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GSETUP 2.0 - 7/11/87
(c) 1986 Micro Consulting Associates
868 Ashford Avenue, Suite 6B
Condado, Puerto Rico 00907
(809) 721-8470
This is a "SHAREWARE" product. Share it with your friends!
GSETUP.EXE is a generic SETUP program for the model 99 IBM-PC/AT
and compatibles. It will allow you to setup the system clock,
system date and all CMOS parameters in the same way that the IBM
diagnostics allows to to setup the CMOS parameters but without
having to boot a special disk. NO DIAGNOSTICS ARE PERFORMED!
The program is totally self-explanatory. There are only two
things that I need to point out. When you are entering the system
time, the program will fill in the ":" colon characters for you.
The "seconds" portion of the time is not needed, so we don't ask
for it. The program will initialize the system clock to :00
seconds by default.
When you enter the system date, the program will fill in the
slash "/" character in the date, which must be entered in
MM/DD/YYYY format.
Everything else is pretty much self-explanatory. Enjoy! If you
like the program and find it is useful to you, please reward us
with a $15 donation so that we can continue to produce useful
utilities like this for your use.
Juan Jimenez
President
Release and modification history:
Version 1.0, 6/12/86: Initial release
Version 1.1, 6/13/86: Added re-boot on change in CMOS, cleaned up some
of the code.
Version 1.2, 6/17/86: Add check for CMOS ram power failure on startup
and tell user if that is the case, then exit.
Version 1.3, 6/21/86: Fixed bug in equipment byte settings. Program was
telling CMOS that system had the wrong number of
floppies.
Version 1.4, 6/25/86: Refused to setup a machine with dead cmos...
Made several changes, including cmos clearing on
a dead cmos condition, setup of status parameters
and other nasty crawlies.
(... and 1 year later...)
Version 1.5, 6/26/87: Turbo C port, squashed spontaneous reboot bug,
darn thing wanted to reboot for no reason, saying
CMOS values had changed after prep for reloc.
Now reboots any time you run the program, just
like real SETUP.
Version 2.0, 7/10/87: Windows! Added use of Glen Boyd's "WINDOW4C"
routines, ported to Turbo C from Lattice 2.12 by
yours truly (turns out Glen already wrote a TC
version... oh, well...). Finally got around to
fully commenting and cleaning up the source code,
since we are now giving it away to contributors.