14-Oct-86 17:22:42-MDT,149487;000000000000 Return-Path: Received: from AMSAA by SIMTEL20.ARPA with TCP; Tue 14 Oct 86 17:10:18-MDT Received: from xerox.arpa by AMSAA.ARPA id a013881; 14 Oct 86 14:39 EDT Received: from Riesling.ms by ArpaGateway.ms ; 14 OCT 86 11:15:11 PDT Sender: "Michael_H._Maroney:WBST207:Xerox.ns"@xerox.ARPA Date: 14 Oct 86 11:05:12 PDT (Tuesday) Subject: Re: NOTE from UZ32112 From: edelheit@MITRE.ARPA To: "c_maro:wbst207:xerox.ns"@xerox.ARPA cc: info-cpm@AMSAA.ARPA In-Reply-to: Your message of Tue, 07 Oct 86 17:21:38 ULG. <8610080447.AA05966@mitre.ARPA> Message-ID: <861014-111511-2477@Xerox> Return-Path: Redistributed: XeroxInfo-CPM^.x@xerox.ARPA Received: from AMSAA (AMSAA.ARPA) by Xerox.COM ; 08 OCT 86 19:02:05 PDT Received: from mitre.arpa by AMSAA.ARPA id a008953; 8 Oct 86 13:31 EDT Full-Name: Jeff Edelheit Organization: The MITRE Corp., Washington, D.C. Return-Path: Received: from localhost by ernie.mitre.org (2.2/SMI-2.2) id AA09208; Wed, 8 Oct 86 08:26:49 edt Message-Id: <8610081226.AA09208@ernie.mitre.org> Original-Date: Wed, 08 Oct 86 08:26:19 -0500 Andre - Here is a 144kb listing of all the interest groups. Your guess about isib and b.isi is correct. The new domain naming convention is the b.isi. The difference between info-ibmpc and info-ibmpc-request is that request is the address used to get on the list. Your return address of UZ32112%BLIULG12.BITNET@WISCVM.WISC.EDU is correct. All I can suggest is that you can try sending a request to the request address and ask for confirmation of your request to be added to the list. I'll send the two most recent info-ibmpc digests as separate notes. Jeff Edelheit (edelheit@mitre.arpa) The MITRE Corporation, 1820 Dolley Madison Blvd. McLean, VA 22102 (703) 883-7586 ---------------------Cut Here----------------------------------- [ NETINFO:INTEREST-GROUPS-1.TXT ] [ 09/86, ZELLICH ] Part 1 of 2; see NETINFO:INTEREST-GROUPS-2.TXT for Part 2 of 2 Last Updated: 17 Sep 86 -------------------- PLEASE SEND CORRECTIONS, ADDITIONS, UPDATES, ETC. TO ZELLICH@SRI-NIC.ARPA -------------------- CHANGES SINCE LAST UPDATE-NOTICE (11 Sep 86): AUDIO New mailing list (discussion of any aspect of audio). HY-PEOPLE New mailing list (discussion of hyperchannel networks in an IP network). SUMMARY OF MAILING-LISTS IN THIS FILE: PLEASE NOTE: The general convention is that for administrivia about a list (like getting added or deleted, asking about archive files, etc.) you write to list-REQUEST@host (e.g., HEADER-PEOPLE-REQUEST@MC.LCS.MIT.EDU). This gets you to the moderator, rather than to the membership of the entire mailing list. 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Beyond just being a source of answers to health questions, Health-Net is a place for discussing areas of health controversy in today's society especially those that apply to all of us. Letters of a personal or private nature should be sent to the Coordinator for editing prior to posting to preserve confidentiality. All requests to be added to or deleted from this list, problems, questions, etc., should be sent to RALPH%UMASS.BITNET@WISCVM.WISC.EDU. Coordinator: Ralph G. Sbragia HEATH-PEOPLE@MC.LCS.MIT.EDU Discussion of the construction, use, and modification of Heath terminals and computers, and related Zenith products. The archives of old messages are kept on MC.LCS.MIT.EDU, in files: COMAIL;HEATH MAIL1 -Oldest Mail COMAIL;HEATH MAIL2 -Next oldest etc. -Up to 8 as of 26 August 86 COMAIL;HEATH MAIL -Incoming mail is being added to this one These files are each stored in reverse time order (i.e. newer messages come first in the file, older messages are later). 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Older digests are archived by quarter in the following files: Q1-DIGESTS-85 ; V4 # 1-40 [too big for mm, use hermes] Q4-DIGESTS-84 ; V3 # 91-119 Q3-DIGESTS-84 ; V3 # 70-90 Q2-DIGESTS-84 ; V3 # 36-69 Q1-DIGESTS-84 ; V3 # 1-35 Q4-DIGESTS-83 ; V2 # 71-104 Q3-DIGESTS-83 ; V2 # 40-70 Q2-DIGESTS-83 ; V2 # 20-39 Q1-DIGESTS-83 ; V2 # 1-19 Q34-DIGESTS-82 ; V1 # 1-34 These files can be read by MM, HERMES, and other TOPS20 mail systems. KWIC-INDEX.TXT contains a key-word-in-context index to digest articles. TOC.???85 contains a table of contents for the month ???. These files may be FTP'ed to any Arpanet/Milnet host from [USC-ISIB] by logging in within FTP using username ANONYMOUS, password GUEST. If you're not directly on the Arpanet the files can be mailed to you, although there is a limit to the length of a message. A library of free software is maintained in [USC-ISIB]. The list of available programs is in PROGRAM-LIBRARY.LIST. 