Information Workbench

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DOS Phantom
 
  DOS Phantom v3.0 is a full-featured keystroke record and playback utility for DOS. DOS Phantom includes hot-key initiated and scheduled playback, a scripting language providing looping, branching, file I/O, pop-up text windows and menus, program exit status detection, the ability to read text from the screen and much more. Take screen text from one application and supply it as keyboard input to another application. The included Scraper utility lets you "scrape" text from the screen using the arrow keys and then play the scraped text back as if it were coming from the keyboard. Use DOS Phantom for scheduling such chores as unattended backup, defragmentation, tasks to complex for simple macros, and report printing.

This version of DOS Phantom is Y2K compliant.

A playback-only version of DOS Phantom is also available.

 
 
 
     
 
Secure Phantom
 
  Secure Phantom is a version of Phantom enhanced to provide security for Phantom playback files. The TXT2PTM and PTM2TXT translators have been enhanced to allow scrambling of the playback file contents based on a keyword supplied on the command line. This prevents users with binary editors from determining the keystrokes contained within the playback file. This can be useful when such items as passwords are being played back. PHANTOM2.EXE and P2PLAY.EXE have been correspondingly enhanced to unscramble the playback file during playback. You implant the key into the executables using a special utility. This is done in such a way that the unscrambled text is never resident in memory as more than a single byte at a time.  
     
 
Demo Workshop
 
  Demo Workshop is a tool for creating product demonstrations, tutorials, and presentations. Screens can be recorded in full motion or as snapshots. The resultant recording is edited like a movie: scenes can be cut, copied, and resequenced. Pop-up text windows and menus can be added along with special effects such as wipes, squeezes, and dissolves. The final product is a single executable. Due to the compression techniques used, the output executable can often fit on a single floppy disk.

Version 1.2 Beta 12 adds the capability of creating much larger presentations, support for VGA graphics screen snapshots, and executing DOS commands as part of the presentation. Included is a program to play .WAV files through the PC speaker, allowing sound to be included in presentations.