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- GSETUP 2.0 - 7/11/87
-
- (c) 1986 Micro Consulting Associates
- 868 Ashford Avenue, Suite 6B
- Condado, Puerto Rico 00907
- (809) 721-8470
-
- This is a "SHAREWARE" product. Share it with your friends!
-
- GSETUP.EXE is a generic SETUP program for the model 99 IBM-PC/AT
- and compatibles. It will allow you to setup the system clock,
- system date and all CMOS parameters in the same way that the IBM
- diagnostics allows to to setup the CMOS parameters but without
- having to boot a special disk. NO DIAGNOSTICS ARE PERFORMED!
-
- The program is totally self-explanatory. There are only two
- things that I need to point out. When you are entering the system
- time, the program will fill in the ":" colon characters for you.
- The "seconds" portion of the time is not needed, so we don't ask
- for it. The program will initialize the system clock to :00
- seconds by default.
-
- When you enter the system date, the program will fill in the
- slash "/" character in the date, which must be entered in
- MM/DD/YYYY format.
-
- Everything else is pretty much self-explanatory. Enjoy! If you
- like the program and find it is useful to you, please reward us
- with a $15 donation so that we can continue to produce useful
- utilities like this for your use.
-
- Juan Jimenez
- President
-
- Release and modification history:
-
- Version 1.0, 6/12/86: Initial release
-
- Version 1.1, 6/13/86: Added re-boot on change in CMOS, cleaned up some
- of the code.
-
- Version 1.2, 6/17/86: Add check for CMOS ram power failure on startup
- and tell user if that is the case, then exit.
-
- Version 1.3, 6/21/86: Fixed bug in equipment byte settings. Program was
- telling CMOS that system had the wrong number of
- floppies.
-
- Version 1.4, 6/25/86: Refused to setup a machine with dead cmos...
- Made several changes, including cmos clearing on
- a dead cmos condition, setup of status parameters
- and other nasty crawlies.
-
- (... and 1 year later...)
-
- Version 1.5, 6/26/87: Turbo C port, squashed spontaneous reboot bug,
- darn thing wanted to reboot for no reason, saying
- CMOS values had changed after prep for reloc.
- Now reboots any time you run the program, just
- like real SETUP.
-
- Version 2.0, 7/10/87: Windows! Added use of Glen Boyd's "WINDOW4C"
- routines, ported to Turbo C from Lattice 2.12 by
- yours truly (turns out Glen already wrote a TC
- version... oh, well...). Finally got around to
- fully commenting and cleaning up the source code,
- since we are now giving it away to contributors.