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- WATCHKAT is an adaptation of Joseph R. Ahlgren's WATCHCAT monitor, which
- attempts to reboot a "hung" BBS under a variety of conditions, customized
- 11-24-89 by Dan Miller as described below.
-
- WATCHCAT.DOC, ASM & COM are the unmodified files distributed by the author;
- WATCHCAT.LST was created from WATCHCAT.ASM with Turbo Assembler 1.0; and the
- WATCHKAT. files are the adaptations. In keeping with the following request in
- WATCHCAT.DOC, the adaptations are NOT to be distributed except in a package
- containing both sets of DOC, ASM & COM files (only the LSTs, which I included
- as an aid to SysOps who might not have the Turbo Assembler and want to patch
- the COM file to meet their needs, are optional):
-
- "WATCHCAT is in the public domain may be freely distributed provided the
- WATCHCAT.DOC, WATCHCAT.ASM, and WATCHCAT.COM files are not modified in any way.
- Users are free to adapt the program as they see fit. I would appreciate a copy
- of such adaptations."
-
- WATCHCAT.DOC also summarizes the WATCHCAT adaptation, except that:
- 1) The threshold for rebooting when no carrier has been present for an extended
- time has been reduced from 8 hours to 2, and
- 2) The number of unanswered rings which will trigger a reboot has been reduced
- from 20 to 10.
- In addition, one instruction has been relocated to prevent possibility that the
- TimeCheck routine could be entered without the expected modem status in AL.
-
- The comments at the beginning of the ASM files provide more detailed functional
- documentation. The corrections to the lists of functions enabled by the ON and
- TIMER options noted in the WATCHKAT.ASM comments also apply to the original
- version; the corresponding WATCHCAT.ASM comments are inaccurate. WATCHKAT.ASM
- clearly documents how it differs from the original code.