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Coordinator: Steve Strassmann INFO-KERMIT@CU20B Kermit is a file transfer protocol for use primarily between micros and mainframes over TTY lines, and is implemented on a wide variety of both. The Info-Kermit mailing list is a digest intended for people who maintain or install Kermit at their sites, or who are (thinking about) working on a new implementation, or who have bugs and/or fixes to report, or who are interested in discussing the protocol; it is available on Internet, CSnet, Mailnet, BITnet, Usenet, CCnet, and any other network gatewayed to the Internet. All the Kermit files are on CU20B in the area "KER:" or "K2:". The file KER:AAAREAD.ME contains information on what files are in the Kermit distribution area and how to find them. One file worth checking from time to time is KER:AAVNEW.HLP, a brief tabular listing of each existing version of Kermit, showing the version number and date of the latest release of each version. 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TMODEM is a new TOPS-20 implementation of the Christensen Protocol, with all the latest features, such as: o wildcard file transfers in the style of MODEM7 (YMODEM batch is coming) o the YMODEM implementation of the K option with a new algorithm to return to K mode after falling back to "normal" mode o extensive built-in HELP for all commands and options. TMODEM is an amalgamation of the old TOPS-20 MODEM program, originally written by Bill Westfield while he was at SRI and now at Stanford, major pieces of the TOPS-20 TELNET program, currently maintained by Mark Crispin, and some pieces of code stolen from TTLINK and KERMIT-20 by Frank da Cruz at Columbia University. The archives for replaced mailing list INFO-MODEMXX are frozen in on SIMTEL20. A new set of archives for INFO-TMODEM is on SIMTEL20 in TMODEM-ARCHIV.TXT. The source for TMODEM is in TOPS-20:TMODEM.MAC, and must be compiled for each individual TOPS-20 system environment. 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IRList vtisr1!irlistrq@SEISMO.CSS.GOV seismo!vtisr1!irlistrq (UUCP) fox@vpi (CSNET) foxea@vtvax3 or fox@vtcs1 (BITNET) IRList is open to discussion of any topic related to information retrieval. Certainly, any material relating to ACM SIGIR is of interest. The IR field has close ties to artificial intelligence, database management, information and library science, linguistics,... 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Prof., Dept. of Computer Science 562 McBryde Hall Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (VPI&SU or Virginia Tech) Blacksburg, VA 24061 (703) 961-5113/-6931 KILLER%UMASS.BITNET@WISCVM.WISC.EDU This mailing list/notesfile is dedicated to the playing of all forms of Live-Role-Playing games. Assassin, Killer, K.A.O.S, RECON, DELOS, and any sort of game where one is is doing any sort of role playing in a real live-real time (i.e. YOU, not a paper character); setting is what this discussion covers. This is intended as a forum for discussion of scenarios, rules suggestions, "no kidding there we were" stories, comments on legal aspects, and anything else that a reader would like to talk about if it deals with live role-playing. All requests to be added or deleted from this list, questions, problems, etc., should be sent to CEREBUS%UMASS.BITNET@WISCVM.WISC.EDU. 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Coordinator: Richard Furuta LINGUA%UCF1VM.BITNET@WISCVM.WISC.EDU Discussion of all aspects of Computer Programming Languages. All back-issue requests will be managed by: Network News Coordinator: LISTSERV Editor LIST OF MAILING LISTS Mailing-list for "List of lists" update notices. There is a master list of ARPANET mailing-lists/digests/discussion groups (~140 lists/2600+ lines/120,000+ characters) on SRI-NIC in files: NETINFO:INTEREST-GROUPS-1.TXT (first half of the list) NETINFO:INTEREST-GROUPS-2.TXT (second half of the list) For ARPANET users, SRI-NIC supports the net-standard ANONYMOUS login within FTP, with any password. To keep people up to date on the large number of such lists, there is a mailing-list for list-of-lists \update notices/. Copies of the list itself are not sent to the world at large, but for those ARPANET users who seriously intend to FTP the updated versions when updated, a brief notice will be sent when a new version is available. 