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- Overview:
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- Program Monitor2.Com is a memory resident (*TSR) written entirely
- in assembly language. The program occupies only about 2k bytes of
- memory when resident so it is easily installed in even the most
- conservatively memoried systems. Monitor serves a simple but very
- useful function: it visually demonstrates when your hard disk is being
- accessed and when your floppy disk(s) are being accessed. This can be
- extremely handy when using internal hard drives that have no visible
- LED indicator of activity.
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- Program Description:
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- Monitor intercepts Bios interrupt 13 and determines for which
- disk drive the interrupt request has been generated. If a floppy disk
- is involved, Monitor will display an inverted letter F in the upper
- right hand corner of the screen each time the floppy disk is accessed.
- If a hard disk is being accessed, Monitor will display an inverted
- letter H in the upper right hand corner of the screen. Copies between
- floppy disks and hard disks are particularly fun to watch. The
- program attempts to update the screen in a hashless manner by waiting
- for retrace to occur on the video screen before updating the activity
- flags. Monitor may be installed and de-installed using most of the
- popular public domain and commercial TSR control programs. Monitor
- has been extensively tested with a large variety of other TSR and non-
- resident software in an attempt to maintain compatibility. Thus far
- the program has proven to be very un-obtrusive in its impact on the
- operation of other software. If you have conflict problems please
- send a description of the problem to TurboWare.
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- Operation:
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- Monitor2 may be installed by your Autoexec batch file at system
- startup but under no circumstances should it be installed more than
- once unless you are using a TSR loading and un-loading program to
- control Monitor2. Multiple copies of Monitor2 in memory will slow
- down your hard and floppy disks and eat up ram memory unnecessarily.
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- The only option available for use with Monitor2 is the @ sign
- character. This character may be specified on the command line at
- initial load of Monitor2 to force the program to use white as the
- background color for the activity flags on the screen. This is
- particularly useful to users who have a monochrome monitor connected
- to a color graphics adapter. Since the normal colors used by Monitor2
- are green and red, they may not show up very well on a monochrome
- screen. To make the status flags more visible the user should select
- black and white operation by placing the @ sign on the command line as
- follows:
- Monitor2 @
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- This will prevent the use of color in displaying the F or H for floppy
- or hard disk activity.
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- It would be nice if software could be guaranteed to work properly
- under all conditions and configurations of hardware and other software
- but it simply cannot be done, so as with other products you may have
- obtained either through the Public Domain or commercially there must
- be a disclaimer of warranty and so the following disclaimer is made:
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- Disclaimer:
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- Monitor2.Com is distributed on an AS-IS basis and TurboWare
- specifically disclaims all other warranties, expressed or implied.
- Furthermore, TurboWare will not be liable for any damages whether
- consequential, direct, indirect, special, implied, or other similar
- damage claims, including but not limited to loss of profits whether
- real or anticipatory or any other damage whether private or
- commercial. TurboWare makes no warranty of fitness of use or purpose
- for this program and use of same is solely the responsibility of the
- user.
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- Support:
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- Monitor2.Com is a supported product of TurboWare and will
- continue to be so in the future. Technical problems, enhancements and
- suggestions may be addressed to TurboWare at the address below.
- Registered users are the only users who will receive notifications of
- new TurboWare products as well as notifications of upgraded versions
- of their registered products. Registration is $5.00 for Monitor2 and
- affords the user the benefits of technical support by mail and update
- notification.
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- In addition, assembly source code for Monitor2 is available from
- TurboWare at $20. This source code is not public domain nor shareware
- and the user is not allowed to share the source code with others.
- Furthermore, users are prohibited from modifying the source code for
- the purpose of distributing modified versions of Monitor. Any
- enhancements to Monitor2 will be welcomed by TurboWare and considered
- for inclusion in the supported version. The source code is made
- available to encourage others to learn how to write TSR type programs
- and aid them in learning assembly language. The code is fully
- commented and explains exactly how Monitor2 works.
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- (*TSR) - Terminate and Stay Resident
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- TurboWare Inv #: IMON2xxxx
- P.O. Box 9476
- So. Charleston, WV
- 25309
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- TurboWare: MONITOR Version 2.0 Invoice
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- Name: _________________________________________________
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- Company: ______________________________________________
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- Street Address: _______________________________________
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- Apartment / Mail Stop: ________________________________
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- City: _________________________________________________
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- State: ________________________ Zip: ________________
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- I am requesting:
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- ( ) Registration for Monitor2 $5.00 _________
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- ( ) Source code/registration for Monitor2 $20.00 _________
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- Total: _________
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- Please allow two weeks for handling of orders for source code.
- Your registration number suffix (xxxx) will be assigned at
- registration time.
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- Please remit total to:
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- | TurboWare |
- | P.O. Box 9476 |
- | So. Charleston, WV |
- | 25309 |
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