4]-------------------------------- 3]POPINFO 4.0 3]Workbench Utility to Show 3]What Workbench Doesn't 3]© Copyright 1990 Jonathan Potter 4]-------------------------------- (JUMPDISK NOTE: This is an extra added attraction to the August 1990 JUMPDISK and is not advertised on the cover as among the contents. This serendipitous find comes to you courtesy of our policy to fill the disk to 99 percent capacity while crunching contents. Though crunching is an ongoing editorial process as we prepare the disk, it tends to create unexpected room at the last minute. We've included PopInfo, rather than save it for next month. A version of PopInfo appeared on a past JUMPDISK.) This program is not in the public domain but is freely redistributable so long as a maximum of $10 (if anything) is charged for copying fee, and this documentation accompanies the executable. USAGE: PopInfo [-x???] [-y???] PopInfo has been totally rewritten from the last version, and much is new. See the bottom of this file for changes. PopInfo is a small utililty meant for use in the Workbench. You may start it from Workbench or from the CLI or Shell. When run, a icon will open in the top left corner of the Workbench screen. The fact that it is fairly small means it does not eat chip memory when not using it. As with a normal icon, you can drag it around the screen and open it by double-clicking. When double-clicked, a large window pops open, containing useful information about the computer. The gist of that information follows: Unit : This is the device name, eg DF0:, VD0:, etc.. If no disk is present in the drive you will see "No disk present in drive" following the unit. If the disk is a Kickstart disk. you will see "Kickstart disk", "Unreadable disk" if the disk is unreadable, or "Not a DOS disk" if the disk is a non-DOS disk. Bytes : The total number of bytes available on the unit (more useful than blocks) It is interesting to note the 880K per disk we are supposed to get is actually around 837K. Used : The total number of bytes used on the unit. Free : The total number of bytes free on the unit. Ers : The total number of hard errors on the unit. WPS : For Write Protect Status, this is either R/W (Read/Write) or R O (Read Only) Also displayed is Chip RAM free, Fast RAM free, total RAM free, and the current system time. In the titlebar next to the depth gadgets is a small gadget labelled POP. When the gadget does say POP and you deactivate the info window (by clicking outside it) the window will pop back to the original icon. However, if you click on the POP gadget, it changes to STAY. When the gadget is STAY, the info window hangs around, dynamically updating even when you do deactivate it! Nifty, huh? While time and memory are constantly updated when the window is open, the device information isn't. However, you can force an update of the info by pressing the right mouse button when the PopInfo window is active. All the information is updated if disk changes are detected. The -x and -y flags allow you to specify where the PopInfo icon will first appear. For example, to tuck the icon away in the bottom-right corner, you would: PopInfo -x640 -y256 Please address author correspondance (bug reports, comments, spare cash, praise, etc.) to Jonathan Potter, P.O. Box 289, Goodwood, 5034, South Australia, Australia. 3]CHANGES PopInfo v4.0 has undergone a number of changes from v3.1. The major changes follow: 1. The program no longer has virus-checking facilities. Like its cousin, PopDir, these have been removed. There are dedicated virus checkers that do more work better, and it is better to use one of these. Also, the size of the executable has been reduced from 24k to under 8k. 2. The sizing gadget has gone. I saw no point in being able to resize the window, since to make it smaller you only need to click outside it. 4]END OF TEXT