, and list its HWND, process ID and thread ID.
FIP: Find IP utility for Win32 systems (Windows 95 & NT). Finds NetBIOS computer name for specified IP address or vice versa; also checks a range of IP addresses.
FTPB: Add FTP commands to your batch files with FTPB. FTPB also reads input from command files for added flexibility and speed. (Win32 console utility; requires WININET.DLL.)
FVER: Display product version information for a Win32 program file.
GETACCESS: Query MSACCESS database files (.MDB) from the command line, using SQL. (Win32)
GETRMTVER: Discover what operating system is running on a remote machine on a MS network.
GETSID: Command line utility returns the SID and, optionally, the roaming profile for an NT/W2K domain user. Requires W2K or above.
HEAD: Command-line utility displays the first n lines (default=6) of a text file. (MS-DOS)
HTMLizer: The functionality of DE-HTML & MKHTML combined into one Win32 program. This (and the utilities it sprang from) is for mass conversion of multiple files. If you want a cool HTML editor, look elsewhere. If you want fast assembly-line conversion of lots of files, try the HTMLizer. (Win32)
ICONVIEW: Win32 utility to view all of the icons in a file. (Check out SHELL32.DLL.) (Win32)
ISADMIN: Tests if a user has administrator privileges; if no username provided, the currently logged-in account is checked. (NT)
ISCOMPRESSED: tests if an NT/W2K file is compressed or not.
ISSERVER: Command line utility reports if a machine is a workstation or NT/W2K server.
LOGOFF: Logs off the current user on an NT workstation from a command prompt. (NT)
MCR: Command-line utility to add or remove carriage returns (CRs) to/from an ascii text file. Also reports whether a file contains CRs. (MS-DOS)
MKHTML: Command-line utility creates HTML files from ascii text files. (MS-DOS)
MKLNK: Command-line utility which creates a Windows shortcut (.LNK file); use '/desk' to place on desktop. (Win32)
MODDATE: Command-line utility to modify a file's date. (MS-DOS)
MOTDW: Windows message utility for LAN administrators; displays a text file in a read-only window for reading and/or printing.  Intended to be called from network users' login script. (Win16)
MTCOPY: Multithreaded command-line utility for copying file(s) to multiple computers across a MS network. Orders of magnitude faster than a script because it does simultaneous copies using multiple threads. (Win32)
NETCOMPUTERS: Similar to the NET VIEW command with an additional /type arg so you can specify SERVER or WORKSTATION or just see what type the computers are. (NT)
NETDISKS: Examine diskspace for all disks on any or all computers on an NT network; automatically scan them all to generate a list of those below a minimum free space threshhold. (NT)
NETGROUPS: Command-line utility lists the global groups an NT domain network user belongs to. (Win32)
NOLINES: Command-line utility reports the number of lines in a text file. (Win32)
NOP: A program that does nothing! Occasionally useful when performing registry experiments. (Win32)
NOPW: A program that does nothing (just like NOP), but uses WinMain instead of main as the entry point to eliminate the flickering console window.
PCINFO: Command-line utility reports PC configuration info to a file or the screen. (MS-DOS)
PRIVNAMES: List NT privileges and their associated display names to the console. (NT)
PRUNE: Deletes a specified folder (and contents) from all subdirectories in a given directory. Note this utility is case-sensitive. For instance, suppose you wanted to remove all instances of the Accessories folder in every user directory under winnt\Profiles... (Win32)
PURGE: Deletes files before, on, or after a specified date. Version 1.4 now includes '/list' option! (Win32)
SETSYSENV: Displays, sets or removes system environment variables.
SHOW: VMS-like SHOW utility displays assorted system, disk, memory, process, boot and user information for Windows NT systems. (NT)
SINGLE: Assures only a single instance of a Windows application is started.
SOUNDTASTER: Listen to your sound files by clicking them from a list, and store/display associated descriptive text for each file. (Win32)
STRIP: Strip all text between a set of matched tags in an HTML or other tagged text file. (Strip all the html out of your digest before mailing it.)
TCOPY: Tape copy program. Console utility to copy tapes on NT systems with two tape drives. (NT)
TFORMAT: Command-line utility to format tapes; only works on NT 3.5 and 3.51. (NT)
TOUCH: A touch utility for Win32 files - supports long file names and directories. (Win32)
WHOOPENED: Find out what user has a file open on an NT/W2K server.
WS2TEXT: Got any old WordStar files lying around? Convert them to ascii text with this Win32 utility. (Win32)