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- UTILITY PROGRAM DOCUMENTATION
-
- Copyright (C) 1989 by Robert W. Albrecht, All Rights Reserved
-
- --------------------------------------------------------------------------
- CONTENTS
-
- I) CCLIB.LIBRARY
- II) BITES
- III) EXEC
- IV) IFFCheck
- V) LOC
- VI) NOIBM
- VII) NOW
- VIII) NUKELIB
- IX) SETPRI
- X) CREDITS
- XI) LICENSE AND DISCLAIMER
-
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- I) CCLIB.LIBRARY
-
- All of these utilities use CClib.library which you need to put in your
- LIBS: directory. The reason the programs are so small is that the
- overhead for the C library is all in one place. Here is an example of
- the size of some programs before and after using CClib.library.
-
- Program Before After
-
- exec 6592 2300
- noibm 2148 1004 (improved)
- nukelib 1992 928 (improved)
- iffcheck 7872 3720
- bites 6420 5288
-
- Totals 25024 13240 47% Savings
-
- I don't know about you but I need every last bit of disk space on
- my system. The Amiga community should DEMAND that C programmers use this
- library for all their programs, this will eventually save you from
- having to upgrade your system because you are out disk space or RAM.
- You certainly don't need multiple copies of the Aztec and Lattice C
- libraries imbedded in your programs.
-
- The binary version of CClib.library is available in the form of
- USRCCLIB.ZOO found on many BBS's including Compuserve and Codename:
- Lorraine BBS (805-648-7833). If you wish to write PD C programs that
- use CClib.library look for the full version of CClib.library in the
- form of CCLIB.ZOO which contains everything you need to write programs
- for CClib.library. If you are a commercial software developer you will
- need pay the one license fee of $50 to distribute CClib.library with
- your software, however I urge you to get the non-commercial version
- and evaluate it first.
-
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- II) BITES
-
- Documentation For 'Bites' Version 1.3
- It's smaller, and better.
-
- Introduction
-
- Bites is a program written at the request of "MIKE VDS"
- by Robert W. Albrecht. It is designed to display disk space
- available on all mounted volumes.
-
-
- How to use Bites...
-
- Run the program by double clicking on it's icon or typing:
- 'RUN Bites' from the CLI prompt.
-
- Bites needs at least a 2500 byte stack.
-
- A small window will appear in the title bar with the Bites icon at the
- left. When you click on the Bites icon the program terminates. The
- window can be dragged around like any other intuition window. The
- standard 'to back' and 'to front' system gadgets appear at the right of
- the window. There are two other gadgets to the left of the system
- gadgets that control the behaviour of Bites.
-
- When Bites first comes up it will cycle through all of the mounted
- volumes and display the number of bytes available on each volume every
- three seconds. To stop cycling through the volumes click on the 'up and
- down arrow' gadget. The next time you click on the 'up and down arrow'
- gadget the next volume in the list will be displayed. To return to
- cycling mode click on the 'circle arrow' gadget.
-
- The Bites window can be 'iconified' by clicking the right mouse button
- while it's window is active. The window will reduce to a 24x10 Bites
- icon that takes a minimum amount of screen space. To 'un-iconify' the
- Bites window just activate the window by clicking on the icon with the
- left mouse button, then click the right mouse button.
-
- Bites can also be terminated by use of the Amiga DOS Break command.
- First type 'Status' at the CLI and get the Process ID of Bites then type
- 'Break <Process ID>'.
-
-
- Enhancements Made for Version 1.1
-
- You can now control the position and size of the Bites window through
- command line switches or icon 'Tool Types'. You may also display free
- 'blocks' instead of free bytes.
-
- CLI command line switches:
-
- -l<Left Edge> Left edge of Bites window in pixels
-
- -t<Top Edge> Top Edge of Bites window in pixels
-
- -w<Width> Width of Bites window in pixels
-
- -b Displays 'blocks' instead of bytes
-
- EXAMPLE: RUN BITES -l0 -t20 -w640 -b
-
- Icon Tool Types:
-
- LEFTEDGE=<Left Edge> Left Edge of Bites window in pixels
-
- TOPEDGE=<Top Edge> Top Edge of Bites window in pixels
-
- WIDTH=<Width> Width of Bites window in pixels
-
- SHOWBLOCKS=ON Displays 'blocks' instead of bytes
-
- EXAMPLE:
-
- LEFTEDGE=0
- TOPEDGE=20
- WIDTH=640
- SHOWBLOCKS=ON
-
-
- Bug Fixes Made for Version 1.1
-
- There was a bug where if you had an 'ASSIGN' to a disk that was no
- longer in the drive a system requester would come up and not go away.
