CHARGING

These are the files you need. You can send them from the package contents below.

• INITLX.COM → A:\SOFT programa de DOS 44 B
• CHARGE.COM → A:\SOFT programa de DOS 74 B
• TRICKLE.COM → A:\SOFT programa de DOS 98 B
• BAT.COM → A:\SOFT programa de DOS 416 B
• FASTCHG.COM → A:\SOFT programa de DOS 567 B

No need to put INITLX.8, CHARGE.TXT: they are manuals, source code or supporting material. Read them here and save 5.3 KB on a 1 MB disk.

1. Copy INITLX.COM, CHARGE.COM, TRICKLE.COM, BAT.COM to A:\SOFT. They are DOS programs: run them from the DOS icon, or add A:\SOFT to the PATH in C:\AUTOEXEC.BAT to call them by name.

Derived from the package contents and the 200LX conventions. It installs to A: on purpose: C: is a RAM disk and every byte there is memory taken from the system.

De-installation is only possible if FASTCHG is the last TSR started.
If it does not deinstall, it does not do any harm apart from the
(little) memory it takes up. You can simply reboot to get rid of it.

However don't reboot while charging as a reboot will reset the counter
to 6 hours once again)! Unplugging and plugging in the power adapter
will also reset the timer.

You have to disable charging manually after the last 6 hour charge.

The original idea was to let the TSR run for an additional 6 hours,
after which it shuld disable charging and deinstall itself. However, the
built-in interrupts are not reentrant, and the computer usually hang.
There must be a way around this, but I changed to trickle charging
before I found one.

Let me know if you have any problems with the program.

I wonder what it will do if you start charging on the 31 December 1999
and midnight falls within the 2 hour period.

Literal excerpt from CHARGE.TXT, exactly as it came in the package.