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Coordinator: George Robbins {ihnp4|seismo|caip}!cbmvax!grr (UUCP) mailjc@BRILLIG.UMD.EDU To provide a non-hostile environment for discussion among christians; not to hide our discussions from non-christians. Non-christians may join the list and "listen-in", but full blown debates between Christians and non-Christians are best carried out in net.religion. Submissions to the list are moderated and should be written from a general Christian viewpoint. All requests to be added to or deleted from this list, problems, questions, etc., should be sent to mailjc-request@BRILLIG.UMD.EDU. Moderator: Liz Allen MER.SIGBIG@AMES-VMSB Interest group for anyone interested in supercomputers. Coordinator: JUP.WELCH@AMES-VMSB MetaPhilosophers%MIT-OZ@MC.LCS.MIT.EDU MetaPhilosophers is a forum for discussion of issues that fall within the scope of "MetaPhilosophy", a coined subject that deals with philosophy, religion, the universe and it's structure, consciousness, the mind/brain debate, and anything else that is of a deep nature that is enjoyable to discuss. The archives are kept on MIT-OZ, and can be anonymous-FTP'ed from MIT-MC using the filename OZKS:COMMON;META TXT for the current file, and OZKS:COMMON;META [OLD1,OLD2,etc...] for older versions. All requests to be added to or deleted from these lists, problems, questions, etc., should be sent to MetaPhilosophers-Request%MIT-OZ@MC.LCS.MIT.EDU. Coordinator: Glen Daniels MH-USERS@UCI MH-Users is a discussion group which focuses on the UCI version of the Rand Message Handling (MH) system; it is a list is for the MH user community at large. MH runs on a number of versions of UNIX (4.xBSD, v7, xenix) on top of a number of mail transport systems (MMDF-{I,II}, SendMail, stand-alone (with UUCP support)); for information on getting an MH distribution, contact Bug-MH@UCI. Appropriate topics are: - questions about how to use MH - tips on MH usage - exchange of MH shell scripts As a general rule, messages submitted to MH-Users should *NOT* be submitted to MH-Workers (a list with a different charter). All requests to be added to or deleted from this list, along with problems, questions and suggestions, should be sent to MH-Users-Request@UCI. Coordinator: Marshall T. Rose (MTR) John L. Romine (JLR3) MH-WORKERS@UCI MH-Workers is a discussion group which focuses on the UCI version of the Rand Message Handling (MH) system; it is a list is for MH maintainers and experts. MH runs on a number of versions of UNIX (4.xBSD, v7, xenix) on top of a number of mail transport systems (MMDF-{I,II}, SendMail, stand-alone (with UUCP support)); for information on getting an MH distribution, contact Bug-MH@UCI. Appropriate topics are: - questions on how to configure MH - tips on MH configuration - exchange of MH bug reports (and fixes) As a general rule, messages submitted to MH-Workers should *NOT* be submitted to MH-Users (a list with a different charter). All requests to be added to or deleted from this list, along with problems, questions and suggestions, should be sent to MH-Workers-Request@UCI. Coordinator: Marshall T. Rose (MTR) John L. Romine (JLR3) MHS_(X.400)_Implementation%QZCOM@MIT-MULTICS.ARPA MHS_IMPLEMENTATION@RSCH.WISC.EDU MHS_implementation@EAN.UBC.CDN A QZCOM conference with the name "MHS (X.400) implementation"; the conference will have the name "MHS_(X.400)_implementation" for mail networks, in most cases postfixed by "%QZCOM@MIT-MULTICS.ARPA". The conference/mailing list is open to anyone who is seriously interested in implementing the CCITT X.400 (MHS) message handling protocols or gateways to these protocols. The conference/mailing list can discuss such things as how to understand and interpret the MHS recommendation, how to map existing mail system and mail network features onto the MHS structure etc. To minimize international communications costs, separate distribution lists for CSNET/ARPANET and CDNNET users are being maintained at UWISC and UBC respectively. ARPANET and CSNET users should send messages to MHS_IMPLEMENTATION@WISC-RSCH. CDNNET users should send messages to MHS_IMPLEMENTATION@EAN.UBC.CDN. Messages sent to one of the lists will be forwarded to members of the other lists. To join the conference: QZCOM users: Use the "member" command. ARPANET/CSNET users: Send a message to MHS_IMPLEMENTATION-REQUEST@RSCH.WISC.EDU CDNNET users: