ÕÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍ͸ ³ "The cALMER Utilities" SERIES 124 Upgrade Information ³ ³ Copyright (C) 1990 by CALMER SOFTWARE SERVICES [All Rights Reserved] ³ ³361 Somerville Road, Hornsby Heights NSW 2077 Australia [+612] (02) 482 1715³ ÔÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍ; --------------- Thu 25th. Oct 1990 --------------- Series 124. NBY now recognises the latest set of new and nasty viruses. All up, it checks for 234 different virus strains. BootPast. The registered version now allows you to edit the message without the need of the message file. First time you run it, the editor will appear on screen. You can now test the message on the floppy without the need to re-boot: Simply run bootpast again, the message will be shown on screen. You then have the choice to over-write the header or leave as is. This only works with disks treated with Bootpast Version 2.00 or higher. --------------- Mon 10th. Sep 1990 --------------- Since releasing Series 122 I have had an amazing amount of misfortunes which has inadvertantly caused the long delay. On the first of July, my mother died in Switzerland and I had to attend her funeral over there. Upon my return to Australia I fell down some stairs and was off for nearly two weeks. Then I had a freak lightning-strike which took down the Bulletin Board Computer, the brand new (5 hours old) 9600 baud Modem as well as the production machine. Hardware problems persisted for a few weeks and I finally sent the computers to Ralf Lassen of Ralcan, a dear and longstanding friend of mine. He repaired the machines but had a heart attack before he could complete the repair and passed away two days later. Series 123 incorporates major changes to the utilities. These changes are due to requests by registered users. The principal operation of the cALMER Installation program has been designed around suggestions from Ralf Lassen over the past few weeks. Unfortunately he was never meant to see the result. Some program where removed as they not been of great interest to users at large, and have no real purpose in a business environment. They simply took up valuable disk space. The cALMER Utilities are now provided with an interactive installation program which is supplied in executable form on floppy disks, rather than the old installation batch file. This program allows for the automatic setting up of all the relevant programs and also allows selections of files to be installed on the hard disk. But, there was a need to clear some disk space on the floppy distribution disks to make room for the program. See individual program documentation for changes to programs. Registration changes: Overseas customers can now obtain the utilities via EFT to Calmer Software Services (Europe). See REGISTER.DOC for details. The following programs will be released to public domain in the near future: (They are no longer part of the cALMER Utilities) ATKEY Analyse AT keyboard CSEG Find CSeg + Environment area EGACOLOR Colour Palette Editor NOPRINT remove printer MAKEZIP generate ZIP files for uploading to BBS PRNSWAP Swap LPT1 with LPT2 PUSHITEM stuff a string or character onto keyboard SCR Swap Screen modes SCREEN Swap Screen number SHIFT13 decode certain BBS messages SS Save screen to file SSSS Retrieve file VECTOR Find interrupt vectors ZERODEL delete zero-length files All restrictions, time-delays etc. will be removed as soon as I have time to do the necessary changes. They will be posted on the cALMER 1 BBS (phone 482-1716) for downloading. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Current program files contained in the complete set of the cALMER Utilities: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Program Purpose AUTOEDIT Edit often-changed files from a pick-list BOOTPAST Make floppies bootable CAPSOFF Switch caps lock Off CAPSON Switch caps lock on CURSOR Large cursor DISKFREE Disk statistics DL Directory listing program EE Environment Editor EMPTYKBD Clear keyboard FILEVIEW View / Extract / Print files FIM Memory Search Program FORMFEED Send a formfeed KILLDIR Remove directory inc. files LAZYBACK Automatic backup procedure MENU application menu MOVE moves files NBY Anti-Trojan / Virus program NOCURSOR remove cursor NUMOFF Switch num lock Off NUMON Switch num lock on PRINFOOL remove printer PRTIMER set printer timeout QT2 a cute little program (QUARTER TO) RAM reports how much ram is free for DOS SCH Scheduling system SCHEDULE part of SCH SCROLOFF Switch scroll lock Off SCROLON Switch scroll lock on SIPLUS Systems Information Plus TCT The Calmer TSR. (Dosedit, mouse etc.) TCTOFF TCT utility TCTON TCT utility TCTSETUP TCT utility TODAY Once a day processing utility ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ .end of document readme.!!!