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- SECOND NODE EVENT TIMER
-
- By: Dave De Wald
- Detron of Hawaii
- 350 Ward Ave, Suite 106
- Honolulu, Hawaii 96814
-
- (c) 1988, Detron of Hawaii
-
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-
- INTRO
- -----
-
- If you are running under Double Dos or on a LANs, then you may
- find this little program handy.
-
- Some of the programs written as utilities for PCBoard have been
- compiled in such a manner that if you are running two program
- under Double Dos the screen display from one half will bleed over
- to the other half and may even cause the system to hang. I had
- this happen to me with DIRHEAD running in one half and CALL12S18
- was running in the other.
-
- This can really spoil your day if you get up in the morning and
- find out that your system has been down for over 4 hours while
- you were sleeping.
-
- Under a LANs system you may have run into a SHARE problem when a
- program on one node tries to access a file that the event running
- in another node is using and has locked, AND YOU WAKE UP THE NEXT
- DAY TO FIND YOU HAVE BEEN HUNG SINCE MIDNIGHT!
-
- Well, with EVTIMER you can just put all your utility programs in
- one event and keep them there.
-
- But what of the other node? Why just run EVTIMER.
-
-
-
- COMMAND LINE
- ------------
-
- By using a command line in the other node's EVENT.SYS file that
- looks like this:
-
- EVTIMER1 60
-
- Ofcourse EVTIMER1 calls the program, and the 60 is the amount of
- time you want the clock to run before shutting down.
-
- You may specify any amount of time up to 23 hrs 59 minutes.
-
- Only one draw back. If you have your node go down at 23:55 and
- want to have EVTIMER to go more than 4 minutes you may have a
- problem.
-
- I have not tried it for that although the logic is there to
- correct for a midnight crossover. But I donot recommend you try
- it.
-
- Here is an example of a EVENT.SYS file I use on my LANtastic
- network.
-
- EVENT.SYS (node 1)
- ------------------
- E:
- CD\
- REN UP1 DOWN1 < file to let node 2 know node 1 is down
- E:
- CD\PCB
- EVTIMER1 60 < run EVTIMER for 60 minutes
- BOARD
-
- EVENT.SYS (node 2)
- ------------------
- E:
- CD\
- REN UP2 DOWN2
- :WAIT
- IF EXIST UP1 GOTO WAIT < node 2 looks for node 1 to go down
- E:
- CD\DOOR\BDAY
- SORTBDAY
- CD\PCB\GE
- COPY \PCB\TODAYBDS+SP+NEW NEWS
- COPY \PCB\TODAYBDS+SP+NEWG NEWSG
- DEL \PCB\TODAYBDS
- E:
- CD\PCB\MA
- COPY CALLER2+CALLER1 CALLER
- DEL CALLER1
- DEL CALLER2
- REN CALLER CALLER1
- CD\PCB2
- QUPDN3
- CALLS E:\PCB\MA\CALLER1 E:\PCB\GE\BLT12
- PCBHOT24 e:\PCB\MA\CALLER1 e:\PCB\GE\BLT11 /1 /G
- CD\PCB\MA
- CALLREN CALLER1
- E:
- CD\DOOR\TRADE
- TWMAINT E:\GA\GBLT6
- CD\DOOR\FLAGTAG
- FNEXTDAY E:\GA\GBLT1
- CD\DOOR\TASKFORCE
- NEXTDAY E:\GA\GBLT5
- D\PCB2
- BLTMKR BLTMK.C0 /NEW
- BLTMKR BLTMK.C1 /NEW
- BLTMKR BLTMK.C2 /NEW
- BLTMKR BLTMK.C3 /NEW
- BLTMKR BLTMK.C5 /NEW
- BLTMKR BLTMK.C6 /NEW
- PX -U F:\D10\BLT E:\PCB\GE\BLT7
- PX -U F:\D10\BLT E:\PCB\GE\BLT8
- PX -U F:\D10\BLT E:\PCB\GE\BLT10
- PX -U F:\D10\BLT E:\PCB\GE\BLT11
- PX -U F:\D10\BLT E:\PCB\GE\BLT12
- PX -U F:\D10\BLT E:\PCB\GE\BLT13
- PX -U F:\D10\BLT E:\PCB\GE\BLT14
- E:
- CD\PCB2
- BOARD2
-
-
- The line in node 1's EVENT.SYS file were it renames UP1 to DOWN1
- and the corresponding lines in node 2's EVENT.SYS file that looks
- for the name change can be used not only with LANs but works
- great for Double Dos networks.
-
- I set node 2 to go down 5 minutes before node 1's time. That way
- I am sure that node 1 and 2 are both down before the events are
- run.
-
-
- FILES IN THIS ARC
- -----------------
-
- EVTIMER1.EXE this form displays start time/end time
- total time to run and current clock time
-
- EVTIMER2.EXE no display with this form/clear screen
-
- EVTIMER.DOC this file
-
-
-
- SHAREWARE PLUS
- --------------
-
- These programs are released as ShareWare, but ownership and
- copyright remains in the name of Detron of Hawaii. These programs
- may not be modified without written permission from Detron of
- Hawaii. There may not any charge for copying these programs. The
- DOC file may not be edited or modified and must be included with
- the EVTIMER files in ARC'ed form. SysOps may not charge a fee for
- access to or downloading of these files.
-
-
-
-
- REGISTRATION
- ------------
-
- Althought EVTIMER is released as ShareWare, it is requested that
- users register their use of the program. There is a $ 5.00 fee
- for registration. This fee will enclude access to Program Library
- & Exchange BBS' Support Conference (808) 845-1303 after you have
- fullfilled the validation requirements for that BBS. That
- Conference will contain the lasted version of EVTIMER.
-
- Make fee payable to: Detron of Hawaii
- 350 Ward Ave, Suite 106
- Honolulu, Hawaii 96814
-
- Lastest version and support may be obtained thru Program Library
- & Exchange BBS, Honolulu, Hi, (808) 845-1303, 300/1200/2400,
- 24hrs.
-
-
- DISCLAIMER
- ----------
-
- Dave De Wald and Detron of Hawaii may not be held responsible for
- damage to your hardware, software or data files that may arrise
- from the use of EVTIMER in either of it's two forms. The user
- accepts all responsibility for any damage that may result from
- the use of EVTIMER in either of it's two forms.