| 1 | Odin Bug Report Tool Version 0.2.1
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| 3 | 0. DISCLAIMER
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| 4 |
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| 5 | OdinBug is free software. It is not guaranteed to fulfill any
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| 6 | particular purpose. Use it at your own risk.
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| 7 |
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| 8 | 1. INTRODUCTION
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| 9 |
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| 10 | This little program makes creating proper bug reports for Team Odin
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| 11 | quite comfortable. As it is in a rather early stage, please do not
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| 12 | expect it to be bug free or feature complete!
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| 13 |
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| 14 | I don't want to know how often Sander Van Leeuwen and other Team Odin
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| 15 | members have written emails, telling us users to bring in proper bug
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| 16 | reports (I don't exclude myself).
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| 17 |
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| 18 | Well, I would like Sander and all the others to spend there time on
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| 19 | Odin and not writing emails about things that should be a non-issue.
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| 20 |
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| 21 | 2. WHAT IT DOES
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| 22 |
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| 23 | This program presents a form to fill in the information needed by
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| 24 | Team Odin and generates a report that follows the standards presented
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| 25 | in ReportingBugs.TXT which is part of every Odin build.
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| 26 |
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| 27 | Some of the information is gathered from CONFIG.SYS and SYSLEVEL files
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| 28 | and also from the odin32_?.log files. And some information has to be
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| 29 | filled in manually (only the minor part).
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| 30 |
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| 31 | It also scans the odin_?.log file to find the exception information and
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| 32 | the stack dump in case an application traps. The aware that these logfiles
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| 33 | can become quite large and that it might take a while until processing is
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| 34 | complete.
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| 35 |
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| 36 | 3. USAGE
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| 37 |
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| 38 | As OdinBug.EXE is written in VX-REXX it needs the VROBJ.DLL runtime.
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| 39 |
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| 40 | VROBJ.DLL can be found in the directory x:\IMAGES (x=CD-ROM drive) of your
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| 41 | original Warp 4 CD-ROM and have to copy it into d:\OS2\DLL (d=bootdrive),
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| 42 | or somewhere else in your LIBPATH.
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| 43 |
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| 44 | Put OdinBug.EXE in a directory in your path.
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| 45 |
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| 46 | Put OdinBug.CFG into the same directory within your path. If you are not
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| 47 | familiar with REXX code, you can also delete OdinBug.CFG, the program
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| 48 | itself has reasonable default values.
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| 49 |
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| 50 | Call it after you experienced a trap in a Win32 program and
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| 51 | after you have created a log file.
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| 52 |
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| 53 | Every field can be changed manually, but using the "Search"-buttons should
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| 54 | be the preferred method.
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| 55 |
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| 56 | When everything is complete press "Create report" button. The program checks
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| 57 | for empty fields, and if everything is filled out creates a report.
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| 58 |
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| 59 | Pressing "EMail report" starts Netscape Messenger (or any other email program;
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| 60 | see OdinBug.CFG) with the appropriate email address and copies the newly
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| 61 | created report into the clipboard, so it can be pasted into the email.
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| 62 |
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| 63 | 4. BUG REPORTS AND FEATURE REQUEST FOR THIS PROGRAM
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| 64 |
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| 65 | Just email me and tell me what you think or what you want! I will try to
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| 66 | realize it.
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| 67 |
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| 68 | 5. AUTHOR:
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| 69 |
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| 70 | Herwig Bauernfeind, 10.08.2001
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| 71 | EMail: herwig.bauernfeind@aon.at
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