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- ExecMon 2.5c
- © 1996-97 Szymon Pura
- EMAILWARE
- BLABLA PRODUCT
-
- Last change: 05 Dec 1997
-
- ===============
- WHAT IS EXECMON
- ===============
-
- ExecMon is a powerful, fast and reliable system monitor. It's main
- purpose is displaying and controlling Amiga activities, such as windows,
- libraries, memory, locks and a lot more. ExecMon is especially useful for
- debugging and for removing crashed programs from memory.
-
- Please note, that ExecMon is meant only for experienced and advanced
- Amiga users. ExecMon allows you to change some low-level system
- structures, and IMPROPER USAGE WILL CAUSE YOUR MACHINE TO CRASH.
-
- ExecMon has been tested on 68000,68EC020 and 68030 machines, under
- OS2.04, 3.0 and 3.1. Remember, that some of ExecMon's features use really
- 'dirty' tricks and assumptions about OS, which may conflict with future
- releases of the operating system.
-
- At the moment NO reads/writes are performed on custom chips' registers.
- Also, NO system routines are patched.
-
- ============
- INSTALLATION
- ============
-
- Just copy ExecMon and its icon to the selected directory.
-
- NOTE: Since V2.2, preferences file is stored in PROGDIR: instead of
- ENVARC:.
-
- Since V2.4, ExecMon will also look for its config file in ENV:.
-
- ExecMon requires Kickstart V37+ and Reqtools V38+ to run. Note, that
- Kickstart V39+ is recommended: the newer OS allows to do some operations
- in much 'cleaner' way.
-
- =====
- START
- =====
-
- Just type 'ExecMon' from CLI or double-click on ExecMon icon from WB.
-
- No commandline arguments or tooltypes are recognized.
-
- =====
- USAGE
- =====
-
- ExecMon opens its own screen, public or custom. The main window looks
- like this:
-
- /-------------------------------------------------------------------------\
- | |
- | Main display area |
- | |
- | |
- | |
- \-------------------------------------------------------------------------/
-
- /------------------------------\ /------------------------------\
- | | | |
- | Lists | | Operators |
- | | | |
- | | \------------------------------/
- | | | Refresh List |
- \------------------------------/ \------------------------------/
-
-
- First select one of the 'Lists' items. Now all available operators
- will appear in the listview to the right. You can invoke them by simple
- mouse click. If you select an entry from the main list, some additional
- commands may appear in 'Operators' list.
-
- All lists are sorted according to related subsystem. There's no more
- documentation on lists available at the moment, sorry. I haven't got
- enough time to do this, not to mention my poor English. Anyway,
- experienced users shouldn't have any diffilcuties, I tried to make
- ExecMon as easy-to-use as possible.
-
- =========
- LOG FILES
- =========
-
- There are two ways to create a log-file:
-
- 1. Use the 'Write log file...' function from the pull-down menu.
- A file-requester will open, asking for logfile name.
- Log file will be created immediately.
-
- 2. Use the 'Open log file...' function from the pull-down menu.
- A file-requester will open, asking for logfile name.
- Now use 'Add to log file' function to write displayed list, and
- select 'Close log file' when you're done.
-
- Options:
- - Include date - current date will be included in the log file
-
- - Include header - a header text will be included in the log file
-
- - Console sequences - log file may contain some additional
- text-formatting console sequences. Switch it off to obtain pure
- ASCII file.
-
- =========
- TECHNICAL
- =========
-
- o 68060 is not currently recognized by functions from 'Hardware'.
- This is mainly because OS3.1 doesn't support it directly.
-
- o Currently, the only disk libraries needed by ExecMon are
- reqtools.library and diskfont.library. No other disk-based
- subsystems are required, that should allow it to run without
- much overhead.
-
- o Some operations are protected by Disable()/Enable() pair,so note that
- NO SERIAL/PARALLEL ACTIVITY SHOULD BE PERFORMED WHEN EXECMON IS
- WORKING (there should be no ill effects when ExecMon is just running
- and waiting for user input).
-
- o The 'Open device' function from 'Devices' list simply increases
- LIB_OPENCNT field of the Device structure.
-
- o The 'Open monitor' function from 'Monitors' list simply increases
- the open counter without notifying graphics.library
-
- o Most lists are protected against damaged system structures, but still
- some Enforcer hits may occur - they're completely harmless and are usually
- caused by read accesses to low memory regions. But in normal situations
- _NO_ Enforcer/Mungwall hits should appear - if you detect one, please send
- a bug report to me.
- (There's only one exception: on systems with VBR set to 0 (and also 68000
- machines) ExecMon will access low memory regions during preparation of the
- 'Vector Base'.)
