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- P A L E R T
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- by
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- Patri-Soft
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- Version 2.4
- October 1991
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- Support BBS -- Patriquin's BBS
- 714-352-2825 (DATA)
- 714-352-2820 (Voice)
- 714-352-1527 (FAX)
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- Copyright 1991 by Patri-Soft
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- Table of Contents
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- What is PALERT. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
- Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
- Command Mode Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
- Examples . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
- Registering PALERT. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
- Registration Form . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
- Problems and Maintenance. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
- Other Utilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
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- What is PALERT
- --------------
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- PALERT is a utility program to help you avoid unexpectedly
- running out of disk space and/or memory. Many times application
- programs terminate abnormally or disallow you from completing a
- function because of insufficient disk space or memory.
- Sometimes, this may cause you to lose valuable work time and
- sometimes causes data to be lost. PALERT watches your disk space
- and warns you when space is getting low.
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- PALERT lets you specify your disk space needs and then watches
- the disk until that limit is reached. It then warns you of
- the situation and lets you take appropriate action. PALERT
- is implemented as a standard DOS command that may be used
- by itself or from a DOS batch command file.
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- Implement PALERT before starting any application or program
- where sufficient disk space is critical. PALERT will save
- you time and money.
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- Features:
- ─────────
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- ** Checks disk space whenever you want to.
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- ** Checks available memory
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- ** Can let applications know what day is today.
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- ** Can trigger other commands based on insufficient
- disk space and/or memory
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- ** Many features to customize messages and actions
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- ** Easy to install and use
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- Page 2
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- Command Mode Parameters
- -----------------------
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- PALERT allows several command parameter switches to be specified
- to customize the process. All these parameters are optional. The
- command format and switch parameters are described below. A quick
- review of command parameters is always available by entering the
- PALERT command with the /H parameter.
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- COMMAND FORMAT:
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- PALERT [drive:] [ (/ switches) ]
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- [drive:] If desired you may specify the drive where space is to
- be checked. If the drive letter is not specified, the
- current defualt drive is checked. PALERT will also check
- multiple drives. For example: PALERT CDE will check
- drives C, D, and E and give you a cumulative display.
- (This also works with all parameters)
-
-
- /Wppp Warn the user and set DOS ERRORLEVEL flag if the
- percentage of free disk space is less than the ppp value
- specified.
-
- /W5 indicates to warn user if less than 5 percent of
- disk space is free.
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-
- /Bbbbb Warn the user and set DOS ERRORLEVEL flag if the
- number of kilobytes of free disk space is less than the
- bbbb value specified. The maximum value of bbbb is
- 32767.
-
- /B3000 indicates to warn the user if less than
- 3,000,000 characters of disk free space exist.
-
- /D Return an errorlevel according to the Day. PALERT will
- return an errorlevel for the day only when the /D
- parameter is specified. The errorleves returned are:
- 0 - Sunday 3 - Wedensday 6 - Saturday
- 1 - Monday 4 - Thursday
- 2 - Tuesday 5 - Friday
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- A sample .BAT files is included to demonstrate how to
- use this capability.
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- /Lxxx Warn when available memory is less than xxx. Sets the
- DOS ERRORLEVEL flag to 2.
-
- PALERT /L400 will warn you if memory is below
- 400,000 bytes.
- Page 3
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- /E SupprEss the disk check and check only memory
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- /N A scale that shows used disk space is normally
- shown to the user each time PALERT is run. To
- prevent the scale from being displayed, enter the
- /N parameter.
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- /M Messages are normally shown to indicate the Total,
- Used, and Free disk space. If these messages are
- not normally wanted, enter the /M parameter. Then they
- will only be issued when the user is warned.
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- /P After the user is warned of insufficient disk/memory
- space, PALERT will pause to make sure the user is aware
- of the situation. To avoid this pause enter /P.
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- /S When PALERT detects insufficient disk/memory space it
- sounds an alert to the user. To avoid this noise
- specify the /S parameter.
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- /C Each time PALERT is run it reminds the user that HELP is
- available by entering the /H parameter. To avoid this
- message enter /C.
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- /H PALERT contains internal help that is available at
- any time by using the /H parameter.
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- PALERT automatically checks the system date to determine if it is
- current or not. If it is not, PALERT allows you to set it
- correctly.
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- Page 4
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- Examples:
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- 1. Warn user when less than 1,000,000 characters of disk
- space is available.
-
- ===> PALERT C: /B1000 /C
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- 2. Warn user when less than 5 percent of disk space is
- available.
