!CheckCMOS
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This application is designed to give you (the user) back the control 
of your CMOS ram.

The application should be called from your bootup, but can be tried 
out just by running it.

INSTALLATION

The first time it is run, the program will take a copy of your CMOS 
values.  It will assume that your machine is configured as you like 
it.

AFTERWARDS

Then whenever it is run afterwards it compares the CMOS values it 
saved against those in CMOS. If they are the same then the 
application terminates and is never seen. If the CMOS differs the 
application informs you in an alert type window what changes have 
occured.  And gives you three options.

    CONTINUE  If you don't mind that the CMOS has changed of want 
              it set like this for the session
    SAVE      If you prefer the settings now to those saved before
              This overrides those saved on Initialization
              (If the copy you recieved is from another machine and 
               not an origional you may have to save the first time)
    RESET     This puts all the stored preferences back and if required
              waits till the machine is reset


MENU

When the program finds a difference in the CMOS values to those you store
as your preferences, a window opens and displays them.  Some settings are 
possibly not of interest to you if you do not have the hardware or run 
the software that they refer to.  A menu has been provided so that you 
can customize it a small amount.

    INFO          This gives information about the program and author
    IGNORE        This sub-menu allows you to selectively disable the checks
                  and alerts of some CMOS values.  SAVE and RESET above
                  still store/modify ALL CMOS BYTES 
    SAVE OPTIONS  This saves which items you prefer to be ignored.


Special Note
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Thanks to Jason Williams for his BuyNZMade icon
Thanks to Acorn for providing such inadiquate documentation and Risc OS Lib
 
Due to the unacceptable ommisions in the Risc OS 3 Programmers Reference Manuals 
I have attempted to extend the descriptions.  Any description not specified by the 
PRMs is preceeded by an "!"                                                               

           
All comments to pdenize@waikato.ac.nz


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Paul Denize                          Internet: PDenize@Waikato.ac.nz
Department of Computer Science
University of Waikato                   phone: ++64 7 8562-889
Hamilton                                                    Ext 8743
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