Bovs20

Short:        Replacement overlay system and startup code for SAS/C
Architecture: m68k-amigaos


				Bovs
			    Version 2.0
			   By Bryan Ford


	Bovs (pronounced "boffs") is an overlay system designed to replace
the standard overlay system supplied with SAS/C.  It acts as both overlay
supervisor and startup code.  It offers a very flexible dynamic overlay
system instead of the standard rigid hierarchial system, using locking and
automatic flushing on low memory.  Startup code can auto-detach at the
application program's option, and automatically parses command-line
arguments under 1.3.  A separate version is included without overlay
support (just startup code).  Bovs is intended especially for large
applications which need flexible and efficient use of memory.  (It is used
in my Shareware music player, MultiPlayer.)

	Note: Bovs comes with (and uses) MemMan, which is also distributed
separately.  So if you want both, you only need to get Bovs.


NEW FEATURES

2.0 (10-Apr-92)
    Removed the commercial license fee.  (All I require now for commercial use is a copy
	of the commercial program when it is completed.)
    Added PreStart call to allow program to avoid auto-detachment.
    Added conditional assembly to allow Bovs to be assembled without auto-detach capability.
    Changed 'argtemplate' to be a _pointer_ to a string, not an actual string.
    Argument parsing on 2.0 now allows a client-defined extended help string ('argexthelp').
    Renamed 'procname' to 'progname'.
    Fixed a bug in setting priority when starting from Workbench.
    Added 'argsparsed' flag which is set if the arguments were parsed with 2.0's ReadArgs().
    Fixed a memory deallocation bug that could cause problems with programs linked in a
	certain (unusual) way.


REQUIREMENTS

    BLink from SAS/C 5.10, or a compatible overlay linker.


DISTRIBUTABILITY

    Freeware.