Photo shows Graham Utilities on @Macarlo's Warp 4.0
CHRIS GRAHAM Graham Utilities:
New CSD
The eleventh CSD for The
Graham Utilities for OS/2, V2 has been made available.
These CSD's are cumulative, ie you only need to download and keep the last one.
The Graham Utilities for OS/2 are the largest, most comprehensive suite of disk,
file and general utilities specifically written for the OS/2 operating system. The
suite consists of 76 separate programs and modules. The complete, 423-page manual
is included on-line as an .INF file for easy access. The Author, Chris Graham,
lives in Australia. The Graham Utilities can be downloaded from BMT Micro>@@@ The eleventh CSD for The Graham Utilities for OS/2, V2 has
been made available. These CSD's are cumulative, ie you only need to download and
keep the last one.
The eleventh CSD takes The Graham Utilities for OS/2, V2.00 to V2.10.1.
NOTE: The application of this CSD requires a new/updated CSDINST.EXE.
This new CSD program (NewCSD.Zip) can be found at:
To retrieve and install this CSD you have a number of options at your disposal.
There are two methods of installation: manual and automatic.
The manual method involves downloading the CSD zip file, extracting it and then
running the CSDInst.Exe program. The zip file also has a CMD file in it to do this
for you (UPDINST.CMD).
To retrive the file, you have a number of options and methods available to you.
They are FTP, Gopher or Telnet.
To use FTP, log on using the following details:
Host ftp.warpspeed.com.au
User ID Updates
Password Updates
Make sure that your transfer mode is set to BINARY and then GET the appropriate
file.
To Use Gopher, you can connect using one of two ports (70 or 77).
For example:
Gopher -p 70 -h updates.warpspeed.com.au
or
Gopher -p 77 -h updates.warpspeed.com.au
The telnet methods allows you to log onto the BBS. Enter:
Telnet bbs.warpspeed.com.au
The automatic method is to use the retrieve software updates program provided by
IBM. There are two different versions of the retrieve software updates program.
The first which was supplied with Warp 3 (not Warp 4), used a gopher server on port
77. If you are using Warp 3 then enter:
Update -h updates.warpspeed.com.au -t C:\GU20
(assuming that C:\GU20 was where you installed the utilities).
If you are using Warp 4, IBM did not supply the Update.Exe program, instead they
have created another program RSUInst.Exe (Remote Software Updates). Using this method,
you open a web page and select a RSU file by clicking on it. This downloads a small
.RSU file to your browser, and if your web browser is correctly configured to recognise
the MIME type "application/rsu", passes it onto RSUInst.Exe which then
logs via FTP onto a specified server, downloads the file(s) and then runs any specified
installation program.
Further instructions and information on RSU (and links to the IBM page to get it
all) can be found on the WarpSpeed Computers Updates page that can be accessed via
the following URL:
WarpSpeed Computers - The Graham Utilities for OS/2.
Voice: +61-3-9307-0611 PO Box 212 FidoNet: 3:632/344
FAX: +61-3-9307-0633 Brunswick Internet: chrisg@warpspeed.com.au
BBS: +61-3-9307-0644 VIC 3056 CompuServe: 100250,1645
300-28,800 N,8,1 ANSI Australia Web Pages: http://www.warpspeed.com.au http://www.netins.net/showcase/spectre
This is the new-info.txt file for the current GUxx8231.CSD:
TaskMgr 1.00 (**NEW**)
------- ----
TaskMgr is a PM application (with full in-built Help Manager
support) that provides a graphical way of displaying the status of your system.
It provides you with a list of all Applications, Processes and current system Performance
and a performance history.
CSDInst 2.01 (BUGFIX and ENHANCEMENT)
------- ----
CSDInst was not executing any stored commands in the CSD file.
Now it does this.CSDInst has also been enhanced to use the IBMLANLK.SYS and IBMLANLK.EXE
programs to allow CSDInst to be able to cope with files that are in use when CSDInst
is executed. If any locked files are found when processing the CSD file, their processing
is deferred to the next boot. You are asked to reboot when CSDInst finishes processing
the CSD file.
HPFSStat 2.01 (ENHANCEMENT)
-------- ----
Added the -u switch and changed the default behaviour of HPFSSTAT.
