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- This is my first pass at a VXREXX app. I hope you like it.
-
- Description:
- NIFMON would not work for me so I made this. It is a quick and dirty
- TCP-IP speed meter. The 'I' and 'O' on the left denote the inbound and
- outbound meters. The scales of each meter are diplayed to the right of
- each meter bar and the buttons are used to adjust the meter scales to
- suit(1K-16M are the arbitrary limits). It is not very accurate as all of
- the timing is based on the SysSleep() with no correction for cpu usage
- or any other delays incurred during processing. However, I don't need to
- know exactly(down to the last byte) how much data is moving, so it does
- provide an easy reference for activity and some indication for the relative
- data rates. In other words, is your link idle, just puttering along, or are
- you really keeping the pipe filled.
-
- Usage:
- The 'arrow' buttons on the right adjust the scale up or down by a factor
- of two for each left-click. To move the window, right-click on either the
- 'I' or the 'O' to the left of the meter bars. The title bar will appear,
- allowing you to drag the window with the left mouse button. After you have
- it where you like it, right-click on the 'I' and the title bar will
- disappear. Right click on either of the scale length fields to exit. Upon
- exit it will save the window position and the scale lengths into 'rxnmon.ini'
- in the working directory and next time it will startup as you left it. The
- meters are updated once each second(assuming the cpu is not swamped) with
- the number of bytes that have crossed the link since the last update.
-
- Installation:
- Unzip into whatever directory you desire. There are no subdirectories in
- the archive. It needs both vrobj.dll(included) and the REXX support dll that
- is included with Warp, so be sure that REXX support is installed, place
- vrobj.dll into a directory in you LIBPATH or add the rxnmon directory to the
- LIBPATH and reboot.
-
- Drawbacks/Advantages:
- Drinks too much of the cpu for my liking, but there is little room for
- tuning. Only tested with Warp IAK on a PPP link, but since it uses the
- generic netstat command to access the TCP-IP data, it should work with any
- OS/2 TCP-IP package.
-
- This is freeware/charity-ware/or postcard-ware. No warranties, guaranties,
- or liabilities are offered or accepted. If it blows your machine(it should
- not as it only writes to the ini file on exit), sorry. Use it, if you like
- it, good, send email with your comments. If you don't, then delete it, and
- send email with your comments.
-
- If you like it a lot, send me a postcard, or some contribution. I
- promise that any money you send will be applied to the purchase of more
- OS/2 development tools. Since I'm still learning REXX and VXREXX, next comes
- somebody's C/C++ compiler and development tool set. I'm already glad to be
- free from windoze!
-
- Enjoy,
-
- Marc Sissom
- 6220 Bentwood Trail #1904
- Dallas, Texas 75252
-
- AKA marc@why.net