> to me it's still unclear what it is supposed to do and whether it > works in (Free-)DOS at all, considering the shots you posted ;-(
The program's purpose is to supervise a local area network (aka LAN). On a single stand-alone computer without any network connection, it is indeed of very little use. The program can constantly monitor the availability of certain hosts (e.g. by pinging them) or certain services (by using other "agents" like e.g. LPQ). For larger operating systems, like WINDOWS or UNIX, such programs exist (e.g. "big brother" or "big sister" and others) but for DOS there seem to be not so very many ones. This one i developed under MS-DOS 6.22 but there are no Microsoft specific items involved, therefore i would expect it to run under any kind of DOS system (MS-/DR-/Free- what-so-ever). Well, it requires at least version number 3.1. I personly tried it (besides under "true" MS-DOS 6.22) in the "DOS-window" of Windows3.11, Windows98 and WindowsME, as well as under the "Command" window of WindowsNT. The first of the two screen-shots shows the program running in the "DOS-window" of Windows98, just because this was for me the easiest way to generate such a screen shot. Under "true" DOS it looks very much the same, just in full screen. The second screen-shot shows an example of the html file which the program can optionally create as well. BTW: Reading the file LANSTAT.TXT, which is included in the archive, might answer certain questions. Another option would be to just try it. It comes with a dummy configuration file, invoking a "fake" ping program, so this demo is ready to run, even on a computer without network connection. Of course this is not really useful, but it gives a first impression of its operation. ___________________________________________________________ Neu: WEB.DE De-Mail - Einfach wie E-Mail, sicher wie ein Brief! Jetzt De-Mail-Adresse reservieren: https://produkte.web.de/go/demail02 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net Dev2Dev email is sponsored by: Show off your parallel programming skills. Enter the Intel(R) Threading Challenge 2010. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-thread-sfd _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
