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title: "QL Utilities: A Menu Driven Selection Program"
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excerpt: "Some utilities are used time and again in one’s computer operations. Each of us has our favorite utilities. This program presents a menu program which will allow easy selection from a group of these utility programs residing at the bottom of memory. It is a defined procedure which calls a number of other procedures. These…"
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# QL Utilities: A Menu Driven Selection Program

Some utilities are used time and again in one’s computer operations. Each of us has our favorite utilities. This program presents a menu program which will allow easy selection from a group of these utility programs residing at the bottom of memory. It is a defined procedure which calls a number of other procedures. These other procedures are your choice utilities. For illustrative purposes, a few such procedures are included in the program listing.