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- INFOLINE 1.02 is Freeware
- Copyright (C) 1993 by Oliver Albrecht, All Rights Reserved
- EMail: oliver_albrecht@sl.maus.de
-
- THIS SOFTWARE IS FREE FOR EVERYONE TO USE AND IS TO BE DISTRIBUTED FREELY AS
- LONG AS THE ORIGINAL ARCHIVE IS LEFT INTACT. IT IS DISTRIBUTED WITHOUT ANY
- WARRANTY WHATSOEVER. THE AUTHOR CLAIMS NO RESPONSIBILITY FOR CONSEQUENCES THAT
- MAY ARISE DUE TO THE FAILURE OF THIS SOFTWARE.
-
- 1. History
- Infoline was compiled using GCC 2.233 and the IBM Toolkit 2.0.
- Early beta-versions were developed and compiled using the GCC port
- EMX 0.8f by Eberhard Mattes.
- I currently run OS/2 2.1 GA (US), although Infoline should also work with
- previous and future versions of OS/2 2.X.
- Infoline is entirely 32-bit, so it will _not_ work with OS/2 1.X.
-
- 2. Functionality
- Infoline is a simple tool to display some more or less essential system
- information on the desktop. This include current date & time, size of the
- swapper.dat, time since OS/2 was last restarted and the available virtual
- memory. Each feature can be disabled to reduce CPU-load, although I already
- did my best to minimize CPU-stress. The Swapper.dat is checked every five
- timer-ticks (5s), uptime is updated once a minute. Vmem and Date/Time are
- set on a per-timer basis.
-
- If you don't shutdown Infoline correctly (System shutdown, close via window
- list etc.) you'll get a warning message.
- I implemented this feature to find out if the system was reset (e.g. via
- powerfailure) while I was away. This warning can also be disabled.
-
- 3. Controls
- To hide the frame double-click the LEFT mouse-button on the status line.
- A double-click with the RIGHT mouse-button invokes the options dialog.
- Both features can also be accessed via the system menu (of course only
- when the frame is not hidden).
-
- 4. Infoline and OS2.INI
- Infolinie stores options and windowsettings in OS/2's USER_INI.
- If you no longer wish to use Infoline you can remove the entries from the
- INI file, as they will only waste space (approx. 200 characters).
- To do this use the commandline option "/remove".
- Syntax: INFOLINE /remove
- On success you will hear three short beeps and Infoline will terminate.
- NOTE: /remove can also be used to reset all options and the windowposition
- to default values.
-
- That's about it...
- If you - like Infoline or
- - found some bugs or
- - would like to have the sources...
- * feel free to send EMail! *
-
- Olli
-
- EMail address is oliver_albrecht@sl.maus.de (subject to change)
-