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FREEWARE: PM Timer 1.11 - Online timer and phonecosts calculation
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jeffrey Habets)
Sun Nov 3 23:18:34 1996
To: os2ann.DISCUSS@bloom-picayune.MIT.EDU
Date: 3 Nov 1996 20:55:29 GMT
From: jeffrey.habets@pi.net (Jeffrey Habets)
Reply-To: jeffrey.habets@pi.net (Jeffrey Habets)
Reply-to: jeffrey.habets@pi.net (Jeffrey Habets)
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This is an update/bugfix release on PM Timer v1.0.
PM Timer will be uploaded at ftp-os2.nmsu.edu and ftp-os2.cdrom.com
ftp://ftp.cdrom.com/pub/os2/incoming/pmt111.zip to move to /pub/os2/wpsutil
ftp://hobbes.nmsu.edu/incoming/pmt111.zip to move to /os2/wpsutil
You can also get it from my homepage:
http://www.pi.net/~jhabets/pmtimer.html
(There's also a screenshot available.)
Here's a short description of what the program does:
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PM Timer is an online phone costs calculation program for OS/2 Presentation
Manager. It gets rid of the hassle of having to use a different logfile for
every communications program you use, not to mention the programs that don't
even keep a logfile (think about Dial Other Internet Providers in the OS/2
Warp bonuspak).
PM Timer - when used in the right manner - logs all your outgoing calls in one
single logfile and calculates the phone costs made in a specified period of
time on your demand.
PM Timer will monitor the serial port to which your modem is connected and
detect any connections you make with your modem.
Furthermore, if desired you can run PM Timer unattended from batchfiles using
commandline parameters.
And, with PM Timer running you'll always keep track of your online (surfing)
time, even if the PM Timer window is invisible. PM Timer places a small clock
that displays the online time and session costs in the currently active
Presentation Manager window's title bar.
Most important fixes/changes since version 1.0 include:
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* Fixed serious bug in com-port setting. PMTimer internally switched the
addresses of Com 1 and Com 4.
* Added more flexibility to the port monitoring capabilities of PM Timer. Port
monitoring method and address settings are now highly configurable. I guess
it will work with virtually all hardware configurations now.
* Added support for the new Warp 4 notebook style.
* Changed the number of costs/time fields in the costs settings from 4 to 8.
For some countries (e.g. Germany) the 4 fields wasn't enough. For the same
reason the Local/Long distance mechanism has been extended to 4 different
distance zones.
* And more.. Read the changes.txt in the archive.
Jeffrey Habets http://www.pi.net/~jhabets jhabets@pi.net / Fido: 2:284/312.3
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