OS/2 Shareware BBS: 35 Internet/35-Internet.zip/os2nosv4.zip/pmnos.txt

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    PMNOS -ver 930101 aka 1d

Ok Folks, here it is. (Wheew)

**************** For you new comers or others that might be interested ************
**************** PMail users perhaps ought to set this up  ************************

I am including a "view"able intronos.inf, think of this as online nos documentation.
you can either type view intronos, from the dir that intronos.inf is in or,
create a new program object, set the name to view.exe and the command line to
x:\where\ever\it\is\intronos. This will create a permenant nos information reference
on your desktop. Note, this does not represent the ultimate in NOS documentation,
that would be difficult to do since it is such a moving target.
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This represents my final version of NOS (as you know it) I think/hope.
I have fixed alot of bugs, both from my previous versions as well as those currently in the DOS
versions. The fact that the a DOS program doesnt program check doesnt mean its using valid
pointers.

Added stuff:

Split screen

Proper echoing/no echoing (well thats more a bug fix I guess).

Font management, for those with lower resolution screens you can now change fonts.
if you have high resolution screens you can still change fonts.
The font manager seems somewhat buggy, it occationally causes PMNOS to die, I have never
seen it die twice in a row, so I dont know thats its a biggy. It might have to do with
the fact that when you issue the set font cmd there are 20 some odd other tasks running
in PMNOS at that time and perhaps it doesnt like that. In any event, its pretty much a
set and forget item, since PMNOS remembers what it was last time. So if it fails the
first time you try it, try it agn. (Its IBM code thats failing).

This version is loosely based on jnos 106. It is more like a 106 plus given the fixes made
that probably arent in the DOS versions. I am including txt from the jnos files that cover
fixes he did as well as mbox commands. Unfortunately they are from 107 so they might not all
apply.

nos.ini, that remembers the state of nos (kindof) over sessions.
state of means position, size and font, it doesnt restart sessions.
...
I know there's more, but they elude me at present.

Oh, Fred, tracing to a file works properly now.

I will be including the source for this version, it will most likely be called
PMNOS1DS - s for source, as opposed to PMNOS1DX - X for executables and doc,

So, have fun with it and good luck. I will see you all when I resurface with V2.
I hesitate to call it pmnos v2, 1 it wont be based on PM, per se and NOS is not
a good name, it implies a network operating system, which it isnt. Besides, nos has pretty
much come to mean Phil Karn's implementation of Berkeley tcp/ip, and my v2 wont be
based on Phil's code and perhaps not too much on UC Berkeley.

Should any thing major come up I can be reached via internet at [e-mail]
or on CIS as 71204,1555 or on amprnet as [e-mail] (44.104.0.23) for now,
since I will be moving that addr wont be good for very much longer.

Oh, Jack asked me to mention this. really observant people may notice that ping
take a rather long time on a one shot or first in  the series. This is not really
a bug, at the point in time when the icmp echo request gets set up, PMNOS is doing
that, servicing the other 20 task (or those that need servicing) building a PM win-
dow for the session, and later knocking it down. Plus starting up (I think) 2 subtasks
to handle the ping and responses. So there is a bit of a delay between when the
current time is put in the ICMP record and when the request actually gets out the
door. Non first pings will be accurate. I hope that helps explain it.