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- Short: SnoopDos 3.4, the well known system monitor
- Author: ecarroll@maths.tcd.ie (Eddy Carroll)
- Uploader: thor@math.tu-berlin.de (Thomas Richter)
- Type: util/moni
- Replaces: SnoopDos33.lha,SnoopDos32.lha,snoopdos31.lha
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- SnoopDos 3.4 -- System and application monitor
-
- Copyright © Eddy Carroll, September 1994. Freely distributable.
-
- Updated on January 2000 by Luca Longone and Massimo Tantignone
- with permission of the original author.
-
- Updated again on March 2000 by Grzegorz Chmie and Thomas Richter.
-
-
- * VERY IMPORTANT NOTE: this archive contains an updated version of the
- * SnoopDos executable, with the version number bumped to 3.4. This was
- * NOT made by the original SnoopDos author, Eddy Carroll, but instead
- * by Luca Longone and Massimo Tantignone, and Grzegorz Chmie
- * and Thomas Richter (with Eddy Carroll's approval).
- *
- * The purpose of this update is to remove an Enforcer hit which can happen
- * with version 3.0 when a program is launched from ToolManager's dock and
- * SnoopDos is running with its "SendRexx" patch turned on. Said hit doesn't
- * seem to cause any harm, however it can be an annoyance for people which
- * have Enforcer running all the time.
- * The hit is apparently due to the way ToolManager sets up its message
- * port and only happens when SnoopDos 3.0 is running. Since we can't
- * fix ToolManager right now, we made SnoopDos able to avoid the hit.
- * If you don't use ToolManager, you don't need this update.
- *
- *
- * NOTE ABOUT THE 3.4 UPDATE
- *
- * This update fixes one feature, and one bug. The feature is that the
- * stack swap code was removed from SnoopDos 3.2 and up, and since people
- * tend not to read the instructions, SnoopDos crashed on some machines due
- * to stack overflow. The 3.4 release checks therefore for its stack size
- * and will increase it to the minimal recommended size.
- * The bug is that a possible race condition when closing the main window
- * was overlooked. The 3.3 and earlier releases could have caused some
- * "hits" in case the main window was closed while some other program run
- * in the patch routines.
- *
- * NOTE ABOUT THE 3.3 UPDATE
- *
- * This update fixes a flaw of the 3.2 release that somehow was unnoticed.
- * The 3.2 release could not be run from Workbench, due to an unexpected
- * re-define of the WBenchMsg variable to _WBenchMsg in some of the SAS/C
- * headers which broke the new startup code. I really did not expect
- * this, sorry. Except the version number, and a slightly different compiler
- * option, nothing changed.
- *
- * The 3.2 update was made to remove one additional frequent enforcer hit
- * that appeared when the snoopdos patches have been called in the middle
- * of a graphics operation. In that case, RastPort->Layer is NULL'd and
- * the code didn't check. Fixed.
- * Another improvement is that SnoopDos accepts now "NewIcons" style
- * icons correctly for iconification.
- * General house keeping work has been done, one header file has been
- * enlarged to include all the required prototypes, and the code was
- * recompiled with the registerized parameter option, making it quite
- * noticably shorter. (And maybe quite unnoticably faster as well :-)
- *
- * For the more suspicious people, the updated source code is on Aminet
- * as well (util/moni/snoopdos32_src.lha).
- *
- * The SnoopDos executable was recompiled for the plain 68000 again because
- * I do not see the point why to go for an 68020 if it is not necessary.
- * The code shrunk anyhow and I do not notice a speed improvement by using
- * the 68020 switch.
- *
- * The original SnoopDos 3.0 documentation is included in this update
- * without any modification, but please note that all references to PGP
- * can't be applied to this update. If you need confirmation about the
- * genuine nature of this update you can ask us or the original author.
- *
- * Luca Longone: llong@tin.it, hexaee@tiscalinet.it
- * Massimo Tantignone: tanti@intercom.it
- * Grzegorz Chmie: gchmiel@pnet.pl
- * Thomas Richter: thor@math.tu-berlin.de
- * Eddy Carroll: ecarroll@iol.ie
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- ============================= Archive contents =============================
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- Original Packed Ratio Date Time Name
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- 2896 1509 47.8% 15-Sep-94 08:25:28 +Readme.first
- 835 285 65.8% 17-Sep-94 15:54:56 +Readme.first.info
- 3929 1822 53.6% 26-Aug-00 16:12:04 +Readme_3.4
- 835 287 65.6% 12-Jan-00 11:03:28 +Readme_3.4.info
- 95356 52751 44.6% 05-Aug-00 13:49:22 +SnoopDos
- 243908 73955 69.6% 15-Sep-94 06:59:34 +SnoopDos.guide
- 840 291 65.3% 17-Sep-94 15:54:56 +SnoopDos.guide.info
- 675 430 36.2% 17-Sep-94 15:54:56 +SnoopDos.info
- 4484 2050 54.2% 05-Aug-00 13:48:00 +SnoopDos.readme
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- 353758 133380 62.2% 29-Aug-100 17:35:22 9 files
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