home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Cramden Utilities
- =================
-
- v1.0 6-May-88
-
- These utilities are inspired (if not directly ripped off) from a certain
- set of hitherto unnamed MS-DOS utilities that have been known to be real
- _life_savers_. While most of the life saving utilities have
- counterparts on the Amiga (or are simply not necessary), there are few
- handy ones that don't. So with that in mind I present the first
- installment in the Cramden Utilities.
-
- All of these utilities use Arp v1.1 (v34 of arp.library must be in
- your LIBS: directory). If you don't have Arp v1.1 you can probably get
- it from wherever you got this file.
-
-
- ff - Find Files
-
- This utility is used to find files with a particular file name or
- pattern in any directory on a disk.
-
- syntax:
- ff <filespec>... [quick]
-
- <filespec> = any AmigaDOS (Arp actually) wild card pattern
- [quick] = when present causes listing only the names of the files
-
- ex:
- ff
- ff *.c
- ff sys:*.info
- ff include:#?.(h|i) *.(h|i) quick
-
- Example 1 lists all the files starting at the current directory and
- proceeding through all subdirectories. Example 2 lists all files that
- are suffixed by .c (like a.c, ff.c, etc) in the current directory and
- all subdirectories. Example 3 finds all icon files on the volume named
- "sys:". Example 4 lists all files suffixed .h or .i on include: and in
- the current directory and all subdirectories respectively.
-
-
- si - System Info
-
- This can be used to get a quick spec sheet on your Amiga. It tells you
- things like operating system version number, 68xxx chips in your
- machine, video mode, memory configuration, and computing performance
- index (my favorite).
-
- syntax:
- si
-
- The display sizes and pixel aspect ratio are printed X x Y and X:Y
- respectively. The pixel aspect ratio is based on the Dot/Meter values
- found in GfxBase and differ between NTSC and PAL machines. For NTSC
- machines this value is 1:1.166 which means that the pixels are just a
- little taller than they are wide.
-
- In the MS-DOS world the computing performance index is often used to
- compare PC clones with one another. The Amiga version contains two
- numbers: the first relative to an ordinary Amiga 1000 with no task
- loading (just a CLI). The second is relative to an IBM PC/XT (the
- number used in MS-DOS circles) and is fairly accurate. Be aware that
- this number is VERY dependent on what your Amiga is currently doing
- since it's just a task and can't have the CPU all the time (I could have
- Forbidden around the critical section, but this way you can see the
- effect of task loading).
-
-
- Copyright & Distribution Rights
- ===============================
-
- Copyright 1988 Pregnant Badger Software. All Rights Reserved.
-
- These utilities may be freely distributed without profit.
-
- Any contributions (no amount is too small or too large) may be sent to
- the following address.
-
-
- Bill Barton
- Pregnant Badger Software
- 1111 El Sur Way
- Sacramento, CA 95864
- (916) 487-9472
-
- bix: peabody
- plink: peabody
- delphi: bbarton
-
-
- Special thanks to St. Peter, the patron saint of PC's, without whom
- these utilities would never have been written.
-
-