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Notes to users of Windows XP: Windows setups created with Inno Setup 6.1 will no longer run under Windows XP. In this case, the user must download the program package as zip archive instead (if available) and then unpack it manually. The executable files will run without any problems.

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Personal Backup

Personal Backup is a program for saving personal data to any destination folder. This folder may be located on a local fixed or removable drive, on a Windows network server or on an FTP server. It runs under Windows 7, 8 and 10 (32- & 64-bit), Windows Vista, Windows XP and the corresponding Server versions.

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DosPanel - A Windows front-end for DOSBox

DOSBox is an emulator for running DOS applications on various up-to-date platforms (e.g. Windows and Linux), enabling many old DOS game classics to be resurrected. The download is available from the DOSBox website. Detailed documentation can be found at DosBox wiki.

The program DosPanel is a graphical user interface for DOSBox. The user can make all required settings needed to start DOS applications in DOSBox without concern the somewhat crude syntax of the configuration file. Each DOS application can have its individual settings stored by the program.

The functions at a glance:

 

Notes about installing the program

On Windows 7, 8, 10 and 11 just start the executable setup file to install the program. To do so the rights of an administrator are required. For older Windows versions (XP and Vista), the installation must be carried out by unpacking the zip archive provided.
Before starting DosPanel for the first time it is necessary to install the current version of DOSBox and run it once.

Configuration example to run Turbo-Pascal

Everybody wishing to use the popular Turbo Pascal IDE with 64-bit versions of Windows, can realize this very simply using DosPanel and DOSBox. The required configuration can be explained using the following example:
Create a directory TP on any drive (e.g. E:). Below this, create a subdirectory bin that will hold all binary files belonging to Turbo Pascal and separate subdirectories for the source files of each Pascal project. Copy this Batch file into the root directory TP. Then create a new DOS application in DosPanel for each project using the settings shown on the right. The entries for Name and Parameter specify the particular project subdirectory.
 

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Version 1.7.4 (December 2023)

Program setup (3.06 MB) Zip archive with program Sources are available from GitHub
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983E0387AE23E9A0179CDEAB1BCF74E6900B7E66D611C2EEF8FF42724C45477A

DOSBox Windows installer DOSBox home page


BibTeX Editor

WinBib is a program for editing and managing BibTeX files. It supports all entry types defined in BibTex, but is especially designed to manage the article type that is most used.

Overview::

Download - Version 2.5.3 (2014-20-20):



R-Plot - Visualization of measuring data

R-Plot is a Windows program for presenting measuring data as X-Y diagrams, bar charts or histograms. Optionally you can add error bars, best-fit curves, computed functions, images, text and simple graphic objects. The number of charts per sheet and objects per chart are in theory unlimited.

On the desktop, two windows are displayed (as shown on the right). In the left one the graphical output is displayed. The right one is intended for editing the plot. The sheet can be sent to any Windows printer, inserted into another application using the clipboard and/or exported as Encapsulated Postscript (EPS) for insertion as an image into LaTeX documents.

The following objects are available:

Text, images, lines and rectangles can be moved on the plot using the mouse. Lines and rectangles can be scaled in the same way.

Online help

Download - Version 2.0.3 (2023-01-16):

32-bit version 64-bit version
Windows setup (3.18 MB)
MD5: 76a1052074c4849b8c163a3e779b4193
Windows setup (3.46 MB)
MD5: 175b6d9a0674d369118567bab77ad6d5
Zip archive with program Zip archive with program
All examples as Zip archive Source code on GitHub


Copy files to an FTP server

FtpCopy is a program to copy files via FTP/FTPS. It is very useful for recurring operations like copying files to a web server for update.
You can configure different copy tasks under free selectable names. In addition, you can specify if all or only older files should be overwritten or if only files not existing on the FTP server should be copied. Configured tasks can be started interactively using the Windows GUI or by creating an appropriate desktop shortcut.
It is also possible to embed the program into a batch file, but for such an application the console program FtpRefresh, also part of the downloadable zip file, is better suitable. It will use the tasks configured by FtpCopy without popping up a desktop window. For more details refer to the enclosed description.

Download - Version 2.7.2 (2023-07-14):

Zip file with programs and description (3.67 MB)


Repair encrypted Thunderbird mail files

To send and receive encrypted mails with Thunderbird, the add-on Enigmail is available. In 2018 the security policy of Enigmail was increased with Version 2.0.6 in consideration of the Efail vulnerability. As a result of this, older mails not protected by a Modification Detection Code (MDC) are no longer readable. Opening such a mail, will raise a Message Integrity error.
The Internet discussion shows that many Thunderbird users are annoyed about this issue. They can no longer read their archived encrypted mails. A comprehensive motivation for this precaution can be found at SourceForge.net.

On the other hand, this contribution shows a way how to recover such mails one by one manually using GPG on the command line. This may be viable in particular cases, but if you have a lot of encrypted mails, this procedure is not practical particularly if mail attachments are affected.

At this point, the provided program TbMailRepair can help. It will perform this procedure automatically. At first, the mail file will be scanned for encrypted sections. Then, all these sections will be decrypted using GPG as described in the contribution mentioned above. At last, these sections will be encrypted again with MDC protection using GPG and reinserted into the original mail file. As a result of this, all archived encrypted mails can be opened as usual.

Procedure:

  1. Close Thunderbird
  2. Start TbMailRepair
  3. Select the mail file* to be processed
  4. The program will analyze the selected mail file and show the number of included mails and encrypted sections.
  5. After clicking the Repair button, the program will replace all encrypted sections as described above. The original mail file will be retained as file with bak extension.
  6. If desired, select other mail files to be repaired.
  7. Close TbMailRepair
  8. Start Thunderbird

*Note: Thunderbird mail files are usually located in the user's Application Data folder. Below the directory C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Roaming\Thunderbird\Mail\ you will find a subdirectory for each mail account, e.g. Local Folders. Each mail folder is saved as single file in these directories and their subdirectories. Mail files have no file extension. The file for all incoming mail for example is called InBox. All files with the same name having the extension msf are irrelevant in this context. They are just used for Thunderbird's internal file management and will be recreated automatically if desired.

Download - Version 1.0 v. 2019-03-20:

Zip archive with executable program (1,03 MB)
Sources (320 kB)