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- Disk Storage 4.00 By: Khalid Aldoseri.
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- This is a small program that will run from either the WB or CLI. It will
- open its own window and display a list of ALL currently mounted devices,
- including hard disk partitions. The window looks like this:
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- Name: Size Free Alarm
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- DF0: 837 10 50
- DF1: 837 129 50
- DF2: - No Disk Present -
- DH0: 19864 6742 993
- DH1: 19734 1118 986
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- The Size column gives the actual capacity of the device in Kilobytes.
- The Free columns gives the free space in the device. The Alarm column
- is the level at (or below) which the program will highlight the device
- row to warn you that there isn't much free space left in the device. If
- the free space drops below the Alarm level while the program is running
- it will flash all screens five times while also flashing the relevant item.
- (P.S. The program will correctly reflect the size of the WB1.3 Fast File
- System (FFS) hard disk partitions, and any other new disk formats.)
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- The Alarm level normally is 5% of the total capacity of the device
- with a minimum alarm level of 50k. You can change the Alarm level by
- clicking on the device row you want to change. A gadget will appear at
- the bottom of the window. Enter the new Alarm level and hit return.
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- * If a floppy disk has the write-protect tab on, an asterisk (*) will
- appear next to the 'Free' number corresponding to that disk.
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- The program will update its display every 3 seconds. If you need to
- get an immediate update just click on the first line, (the one with
- the titles.) The program's window will be as big as it needs to be to
- display all the mounted devices. The limit for that is 15 devices.
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- * If you want the program to update its display more/less than 3 seconds,
- there is a small gadget near the upper right hand side of the window,
- (next to the 'Alarm' text). Just click on this gadget and move it up
- or down to decrease or increase update time. The window title will
- display the update rate as long as you are holding down the mouse button.
- If you select the 'No Update' setting, then you can manually update the
- window by clicking on either the memory display box, or the top line
- of the window. (the one with 'Name Full Free Alarm').
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- At the bottom of the window there is a small box with the current
- free memory in the system. This is displayed as Chip, Fast and Total,
- or as Chip, Fast and Static if there is any free memory above the normal
- system addressing space (e.g. the CSA 32-bit memory board.)
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- The program has a menu attached to it with the following options:
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- CLEAR ALL:
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- This will reset the program to its original startup state.
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- CLEAR SELECTIONS:
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- This will clear all currently selected disks. (More on this later.)
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- REMOVE SELECTED DISKS:
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- This will remove disks from the display list. To do this just click
- twice on each disk name you want to remove (the background color of
- the line will change twice) and then select this menu item. You
- can remove more than one disk at a time. Any disk removed will NOT
- be checked for its alarm level any more.
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- REMOVE FLOPPY DISKS:
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- This will remove all floppy disks from the display list.
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- REMOVE ALL EXCEPT FLOPPIES:
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- No explanation needed!
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- REMOVE DISKS < (LESS THAN) ALARM LEVEL:
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- This will remove all disks that are currently less that the Alarm
- Level. (i.e. are currenly highlighted)
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- REMOVE DISKS > (MORE THAN) ALARM LEVEL:
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- The opposite of the above.
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- REMOVE ALL DISKS:
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- Removes everything, and just keeps the memory display on.
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- SWITCH MEMORY DISPLAY ON/OFF:
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- Turns the memory display on or off.
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- * SWITCH TIME DISPLAY ON/OFF:
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- This turns on/off time and date display on the top of the program's
- window.
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- * DISPLAY MEMORY CHUNKS/TOTAL:
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- When Display Memory Chunks is selected, the program will display the
- number of free memory chunks in the system. This gives you an idea
- of how fragmented memory is. This number appears instead of the
- memory total.
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- * DISPLAY DISK SIZE/USAGE:
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- This toggles the second column of numbers between actual disk size
- in kilobytes, or how full is the disk (in percentage terms.)
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- QUIT:
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- Guess what this does?!
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- Note: This program takes very little processor time. For example,
- with three disks displayed, the program will only consume about 1/2 % of
- processing time at the most (at an update rate of 5 seconds.) Its memory
- usage is around 11-15k.
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- Any comments, suggestions, complaints, etc. should be sent to me on
- Compuserve ID number 75166,2531.
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- This program is placed in the Public Domain, you can spread it as
- much as you like as long as you keep this file with it.
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- I hope you find this program as useful as I do.
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-
- Khalid Aldoseri.
- CIS: 75166,2531.
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- * Marks items new in Version 4.00.
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- Version 4.00 Comments:
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- - Fixed problem with PAR: or SER: appearing on display.
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- - Added the following features:
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- - Disk Full Percentage display.
- - Memory chunks (fragmentation) display.
- - 'Disk Protected' display.
- - Variable update (refresh) time.
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- - The time/date display will only be updated as often as the update
- time you selected.
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- - Be careful when selecting an update rate of 1 second. This can
- take too much time from the processor. 2 seconds is okay, but I
- find the optimal to be between 10 and 15 seconds if you are not
- using drives a lot, and between 3 and 5 if you are. When
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- - The program's window will always come up as inactive. It will
- also turn itself into inactive after a fixed period. (around
- 10 to 60 seconds, depending on the update rate.)
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- - The program now knows about WBLace V3.00 or higher (by the same
- author), and will close its window for about 2 seconds when
- WBLace requests this from it. This is in order to allow WBLace
- to change the Workbench Interlace setting on or off. If you don't
- have WBLace, you can find in the AmigaForum on Compuserve in DL13
- as WBLCE3.ARC.
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- Known Bugs:
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- - From time to time, the program seems to forget to update the
- time/date display. I am looking into this problem.
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- PLEASE:
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- If you have any ideas on what can be added to this program, easyplex
- me with your ideas, as I am running out of them!
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