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- Envoy Timeserver/client
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- Legal stuff:
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- The programs contained in this archive are Copyright © 1993 by R&R Software.
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- No guarantee of any kind is given that the software described in this document
- is 100% reliable. You are using it on your own risk. I'm in no way responsible
- for any problem caused by using it.
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- This program is shareware. After a trial period of 3 weeks you should send me
- US$ 5 or whatever you think the program is worth :-)
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- What is it?
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- This archive contains a timeserver and timeclient program to use on an Envoy
- network. The timeserver runs on the machine that you want to use as a time
- reference. On all other machines you can use timeclient to read the time from
- the server machine.
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- Server setup:
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- The machine that you want to use as your timereference must run the timeserver.
- The best way is to put the following line in your user-startup:
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- Run >NIL: <NIL: Timeserver
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- Client setup:
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- On all other machines you use the timeclient program. You can either start this
- by hand in a shell:
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- timeclient <server machine name>
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- You can also start it in your user-startup ofcourse. I use the following
- commandline to set the time during system bootup:
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- Run >NIL: <NIL: Timeclient A3
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- The run command is not needed but it saves some boottime. It can take the network
- a little time to find the requested host and if you don't use run your boot proces
- is waiting idle all this time.
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- The future:
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- This program is just a quick hack. It works ok but some features should still be
- added:
- * Timeserver needs an abort option.
- * Both programs need support to start them from wb.
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- C'ya,
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- Ronald van Eijck
- R&R Software
- PoBox 22
- NL-5133 ZG Riel
- The Netherlands
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