Send a message to MHS_IMPLEMENTATION-REQUEST@EAN.UBC.CDN Users at other sites: Send a message to "Jacob_Palme_QZ%QZCOM.MAILNET@MIT-MULTICS.ARPA", do NOT send mail to the conference itself. Coordinator: Jacob Palme MILSIM@STL-HOST1.ARPA A forum for discussion of Military Simulation and Wargaming Models used by, and for the Department of Defense. This list will eventually augment the online Catalog of Wargaming and Military Simulation Models under development on STL-HOST1. Messages are not digested, but sent to the membership as received. Archives will be kept on SIMTEL20 in files: PS:MILSIM.ARCHIV.ymmdd PS:MILSIM.ARCHIV.TXT The characters "ymmdd" in the first filename are actually digests giving the year, month, and day of the last message in the file. The second file contains a growing list of current messages. SIMTEL20 supports ANONYMOUS FTP (with any non-null password). All requests to be added to or deleted from this list, problems, questions, etc., should be sent to MILSIM-REQUEST@STL-HOST1.ARPA. Coordinator: Joseph Guirreri MMM-PEOPLE@USC-ISIB Discussion group for those active or interested in multimedia mail. The intent is to use this list mainly for discussion of the developing multimedia mail procedures and protocols. The mail sent to MMM-PEOPLE is kept on host USC-ISIB in file MAIL.TXT. The distribution list is kept in file MMM-PEOPLE.LIST. A list of all known multi-media-capable users is in file KNOWN-MMM-MAILBOXES.TXT. One may copy these public access files via FTP using the username ANONYMOUS and password GUEST. All requests to be added to or deleted from this list, problems, questions, etc., should be sent to Ann Westine . Coordinator: Gregory G. Finn MsgGroup Interest in electronic mail, message formats, message systems, and the sociological implications of the above.****This list ceased its operation during the summer of 1986 after almost 11 continuous years of operation, but the record has been kept intact for anyone who cares to poke and search for the nuggets that are hidden therein.**** Achives are kept on host SIMTEL20.ARPA in Twenex Mail files PS:xxx.*, where xxx.* is a specific file name with (in most cases) 100 messages per file -- MSGGROUP.* indicates a message file, and SURVEY.* indicates a message containing a list/index of the messages in a specific number range. 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Wancho mus@ENEEVAX.UMD.EDU Masscomp Users Society (MUS) mailing list; people who are interested in the Masscomp line of computers are invited to join. All requests to be added to or deleted from this list, problems, questions, etc., should be sent to mus-request@ENEEVAX.UMD.EDU. Coordinator: Praveen Kumar music-research%prg.oxford.ac.uk@CS.UCL.AC.UK The Music-Research electronic mail redistribution list was established after a suggestion made at a meeting in Oxford in July 1986, to provide an effective and fast means of bringing together musicologists, music analysts, computer scientists, and others working on applications of computers in music research. 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Coordinator: Jim Gettys End of Interest-Groups List, Part 2 of 2 **************************************** 14-Oct-86 20:43:37-MDT,1396;000000000000 Return-Path: Received: from AMSAA by SIMTEL20.ARPA with TCP; Tue 14 Oct 86 20:43:20-MDT Received: from 128.32.136.22 by AMSAA.ARPA id a019893; 14 Oct 86 22:03 EDT Received: from jade.berkeley.edu by violet.berkeley.edu (5.54 (CFC 4.22.2)/1.16.1) id AA02646; Tue, 14 Oct 86 19:06:14 PDT Received: by jade.Berkeley.Edu (5.31 (CFC 4.21)/5.6.4) id AA28299; Tue, 14 Oct 86 19:06:06 PDT Received: by amber.Berkeley.Edu (4.20/5.7) id AA18466; Tue, 14 Oct 86 19:06:04 pdt Date: Tue, 14 Oct 86 19:06:04 pdt From: swillett%amber.Berkeley.EDU@ucb-vax.ARPA Message-Id: <8610150206.AA18466@amber.Berkeley.Edu> To: crash!pnet01!mwilson@NOSC.ARPA, info-cpm@AMSAA.ARPA Subject: Re: Turbo Pascal I/O Cc: crash!pnet01!nosc.mwilson%arpa.Berkeley.EDU@ucb-vax.ARPA, msmiley@NOSC.ARPA Perhaps I have an idea what is wrong. Turbo uses BIOS calls for I/O instead of BDOS calls, thereby bypassing the waiting SUBMIT input. You can change this by writing your own procedure using Turbo's BDos procedure and changing the appropriate pointer (probably ConInPtr) to point to your procedure. This may be done, I THINK, by using something like ConInPtr := ptr(addr(yourproc)). Read the Turbo 3.0 manual section on I/O drivers on page 272. All of this comes to me because I once saw an example somewhere but oculd not put my finger on it Try playing around. 