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                     Thumb v1.2
                  by Kevin Leonard
                 {kkl1@Cornell.Edu}
                           and
                      Paul Braren
                 {pb15@Cornell.Edu}

written with Watcom(TM) VX-REXX(TM) 2.0b

rxSock -Rexx Function Package for TCP/IP Sockets for OS/2 2.0

 by Patrick Mueller (pmuellr@vnet.ibm.com)

General Information

Edit

Copy - Copy selected text from Result field to OS/2 Clipboard.
Paste - Paste OS/2 Clipboard to current position in Name field.

Host

Add - Add values from Name and Host fields to drop down list.
Delete - Delete value in Host field from drop down list.
Ascending - Sort Host list in ascending order.
Descending - Sort Host list in descending order.
Set Default - Make values in Name and Host fields the default.
Save - Write Host list and default Host to disk in .INI file.

Reset

Clear the Name and Response fields, set Host field to default.

Quit

Exit this program. Save settings for size, fonts, and colors.
(Use a Font or Color palette to change the fonts and colors.)

Help

You're looking at it.

Command line parameters

/min - Start minimized.
/restore - Reset all sizes, fonts, and colors to their default.

Configuration Information

Requires:

IBM TCP/IP 2.0
RXSOCK.DLL and vrobj.dll must be somewhere in your
 config.sys LIBPATH specification.
 (install.cmd defaults to putting them into /tcpip/dll)

Features:

Saves window position and size
Also saves fonts and colors drag and dropped
 from the OS/2 System font and color palettes
The Hosts tool palette is resizable, just drag border
 to desired width, and buttons will be reconfigured.
All changes to the look of Thumb are saved when you
 quit (Alt-Q, Alt-F4, or double click on top left).
If Thumb is minized when you quit it (ie, click once
 on minimized icon, then on close to close it), it
 will then start minimized the next time you run it.

Known Shortcomings:

If you are not networked properly, it's a long wait for
 RXSOCK.DLL to time out and let you close Thumb.
 RXSOCK.DLL is from software.watson.ibm.com in /ews
 (employee written software), and has this limitation.
Having the Hosts tool palette shown at quit time
 doesn't get saved due to a reported VX-REXX 2.0a bug.
Using UP/DOWN arrow keys while focus is on the drop down
 list doesn't give proper selection behavior yet.  Using
 your mouse works fine.

Revision/Fix History: Thumb 1.0 released on 5/24/94 Thumb 1.1 released on 7/06/94

Built using Build B of Watcom's VX-REXX, thus it's best with
 VROBJ.DLL 6-20-94 836001 bytes (from Patch Level B), although
 it will work with VROBJ.DLL from Patch Level A. 
Due to popular demand, Thumb is now distributed without
 VROBJ.DLL.  Also, RXSOCK is also no longer included, as
 the latest versions of IBM TCP/IP 2.0 for OS/2 now include
 it as part of the standard distribution.
If you used Thumb 1.0, you may want to delete the VROBJ.DLL
 and RXSOCK.DLL files from your /tcpip/bin directory if you
 don't have other apps that use those files.
You can now run Thumb from any directory (ie, from C:,
 type "\thumb\thumb", and it will work).  It "knows"
 where it's running from, and will find it's own .ini
 file (whereas before it would just show no list and
 wouldn't save changes).
Cosmetic changes to this Thumb.TXT file.
Different ZIP program used (2.0.1) to preserve HPFS
 attributes (eg., now extracts to Thumb.EXE instead of
 THUMB.EXE when using Info-ZIP 5.1 UNZIP).
Slightly smaller default font (System VIO) used for
 returned data.
Fixed large returns of data, interpreting line-feed ""
 character correctly.
Focus now defaults to name field.
New Thumb icon.
The time stamp tells you the version number of the files
 in your Thumb directory.

Thumb 1.2 released on 7/14/94

      RXSOCK put back into the distribution.  Also, 1.1 was
      taken out of from ftp-os2.cdrom.com /pub/incoming for
      unknown reasons twice.