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- ***Beta release software please treat it as such***
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- Net-Work Version 4.9ß
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- This little utility will send I/O to and from your file server at an
- alarming rate.
-
- To run it type Net-Work filename.dat where filename.dat is any
- output file name. When using it in a multi user environment please
- make sure that the file name given is different for each test station.
-
- Syntax for running Net?? filen
-
- NOTE : Output filename must NOT be longer than 6 letters also it may
- NOT have an extension
-
-
- Below is the Beta release history file, for those users who dont
- know how many hours of development goes into even the smallest of
- programs.
-
- Have fun
-
- Ian Gerada
- Centre Group
- Tel : +27-11-482-1040 (Voice)
-
- Disclaimer :
-
- All net?? versions are FREEWARE feel free to hand this file out to
- anyone. I Ian Gerada take no responsibility for any damage caused by
- this program whatsoever.
-
- If you would like to send a donation to me post it to the following
- address :
-
- Ian Gerada
- 14 Park Road Richmond
- Johannesburg
- 2008
- South Africa
-
- Q&A :
-
- Q) Will Net?? work on a non Network Machine ?
- A) Yes however it wont prove anything except work your hard drive
- quite hard.
-
- Q) Will Net?? damage or delete data on my hard drive ?
- A) Net?? writes data just the way you would if you were copying
- files therefore no it wont.
-
- Q) Once I have run Net?? I find a whole lot (15) of strange files on
- my hard disk, what are these things ?
- A) These files are the output files created by Net?? feel free to
- delete them.
-
- Q) I keep getting "NOT ENOUGH FILE HANDLES" ?
- A) Put your FILES statement in your config.sys up to at least 15
-
-
- History :
-
- October 18 1990
- V4.9ß
-
- Ok some great new features and a bug fix Net49 now includes speed
- specifications and a SHELL to dos, the shell may take a couple of
- seconds to execute but still it works. The 400 run time barrier
- FIXED, I will however be running it overnight tonight to see if the
- 16282 barrier has been fixed along with the 400 (Times run) barrier.
- Output file size has now been changed, (smaller now = 168 bytes) I
- will enlarge it later, to 4k which I believe is a typical packet
- size for many networks.
-
-
- October 17 1990
- V4.8ß
-
- After some wide area Official release testing we have decided to go
- back to beta versions until all problems are sorted out.
- Program still falling over after about 400 runs this will be sorted
- out in the next release. I have changed the output file from becoming
- to messy, to be piped into a directory (Same name as your output
- file) now once the code stops running you are left with one EMPTY
- subdirectory which you can then delete. I have decided for the
- meantime to leave that directory there in case any one wants to
- UNERASE the files and see what kind of output is being sent to them.
-
-
- October 01 1990
- V1.01
- WHEW !!! Made it Version 1.1 finally released first official release
- Enjoy chaps, lets hope your Networks stand up to the heavy load.
-
-
-
- September 27 1990
- V4.7ß
- Now opens and writes to 15 files. Even more % utilization on LAN
- I/O files are now 462 bytes each (*15)
-
- September 27 1990
- V4.6ß
-
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- **IMPORTANT NOTICE IMPORTANT NOTICE**
- When specifying an output file it MUST be less than 6 letters long.
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-
-
- With Version 4.6ß Net?? opens and closed a total of 9 files instead
- of one, as the code progresses I will force it to open more.
- This will put up your Network utilization LIKE CRAZY
-
- Your output file has now dropped in size to 770 bytes (one or two of
- them may be 940 bytes)
-
-
- September 27 1990
- V4.5ß
- Added in a second icon (more cosmetic changes) I have not forgotten
- those who want to let this file run overnight, still have to sort
- out the 16282 barrier.
-
- September 26 1990
- V4.4ß
- Changed speed icon (cosmetic) oops forgot to display to screen PRESS
- Q to Quit ! fixed
-
- September 25 1990
-
- V4.3ß
- Renamed *.exe code to be Net??.Exe where ?? is the current version
- number. Put in a moving icon and colour this will give a visual
- representation of the workstation speed. Also added in ELAPSED TIME
- FOR LAST TEST, now FULLY multi user.
- Tested under Adv 2.15 Novell Netware from 15 workstations without a
- problem. A good tip here when running the code from every work
- station EG : Net43 Ian Give the name of the machine as an output
- file, from the server it will be interesting to see how fast each
- machine accesses the lan. Problem still to be sorted out is that
- after 16282 loops the program bombs out. Although the file server
- performance only goes up to +/- 40-80 % your disk write pending
- shoots up to about 30-40 sometimes higher. (This was on an IBM Model
- 80 machine.
- Official release Version 1.0 should be out within a month or so
-
- V4.2ß
- Increased I/O file to be 7.238 k instead of 110 bytes the program
- is slower but it works your network harder. Still not 100 % multi
- user only two machines at once. Will fix this with next release.
-
- V4.1ß
- [REWRITE - Also first Beta Release]
- Fixed up multi user problem allowing code to be executed from two
- workstations at once.
-
- V3.1σ
- Network.tmp grew until it filled up hard drive fixed this problem
- Stack problem with multi nesting hopefully got this problem sorted
- out by defining stack to 32766
-
- V2.1σ
- First alpha release only pushed network to 11% utilization Had to fix
- this.
-
- V1.2σ
- Code breaking up and re writing it's own source to Network drive !
- problem fixed stack size problems
-
- V1.0σ
- First release for alpha testers [In House version only]
- Code working however a bit raw with next release will have to beef
- up lan I/O
-