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Fred Fish's Product-Info | 1994-04-26 | 2.0 KB | 63 lines |
- # This file contains product information that can be used by
- # KingFisher 2.0 and other similar tools.
-
- .name
- AlertPatch
- .type
- OS Utility
- .short
- Supplies a lot more info during Alert()
- .description
- A patch into the exec.library/Alert() function to display more
- meaningful information to the user. This includes: Alert Type
- - Software Failure or DeadEnd; Task - Task address and name;
- Error - The alert error being displayed; Caused By - If the
- calling routines are known then it will tell you where the
- problem lies (eg. "graphics.library"); Cause - Single line
- description of what the alert is all about; Task Owner - if
- MultiUser FileSystem is installed then the userID and userName
- are also displayed; Data Registers - A dump of the CPU data
- registers d0...d7; Address Registers - A dump of the CPU address
- registers a0...a7; Text Representation - A text representation of
- the data and address registers.
- .version
- 3.0
- .date
- 1994.03.09
- .author
- David Swasbrook
- .distribution
- Shareware
- .price
- $10 (US)
- .address
- 43 Pickwick Parade,
- Howick,
- Auckland,
- New Zealand.
- .email
- swaz@iconz.co.nz (private)
- msd@iconz.co.nz
- .docs
- AlertPatch.guide
- .described-by
- Fred Fish (fnf@fishpond.cygnus.com)
- .submittal
- Downloaded via ftp from wuarchive.wustl.edu.
- .contents
- AlertPatch A patch into the exec.library/Alert() function to display
- more meaningful information to the user. This includes:
- Alert Type - Software Failure or DeadEnd; Task - Task
- address and name; Error - The alert error being displayed.
- Caused By - If the calling routines are known then it will
- tell you where the problem lies (eg. "graphics.library");
- Cause - Single line description of what the alert is all
- about; Task Owner - if MultiUser FileSystem is installed
- then the userID and userName are also displayed; Data
- Registers - A dump of the CPU data registers d0...d7;
- Address Registers - A dump of the CPU address registers
- a0...a7; Text Representation - A text representation of
- the data and address registers. Version 3.0, binary only,
- shareware.
- Author: David Swasbrook
-