HERMES' TAPRiSKA (Version 1.1) Copyright (c) 1989 A. G. Kartsatos (Please See Below Distribution Requirements) This is a utility program for your Amiga computer. Its purpose is to identify the tasks which are currently running on your machine. Besides the various CLI and background executable programs, these tasks include your hard disk drives as well as the various devices. The program allows you to change the priority of these tasks effortless- ly. However, you should not try to do this arbitrarily. If you change the priority of an important system task to one lower than that of a program that accesses it, you may easily lock up the system. It is pretty safe to change the priorities of background tasks though. Just click into the line of a task and then place into the priority gadget the new priority for that task. Then press "DO IT". That's it! If the new priority has been established, the listing will be refreshed to reflect the change. Other- wise, you will get a requestor telling you that the program could not change the priority to the desired one. The little orange gadget on the right is for completely refreshing the task list by reading again all the information from memory. You need a button like that because a task may change while TAPRiSKA is in operation. You may run the program from the CLI pressing: "RUN TAPRiSKA", or from the Workbench by clicking into its icon. Have fun! @@-->>> HERMES Programs By HERMES: ICONLAB2.ARC (The Definitive Work On Icons For The Amiga Computer. It Supports: CUT/SAVE ICONS, ICON->BRUSH, BRUSH->ICON, CUT/SAVE BRUSHES, 8-COLOR ICONS, SPLIT ICONS, JOIN ICONS, MODIFYING OF ICON DATA, CHANGING RESOLUTION ON THE FLY, etc) [This Is The Demo Version Of The Commercial Program ICONLAB Available Now From The Address Below At $30.00] DISKoLAB.ARC (One Of The Greatest Utilities Ever! Among Other Capabilities, It Supports 1200 files. 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Kartsatos (PLink = HERMES) 8524 Caladesi Island Drive Temple Terrace, FL 33637-7310, USA DISTRIBUTION ============ Feel free to distribute this version of TAPRiSKA, with this doc intact, to any bulletin boards and non-profit establishments in the US and abroad. You are also allowed to upload this version to major electronic boards like BIX, Compuserve, Delphi, GEnie, PLink, etc. The inclusion of TAPRiSKA, or any part of it, in any form in a commercial package, or its use for any commercial purposes, is illegal without the ex- plicit permission of the author. All nationally and internationally sold disks with Amiga software are considered commercial packages by this author. Only The Amiga User Group "Disk Of The Month" disks are excluded. DISCLAIMER: =========== The usual disclaimers concerning computer software apply to this product. Although this program has been tested extensively for its accuracy and reliability, the author will accept no liability whatsoever for damage resulting from the use, misuse, or excessive use of it.