Tattletale

TattleTale Application V1.3.1 • PURPOSE: TattleTale provides very complete information about your computer and its system related software. The information can be viewed on screen by category, printed, written to a standard text file, or output in database readable format. As such, it also provides a record of your system configuration that can be used for reporting problems to software and hardware manufacturers, to compare configurations across multiple computers, or to simply learn about your machine. Information categories covered are: the CPU, Volumes + Drives, Monitors, Nubus Devices, SCSI Devices, ADB Devices, Serial Ports, General System Attributes, Startup Environment, System Files (System, Finder, INITS, CDEVs, RDEVs etc.), DAs, Fonts, Drivers, Open Files, Processes, and Available/UnAvailable Traps. In addition, it enables you to Mount Volumes and Close Files that were left open. The information provided varies greatly among these categories and is best understood simply by going to the dialog window and browsing through the above categories. NOTE: The Traps information is valuable for programmers who are always wondering if a particular combination of system software and hardware implements a certain trap. • SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS: TattleTale is compatible with the Mac+ and newer machines and requires System 4.2 or higher. It is also compatible with System 7 and takes advantage of some of its enhanced system information features as well as balloon help. Note that there is a marked difference between the information available under system 4.2 compared to the 6.X systems and higher. TattleTale 1.3 is available in two versions. This document describes the Application version. Under most circumstances, the DA version operates without problems. However, under System 7 there is considerably less memory allocated to DAs than under earlier systems. This and other particulars in your system can cause TattleTale DA to fail under memory intensive operations such as printing. This Application version of TattleTale was created for those people who experience problems with the DA version. TattleTale.Traps expects to be found in the System Folder, but you can rename it or put it anywhere you want. However, you must describe this change for TattleTale as described under Trap Related Features below. • GENERAL OPERATION: TattleTale consists primarily of a menu and a modeless dialog window. When you initially run it, the dialog window is visible and the first category of information is already displayed in a scrolling list. Subsequent categories are selected from the Pop-up Menu above the list. Categories which are not available for a given computer and system software combination (e.g. Nubus on a Mac+ or Processes under Uni-Finder in System 6.X or lower) are dimmed and cannot be selected. The Close button and the Close Box both close the window but leave TattleTale active. Get System Info in the TattleTa…