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CA-STAT is a status environment variable used by cALMER Utilities
.EXE programs. It is used to tell information to the programs.
When talking about environment variables, non-computer experts
tend to get the wrong impression that it is terribly difficult.
In fact it is one of the easiest things you will ever have to learn
about computing because you normally only have to do it once, and,
because it is very simple indeed. However, to the programs requiring
the information, it is absolutely vital that you key it in correctly.
Some common environmnent variables are things like the DOS path and
prompt statetements.
To set the CA-STAT (stands for cALMER Status) variable, simply add a
line to your autoexec.bat file, for example:
Set Ca-stat=NOROM
Thats all you have to do if you happen to need the NOROM value.
CA-STAT tells several programs within the cALMER Utilities what is
extremely important information to them. The following values are
currently used, the are CASE SENSITIVE!
NOHARD Tells NBY that you do not have any hard disks in case your
computer does not report the correct information.
SILENCE:23:00-07:30-02 Is used by NBY to automatically process key-
strokes normally expected off you. You can define a period
in any given day where NBY will determine the best action
after a virus was found. The format must be exactly as
shown above, i.e. colons and hyphens are needed, no spaces.
The values are start time, finishing time and delay before
processing in seconds. The above example would tell NBY
that between 11:00pm and 7:30am, if after two seconds you
have not pressed a key, to go on regardless. NBY will NOT
remove any viruses in this instance and will NOT report
to you in any other form, other than generating the DEL_VIRUS
batch file. This feature is only active in registered versions
and is primarily intended for SYSOPs who have automatic processing
of files scheduled over-night. (I had to get up a few times at
night when NBY found a virus, the feature is in there really
for my benefit.....)
NOROM Tells the utilities to suppress ROM identification. Use this
if SIPLUS crashes your computer.
NOCPU Tells the utilities to suppress CPU identification. Use this
if SIPLUS crashes your computer.
In other words, if your computer crashes when you run SIPLUS,
proceed as follows:
a) reboot your computer. (the crash is a total systems crash
due to the fact the the CPU has lost track completely.
This happens on inferior computers only should NOT be the
case under normal circumstances.
b) before running SIPLUS again, key in from DOS:
Set ca-stat = NOROM NOCPU
to suppress both ROM and CPU identification.
SIPLUS should now run without crashing the system.
Now, try removing either NOROM or NOCPU, and run it
again. If it crashes, you'll know that whichever you
removed is the one causing the problem.
On really shoddy computers you will need to have both
values set permanently.
If this is the case on your computer, you MUST add the
above set command in your AUTOEXEC.BAT.
NOVIRUS Tells the utilities to suppress anti-virus checking. The word
NoVirus is CASE SENSITIVE. This is only available in registered
versions of the utilities since there is a rescue disk in existance
in that instance.
Using this speeds up execution of the programs.
If you us this option, you MUST run NBY in your autoexec
BEFORE you set the environment variable. This will ensure that
NBY does a self-test every time. Then, if NBY complains, you'll
know that something is wrong. If that is the case, set
CA-STA=NoVirus, then run NBY against itself, i.e.:
"NBY \calmer\nby.exe<Enter>" from DOS to see if there are any
recognised viruses.
NONBYROM Suppress NBY's ROM locking
NORESCUE Suppress NBY's generation of a rescue disk.
FORCEAT Tells the utilities that they are running on an AT
type computer, even if your computer does not provide
the information to that effect.
ALLOWCT Tells NBY that it is ok for programs to change the file
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