14-Oct-86 21:38:51-MDT,1497;000000000000 Return-Path: Received: from AMSAA by SIMTEL20.ARPA with TCP; Tue 14 Oct 86 21:38:37-MDT Received: from 128.32.136.22 by AMSAA.ARPA id a019936; 14 Oct 86 22:14 EDT Received: from jade.berkeley.edu by violet.berkeley.edu (5.54 (CFC 4.22.2)/1.16.1) id AA02864; Tue, 14 Oct 86 19:16:48 PDT Received: by jade.Berkeley.Edu (5.31 (CFC 4.21)/5.6.4) id AA28414; Tue, 14 Oct 86 19:16:29 PDT Received: by amber.Berkeley.Edu (4.20/5.7) id AA18519; Tue, 14 Oct 86 19:16:24 pdt Date: Tue, 14 Oct 86 19:16:24 pdt From: swillett%amber.Berkeley.EDU@ucb-vax.ARPA Message-Id: <8610150216.AA18519@amber.Berkeley.Edu> To: info-cpm@AMSAA.ARPA From: swillett@amber.berkeley.edu Message-Id: <8610150206.AA18466@amber.Berkeley.Edu> To: crash!pnet01!mwilson@nosc.arpa, info-cpm@amsaa.arpa Subject: Re: Turbo Pascal I/O Cc: crash!pnet01!nosc.mwilson@ucbarpa.Berkeley.EDU, msmiley@nosc.arpa Perhaps I have an idea what is wrong. Turbo uses BIOS calls for I/O instead of BDOS calls, thereby bypassing the waiting SUBMIT input. You can change this by writing your own procedure using Turbo's BDos procedure and changing the appropriate pointer (probably ConInPtr) to point to your procedure. This may be done, I THINK, by using something like ConInPtr := ptr(addr(yourproc)). Read the Turbo 3.0 manual section on I/O drivers on page 272. All of this comes to me because I once saw an example somewhere but oculd not put my finger on it Try playing around. 14-Oct-86 21:56:36-MDT,2172;000000000000 Return-Path: Received: from AMSAA by SIMTEL20.ARPA with TCP; Tue 14 Oct 86 21:56:22-MDT Received: from simtel20.arpa by AMSAA.ARPA id a019973; 14 Oct 86 22:20 EDT Date: Tue, 14 Oct 1986 20:16 MDT Message-ID: Sender: KPETERSEN@SIMTEL20.ARPA From: Keith Petersen To: "Exit, pursued by a bear" Cc: Info-Cpm@AMSAA.ARPA Subject: I just got my first file from the SIMTEL20 archives... There is a program to handle ARC and LBR files on VAX-VMS... Filename Type Bytes CRC Directory PD: VMSSWEEP.FOR.3 ASCII 50461 92E5H C----------------------------------------------------------------------------- C Program used to provide LSWEEP and some ARC functionality on VMS C C VMSsweep will handle .LBR and .ARC* files and can be used to extract C members or just display them on the terminal if they are non binary C C Restrictions: C The VMS file must have a maximum record length of 4096 bytes. C The library file (.ARC* or .LBR) can only have 200 members C C Functions provided: C View a member at the terminal -squeezed or unsqueezed C Extract a member to a file (Max 510 byte records) C List the directory of a library file C New library file requested C C Author: C John T. Coburn Digital Equipment, Cleveland C Copyright (c) 1986 C C Please feel free to distribute this program by any noncommercial C means to anyone who can use it. C C * ARC is Copyright 1985,1986 by System Enhancements Associates C C This program was in general based on the Turbo Pascal program C DEARC that is in the public domain. Also referenced ARC sources C from System Enhancement Associates C C----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Don't forget there are option arguements to the SEND command when requesting files from ARCHIVE-REQUEST... SEND RAW is one of them. It should only be used for the initial transfer of files needed to bootstrap because it does no compression and therefore places a heavy load on the mail system. --Keith 15-Oct-86 04:08:22-MDT,1133;000000000000 Return-Path: Received: from AMSAA by SIMTEL20.ARPA with TCP; Wed 15 Oct 86 04:08:15-MDT Received: from wiscvm.arpa by AMSAA.ARPA id a022089; 15 Oct 86 5:25 EDT Received: from (MAILER)SCFVM.BITNET by WISCVM.WISC.EDU on 10/15/86 at 04:28:24 CDT Received: by SCFVM (Mailer X1.23b) id 5646; Wed, 15 Oct 86 05:29:41 EDT Date: Wed, 15 Oct 86 05:24 EDT From: "Bruce H. McIntosh" Subject: MS FORTRAN problem To: INFO-CPM@AMSAA.ARPA MMDF-Warning: Parse error in preceding line at AMSAA.ARPA I long ago purchased Microsoft's FORTRAN compiler for my CP/M machine. Great compiler, but it has one annoying failure- it won't do INTEGER*4 math at all! The most notable example of this problem: the following code INTEGER*4 I,J,K I=1 J=1 K=I/J produces a divide by zero error! Has anyone else out there experienced similar problems, encountered fixes, etc? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks! disclaimer: I have no commercial ties to anyone. The carpet is plush! 