Previously the HPFS386 checksums in the Spare Block were not being automatically
updated, now they are. The -u switch turns this feature off should you need to.
GcdProg 2.03 (BUGFIX)
------- ----
Fixed a bug where GCDPROG could trap when the GU environment
variable was not defined.
04/06/98 (GUxx8154.CSD - CSD 10 - V2.1)
--------
InstWPS.Exe 2.00 (**NEW**)
----------- ----
This program is used to register (install) the GUDisk and
WPSndPalWorkPlace Shell classes. The classes can be deregistered with the -d switch.
To sucessfully register the classes, InstWPS requires that the GUDisk.Dll and WPSndPal.Dll
files are in a directory listed in your LIBPATH statement. You may also need to
add the GU installation directory to your HELP environment in CONFIG.SYS (and then
reboot).
You should reboot after registering or deregistering the classes.
WPSndPal.Dll 2.00 (**NEW**)
------------ ----
WPSoundPalette - WPS Sound Scheme Palette Class
I have implemented a WPS class that enhances your Warp 4/Warp 3 system.
Warp 4 comes with the concept of "Sound Schemes". A Sound Scheme is a
logical collection of sound files that are grouped together to form a theme/scheme.
Under Warp 4, there are 4 schemes provided. However, IBM in their infinite wisdom
did not give us any means of (easily) editing/adding/deleting these schemes. The
WPSoundPalette (WPSndPal)
class is intended to do just that.
InstWPS is used to register the WPSoundPalette class, and InstWPS -d will deregister
the class.
The WPSoundPalette class implements the DeskMan2QuerySetup method, so either DeskMan/2
or Object Desktop can be used to save the object's data.
GUDisk.Dll 2.00 (**NEW**)
---------- ----
GUDisk - WPS Graham Utilities Disk Class
The GUDisk class is a WPS wrapper for the disk utilities included with
The Graham Utilities for OS/2, V2. The programs that are accessable from the context
menu of each drive are:
The predefined options (specific to each drive) can also be accessed from each drives'
Settings/Properties menu.
InstWPS is used to register the GUDisk class, and InstWPS -d will deregister the
class.
The GUDisk class implements the DeskMan2QuerySetup method, so either DeskMan/2 or
Object Desktop can be used to save the object's data.
It is also *HIGHLY* recommended that you add the line:
AUTOFAIL=YES
to your config.sys file. This stops the hard error popups for all processes.
CLEANUP.SYS 2.00 (**NEW**)
----------- ----
This is a simple device driver that DELETES the specified
file. Wild cards are NOT supported. To delete multiple files, add multiple times
to config.sys. I use this to delete ZTBold's and SIO's date and time stamp files.
(ZTB's can be deleted at any time ZTBold is not running, but SIO is a device driver
that
locks its file, so only another device driver (loaded BEFORE SIO) can delete SIO's
date and time stamp file).
Usage: (Add a similar line to CONFIG.SYS and reboot).
Added the -r switch. This switch RESETS a cluster marked as
bad to free and available.
FAT-VIEW 2.01 (ENHANCEMENT)
-------- ----
Added a check for ESC whilst clearing the free clusters after
a defrag.
NULLDISK 2.01 (ENHANCEMENT)
-------- ----
Added the -NOPROMPT switch. NullDisk when entered with this
switch will not stop to prompt you with an "Are you sure?" question. This
makes NullDisk useful in a batch environment.
GROUP 2.01 (BUGFIX and ENHANCEMENT)
----- ----
Added ASSOCTYPE= to some of the setup strings.
Moved the OBJECTID= to the end of the setup string where it should be.
Opened the folders initially so that the icon placing is correct under Warp 4. Warp
4 does not position icons in a folder (at all) if the folder is closed when the
object is added to it.
You may wish to rerun Group.Exe to recreate your folders and get the new associations.
EG:
GROUP -pC:\GU20
if you installed the utilities to the C:\GU20 directory.
Recompilation of the above modules due to a few internal changes in FATCOMM.DLL.
The previous problems with FAT-UD reporting a mismatched FATCOMM.DLL version should
have been fixed.
These programs now correctly handle and display disk volumes of
>4Gb in size.
