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- SSTAT - Quick & Tiny System Status
-
- June, 1990
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- SSTAT and this document, Copyright 1990, Sydex. All rights
- reserved. See licensing terms at the end of this document.
-
- Sydex
- 153 North Murphy Ave.
- Sunnyvale, CA 94086
- (408) 739-4866 (voice)
- (408) 738-2860 (BBS: 1200-9600 N81)
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- SSTAT is a program that summarizes memory and disk drive
- utilization. It is very small--about 2K, but we've found it to
- be indispensable.
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- SSTAT began as a tiny program that was done as a supplement to
- one of those books-with-diskette combinations. Because the
- available space on the diskette was limited, we also undertook
- the program as an exercise to see how small this program could be
- made without skimping on presentation or usefulness.
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- If the command:
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- SSTAT
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- is executed, a report is given of the utilization of all three
- types of memory (base, extended and expanded) and of all non-
- removable disks (hard disks and RAM). The report is enclosed in
- a nice-looking box, large numbers have commas inserted, and
- percentages relative to the overall size of disk or memory are
- given.
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- If the command:
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- SSTAT /D
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- is given, the display described above is preceded by a brief
- summary of the physical characteristics of all hard drives,
- including total sectors, sectors per track, tracks per cylinders
- and number of cylinders. These numbers are obtained by means of
- BIOS calls, and so reflect the values reported by the BIOS
- routines.
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- If the command:
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- SSTAT drive1: drive2:...
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- is given, the utilization of the specified drives will be shown.
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- SSTAT normally shows its information on the video display and
- does MORE-like pauses when a screen has been filled. However,
- SSTAT's output can also be redirected to a file, in which case no
- full-screen pauses will be made. For example:
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- SSTAT >MYDATA
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- will write utilization figures to the file MYDATA.
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- Sydex has a broad line of diskette- and hard disk-based
- Shareware programs. Write or call us for a free brochure, or
- send $5.00 for a three-diskette sampler of our products (Overseas
- orders, please add $3.00 for airmail).
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- LICENSING INFORMATION
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- SSTAT is provided by Sydex free of charge and may be distributed
- for non-commercial use only. SSTAT may not be sold, nor a fee
- charged for its use. For commercial distribution, please contact
- Sydex at the above address.
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