Requires: Kickstart 2.04, MUI and AmiTCP optional
Language: English (also German guide)
This is the official continuation of the famous (and fabulous :-)
system monitor from Andreas Gelhausen.
INTRODUCTION
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Scout was originally written by Andreas Gelhausen, starting in 1994.
When he decided to leave the Amiga, he gave the source code to Richard Körber
in
1997. He has added some new windows, nice features and nasty bugs. :)
He has left the Amiga as well (at least he said that when he released the
source). So as a gift to the Amiga community, Andreas and Richard decided to
make the source code of Scout public.
In 2001 I, Thore Böckelmann, took the source of Scout, because many things were
very unpleasant und Scout tended to crash quite often, especially when you had
to look up some things in a hurry.
As most of the free software source codes, the source code of Scout is
in an excellent shape. Every single function is commented in English
and has a header that explains the functionality in every single detail.
It will surely be a feast for you to read the code.
Well, at least sort of... ;-)
TO-DO
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What you have here, is a the source to the latest released version. You can do
whatever you want to do with it, but I would like to know if you encounter any
bugs (and probably fixes for them, too), so I can include them in my source and
make a new "official" release.
Currently I have nothing on my to-do list...
REQUIREMENTS
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Scout is not suited for Amiga beginners. It makes great demands on your
system, and requires a deep knowledge about the Amiga system and interna.
You will need the latest SAS/C package to compile Scout. I don't know
if other C compilers will do as well. Just give it a try. :-)
These packages are also required to successfully compile Scout:
* Identify's developer package (AmiNet, my Home Page)
* MUI developer package (AmiNet)
* AmiTCP/IP developer package (AFAIK AmiNet) or similar
(I hope I didn't forget something.)
TexInfo is also required for the documentation.
You will also need some free megs on your hard disk and a lot of free RAM.
My 68o6o/50 requires about 6 minutes to compile the entire project.
GNU
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The GNU General Public License will apply.
Scout - An Amiga System Monitor
Copyright (C) 1994-2000 Andreas Gelhausen, Richard Körber and Thore
Böckelmann
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
GNU General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
For further details, see the COPYING file of this package.
ADDRESS
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If you want to contact me, you can reach me at one of these addresses:
tboeckel gmx.de
thboeckelweb.de
You can write EMails to Richard Körber, too, but he stopped the development:
rkoerbergmx.de
shredshredzone.de
Please don't contact me if you want me to put some improvements to the
source code. Also, don't ask me newbie questions. I am quite busy and
don't have the time to answer to minor problems and RTFM stuff. :)
Also, visit Richard's home page at:
http://www.shredzone.de
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