15-Oct-86 04:21:53-MDT,942;000000000000 Return-Path: Received: from AMSAA by SIMTEL20.ARPA with TCP; Wed 15 Oct 86 04:21:42-MDT Received: from brl-smoke.arpa by AMSAA.ARPA id a022182; 15 Oct 86 5:34 EDT Received: from USENET by SMOKE.BRL.ARPA id a017304; 15 Oct 86 5:33 EDT From: jay%garfield.uucp@BRL.ARPA Newsgroups: net.micro.cpm Subject: Aztec C by Manx Message-ID: <2653@garfield.UUCP> Date: 10 Oct 86 11:42:30 GMT Sender: perry%garfield.uucp@BRL.ARPA To: info-cpm@AMSAA.ARPA Could anyone who has used the Aztec C compiler on the Commodore C-128 kindly give a review of the compiler. I would be interested in knowing about its ideal hardware configuration, and also its ability on cross compiling to native 65xx and 85xx code, the size of the object code in the 3 environments (64, 128 & CP/M) and execution speeds. Lastly the price and the versions available (commercial, developers, personal ?) Thank you very much. 15-Oct-86 04:57:03-MDT,1184;000000000000 Return-Path: Received: from AMSAA by SIMTEL20.ARPA with TCP; Wed 15 Oct 86 04:56:51-MDT Received: from brl-smoke.arpa by AMSAA.ARPA id a022316; 15 Oct 86 5:49 EDT Received: from USENET by SMOKE.BRL.ARPA id a017725; 15 Oct 86 5:46 EDT From: Ralph Hyre Newsgroups: net.micro.cpm,net.micro.apple Subject: Query: Z-system availability on Kache Systems' HD64180 board Message-ID: <1031@ius2.cs.cmu.edu> Date: 13 Oct 86 14:16:50 GMT Posted: Mon Oct 13 10:16:50 1986 To: info-cpm@AMSAA.ARPA Is it possible to run Z-System on the Kache Systems HD64180 board? (It plug into the Apple ][ bus and offers 256K memory, expandable to 512K or 1 meg, parallel port, serial port, etc.) Seems like it would be well-matched to the //GS, if multitasking under the Z-system will really be supported. (Apple doesn't seem anxious to support it on any of their machines.) -- - Ralph W. Hyre, Jr. Internet: ralphw@ius2.cs.cmu.edu Phone: (412) 268-2847 [CMU-BUGS], 268-3275 Amateur Radio: KA3PLY (c/o W3VC, CMU Radio Club) [packet mailbox coming soon!] Fido: Ralph Hyre at Pitt-Net [don't log in very often] 15-Oct-86 07:20:14-MDT,572;000000000000 Return-Path: Received: from AMSAA by SIMTEL20.ARPA with TCP; Wed 15 Oct 86 07:20:09-MDT Received: from nadc.arpa by AMSAA.ARPA id a025619; 15 Oct 86 8:28 EDT Date: 15 Oct 1986 08:29:41-EDT From: prindle@nadc.ARPA To: info-cpm@AMSAA.ARPA Subject: hey, cut that out! Why is it, everytime someone mails a copy of the "list-of-lists" to someone else, they "cc" it to info-cpm or info-micro? Good grief, we just about all know how to FTP this from the NIC - who needs to see a copy of it every few days? Our mailboxes runneth over! 15-Oct-86 07:37:29-MDT,1999;000000000000 Return-Path: Received: from AMSAA by SIMTEL20.ARPA with TCP; Wed 15 Oct 86 07:37:13-MDT Received: from xerox.arpa by AMSAA.ARPA id a025492; 15 Oct 86 8:26 EDT Received: from Muscat.ms by ArpaGateway.ms ; 15 OCT 86 05:28:50 PDT Date: 15 Oct 86 08:28:46 EDT (Wednesday) Subject: Re: Aztec C by Manx In-reply-to: <2653@garfield.UUCP> To: jay%garfield.uucp@BRL.ARPA cc: info-cpm@AMSAA.ARPA From: marty Message-ID: <861015-052850-3301@Xerox> I've been using Aztec C at work for the last two years in the following versions: CP/M-80 commercial Commodore 64 version (compiled on CP/M) CP/M-80 to Appledos cross compiler with library support hacked to support Aim-65 I'm happy with the the CP/M version (1.06D, much better than 1.05G). This is used on the Commodore 128 in CP/M mode. I use the compiler to write real time control code and am satisfied with its efficiency. There are a number of miscellenous bugs in the libraries and the compiler occassionally does wierd things (maybe once every 3 months). This I've found acceptable. The compiler runs moderately fast and produces relatively efficient code. The Commodore 64 compiler is another story all together. Reading between the lines in Manx's documentation indicates it wasn't easy to get a Unix compatible library up and running for the file system. In addition, a 6502 architecture presents a number of technical problems. Manx seems to have solves them at the expense of speed and space (i.e recursive software is supported through a software stack, there are 8 register variables on the base page, etc.). I don't pretend to be a Commodore guru, but I wouldn't want to write code to support the 64/128 mode. Using only the CP/M mode, it works like a CP/M machine. If you want to access the hardware from