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- !CheckCMOS
- ----------
-
- This application is designed to give you (the user) back the control
- of your CMOS ram.
-
- The application should be called from your bootup, but can be tried
- out just by running it.
-
- INSTALLATION
-
- The first time it is run, the program will take a copy of your CMOS
- values. It will assume that your machine is configured as you like
- it.
-
- AFTERWARDS
-
- Then whenever it is run afterwards it compares the CMOS values it
- saved against those in CMOS. If they are the same then the
- application terminates and is never seen. If the CMOS differs the
- application informs you in an alert type window what changes have
- occured. And gives you three options.
-
- CONTINUE If you don't mind that the CMOS has changed of want
- it set like this for the session
- SAVE If you prefer the settings now to those saved before
- This overrides those saved on Initialization
- (If the copy you recieved is from another machine and
- not an origional you may have to save the first time)
- RESET This puts all the stored preferences back and if required
- waits till the machine is reset
-
-
- MENU
-
- When the program finds a difference in the CMOS values to those you store
- as your preferences, a window opens and displays them. Some settings are
- possibly not of interest to you if you do not have the hardware or run
- the software that they refer to. A menu has been provided so that you
- can customize it a small amount.
-
- INFO This gives information about the program and author
- IGNORE This sub-menu allows you to selectively disable the checks
- and alerts of some CMOS values. SAVE and RESET above
- still store/modify ALL CMOS BYTES
- SAVE OPTIONS This saves which items you prefer to be ignored.
-
-
- Special Note
- ------------
-
- Thanks to Jason Williams for his BuyNZMade icon
- Thanks to Acorn for providing such inadiquate documentation and Risc OS Lib
-
- Due to the unacceptable ommisions in the Risc OS 3 Programmers Reference Manuals
- I have attempted to extend the descriptions. Any description not specified by the
- PRMs is preceeded by an "!"
-
-
- All comments to pdenize@waikato.ac.nz
-
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- Department of Computer Science
- University of Waikato phone: ++64 7 8562-889
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