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- Total System Statistics (TSS) v2.2
-
- COPYRIGHT Dan Moore, 1988
-
- First Release, February 1988
- Second Release, March 1988
- Third Release, March 1988
- Fourth Release, March 1988
- Fifth Release, March 1988
-
- DISTRIBUTION / LICENSING
-
- This program may be used, copied and distributed freely for
- personal purposes. A reasonable charge (hopefully not to exceed
- $5 or so) may be assessed as a duplicating charge.
-
- If used for commercial or business purposes (ie, computer
- manufacturing, consulting, repair or sales organizations,
- in-house PC support department etc...), a licensing fee of $5
- per business location should be considered. A one-time site
- license to this program may be acquired for $50, which covers
- all sites of the contributing company and includes free upgrades
- for one year. TSS is not a source of personal income; all
- contributions received will be used solely toward the support of
- other shareware and the bulletin board systems which make the
- public distribution of this type of software possible.
-
- TSS source code is available for a one-time charge of $250,
- which grants the purchaser a permanent non-exclusive license to
- the program, but not to its name and copyright. Customized
- copies of TSS will be made available for a fee; contact the
- author if interested.
-
-
- DISCLAIMER
-
- I am not a lawyer, and I guess I could be sued by people who
- think that white text on blue background is tasteless, immoral,
- or against their religious convictions. I assume no
- responsibility whatsoever for any damages arising from the use
- of TSS. My only defense is that the program works on my
- computers and I use it myself. If the disk output option is
- selected, TSS will create a 2Kbyte file on the machine's default
- drive/directory. In all other respects, TSS does not modify the
- hardware or software environments in which it operates.
-
-
- PURPOSE
-
- This program produce a simple but comprehensive set of
- statistics of the PC/XT/AT or compatible computer on which it is
- run, including:
-
- Date, Time, DOS Release Level, System Type, Processor Type,
- Coprocessor type, Memory size, Extended Memory Size, Expanded
- Memory Size, Free Expanded Memory, Expanded Memory Driver (LIM)
- Release Level, Display Adapter Type, EGA Mode and Memory Size,
- ROM BIOS release date, number of Parallel, Serial, and Game
- Adapters, Mouse/Number of Buttons, Current Drive Address,
- Cluster Size, Total Space, Free space, percent free space, as
- well as addresses, total space, free space and percent free
- space for up to 10 other fixed drives in the system and a total
- of these space statistics.
-
- To run the program, simply type TSS22 at the prompt from the
- directory where the program is stored (or from anywhere if
- the program is in your DOS path, of course). The program will
- display a simple copyright / welcome screen for approximately
- three seconds, and will then display a single screen containing
- the pertinent statistics. The file TSS22.SCR MUST be in the
- current directory for the program to operate. Pressing any key
- will immediately terminate the program.
-
-
- NOTE: If your computer is equipped with a mouse, expanded
- memory, or a RAM disk, the corresponding device drivers must be
- activated in order for TSS to detect their presence.
-
-
- PRINTER AND FILE OUTPUT
-
- Release 2.1 of TSS supports printed or disk output, at the
- user's discretion. To request printed output, add the letter
- "P" (upper or lower case) to the command line. If you require
- printed output on a printer other than LPT1:, you may also add a
- "2" or "3" on the command line to indicate the parallel port to
- which the output is to be sent.....for example"
-
- TSS22 P will run TSS and copy the output to LPT1:
- TSS22 P2 will run TSS and copy the output to LPT2:
-
- Using a "D" on the command line:
-
- TSS22 D
-
- will cause TSS to copy its output to the disk file "TSS22.DAT".
- The data in this file will be an exact duplicate of the TSS
- screen text with a CR/LF delimiter at the end of each line.
-
- NOTE: You should not select the "P" and "D" options at the same
- time; if you do so the "P" option will prevail. Command line
- parameters may be typed in any order and in upper or lower case.
-
-
- TECHNICAL JARGON
-
- TSS was written in Microsoft QuickBasic, release 3.0. All
- statistics except date, time, BIOS Date, and percent free space
- are obtained via calls to ProBas routines. ProBas -- an
- extensive library of QB subroutines--, is a copyrighted product
- of Hamerly Computer Services and the successor to the popular
- ADVBAS shareware product by Tom Hanlin.
-
- This program was written and tested on a 12Mhz / O wait AT
- clone, equipped with two 40meg HDs partitioned via SpeedStor, a
- 256K EGA Clone and ECD Clone, with 1024k on the motherboard
- (640K DOS memory + 384K Extended), parallel, serial, and game
- adapters, and a Microsoft Mouse. The program was also tested on
- a number of other machines with varying hardware/software
- environments to test all the program's features.
-
- I hope you find this program useful.
-
-
- SUPPORT
-
- There is no official support to "free" users of TSS, but
- suggestions for improvements are welcome. I will provide paid
- users with whatever mail or BBS support I can, but only to the
- extent that I can recreate the problem on my own machine. If
- TSS does not operate properly on your machine and you are a
- contributing user, your money will be cheerfully refunded.
-
- I may be contacted officially on the following bulletin board
- systems:
-
- Executive Network, Andy Keeves, Sysop
- Forbin Project, John Friel III, Sysop
- LANS BBS, Phil Stults, Sysop,
-
- And unofficially on a few others.
-
- RELEASE HISTORY
-
- 3/28/88 Release 2.2
-
- This release fixes one bug -- the default drive space was
- counted twice in the total space value. Thanks to Mike Foster
- for finding this one. AS obvious as it was, I sure didn't see
- it. The system's ROM BIOS release date was also added to the
- display immediately above the I/O port display area. Thanks to
- Mike again for the suggestion and thanks to Peter Norton for the
- Programmer's guide to the IBM PC for the info on where to find
- it (8 bytes at F000:FFF5 for you curious types). Another
- release after three days. This is ridiculous. Please note that
- I add features as well as fix bugs, which spares some of the
- humiliation.
-
- 3/25/88 Release 2.1
-
- Oh No! TSS is starting to look like DSZ as far as daily releases
- go. Except for a couple simple bugs, TSS releases came about
- after suggestions from early users of the program.
-
- Release 2.1 is limited to nine hard drives (which may be
- logical or physical drives), but it now incorporates system-wide
- space statistics on the bottom line of the space display. If
- you find this useful, thank Marty Shannon for the suggestion.
- If you do not like this, blame Marty Shannon for the suggestion.
-
- 3/24/88 Release 2.0
-
- Corrected bug: text string too long for XT/Clone machines, would
- overwrite other screen data area.
-
- Added printed output and disk file output support with P and D
- command line option including LPT2/3 support.
-
-
- 3/21/88 Release 1.1
-
- Corrected bug: number of parallel and serial port values were reversed
-
- 2/25/88
-
- First Public Release
-
-
-
- Dan Moore
- 1531 13th Street
- Columbus, IN 47201