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- RunTime 1.2.1
- °°°°°°°°°°°°°°
-
- Hello !
-
- This little application gives you the total power on time of your Mac,
- that is the total number of hours and minutes that your Mac has been
- turned on EVER. This information is kept in PRAM (battery-powered
- memory) and gets updated by the system every five minutes.
-
- Version 1.2.1 fixes a stupid bug in RunTime 1.2 which caused the
- default view to be saved each time the window was moved.
-
- New in version 1.2 : RunTime can now run in background.
- Window is now moveable.
- Display gets updated when the PRAM counter is incremented.
- Window position and preferred view are saved.
-
- The given time may be inexact in the following cases :
-
- • The PRAM has been completly re-initialized (zapping the PRAM by
- holding down the cmd-opt-p-r keys during startup DOES NOT destroy
- this information) or the battery has been removed, replaced...
-
- • Your Macintosh model is prior to the IIci, which means it doen't
- remember how long he's been running. RunTime should notice
- this and inform you that it cannot run on this Macintosh.
-
- • Your Mac has been turned on for more than 5 years (which seems
- to be the capacity of the counter). In this case, the counter just
- restarts from zero. Note that if the counter is exactly at zero,
- RunTime assumes that the Mac doesn't record its power on time,
- and it tells you that it cannot run on this model. If this happens,
- wait five minutes and try again.
-
- Note that the “sleep” mode of a PowerBook or Duo (and of other
- Macs that can sleep) does NOT count as runtime (Thanks Bill).
-
- Views
- ~~~~~
-
- Hours view : Displays runtime in hours & minutes.
-
- Standard view : Displays runtime in years (12 months), months (4.35 weeks),
- weeks (7 days) and days (24 hours).
-
- Business view : Displays runtime in years (12 months), months (21 days),
- weeks (5 days) and days (8 hours). These are average
- work days, weeks & months.
-
- RunTime has benn tested under System 6.07 and System 7.1
- on the following Macs : ci, fx, vx, Quadra 700.
- Also tested on a PowerMacintosh 8100... and it works !!!
-
- RunTime uses a trap that (to my knowledge) Apple hasn't documented. Thus,
- it may not run under new System software or new Macintosh models. If you
- have trouble with it, please let me know.
-
- RunTime is freeware. Please, send me comments, suggestions & bug reports.
- Thanks to everyone who sent comments & suggestions about previous versions.
-
- Written by : Patrick Stadelmann
- Vergers 22
- 2022 Bevaix
- SWITZERLAND
-
- e-mail : Patrick.Stadelmann@etudiants.unine.ch
-
- Version history
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~
-
- 1.0.1
- Fixed a bug in the PRAM decoding process
- Fixed a problem with BNDL rsrc.
-
- 1.0.2
- Now checks to see if info is available.
- Now checks to see if trap is implemented.
-
- 1.0.3
- Now calls UnloadScrap at startup. This fixes a
- bug which caused a system error 25 (out of memory)
- with big Clipboard.
-
- 1.0.4
- Fixed another bug during the PRAM decoding.
-
- 1.1 (March 31, 1994)
- Fixed a bug which caused the dialog to be dismissed
- when the user clicked on the copyright infos.
- Optionnaly displays power-on time in years, months
- weeks and days (requested by some users).
- Fixes several cosmetic problems & bugs when
- run on machines without Color QuickDraw (Thanks Judd).
-
- 1.2 (May 10, 1994)
- RunTime can now run in background.
- Window is now moveable.
- Display gets updated when the PRAM counter is incremented.
- Window position and preferred view are saved.
-
- 1.2.1 (May 11, 1994)
- Fixes a stupid bug in RunTime 1.2 which caused the
- default view to be saved each time the window was moved.
-
-