Summary
Utility programs are quite useful in turning a so-so computing environment into a very good computing environment. By enabling you to search for files, edit files, develop programs, transport files, and so on, utilities help to fill in the gaps left by major application programs. In many cases, utilities are necessarily single platform—it makes no sense to run an OS/2 WPS maintenance utility on Windows, for example. In other cases, though, cross-platform utilities can help a multi-OS installation, both by providing cross-platform functionality (as in cross-platform file archiving tools) and by providing a common user interface across OSs, thus reducing the amount of time and effort it takes to learn multiple OSs. Although sometimes cryptic, ...
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