-
- =======
- HISTORY
- =======
-
- o 25/05/96 1.0
- - first release
-
- o 01/06/96 1.0a
- - GUI slightly improved
- - Now listviews are clipped, most problems with huge fonts fixed
-
- o 15/06/96 1.1
- - Improved TextFont list
- - 'Examine window' fixed
- - Optimized for shorter object and source files
- - Minor bugfixes in rendering code
-
- o 23/06/96 1.1a
- - GoToSleep fixed
- - 'Signal task' improved
- - Two Enforcer hits removed
-
- o 04/02/97 2.0 :-}
- - Private memory pools are used instead of 'Vecs'.
- - Almost full protection against damaged CSTR and BSTR's implemented.
- - Major optimizations - ExecMon should perform significantly faster.
- - LogFile functions greatly improved.
- - 'Examine screen/window' greatly improved.
- - 'Examine drive' added to Drives.
- - 'Change flags', 'Change ver', 'Change pri' added to KickTagList.
- - 'Close device', 'Open device' added to Devices.
- - 'Open monitor' added to Monitors.
- - 'Change flags', 'Rename port' added to Message ports.
- - Subclass counter added to BOOPSI.
- - Exec/MemoryList added.
- - Keyboard/ResetHandlers added.
- - Exec/KickMemList added.
- - Some smaller and bigger bugs fixed - LONG's and ULONG's should be fixed.
-
- o 14/02/97 2.1
- - Some global code clenup, resulting in shorter object file
- - Screen creation greatly improved, error handling finally added.
- Now ExecMon is able to open a custom screen.
- - Now ExecMon can work in 640x200 resolution
- - Overscan gadget added to ScreenMode requester
- - 'Load Preferences...' requester fixed 8->
- - 'Flush memory' added to MemoryHandlers
- - Status bar fixed (could accidentally display some strange characters)
- - Expansion/Boards and Expansion/Bootnodes added
-
- o 27/02/97 2.2
- - Lots of tiny harmless bugs fixed.
- - ExecBase is now cached for speedup, and most accesses to ExecBase
- are now made via system calls instead of direct peeking.
- - Now Dos/Locks list shows names of exclusive locks correctly.
- - Volumes/'Examine volume' added.
- - Drives/'Examine drive' now shows also InfoData structure whenever
- possible.
- - Dos/CLIs list added.
- - Dos/Residents list added.
- - Hardware/'Cache control' added.
- - Hardware/'CPU registers' added.
- - Hardware/General added.
- - Drives/Inhibit added.
- - PublicScreens/Lock & Unlock added. Also the 'Close screen' is fixed.
- - Preferences file is now stored in PROGDIR: instead of ENVARC:.
- - Now screen font is used during menu creation.
-
- o 01/05/97 2.3
- - Internal engine greatly improved. ExecMon is now faster and shorter
- than 2.2.
- - Dos/Assigns - 'Assign lock' and 'Assign path' fixed.
- - Some other minor fixes and improvements - Interrupts, KickMemList,
- Tasks.
-
- o 21/05/97 2.4
- - a potentially dangerous bug in GUI engine fixed.
- - Hardware/VectorBase added.
- - Hardware/CPU registers now also shows MMU registers of 68030.
- (68020+68851 and 68040/60 MMUs are not supported yet)
- - Graphics/DisplayDatabase added.
- - If prefs file is not found in the program directory, ENV: will be searched.
-
- o 21/08/97 2.5
- - Some optimizations made. ExecMon is now shorter than 2.4.
- - Several minor and major bugs fixed (ModifyIDCMP, Dos Residents, RefreshList).
- - Keymap list added.
- - 'Hardware Registers' finally fixed and improved.
- - Some minor improvements (FileSystems, BOOPSI, Interrupts).
- - Totally redone font selection.
- - 'Action list' improved, should be easier to use it.
-
- o 04/09/97 2.5a/2.5b
- - Some minor adjustments done.
- - Minor, but still troublesome bug fixed.
-
- o 05/12/97 2.5c
- - Bug fixed in task list
- - Now windows remember their position
-
- ======
- AUTHOR
- ======
-
- ExecMon is EMAILWARE. It can be freely distributed as long as no more
- than a nominal fee is charged to cover time and copying costs. All use is
- at your own risk.
-
- If you like this program, please send me an e-mail.
-
- This is a BLABLA product.
-
- Suggestions, donations, bug reports are welcome at: (use e-mail if possible)
-
- Szymon Pura
- szymp@friko.onet.pl
-
- Witosa 8/57
- 42-224 Czestochowa
- POLAND
- +48 (0)34 624666
-