WARPCOMM 2.02
-------- ----
Added a routine necessary to support >4Gb sizes.
Also modified the message processing again.
08/11/97 (GUxx7311.CSD - CSD 7)
--------
DEPHYS 2.01
------ ----
Fixed a bug where a trap would occur when writing to a physical disk.
HPFS-UD 2.01
------- ----
Quite a few changes/fixes/updates. Including:
- Added support for >64K deleted files.
- Changed %3.0lf to %4.2lf in the bar graph display. This
results in 12.34% as opposed to 12%.
- Changed some edit windows to the scrolling type.
- Added the -n switch (auto numbering) to avoid duplicates.
NULLFILE 2.01
-------- ----
The program was always printing "Delete <file> ?" even if you did
not ask for prompting (-p). Now it does not, this results in a slight speed improvement.
WARPCOMM.DLL
------------
The .MSG processing had a bug in it whereby a \n was being converted to \r\n, which
resulted in an extra \r being appended to the end of the
line.
FAT-UD 2.01
------ ----
Recompile necessary for changes in WarpComm.Dll due to HPFS-UD changes.
Fixed the millenium bug. There were no real problems, but the date of 2001 would
typically be displayed as 101.
DISKIMG 2.01
------- ----
Fixed a bug where the destination disk details in disk to disk copies were not being
correctly displayed. The details of the source disk were being displayed instead.
12/06/97 (GUxx7162.CSD - CSD 5)
--------
EARESTOR 2.01
-------- ----
Added the -f switch. The -f switch attempts to force the writing of Extended Attribute
data to files by changing the file attributes of the file. The file attributes are
set to zero (no attributes), the extended attribute data is attached to the file
and finally the file's file attributes are restored to their original state.
DIAG 2.02
---- ----
Added the -n switch. The -n switch inhibits Diag from creating a log file. The log
is held in memory (so it can get quite large) and the user is asked to write it
out to a disk file at the end of Diag. Use the -n switch to keep memory usage down.
Fixed a bug whereby the ESC key was not exiting the disk tests correctly when the
number of test iterations was greater than one.
31/05/97 (GUxx7150.CSD - CSD 4)
--------
LD 2.02
-- ----
GCDPROG 2.02
------- ----
Fixed a bug where the scan was not being correctly done if
the starting directory was not the root. This also caused
some traps under certain circumstances.
Also, GCDPROG has been enhanced to remove the 64K limit of
saved directory information. This means that GCD will now
be able to save and restore the directory trees of very
large and complex directory structures.
INSTALL 2.02
------- ----
Added CID capabilities and two new switches to cover this.
Here is the new usage:
Usage: Install { -c<Response File> -u }
-c Unattended install and specify a different response file.
-u Unattended install. Uses a default response file of INSTALL.CID.
Full CID installation instructions are given in the file INSTALL.CID.
22/05/97 (GUxx7141.CSD - CSD 3)
--------
MIDECODE
--------
Fixed a bug where the name=xxx line was being ignored when
there were no quotes around the file name. IE
name="xxx" was being excepted, but name=xxx or name='xxx'
was not.
UUDECODE
--------
XXDECODE
--------
Improved the decoding of certain files where there were both
quotes (`) and spaces ( ). My undstanding of the standard
is that this is not allowed - but I now handle it anyway.
I also improved the decoding so that lines when the last few
encoded chars are spaces the programs to not complain of
errors when the original file has been saved by a program
that removes trailing spaces.
07/05/97 (GUxx7127.CSD - CSD 2)
--------
LD
--
GCDPROG
-------
Fixed a bug where not all directories where always listed.
LD and GCDPROG shared a common code base which was different
(and broken) to all other programs. These two programs now
work as the rest do.
12/02/97 (GUxx7042.CSD - CSD 1)
--------
DIAG
----
Fixed a bug in the Disk Tests when doing Sector I/O tests. The bar graph was being
incorrectly updated.
Also removed some DEBUG code that was accidently left in.
DEHPFS
------
Changed the edit width of the FNODE.achName[0] field from 1 to 3 to allow for numbers
> 9.
31/08/96
--------
The is the first release.
@Macarlo, Inc. @Macarlo's Shareware & Web OS/2 Java Lobby Member
Java Site Accredited
