********************************************************************** * PocketD reviews: * ********************************************************************** These are quotations from various magazines and users, mainly about PocketD v1.67 and earlier. The full text for these is in the file POCKETD.REV, distributed separately in the file POCKRV40.ZIP (you may have this with your distribution). NOTE: PocketD Plus v4.4 is a SUBSTANTIALLY improved product over v1.67 BEST UTILITY 1995!! Ziff-Davis awards, Two BBSCON Dusseldorf Feb1995, UK Section. BEST UTILITY 1994!! What PC, May 1994. PocketD v3.1 was awarded joint runner-up with Stacker 4.0 and Dr Solomon Toolkit. "It's nice in this Windows-dominated age to find a great little (31Kb) file manager that runs under DOS and does things no Windows app can do." BEST UTILITY 1992!! PocketD v1.66 was awarded "Best New Utility 1992", by PsL, (one of the top 2 shareware vendors in the U.S.) Nelson Ford, (Dec92) TROPHY RATING! PBS-Ziffnet: PBS select a few of their catalog products as "Trophy"-rated, which grades them as "Best Disk Anyware for the Task" PocketD Plus v3.1 was trophy-rated May 1994. Bob Ainsbury: Registered user and author of DOS 6 SECRETS "One of the most exciting programs I have discovered in the last 12 months is PocketWare's PocketD. PocketD is an extremely compact and fast utility program for managing files and directories, and it completely out-classes the many DOS commands such as COPY, XCOPY, MOVE, RENAME, DIR, DEL and ATTRIB, to name but a few. Try it, you'll like it. PocketD is destined to be a classic. I highly recommend it." (Apr93) Jay Heyl: Registered user & President of RoboSoft Systems, Orange, CA. "I've been writing software professionally for over 15 years now and I'm not easily impressed by the work of others. When I am impressed, as I am with PocketD, I don't mind recommending it to damn near everyone I meet." (Sep92) Tom Maynard: Registered user, Hinckley, Illinois. "I saw an obscure reference to PocketD in a shareware catalog. Intrigued, I ordered it for evaluation. Imagine my surprise as it blossomed into a truly indispensable tool on my system! Never before had I rushed to register so quickly. Thank you for the best utility in the world. It is a real pleasure to find a solid, professional, polished piece of work like PocketD in an otherwise sterile PC environment" (Jan93) Craig Menefee: Registered user. Auth: Byte's DOS Programmer's Cookbook. "What attracts me to PocketD is that it does, in one form or another, just about everything that XTree Gold does, but faster." Personal Computer World: "I've saved the nicest thing about D till last: its tiny memory overhead. Unlike most DOS extenders (like the excellent 4DOS), D is not memory-resident. It uses just 65k each time it runs ...D also includes one of the most powerful menuing systems I have come across...In short, D is wonderful" Karl Dallas (Cover disk and 2388 word review, Dec92) PC Plus: "..a very powerful tool for all types of disk housekeeping. This is a compact and unusually versatile program". Ray Girvin (v1.67 - 347 word review, Sep92). Range of features: * * * * * Overall speed: * * * * * Ease of use: * * * - - Documentation: * * * * - Value verdict: * * * * * PC Plus: "PocketD is an extremely productive utility for day-to-day DOS file manipulations". Wilf Hey (v3.0 - cover-disk review, Nov93). PC Today: "You'll soon forget about the Dos DIR command once you have tried PocketD as it is many times more powerful..PocketD must be the last word in Dos utilities" Lance Concannon. (Subscriber's disk and 467 word review, Sep92). Shareware Magazine: "D /WR *.GIF [GIFVIEW $w][COPY $w A://PKZIP SAVE $w]... will search the whole disk for GIF files...view them with GIFVIEW...choose the ones that you want to copy ... and automatically add them to SAVE.ZIP.... WOW! That's an impressive automation of a lot of DOS keystrokes...these are the sort of things that makes PocketD unique and very useful." (535 word review, Jul92). Shareware Shopper: "THE DOS ARMY KNIFE...stands out because it's small but offers an enormous range of features." Jack Zanetti (1404 word review, Jun92). Range of features: * * * * * Ease of use: * * * - - Documentation: * * * * * Value: * * * * * Overall: * * * * - PsL News: "...smaller than many other file utilities, but jam-packed with features" (Reviewed as one of the 4 best new programs of the month from 200 new and updated programs). 575 word review, Feb92. PC Home: "...a small program with an incredible list of features. This will help you out with those day-to-day tasks that can be so time consuming when using DOS. Ideal for those with less powerful machines or who do not like Windows and large file managers." (Subscriber's Disk, Jan93) PC Review: "Lose those DOS blues with these easy to use utilities" (v1.66, Cover disk, Sep92). PC News Weekly:"PocketD is an exceptionally powerful DOS utility with a strange name, but packed with amazing and invaluable features.". (205 word review, Oct93). PocketD v2.0 is bundled with the book DOS 6 SECRETS by Bob Ainsbury (IDG Worldwide). See quote above. PocketD Plus v3.0 was chosen by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) for distribution to their members. PocketD v4.0 is to be bundled with "BYTE's DOS Programmer's Cookbook", principal author Craig Menefee. See quote above.