a C program there seems to be various ways to do it. All in all, I feel Manx delivers a quality product which works. marty 15-Oct-86 08:17:14-MDT,1648;000000000000 Return-Path: Received: from AMSAA by SIMTEL20.ARPA with TCP; Wed 15 Oct 86 08:17:03-MDT Received: from 128.29.31.10 by AMSAA.ARPA id a025882; 15 Oct 86 8:36 EDT Received: from ernie.mitre.org by mitre-gateway.arpa (1.1/SMI-2.2) id AA11690; Wed, 15 Oct 86 08:40:12 EDT Full-Name: Jeff Edelheit Return-Path: Received: from localhost by ernie.mitre.org (2.2/SMI-2.2) id AA15456; Wed, 15 Oct 86 08:38:27 edt Message-Id: <8610151238.AA15456@ernie.mitre.org> To: info-cpm@AMSAA.ARPA Subject: Internet addressing schemes Date: Wed, 15 Oct 86 08:38:03 -0500 From: edelheit@MITRE-GATEWAY.ARPA I have often wondered how do I address a net note to someone in a different mail domain than mine. Well, thanks to the Oct. 1986 issue of the Communications of the ACM, I have the answer. On pages 932-971, John Quarterman & Josiah Hoskins published an article on "Notable Computer Networks". While it probably won't be a best seller, one of the best parts is Table III, Address Formats and Gateways. (The table is found on page 940). The table provides a 10 domain matrix of how to address mail from one domain to another. The ten domains listed are: ARPA, CSNET, MAILNET, JANET, EAN, COSAC, BITNET, ACSNET, UUCP & JUNET. I realize that this note is not directly related to this mailing list, however, I think with the multinet distribution of the list, I hope that others might find this information useful. Regards, Jeffrey A. Edelheit (edelheit@mitre-gateway.arpa) The MITRE Corporation, 1820 Dolley Madison Blvd. McLean, VA 22102 (703) 883-7586 15-Oct-86 08:51:50-MDT,933;000000000000 Return-Path: Received: from AMSAA by SIMTEL20.ARPA with TCP; Wed 15 Oct 86 08:51:42-MDT Received: from brl-smoke.arpa by AMSAA.ARPA id a028394; 15 Oct 86 9:47 EDT Received: from USENET by SMOKE.BRL.ARPA id a023528; 15 Oct 86 9:41 EDT From: David Shoat Newsgroups: net.micro.cpm Subject: ZCPR3 Wanted Message-ID: <737@glasgow.glasgow.UUCP> Date: 13 Oct 86 09:40:43 GMT Posted: Mon Oct 13 10:40:43 1986 To: info-cpm@AMSAA.ARPA I would like to get hold of a copy of ZCPR3. Could some kind soul either mail me a copy, post it on net.sources or tell me where I could acquire it? I understand it is public domain. Is this correct. Also, The current edition of Byte has a review of some good PD stuff for CP/M. It would be nice if some of these appeared on the net too. Ta. David Shoat Dept. of Medical Cardiology Glasgow Royal Infirmary 15-Oct-86 09:38:16-MDT,1837;000000000000 Return-Path: Received: from AMSAA by SIMTEL20.ARPA with TCP; Wed 15 Oct 86 09:38:02-MDT Received: from ll.arpa by AMSAA.ARPA id a029032; 15 Oct 86 10:03 EDT Date: Wed 15 Oct 1986 10:03:57 EDT From: SAGE@LL.ARPA MMDF-Warning: Parse error in preceding line at AMSAA.ARPA Subject: Auto-Install Z-System To: info-cpm@AMSAA.ARPA Message-ID: Gary Evans requested a working copy of Z-System for a BigBoard II. The disk operating system part of Z-System (ZRDOS) is proprietary and must be paid for. I suggest that anyone who wants to get Z-System running on his CP/M-2.2 computer purchase Z-COM from Echelon. Z-COM will install itself on your computer automatically in a few minutes, and it costs very little more than ZRDOS alone. You can buy the stripped down version (without all the utilities, which you can get from SIMTEL20 or from any of the dozens of Z-Node remote access systems around the country) for $70. The memory penalty of using Z-COM rather than a manually installed version is only 512 bytes. Once you have Z-COM running, you are not stuck with the standard version; you can modify it. I will be preparing a file describing some of the details on how to do that. Here is the info on Echelon: Echelon, Inc. 885 N. San Antonio Road Los Altos, CA 94022 415-948-3820 (voice) 415-489-9005 (modem) My wife is a dealer for Echelon, but I have no financial interest in any sales Echelon makes directly. I just think that Z-COM is a very fine product. For sales, please contact them directly. If you have technical questions, contact either them or me. Jay Sage SAGE@LL.ARPA 15-Oct-86 10:04:21-MDT,2731;000000000000 Return-Path: Received: from AMSAA by SIMTEL20.ARPA with TCP; Wed 15 Oct 86 10:04:01-MDT Received: from ll.arpa by AMSAA.ARPA id a029084; 15 Oct 86 10:05 EDT Date: Wed 15 Oct 1986 10:03:43 EDT From: SAGE@LL.ARPA MMDF-Warning: Parse error in preceding