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- JB5StopGo
- Version 1.1.9
- (c)JBSoft 1998
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- Overview
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- JB5StopGo is a program to automate the closing and reopening of your
- applications when preparing to backup to the main computer. It will
- close all running programs and start the Link or, if the Link is
- already running, will close the Link and restart the programs closed
- beforehand. There is also an option to run a program to work with the
- Link and one to specify programs not to close.
-
- New to this version is a setup which should allow operation on all
- language machines.
-
- Installation
- ------------
- If using PsiWin 2.x within Windows then just click on the
- JB5STOPGO.SIS. The program will appear in the "normal" Extras Bar
- after the installation. If installing from somewhere other than
- Windows then you will need to obtain INS_TE.EXE and install that on
- your EPOC32 machine. This will enable .SIS files to be installed only
- using the EPOC32 machine.
-
- An OPX that is required for the application (SysRAM1.OPX) is also
- installed automatically. The SIS file has only been included for
- completeness should there be a problem with another application when
- de-installing JB5StopGo.
-
- The first time the program is run it is necessary to give some
- information so that the program works correctly on your machine. The
- questions that need answers are...
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- ■ The key combination required from the System screen to produce
- the Link dialog (where the Link is switched on and off).
- ■ The name of the Help file and Data files - these are provided
- by using a dialog you can navigate around to highlight the
- appropriate file (on an English machine these are
- Z:\SYSTEM\DATA\HELP and Z:\SYSTEM\APPS\DATA\DATA.APP ).
-
- This setup is only shown once - if you need to alter anything then you
- will have to delete the JBSGI.INI file that is situated in the same
- directory as JB5STOPGO.APP.
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- Notes
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- If the Link isn't connected then things will still closedown and re-
- open and set the Link accordingly.
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- If a program fails to respond to the Close command then, after a few
- seconds (definable in Setup), a Kill command will be sent which will
- close the program immediately (although any data not saved may well be
- lost).
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- N.B. The program will close down everything so, if you have sensitive
- data that must be saved it would be a good precaution to do a manual
-
- save first unless you are sure that the timeout used will be
- sufficient.
-
- The program creates a small temporary data file in the root directory
- of the Internal drive called C:\JBSGX.INI (just to explain why this
- file suddenly appears). This file is deleted once the programs have
- been re-opened.
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- N.B. It is important that the Link is started and stopped by my
- program as it normally uses the Link status to decide what to do and
- is also dependent on how the setup has been defined.
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- If the program fails for any reason then a restart of the program will
- probably be the same as a re-open and you will have to run the program
- a second time to close things down. You can check on this as, if the
- file C:\JBSGX.INI exists, the program will always try to re-open.
-
- Setup
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- If the letter 'J' (on its own, not with a Fn or Ctrl key) is pressed
- within two seconds of starting JBStopGo5 then you are taken to a setup
- where you can specify the type of link used (Cable, InfraRed, None)
- and the time that will be allowed for a program to close before a
- command is sent to just kill the program. Killing the program may lose
- data and cause problems later so it is best to define a period which
- is likely to be safe (as an example S5Bank needs around 7 seconds to
- close).
-
- You can also choose to launch a program after the closure of the open
- files - this is primarily for non-PC machines that may not have a
- PsiWin type option and may allow for another program to deal with the
- problem. To set this up may require some knowledge of the way the
- System works so the option isn't necessarily for the fainthearted
- (e.g. for an OPL program you need to choose
- "z:\system\apps\opl\opl.app" as the application and the filename
- should be the OPL program you wish to run).
-
- There is also an option to specify programs not to close (this is
- primarily because some programs run others when started and this may
- not be a good idea at the time).
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- The defaults are a timeout of 10 seconds and the Cable link will be
- enabled.
-
- If all you wish to do is change the setup without running the program
- then, after you have changed the setup and pressed Enter, a "Busy"
- message will appear in the bottom left corner of the screen for two
- seconds. Press a key during this period and the program will terminate
- without closing or opening anything.
-
- Thanks
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- Thanks are, of course, due to all beta testers but I must single out
- John Woodthorpe who went above and beyond the call of duty in testing
- the various versions I sent out. I would also like to especially thank
- Bernd Schemmer for his help with testing on a foreign machine.
-
- Release History
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- 1.0 First public release
- 1.1 Revision for languages other than English
- Added a message for when the re-opening was completed
- Added the possibility to not close specified programs
- 1.1.1 Added the option to choose to kill programs
- 1.1.4 Changed the opening slightly so that programs like Navigator
- opened better.
- 1.1.5 Not intercepts deleted program files so the computer doesn't
- hang.
- 1.1.6 Temporary files now created only on C: drive.
- 1.1.8 Fixed a problem with lauching Macro5.
- Now installs everything with one click.
- 1.1.9 Different method of getting System name so that French
- machines will work correctly.
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- Contact
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- John Boyce
- CompuServe:
- 100014,1240
- CIX:
- jboyce
- Internet:
- john@jbsoft.c
- ix.co.uk