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- PCStats. Ver 2.1
- by Richard M. Rutkowski
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- INTRODUCTION
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- PCStats V2.1, formerly known as BYTE.EXE, is a PC statistics utility that
- tells you important information about your PC's hardware in a single
- screen screen.
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- INSTALLATION
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- Install PCS by copying the file, PCS.EXE, to a floppy disk or into a
- directory on your hard disk that is named in your PATH statement. For
- more information on the PATH statement, see your DOS manual. PCS requires
- DOS 3.0 or a later version.
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- RUNNING PCS
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- Start the program with the command: PCS <Enter>. You'll see a screen
- showing the following items:
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- Title with system date & time &
- a) Current default drive & directory.
- b) DOS version number.
- c) BIOS date.
- d) Total main memory & free main memory.
- e) Total expanded (EMS) memory & free EMS memory.
- f) Total extended memory.
- g) CPU type & co-processor type, if it exists.
- h) Number of parallel ports.
- i) Number of serial ports.
- j) Existence of game adapter.
- k) Existence of mouse driver.
- l) Number of CD-ROM drives.
- m) Number of floppy disk drives.
- n) Number of fixed disk drives.
- o) Default disk drive space information.
- p) Video capabilities.
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- On AT class machines and higher with BIOS dated after 1/10/84, it
- will report the types of floppy drives installed:
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- High or low density.
- 3.5" or 5.25".
-
- Here is a sample report:
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- PCStats. R.M.Rutkowski, VER 2.1 System date 08/18/89 11:32:28
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- Current directory : C:\
- DOS Version : 3.31 BIOS date : 07/14/86
- Total main memory : 639k Free main memory : 500k
- Total expanded memory: 1408k Free expanded memory : 1024k
- Total extended memory: 191k
- CPU type : 80386 Math co-processor : 80387
- Parallel ports : 1 Serial ports : 1
- Game adapter : none Mouse driver : yes
- CD-ROM drives : 0
- Floppy disks : 1 Fixed disks : 1
- Floppy drive A: type : ---> 1.2Mb, 80 track, 5.25"
- Drive C: information : below
- Number of clusters : 20822 Total bytes used : 4323328
- Sectors per cluster : 4 Total bytes free : 38320128
- Bytes per sector : 512 Percent used : 10.14%
- Total bytes on drive : 42643456 Percent free : 89.86%
- Video Capabilities : below
- Current video mode : CGA 80x25 Color text
- (EGA) capabilities : Available, Color Enhanced Graphics, 256k bytes
- (VGA) capabilities : Available, Video Graphics Array
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- PCS is in the public domain, so you can distribute it freely to your
- friends and other computer users.
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- NOTE: On some AT systems, PCS may not locate extended memory or game
- adapters. It also may incorrectly calculate the size of some SCSI hard drives.
- All other information should be accurate.