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- Loren J. Rittle Software is happy to announce that NewPop v4.0 is now
- available from ab20.larc.nasa.gov. NewPop has its roots in PopCLI III,
- but has far eclipsed the functionality contained with that program.
-
- NewPop v4.0 sports the following features:
- * screen blanking with cute Q*X pattern display on blanked screen.
- * cli/command popper.
- * instant- and defeat-blanking via HOT KEYS and pointer position.
- * titlebar CPU usage (actually # of task switches/second) monitor.
- * titlebar SCSI I/O usage monitor.
- * titlebar memory (graphics and fast) monitor.
- * titlebar clock.
- * joystick movements are detected and counted as `input events'.
- * lock/password to restore from a blanking.
- * detects 2.0 and uses 2.0's System() call, if available.
- * quite robust, due to extensive beta testing, with respects to
- different OS's and computer models. [this was not true with v3.2]
- * fully configurable, in that:
- - you can turn off any feature you don't want.
- - you can set many parameters controlling how NewPop should act
- e.g. NICENEWPOP NEWPOPLITE WEWANTWINDOWDRAG LOCK
- BACKDROPWINDOW WIMPYCLOCK MAXSCSIUSAGE SCSIIOMONWIDTH
- CPULOADMONWIDTH SCSITASKNAME FONTNAME COMMAND PASSWORD
- MEMORYMONWIDTH GAPBETWEEN3 GAPBETWEEN2 GAPBETWEEN FONTSIZE
- STARTYOFFSET MAXTEXTWIDTH STARTXOFFSET WINDOWHEIGHT TIMEOUT
- POPKEY BLANKERPRIORITY ULC LLC LRC URC INSTANTKEY DEFEATKEY
- all control some aspect of NewPop.
-
- Programmers will enjoy the fact that NewPop is multithreaded with
- up to three separate tasks interacting with one another to get the
- job done. AND source is included for interested parties.
-
- Thanks to:
- * the beta testers: Ed, Ken, Aris, Chris and Thomas
- * bug reporters from v3.2
- * The Software Distillery (for PopCLI III, upon which NewPop is based)
- * Rob Peck (for the input.device example upon which PopCLI was loosely based)
- * Ed A. Hutchins (for early (pre v2.0) inspiration)
- * John Riley, Lattice, Inc (for the line drawing example)
- * Tomas Rockiki (for Mackie just because it is cool and inspired some aspects
- of NewPop)
- * Matt Dillon (for showing the WindowToFront() work-around in DMouse source)
-
- Legal junk:
- Copyright (c) 1986 The Software Distillery. All Rights Reserved
- Additions and modifications Copyright (c) 1989, 1990, 1991 Loren J. Rittle
- Modifications Copyright (c) 1990 Ed A. Hutchins and Loren J. Rittle
-
- * As stated in the original POPCLI documentation file:
- *
- * Permission is hereby granted to distribute this program provided
- * both the documentation accompanies the executable and that no
- * charge is made for its distribution.
- * I assume that this statement includes the right to modify the source
- * and futher distribute the modified work under this same agreement. - LJR
- * (Actually, at this point, 'diff newpop.c popcli3.c | wc'
- * > 'wc -c newpop.c' + 'wc -c popcli3.c'. :-)
-
- Loren J. Rittle
- l-rittle@uiuc.edu (or lrg7030@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu )
-