SSTAT - Quick & Tiny System Status

February, 1992

SSTAT and this document, Copyright 1990, Sydex. All rights
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SSTAT is a program that summarizes memory and disk drive
utilization. It is very small--about 2K, but we've found it to
be indispensable.

If the command:

SSTAT

is entered at the DOS prompt, a report is given of the utiliza-
tion of all threetypes of memory (base, extended and
expanded) and of all non-removable disks (hard disks and RAM).
The report is enclosed in a nice-looking box, large numbers
have commas inserted, and percentages relative to the overall
size of disk or memory are given.

If the command:

SSTAT /D

is given, the display described above is preceded by a brief

summary of the physical characteristics of all hard drives,
including total sectors, sectors per track, tracks percylinders
and number of cylinders. These numbers are obtained by means of
BIOS calls, and so reflect the values reported bythe BIOS
routines.

If the command:

SSTAT drive1: drive2:...

is given, where "drive1:" and "drive2:" are disk drive letters,
the utilization of the specified drives will be shown.

SSTAT normally shows its information on the video display and
does MORE-like pauses when a screen has been filled. However,
SSTAT's output can also be redirected to a file, in which case no
full-screen pauses will be made. For example:

SSTAT >MYDATA

will write utilization figures to the file MYDATA.

SSTAT supports Microsoft XMS and reads CMOS memory if Microsoft's
HIMEM.SYS is installed to obtain total extended memory size.

Version 1.03 expands the display to display very large drives of
up to 4Gbytes in size.
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