WarpWait Version 1.0
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Copyright (C) 1996 Nils Meier

Permission to copy and distribute this software and its documentation
for private purpose and without charging more than a nominal fee for
copying is hereby granted, provided that the above copyright notice
appears in all copies.
This software is provided "as is" without express or implied warranty.
The author does not guarantee the correctness of the program. The
author may not be held responsible for any loss of data or other
damages.

WarpWait is Freeware, so enjoy it :).

SHORT DESCRIPTION:
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WarpWait changes the default wait clock of OS/2 to an animated WARP-logo.
This was not intended as a big development project, since I'm concentrating
my time on my big OS/2 project FamilyTree ;).
(That's FamilyTree/2, a genealogy program for OS/2. You're invited to
 test that one,too. Just get it from http://www.wilmington.net/bmtmicro)

It always bothered me, that the wait pointer isn't animated. Now that I
have OS/2 Merlin Beta on my machine, I've found out that IBM doesn't
care to improve the SIQ problem, so you still see the clock quite often :(.

Now if I have to wait for some application to release the message queue
I want to see something I like ;) ... about 10 hours later ... this is the
result.

WarpWait was written and tested on OS/2 3.0 with VAC++ 3.0.

INSTALLATION:
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Unpack the file WWait*.ZIP into the wanted directory on your hard disk.
Start WarpWait.exe with the parameters described below or put it in 
your startup folder.


RUNNING WARPWAIT:
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You can start WarpWait from the commandline or via a wps object. The
following parameters apply:

  WarpWait.exe [options]

  options: x        eXit WarpWait
           p(h|l)   set *High or Low priority
           s(s|f)   set Slow or *Fast animation speed

  * is the default setting

Priority means the privilige state, WarpWait is running at. Since WarpWait
does consume a very small slice of processor time, it is save to let it
run at priority TimeCritical (ph). This way you will get a smooth animation,
even if other applications do heavy working.
If you're considered about keeping all priorities below TimeCritical, you
can chooose Low priority (pl).

Speed stands for the time spend between to following pictures. If you choose
slow speed (ss) you will see 4 pictures per second. The default setting is
fast speed (sf) which shows 10 pictures per second.

You can start WarpWait with no parameters, so that the default settings
become active or give the above command line parameters.
A detached WarpWait process will be started, unless you specify eXit to
terminate WarpWait.

In the case of 'x', a detached WarpWait will be ended (if running).

If you start WarpWait.exe and a detached WarpWait is already running, your
setting will change the running WarpWait, so there's always only one
WarpWait active.

Examples:

 >WarpWait.exe            -> Starts WarpWait (if not running already)
 >WarpWait.exe x          -> Ends a running WarpWait process
 >WarpWait.exe pl sf      -> Starts WarpWait (if not running already) 
                             and sets priority to low and speed to fast.



RELEASE HISTORY:
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version
1.0 , Aug 16 1996: -initial release


CONTACTING THE AUTHOR:
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My mail address is
    Nils Meier
    Birkenweg 27
    53797 Lohmar
    GERMANY / EUROPE
    Telephone number: +49 / 2246 / 3202

My Internet address is
    meier2@athene.informatik.uni-bonn.de

Please send any suggestions, comments or bug reports to one of the above
addresses.
