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- RSLClock is a superficially simple little utility that "runs"
- unobtrusively at the end of the screen title bar. The "close" gadget
- and "window to front/back" gadgets are there, but they are hidden from view!
- There it sits, indicating both the currently free memory, the time, and once
- a minute, the date. It also "pops up" to the front of the Workbench screen,
- once every minute. If you would like military time you can run the program
- with "Run RSLClock long" it will then read out 12 hour time in AM/PM type
- (hours & minutes), otherwise the default setting is Hours:minutes in 12 hour
- style.
- SYNTAX:
- LONG (this will toggle military 24 hour time with HH:MM:SS style)
- BACK (this will create a "backdrop" black screen that can be toggled
- in/out by using left-Amiga N/M keys or by double clicking
- the menu button when the window is activated - use it
- to hide current screen)
- NOPOPUP (this disables the feature to pop clock window to front of
- workbench screen at the beginning of every minute)
- SPLITUP (this will split up the memory display into free chip and
- fast memory, separately)
- COLOR [B],[D] (this sets the colors of the window pen - first number
- can be 0-3, and background pen - second number can be 0-3.
- Any other numbers will give you the default colors)
- POSITION [X],[Y] (this sets the left top edge of the window if the
- given width allows it, should you be utilizing WB 1.2 in
- 400 line Workbench mode use an asterisk * and a space before
- the position commands in order for the program to recognize more
- than 200 lines per screen)
- [disk drive] (i.e. DF1: this will indicate the number of free Kbytes
- on indicated disk drive, re-evaluated once every minute!)
- [# Kbytes before emergency shutdown] (i.e. 25 this will shut down
- this utility and reclaim the memory if your system's free
- memory falls below this point, default is 10 Kbytes!)
- ? (this will display syntax)
-
- Note single letters are the same as typing the entire command!
- As an example RUN RSLClock b s DF1: p 120,45 will run the program
- with a backdrop screen, split memory into it's chip and fast components,
- display info on DF1: and displace the window to the given coordinates!
- *****************************************************************************
- New In Version 1.1:
- This new update includes a menu which allows you to change all of the
- available options of RSLClockPlus, after it is running. An additional
- feature available via the Menu is the ability to summon an emergency CLI
- which runs completely independent of all other tasks. Since RSLClockPlus
- always pops up in front of all other Workbench windows, this may be helpful
- when there isn't any other way to get into a CLI. I found PopCLI redundant
- with this feature available, but be cautious since this feature, like
- EXECUTE, takes 40 odd bytes from your memory and won't give it back without
- a warmboot! A very small price to pay!. Also, if the backdrop screen is
- enabled and the RSLClockPlus window is activated, simply double clicking the
- right menu button twice will toggle you in and out of the backdrop screen!
- In addition to the new features, the older features have been
- "polished" up a bit! Although the program is a bit larger than 1.0, I think
- that it is worth it. To the best of my knowledge it runs on both 1.1 and
- 1.2 (beta 4). Please tell me if there are any problems running it under any
- of the available versions of KS!
- *****************************************************************************
-
- *****************************************************************************
- New in Version 1.11:
- There is an unfortunate flaw in the ctime() function which came with
- my Aztec compiler, which I had to build a "fix" for. Now the date will
- not be displayed as "Nov 0" when in fact it is "Oct 31"!
- Another problem fixed in Ver 1.11 is due to the fact that the device
- driver for the floppy drives think that there are only 488 bytes per block,
- instead of 512, which is the way that INFO calculates it! Since everyone
- believes INFO, I have adjusted this "anomaly" so that the free bytes of the
- disk drive will be the same as displayed using the INFO command!
- ****************************************************************************
-
- ****************************************************************************
- New in Version 1.2:
- I have found out that there in fact is ONLY 448 bytes per block on the
- disk drive! the remaining 24 bytes are used by AmigaDOS as its overhead.
- I have decided that in a rebellious mood I will display what space is really
- available to you, the user instead of the "Public Relations" space available
- indicated via the INFO command. Truth is more important than having my program
- agree with INFO's inaccurate value! So back to a 5% discrepancy with INFO's
- value!
- COLOR, and POSITION commands have been included in this version. I happen
- to prefer the default values (of course I do, I wrote them into it as defaults),
- but if you people want to customize it you own liking, GO AHEAD! Of course,
- the menu allows you to change colors "on the run".
- In previous versions only 3 significant digits were displayed for
- Kbytes free on peripheral storage devices. This is fine for floppies, but
- not for hard disks. In this version hard disks will be displayed with 5
- significant numbers (if you have MORE than 99999K Bytes free, you shouldn't
- be caring about your available free memory)!
- Another small feature added in this version update, is that once the
- backdrop is enabled and brought to the front by double clicking the right
- menu mouse button, simply hitting any key on the keyboard will bring back
- the previously active screen and activate the last window used!
- ****************************************************************************
-
- I know that there already is an abundance of "clock" programs, but this
- is optimized for my own needs. I hope that others find it useful!
- I would like to thank Addison-Wesley, without whose ROM Kernal books,
- I would still be using my C compiler to compile "Hello there!" type programs.
- Please feel free to use this utility and distribute it freely.
- Given all the suggestions for additional features, I hope that this
- program hasn't grown TOO BIG for a utility. I am presently considering adding
- an additional BACKSCRATCH option, using the chinese backscratch feature that
- was never a well documented feature in the Amiga A1000 hardware specs, it will
- scratch the user's back at a pre-selected interval!
- Feel free to comment, suggest, compliment, and disparage, as you wish!
- Happy Hacking!
- -RSL-
- AMuse BBS (212)269-4879: Roy S. Laufer
- CIS: 72435,1025
- Delpi: RSLaufer
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