Cramden Utilities ================= 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 ... [quick] = 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 =============================== 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.