Program: Relais timer program for Win98/ME/NT/2k/XP (Win95 with restrictions)
Company: KEMO - Germany
Date: 2008-01-23
Version: 1.7
Author: Nils Wedel - nw@tshup.com


This program controls relais modules by KEMO.
These modules are usually connected to the parallel port.
New since version 1.5 is support for the new USB variants.

Features:
- schedule output states as relative time, daily events or fixed dates
- repetitive state changes
- load and save programs to easily editable ascii files.

commandline:
- the commandline accepts RelaisTimer programs (*.rtp).
- appending '-s' will start the program automatically and terminate RelaisTimer afterwards.
  example: 'X:\Relaistimer.exe X:\toggle1.rtp -s'

extra:
- added toggleN.rtp to the files which do nothing more than toggle the status of the Nth relais.
  (these can be used in batch files for example).

known issues:
- timing is probably correct up to 30 ms, but then probably not always, it really depends on your whole system.
- win95 timing won't be too accurate due to lack of certain timer functions.


hints for software developer
- http://www.logix4u.net contains useful information about parallelport programming
- windows is not a realtime operation system and unreliable for exact timing without additional hardware


changes in version 1.7
- added 64 bit support (untestet)

changes in version 1.5
- added support for USB modules

changes in version 1.2
- added commandline support.
- fixed missing exports on win95

changes in version 1.1
- datetimes are now stored correctly in .rtp files (fixed precision)