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- Short: System monitor (MUI & AmiTCP optional) (V2.14)
- Uploader: tboeckel@uni-paderborn.de (Thore Böckelmann)
- Author: tboeckel@uni-paderborn.de (Thore Böckelmann)
- Type: util/moni
-
- Requires: Kickstart 2.04, MUI and AmiTCP optional
- Language: English (also German guide)
-
-
- This is the official continuation of the famous (and fabulous :-)
- system monitor from Andreas Gelhausen.
-
-
- What is Scout?
- ==============
-
- Scout is a tool that allows you to monitor your computer system. It displays
- many different things -- like tasks, ports, assigns, expansion boards, resident
- commands, interrupts, etc. -- and you can perform some certain actions on them.
-
- For example you can freeze tasks, close windows and screens, release semaphores
- or remove locks, ports and interrupts.
-
- Through AmiTCP it's also possible to use Scout as an TCP/IP service.
-
- Since version 2.0 of Scout you can use nearly all implemented functions through
- shell parameters. Therefore it's not necessary to install MUI for using Scout,
- but you will need MUI if you want to use Scout with its graphical user
- interface.
-
- BTW: Scout can open 49 different windows! :-)
-
-
- Changes from release 2.14 to release 2.15:
- ==========================================
-
- o the Appear/Disappear buttons in the commodities window no reflect the
- ability of the selected commodity to appear/disappear, just like the
- Exchange program does
-
- o the Enforcer-hit-on-task-window-closure is fixed now. Many, many stupid
- bugs had to be fixed. It's really a shame in which way official Autodocs
- are ignored and programs are written agains any sane human intelligence :(
- C= offered enough ways to initialize certain structures by official library
- functions. Why the hell don't some people use them?
-
- o timer routines during CPU usage calculation cleaned up, no more pending
- messages when DeleteMsgPort()ing the reply port. A really stupid bug :(
-
- o the CPU patch semaphore had been initialized completely wrong, causing
- Enforcer hits and many strange things. I really don't know what Scout's
- former programmers had in mind, but it must have been very weird :(
-
- o additional assigns established via "assign <ass> <path> add" are now sorted
- correctly, and not vice versa
-
- o I don't know why, but somehow the 2.14 release didn't appear on Aminet, but
- just the source code archive. So, here is a new release which fixes a few
- more bugs, too.
-
-
- Changes from release 2.13 to release 2.14:
- ==========================================
-
- o included latest fixes from Richard Körber, that were available on Aminet
-
- o somehow I forgot the version string. Now it is back again :)
-
- o the buttons in the main window are now sorted alphabetically and have all
- the same size.
-
- o the screen depth in the screen detail window is now determined via
- graphics/GetBitMapAttr(), instead of direct peeking. This always gives the
- correct depth, and not the depth the programm wanted.
-
- o fixed bad return code when creating custom classes. This could lead to
- non-functioning font display.
-
- o the program icon is now used as iconify icon, instead of the MUI default
- icon
-
- o the interrupt window now shows the interrupt names instead of interrupt
- numbers
-
- o the ports window now show the flag entry of each message port
-
- o when removing tasks you are asked if you want to remove message ports,
- close opened windows, etc. by this task. Please remember: AmigaOS never had
- a thing like resource tracking, so you cannot free everything that was
- allocated by a task. Also remember that this function is a HACK, that means
- anything can happen, and it is DANGEROUS to hardly remove this stuff,
- because other tasks can still try to access this stuff. You have been
- warned...
-
- o the font window now show the font's tf_XSize, too.
-
- o the task list can now be sorted by CPU usage, too. This makes Scout to a
- kind of Unix' command "top". Unfortunately this consumes a little bit more
- CPU time than the other sorting modes. All tasks with the same CPU usage
- will be sorted alphabetically.
-
- o the assign list can now be sorted by path name, too. Thus it is easier to
- search for assigns to certain directories.
-
- o the font preview now shows character 0xa4. If you have installed the Euro
- update from H&P then you can see the Euro and the Cent sign for the updated
- fonts.
-
-