Short:    V1.0, kills requesters automatically.
Author:   chris@sixpack.pfalz.org (Chris Hodges)
Uploader: chris@surprise.rhein-ruhr.de (Chris Hodges)
Type:     comm/bbs
Type:     util/misc

Introduction
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A friend of mine once asked me, if I could write a little program for
his BBS that would cancel all the system-requesters that may appear,
as his harddisk brought up read/write errors which were not really
existant.

So this is my first attempt for such a patch. I thought somebody had
already invented a program like this, but none of the asked sysops
could help.
 
The patch will kill any requester that matches a pattern given in a
config file. Other requesters will not be harmed at all.

Requirements
~~~~~~~~~~~~
EasyRequestPatch needs Kick 2.04 or higher.

History
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V1.0 (26-Jul-95):
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- The logfile was a little bit faulty due to the mixed usage of
  buffered and non-buffered writing. This has been fixed now.
- Changed the main loop quantum from 1 VBL delay to 10 VBLs. This
  will reduce the cpu usage.
- Changed the requester-timeout to two seconds instead of one.
- Modified the parser to check for more errors.
- Increased the general buffers a bit.
- Strange things seem to happen: The last program opening a
  requester, will get the control-c signal passed through. No clue
  why this happens and how to prevent it. Please use 'ERP Quit'
  instead of the Ctrl-C key.
- Added the wait and reset events.
- Added the beep and hard reset events.

V1.0ß (25-Jul-95):
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
- First release. Works quite well.

Copyright notice
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
EasyRequestPatch (ERP) and it's documentation are Copyright © 1995
by Chris Hodges. All rights reserved.

Contact address
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Any mails or donations to:

Chris Hodges                    Account: 359 68 63
Kennedystr. 8                   BLZ    : 700 530 70
D-82178 Puchheim                Bank   : Sparkasse Fürstenfeldbruck
Germany
Tel.: 089/8005856
Email: chris@sixpack.pfalz.org 


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    4000    2627 34.3% 26-Jul-95 18:03:34  ERP
    1222     666 45.4% 26-Jul-95 18:03:40  ERP.config
    6042    2840 52.9% 26-Jul-95 18:02:10  ERP.doc
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   11264    6133 45.5% 03-Aug-95 01:36:22   3 files