- This has been fixed. Now when this situation exists the volume name will
- be given and instead of bytes free or blocks free the message 'Not
- Installed' will be displayed. This way you will be clued into assigns
- that are just flopping around.
-
- Bug Fixes made for version 1.2
-
- The command line arguments for width and left-edge and top-edge are now
- checked for correctness. The width has to be greater than 24, and the
- left-edge and top-edge have to be greater than zero.
-
- Enhancements for version 1.3
-
- Bites now uses CClib.library which is a shareable C library. This has
- reduced the size of the executable to 5288 from 6420 bytes. For bites
- version 1.3 to work you MUST have CClib.library installed in your LIBS:
- directory. You can find the binary only version of CClib.library under
- the name USRCCLIB.ZOO on many BSS's.
-
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- III) EXEC
-
- SYNTAX: Exec
-
- Exec displays a list of the data structures used by the Amiga OS. This
- includes a list of; memory, resources, devices, interrupt handlers,
- libraries, message ports, and tasks.
-
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- IV) IFFCheck
-
- SYNTAX: IFFCheck <iff file name>
-
- IFFCheck checks the integrity of any IFF file.
-
- A typical listing looks like this:
-
- --- Checking file "pic:life/pumpkin"---
- FORM 6194 ILBM
- . BMHD 20
- . CMAP 96
- . CRNG 8
- . CRNG 8
- . CRNG 8
- . CRNG 8
- . BODY 5985
- --- (IFF_OKAY) A good IFF file.
-
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- V) LOC
-
- SYNTAX: LOC [-Q] <files1> <files2> ...
-
- The -Q switch turns off the file-by-file listing of files and only
- prints the totals.
-
- The file name arguments can contain the '*' and '?' wild card characters.
-
- Loc counts lines of C code and gives other statistics.
- Here is an example of it's output:
-
- Lines Of C (LOC) by Robert W. Albrecht
-
-
- The file loc.c contains...
- 157 lines of code, 20 blank lines, 2387 bytes of code,
- 1032 bytes of whitespace, and 479 bytes of comments.
- The average code line has 15 bytes.
- The code content is 61%, 69% without comments.
-
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- VI) NOIBM
-
- SYNTAX: NoIBM [>outfile] infile
-
- Noibm will strip the carriage returns from a file. Typically text files
- from an IBM PC will have <CR><LF> at the end of each line, where on Amiga
- DOS and UNIX lines are terminated only with <LF>. By default output
- is directed to the console, but you can redirect it to a file.
-
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- VII) NOW
-
- SYNTAX: now
-
- Now will display the date in a more American fasion. Here is some
- example output:
-
- Saturday October, 07 1989 02:24 AM
-
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- VIII) NUKELIB
-
- SYNTAX: NukeLib <lib1.library> <lib2.library> ...
-
- NukeLib removes un-needed libraries from memory. For example:
-
- NukeLib CClib.library
-
- removes CClib.library if no programs are using it. This is really
- not necessacary because Amiga OS will attempt to remove libraries
- when it needs the memory. To find out the names of the libraries in
- memory use the exec program.
-
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- IX) SETPRI
-
- SYNTAX: SetPri
-
- SetPri will allow you set the priority of any task in the system, even
- while it is running. This is very useful for controlling your multi-
- tasking computer. After you type SetPri you will be shown a list of the
- currently running tasks in the system and be asked for the number
- of the task to change the priority of. You can then enter the
- priority of the task.
-
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- X) CREDITS
- Software and Documentation Written by:
-
- Robert W. Albrecht
- 1457 Zion Way
- Ventura CA 93003
-
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- XI) LICENSE AND DISCLAIMER
-
-
- LICENSE
-
- Robert W. Albrecht is the exclusive owner of the enclosed Software
- and Documentation. You are granted non-exclusive license to use the
- Software and Documentation, but you are not the owner of them.
- Your right to use the Software and Documentation under this
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- entity whose agent uploads this software and accepts this Agreement.
- "Software" means the computer program recorded on the floppy-disk or
- other media, any update to them Robert W. Albrecht may later provide
- you, and any back-up copies made. "Documentation" means the user
- manual and other materials packaged with this Software.
-
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-
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-
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-
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-
- Term
-
- The license is effective for twenty (20) years from the time you
- upload the software. You may terminate the license at any time.
-
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-
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-
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