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- ===> PALERT C: /W5 /C
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- 3. Warn user when less than 300K of memory is available:
-
- ===> PALERT /L300
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- 4. DOS batch file that will check disk space each time
- the LOTUS command is entered. If the desired disk space is
- not available stop the command.
-
- PALERT /b2000/m
- if errorlevel 1 goto error
- LOTUS
- goto end
- :error
- ECHO command terminated due to insufficient disk space
- :end
-
- This sample DOS batch file may be found in the .ARC file
- that contains this program. Name=PA123.BAT.
-
- 5. Determine the day by using PALERT /D.
-
- PALERT /D
- if errorlevel = 2 goto tue
- etc....
-
- Sample batch file included, called DAY.BAT
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- Page 5
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- Registering PALERT
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- PALERT is distributed under the Shareware concept. This makes it
- available for anyone to try without obligation. If you decide it
- is useful and want to keep it, I ask that you register your use
- of it. This will allow for continued support and maintenance of
- the program and will help to encourage that more quality software
- be made available through this channel. We require all
- corporate and government users of this utility register their
- copies.
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- To simply register the program, $10 is requested. If you would
- like the newest program disk and a copy of the manual send
- $20. If you would like to register all the Patriquin utilities,
- and receive programs on disk and manuals, send $45.
-
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- Send registration requests to:
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- Patri-Soft
- P.O. Box 8263
- San Bernardino, CA 92412
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- The registration charge is a one time fee that entitles you to
- all future versions of the product. These may either be obtained
- from normal Shareware sources or directly from me. Any
- organization ordering more than 100 copies is also entitled to
- telephone support and will be given the technical support number.
-
- Following is a form that may be used to register PALERT.
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- Page 6
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- PALERT Registration
- Version 2.4
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- Please Register PALERT to the following person. We will use ____
- copies of the program and have enclosed $____ for each copy to
- be used.
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- ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
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- _____ Registration only ............................. $10.00
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- _____ Registration, program disk and manual.......... $20.00
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- _____ Registration of all Patriquin Utilities with
- program disks and manuals................... $45.00
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- _____ Update of newest Patriquin Utility disk with
- manual. ................................... $15.00
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- ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
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- Name: __________________________________________________
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- Company: _______________________________________________
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- Address: _______________________________________________
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- _______________________________________________
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- City: ______________________________ State: ___________
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- Zip: ______________________
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- I obtained my copy of PALERT from: ____________________________
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- If BBS indicate name and number please._________________________
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- ________________________________________________________________
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- Please register the software under the following name:
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- ____________________________________________________
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- Send to:
- Patri-Soft
- P.O. Box 8263
- San Bernardino, CA 92412
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- P A L E R T
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- Problems and Maintenance
- ------------------------
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- I welcome all comments or enhancement suggestions. Please
- document each item clearly and provide printed examples if
- possible. Please be sure to include this form with all requests,
- it will help to make sure we can provide you with the best
- possible service.
-
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- Name: __________________________________________________________
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- Company: _______________________________________________________
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- Address: _______________________________________________________
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- _______________________________________________________
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- City: __________________________________ State: _______________
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- Zip: ______________________________
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- Telephone: _______ / ________________________ (Home / Work)
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- Date: _________________________
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- Description of problem or enhancement:
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- ________________________________________________________________
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- ________________________________________________________________
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- ________________________________________________________________
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- ________________________________________________________________
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- Suggested solution:
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- ________________________________________________________________
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- ________________________________________________________________
- Page 8
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- Program Maintenance:
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-
- Version 1.0 August 22, 1986
-
- Version 1.6 January 17, 1987
- -- Problem with large capacity disks printing
- incorrect space used percent.
-
- Version 2.0 August 8, 1990
- -- Added memory check
- -- Support for cumulative report of mulitple
- drives
- Version 2.1 January 26, 1991
- -- Fixed minor bugs experienced by 2 users
- Version 2.3 June 12, 1991
- -- Fixed problem encountered by users with
- 386 with large hard drives
- Version 2.4 October 22, 1991
- --added /D
- --Added invalid date detection
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- Other Patriquin Utilities:
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- PSEARCH -- Extensive file find and Text search capabilities in
- a menu driven environment.
-
- PCOPY/PMOVE -- Complete file copy.move utility that prevents
- users from accidently losing files by using DOS COPY.
- Fast file movers are intelligent and move files to
- different hard disk directories without moving data.
-
- PTOUCH -- Set date and time values on files specified
- through command parameters.
-
- PALERT -- Warn users of insufficient disk space before it
- causes them problems.
-
- PDAILY -- Perform any command or batch function only once
- per day. Use in AUTOEXEC.BAT file.
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