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Cramden Utilities
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v1.0 6-May-88
These utilities are inspired (if not directly ripped off) from a certain
set of hitherto unnamed MS-DOS utilities that have been known to be real
_life_savers_. While most of the life saving utilities have
counterparts on the Amiga (or are simply not necessary), there are few
handy ones that don't. So with that in mind I present the first
installment in the Cramden Utilities.
All of these utilities use Arp v1.1 (v34 of arp.library must be in
your LIBS: directory). If you don't have Arp v1.1 you can probably get
it from wherever you got this file.
ff - Find Files
This utility is used to find files with a particular file name or
pattern in any directory on a disk.
syntax:
ff <filespec>... [quick]
<filespec> = any AmigaDOS (Arp actually) wild card pattern
[quick] = when present causes listing only the names of the files
ex:
ff
ff *.c
ff sys:*.info
ff include:#?.(h|i) *.(h|i) quick
Example 1 lists all the files starting at the current directory and
proceeding through all subdirectories. Example 2 lists all files that
are suffixed by .c (like a.c, ff.c, etc) in the current directory and
all subdirectories. Example 3 finds all icon files on the volume named
"sys:". Example 4 lists all files suffixed .h or .i on include: and in
the current directory and all subdirectories respectively.
si - System Info
This can be used to get a quick spec sheet on your Amiga. It tells you
things like operating system version number, 68xxx chips in your
machine, video mode, memory configuration, and computing performance
index (my favorite).
syntax:
si
The display sizes and pixel aspect ratio are printed X x Y and X:Y
respectively. The pixel aspect ratio is based on the Dot/Meter values
found in GfxBase and differ between NTSC and PAL machines. For NTSC
machines this value is 1:1.166 which means that the pixels are just a
little taller than they are wide.
In the MS-DOS world the computing performance index is often used to
compare PC clones with one another. The Amiga version contains two
numbers: the first relative to an ordinary Amiga 1000 with no task
loading (just a CLI). The second is relative to an IBM PC/XT (the
number used in MS-DOS circles) and is fairly accurate. Be aware that
this number is VERY dependent on what your Amiga is currently doing
since it's just a task and can't have the CPU all the time (I could have
Forbidden around the critical section, but this way you can see the
effect of task loading).
Copyright & Distribution Rights
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Copyright 1988 Pregnant Badger Software. All Rights Reserved.
These utilities may be freely distributed without profit.
Any contributions (no amount is too small or too large) may be sent to
the following address.
Bill Barton
Pregnant Badger Software
1111 El Sur Way
Sacramento, CA 95864
(916) 487-9472
bix: peabody
plink: peabody
delphi: bbarton
Special thanks to St. Peter, the patron saint of PC's, without whom
these utilities would never have been written.