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

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Source: Carsten Arnold (C.Arnold@transnet.de)
Moderator: Trevor Smith (feedback@warpcast.com)
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Today I have uploded version 1.01 of 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
quite a long while. IBM made 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.

In this version is a bug in the installer removed. If newcalls.dll
already exist (e.g. after FP), the installation breaks.

The program ist Freeware. Direct URL is:

  http://home.t-online.de/home/C.Arnold/newcalls.zip 


 
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