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12/16/93
Hello and thank you for trying out Patchit 2.3. This document lists some
important things about this program.
Patchit is data acquisition program. In order to use it you need one
of the following data acquisition cards:
Tecmar Labmaster or Labmaster DMA
Data Translation DT2821 family (except the DT2829)
- Data recorded by Patchit can be analyzed with the Tack data analysis program
(also released as shareware). Tack can also read data files written by other
data acquisition programs.
Patchit is being distributed as shareware. This means that you are free to
try out Patchit for 30 days, and if you like it you should register and pay
the registration fee of $35.00 - such a bargain. A registration form is
enclosed, just type "print register.doc" to print out a copy and mail it
to my address below. By registering, you will get official release disks,
a free copy of the next major upgrade of the program and a printed copy of
the manual. I also will take registered users complaints and suggestions
more seriously than I would those of a non-registered user.
If you are currently using another version of Patchit, I always recommend
that you save that copy of the old version, and all your parameter files
somewhere until you are sure that the new version of Patchit (this program)
is useful for you.
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What's New:
Rev. 2.3 (first shareware release)
- Patchit now uses the Borland Overlay system to allow me to cram more goodies
in and not make the program overly large. So, a word about memory is useful
here. Patchit likes memory.
Conventional Memory - this is the famous 640K that you may have heard about
Under normal DOS, this is where all programs have to fit. Patchit uses
this memory to fit the core of the program, active overlays and most
dynamically allocated arrays - of which quite a lot are used throughout
the program.
XMS Memory - This is extended memory (that memory above the 1MB boundary)
that is managed by an XMS memory manager. Two common XMS memory managers
are himem.sys and qemm386.sys. I recommend that you have an XMS memory
manager loaded, and if you are using Windows in standard or 386 enhanced
mode you probably have such a memory manager. Patchit uses the XMS memory
area to store the data that you load.
EMS Memory - This is an older memory standard. Patchit does not use this,
but the Borland Overlay system, used by Patchit, DOES. The Overlay system
will store overlays that were used by Patchit and discarded to make room
for new overlays. If you do not have EMS (which you don't really need
for Patchit), then overlays will just have to be reloaded from the disk,
which will slow things down a little, but if you have a disk cache it
won't really make that big a difference now would it?
Disk - Yes, Patchit does use the disk. Why not use a disk cache? It will
speed up the reloading of overlays.
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Well, that's about it. I definitely want to hear about bugs and would like
the specifics on what happened. I can be reached at my email address
(george@mander.berkeley.edu) or by phone, at home (617) 625-2419 or at lab
(617-495-2599) - but please, only call if it's really important.
I also want to hear about things that you would like added to the program
and things that you might want put back the way they were (if you have used
the program before).
If you like the program, and know of somebody who could use it (i.e., Clampex
/Fetchex/Axotape users). Please let them know about it. If you are such a
person, please let me know that you are using the program and if you like it.
------------------------- List of Files on disk ------------------------------
READ.ME - this file
PATCHIT.EXE - The program
PATCHIT.CFG - configuration file for the program.
PATCHTI.HLP - the help file for the program
PATCHIT.DOC - The manual, in DOS text format
PATCHIT.WRI - The manual, in Windows Write format.
PATCHIT.PIF - A windows pif file for this program. Patchit is a DOS program,
and can run as such under windows.
*.BGI - Graphics display drivers for Patchit
*.CHR - Stroked font files for Patchit
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- George Grant
Internet: ggrant@husc.harvard.edu
- or -
george@mander.berkeley.edu
Compuserve: 72722,3152
Mail: George Grant (617) 625-2419
38 Banks St. #2
Somerville, MA 02144
USA