Return-Path: Received: from mailer.bmtmicro.net (mailer.bmtmicro.net [63.96.6.4]) by mail.comkal.net (Weasel v0.97) for xxxxatyyyyy; 18 Jul 2000 08:27:03 Received: from CDR2-194.accesscable.net ([24.138.2.194]) by mailer.bmtmicro.net (Post.Office MTA v3.5.3 release 223 ID# 0-58942U1100L200S0V35) with SMTP id net for ; Mon, 17 Jul 2000 15:20:08 -0400 To: "WarpCast Subscribers" Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2000 16:24:45 -0300 (ADT) Priority: Normal X-Mailer: PMMail 2.10.2010 for OS/2 Warp 4.00 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: [WarpCast] NewCalls v1.00 Message-ID: <20000717192008430.AAA282atmailer.bmtmicro.netatCDR2-194.accesscable.net> From: "WarpCast News Service" Reply-To: "WarpCast News Service" X-Mailing-List: newsatwarpcast.com Network Trace for OS/2 - Turn any OS/2 machine into a network probe. - Take a trace on any segment in the network, in minutes. - A software-only, hardware-independent implementation. http://www.goldencode.com/ntrace.html ********************************************************************* Source: Carsten Arnold (C.Arnoldattransnet.de) Moderator: Trevor Smith (trevorathaligonian.com) ------------------------------------------------------- Today I have uploded NewCalls on my home page: http://home.t-online.de/home/C.Arnold English home page: http://home.t-online.de/home/C.Arnold/e NewCalls is a patch for the pmmerge.dll. It increases the perfomance for INI-write-actions. This reduces the blockade of WPS during INI writes. The file PMMERGE.DLL opens the INI files with the flag OPEN_FLAGS_WRITE_THROUGH which has the consequence that these files are written uncached to the HD, so that the WPS is blocked partially for quite a while. IBM did this for exaggerated safety reasons, in my opinion, that is not necessary. This Tool goes back on an idea from Peter Fitzsimmons. At this the module entry DOSCALLS will replaced in pmmerge.dll by NEWCALLS. The NEWCALLS.DLL contains so-called Forwarder on all functions in DOSCALLS except DOS32OPEN, this function its by own _DOS32OPEN replaced. If opening files, _DOS32OPEN removes the flag OPEN_FLAGS_WRITE_THROUGH and calls then DOS32OPEN in DOSCALLS. I wrote now a Installer and shortened the file NEWCALLS.DLL somewhat (no, there now nothing is missing;-)). Supplementary product like DLLRNAME are more necessary. The program is Freeware. Direct URL is: http://home.t-online.de/home/C.Arnold/newcalls.zip ------------------------------------------------------- To subscribe, unsubscribe, or for more information on WarpCast, visit: http://www.warpcast.com/ -------------------------------------------------------