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- Track System Boot Utility
- Tom Kellen
- ßETATech Computer Consulting
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- PURPOSE: This little utility's total purpose in life is to write a line
- with the current date and time to a text file.
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- INTRODUCTION:
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- So what in the world would anyone need this utility for? I'm glad you
- asked. I wrote this utility to be run from the AUTOEXEC.BAT on my BBS
- so that I would know when the BBS rebooted from power failures or any
- other mysterious reasons. It can also be very handy to track how often
- your machine is rebooted, or perhaps when someone else at work fires up
- your PC. The possibilities are endless!
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- INSTALLATION:
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- Place BOOTLOG.EXE in a subdirectory that is somewhere on the path. That
- is all there is to it.
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- OPERATION:
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- As I said, my original intention was to keep track of the times my BBS
- rebooted and have it logged to the CALLERS.LOG. BOOTLOG.EXE will take
- one command line parameter, and that is the file you want it to write
- it's line of text to. For example, the last line in the AUTOEXEC.BAT
- for my BBS machine is:
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- BOOTLOG.EXE C:\SF\WORK\CALLERS.LOG
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- Every time BOOTLOG is run it puts a line like the following into my
- CALLERS.LOG.
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- <*> System Boot at 9:29:08 p.m. on Sunday August 5, 1990 <*>
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- If you do not give BOOTLOG a file specification on the command line it
- will write the line to C:\BOOT.LOG. Each time BOOTLOG is run it appends
- this line of text to the file.
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- EPILOGUE:
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- This is a Free Utility. I retain the copyright, but you may use it to
- your heart's content. If you find this utility of use, you can drop me
- a note on my BBS letting me know that you find it of value too. Of
- course if you felt like sending .50 or a dollar, that certainly would
- not be turned down.
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- AUTHOR CONTACT:
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- Problems, solutions, kudos and ideas are welcomed. I can be reached at:
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- The Paradigm BBS ßETATech Computer Consulting
- (404) 671-1581 P. O. Box 566742
- 1200-19,200 Baud 24 Hrs/Day Atlanta, GA 30356
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- DISCLAIMER:
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- Use of this program acknowledges this disclaimer of warranty: "This
- program is supplied as is. ßETATech Computer Consulting disclaims all
- warranties, express or implied, including, without limitation, the
- warranties of merchantability and of fitness of this program for any
- purpose. ßETATech Computer Consulting assumes no liability for damages
- direct or consequential, which may result from the use of this program."
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- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS:
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- Thanks to John Newlin for being an inspirational programmer and provid-
- ing excellent shareware to the computing public, and to Sammy Mitchell
- for his superb QEdit text editor, how can anyone do without it? Thanks
- to Mike Woltz for his superb Spitfire BBS software and for providing
- sample Turbo Pascal source code for us novice programmers and for Buffa-
- lo Creek's excellent BCSLOCK Turbo Pascal Unit used for all file locking
- and sharing routines in this program.
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- REVISION HISTORY:
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- 05-AUG-1990 1.0 Initial Release.
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