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ARTM Amiga Real Time Monitor V2.04
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Copyright © 1990-94 by Dietmar Jansen & F.J. Mertens
ARTM displays and controls activities in your Amiga. It is fully
supported by Intuition and it is very easy to use. It works under
WB1.3 and WB2.x properly. ARTM needs Arp.library 39.+
ARTM is a shareware program. Permission is granted freely to distrib-
ute this program without profit. Copying is allowed but only if the
ARTM package is complete and unchanged . If you use ARTM often, please
pay us a donation of US$15. In exchange you will receive an update
without the irritating requester.
Please send cash, not cheques. My bank is a shark. When you send a
US$15 cheque: exchange at the moment US$1 = DM1.70
US$15 = 25.00 DM
- 11.00 DM charge to change a US$ check to German DM
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14.00 DM
Installation:
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Automatic Installation
You can install ARTM automatically with the Commodore Installer. There
is an installation script in the archive.
Manual Installation
Installation is very easy. ARTM is a self-contained program so you can
copy ARTM with the copy command:
copy ARTM <path>/ARTM
into the directory of your choice. Copy the .doc files with the copy
command in the same way. The ARTM.guide file should be copied to
LOCALE:HELP/.
copy ARTM.guide SYS:LOCALE/HELP/ARTM.guide
assign HELP: SYS:LOCAL/HELP
The ARTM archive contains the following files:
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ARTM
ARTM.info
Install_ARTM
Install_ARTM.info
german.doc/artm.guide
german.doc/artm.guide.info
german.doc/artm.dok
german.doc/artm.dok.info
german.doc/artm.history
german.doc/artm.history.info
english.doc/artm.guide
english.doc/artm.guide.info
english.doc/artm.doc
english.doc/artm.doc.info
english.doc/artm.history
english.doc/artm.history.info
Starting the program:
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ARTM V2.00 requires Amiga Workbench 2.x and above.
From Shell
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Type ARTM [opt] and ARTM will open on the WB Screen
there are many options available:
-q Will bring up ARTM in its iconified form in the upper
right hand corner.
-poutputpath tells ARTM where it should store its output. Any device
can be specified, e.g. prt:, ram:file, etc.
-ix/y Will bring up the ARTM window in its full size, but when
iconified the icon will be located at x and y position.
-wx/y Start ARTM as Workbench window, x/y is the upper left
corner of the ARTM-Window. If the difference from x/y to
the right screenside is lower than 640 pixels then ARTM
will start at the upper left corner.
-hx Start ARTM as Wb window, x=window.height. If the screen
is shorter than x then ARTM-Window.Height = 168.
From Workbench
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Simply double click the ARTM icon and the ARTM window will open on the
Workbench screen.
The options mentioned above can be used as Tooltypes.
START=WINDOW|ICON
ICON_POS=x/y
OUTPUT_PATH=RAM:ARTM.output
WINDOWHEIGHT=280
WINDOW_POS=70/16
Using the keyboard:
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Keyboard codes are supported in ARTM. this version of ARTM only
supports 3 keycodes. In future versions all functions should be
accessible via the keyboard.
The following keyboard codes are supported:
ESC quit ARTM
HELP the ARTM.GUIDE will pop up and show you the actual
function help (see The Help function)
The ARTM requester knows the following keyboard codes:
ESC cancel function just like the CANCEL button.
RETURN execute function just like the OK button
The ARTM Help function:
extensive help is available in ARTM. After hitting the
help key, ARTM.guide pops up and help for the last
selected function will be displayed. You must have the
amigaguide.library in your Libs: directory for this
function to work. Also, ARTM.guide must be correctly
installed (see Installation)
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The following functions are available from ARTM:
Task (default setting) lists all tasks in your Amiga. You
select a task with a mouse click on the requested entry.
Now you can remove it with REMOVE or change the priority
with PRIORITY. The MORE function brings up further
information (see MORE).
This information is displayed:
Address, Priority, Signals, State, Code; Type, Name.
Windows lists all open screens and windows. Screens are in
colour 3, windows are white. Close a window/screen by
selecting its item and click on CLOSE. The MORE function
brings up more information about the selected screen or
window (see more).
WARNING: The GURU is waiting for you if you kill a
window before its task is finished.
This information is displayed:
Address, Position, Size, Flags, IDCMP (only by windows),
Title.
Libraries lists all Libraries. By clicking on any item, you can
close the library with CLOSE (OpenCount must be NULL);
REMOVE removes the library. PRIORITY changes the
priority.
This information is displayed:
Address, Type, Priority, OpenCount, Version (consists of
version & revision), Negsize, Possize, Name.
Devices lists all devices. By clicking on REMOVE you can remove
a selected device, provided it has been closed. The
PRIORITY function changes the priority.
This information is displayed:
Address, Type, Priority, OpenCount, Version (consist of
version & revision), Negsize, Possize, Name.
Resources lists all resources. The PRIORITY function changes the
priority and REMOVE removes a selected resource.
This information is displayed:
Address, Type, Priority, OpenCount, Version (consists of
version & revision), Negsize, Possize, Name.
Ports shows all ports and the name of their tasks. IDCMP_Ports
are owned by a window. Ports are removable with REMOVE.
This information is displayed:
Address, PortName, Type, SigBit, Flags, TaskName.
Residents lists all residents in your Amiga. Residents that were
added by the KickTagPtr (e.g. a virus or RAD:) will be
displayed in colour 3 and if the residents are in the
Res-Modules-table too, they will be displayed in black.
This information is displayed:
Address, Type, Priority, Version, Flags, Name.
Interrupts shows all interrupts in your Amiga. You can only remove
an interrupt controlled by a server with REMOVE.
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