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- Documentation for P_TIME.OPL Version 1.2
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- Date: 12.10.1995
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- 1. GENERAL
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- P_TIME.OPL is a program which shows you how you spend your time
- with your psion series 3(a). The intention was to create facts to
- argue with my wife, who means that I spend too much time joying
- with my psion.
- Although I have much learned from the DOHELP.OPL - program I request
- full copyright for P_TIME.OPL in all parts. P_TIME.OPL may be distri-
- buted and used as public domain program. You may use it at your own
- risk.
- You are allowed to modify this program under the following condition:
- If you are modifying successfully P_TIME.OPL I request a copy of the
- modificated program.
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- 2. INSTALLATION
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- Copy P_TIME.OPL to your OPL-directory.
- Start the OPL-translator.
- Select P_TIME.OPL to edit.
- Start translation.
- Quit translation whithout starting P_TIME.OPL.
- Return to system screen.
- Start P_TIME.OPO listed under the OPL-RUN-symbol.
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- 3. HANDLING, FEATURES
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- After initialization the program quits immediately, but whenever you
- select then P_TIME.OPO, it shows its information screen. The screen
- contains the following parameters:
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- total time = the time since you have started P_TIME.OPO.
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- on time = time during total time, whenever the computer
- was switched on.
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- programming time = time during on-time, when you have programmed
- something.
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- The time is shown in the format days (ddd, 0 - 365), hours (hh, 0 - 24)
- and minutes (mm, 0 - 60). The on-time is shown aditionally related to
- total time and the programming time related to on-time in percent.
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- The time measurement is updated every 10 seconds. If you select
- P_TIME.OPO it is first shown the last info-screen and you may have
- to wait up to 10 seconds until an updated screen is shown. You are
- informed about a completed update by a message on the right bottom
- of the screen. To quit the screen you have to hit any key.
- The error of the shown values is equal to the error of the built-in
- watch and the +-10 seconds error. Additional error occurs if you are
- regarding the info screen to long, because this is detected as off-
- time. I my opinion this error is neglectible if you use P_TIME.OPO
- long enough.
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- The programming time is incremented whenever the standard path of
- the foreground application is an OPL or OPD directory. So programming
- is detected also it you use another editor than the built-in OPL-
- editor (=WORD-application).
- Auto-off of the series 3 is not influenced by P_TIME.OPO. Although it
- wasn't possible to reduce the priority level of P_TIME.OPO it doesn't
- need a lot of activity of your series 3 because of the 10 seconds
- count interval. During this interval P_TIME.OPO is waiting for a timer
- interrupt before continuing with work. Its work is then completed after
- 0,006 seconds.
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- 4. VERSION 1.2 ADDITIONAL FEATURES
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- P_TIME now holds its variables in a data file called P_TIME.DAT in the
- \OPD\-Directory on your standard drive. This disk MUST NOT be a FLASH
- type, because P_TIME.OPO updates it every 10 seconds.
- If you shut down P_TIME.OPO (maybe by backing up your drives using
- RCOM's backup command,which will shut down all running programs) the
- previous values are not lost. After restarting P_TIME.OPO the program
- will first read out this file and set its variables according to the
- values stored.
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- 5. KNOWN BUGS
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- If you have selected an SSD-Drive as standard disk drive, an error will
- occur if you open the SSD-door during a write- or read-operation of
- P_TIME.OPO to the file P_TIME.DAT. The error type is fatal, so that the
- system screen will shut down P_TIME.OPO.
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- For further information contact:
- Heinrich Hiemesch@m2.maus.de
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