line at AMSAA.ARPA Subject: Trouble with LBR Files To: info-cpm@AMSAA.ARPA Message-ID: Bill Houle posted on net.micro.cpm: > Near the end of summer, I took our Kaypro in for drive alignment. Its > been about a month-and-a-half and we've had no trouble...until now. > All of the programs seem to be OK (read: no panicky phone calls from > home) except for NULU (LU, LDIR, etc.) It does not seem to be able to > read old library files (that is, created during the pre-align period). > BAD DIRECTORY or INSUFFICIENT MEMORY are the error messages. It seems unlikely to me that the LBR files are the problem if all the other files read all right, unless those files just happen to be stored, for example, on the inner tracks of the diskettes while the other files are on the outer tracks. If you have the CRC program, you can run that on the files to determine whether they read correctly or not. The BAD DIRECTORY message suggests that something appears to be wrong with the first sector of the files, where the LBR directory is stored. The memory error message may be related to the same thing. But I cannot see how aligning the drives would have anything to do with such a problem. There are various useful diagnostics that could be performed (with DU, disk utility, for example), but that would be hard enough locally and impossible long distance. Another way to check the LBR files would be to copy them to a new diskette. If you use the PIP verify option (PIP B:=A:NAME.LBR[V]) the file will be copied and checked. If the source diskette is unreadable, you will get a BDOS error message (BAD SECTOR). If you did not suggest that LU and LDIR as well as NULU complain about the LBR files, I would think that something happened to your copy of NULU. If the files seem to be all right but still do not work, I would suspect that something has gone wrong with the correspondence between the disk directory (and its sector allocations for the files) and the actual file allocations. But such a problem would make a lot of the COM files fail to operate. I'm not sure what else to suggest to you. Good luck. If you really get desperate and want to send me a diskette, I would be willing to take a look at it and try to figure out what happened. You can reach me at MIT Lincoln Lab, PO Box 73, Lexington, MA 02173-0073. Jay Sage 15-Oct-86 10:42:59-MDT,413;000000000000 Return-Path: Received: from AMSAA by SIMTEL20.ARPA with TCP; Wed 15 Oct 86 10:42:52-MDT Received: from brl-smoke.arpa by AMSAA.ARPA id a000248; 15 Oct 86 10:46 EDT Date: Wed, 15 Oct 86 10:48:06 EDT From: Brint Cooper To: SAGE@LL.ARPA cc: info-cpm@AMSAA.ARPA Subject: Re: Auto-Install Z-System Will a Z-System run under MP/M? Brint 15-Oct-86 12:00:01-MDT,725;000000000000 Return-Path: Received: from AMSAA by SIMTEL20.ARPA with TCP; Wed 15 Oct 86 11:59:19-MDT Received: from mit-xx.arpa by AMSAA.ARPA id a003398; 15 Oct 86 12:42 EDT Date: Wed, 15 Oct 1986 12:33 EDT Message-ID: From: LIN@mit-xx.ARPA To: info-cpm@AMSAA.ARPA Subject: merging two text files I'm looking for a program similar to PASTE that will take two text files and turn them into one file of two column. Paste would do it, except that the alignment of the second column is dependent on the line width of the first column. Thus, the program would have to take a couple of additional inputs specifying how wide to make each file. Thanks.. 15-Oct-86 12:00:24-MDT,1712;000000000000 Return-Path: Received: from AMSAA by SIMTEL20.ARPA with TCP; Wed 15 Oct 86 12:00:13-MDT Received: from wiscvm.arpa by AMSAA.ARPA id a004089; 15 Oct 86 13:04 EDT Received: from (MAILER)RPICICGE.BITNET by WISCVM.WISC.EDU on 10/15/86 at 12:07:14 CDT Received: by RPICICGE (Mailer X1.23) id 3153; Wed, 15 Oct 86 13:04:30 EAS Date: Wed, 15 Oct 86 12:31:08 EAS From: "John S. Fisher" To: info-cpm@AMSAA.ARPA Subject: Microsoft's FORTRAN product I, too, have found the Microsoft's FORTRAN compiler very limited in its ability to cope with INTEGER*4 values. Add and subtract seem to work and division by an INTEGER*2.... Call a built-in function like MIN0 or MOD--don't bother. I have been more frustrated by its incompleteness in the I/O area. Create a data file with the editor; save it on disk. Now, try to read it with a FORTRAN program. Every input record except the first has an extraneous line-feed for its first byte. However, if your first format item is a numeric, the I/O support quitely strips the line-feed! Ask for character data first, and you get the bogus line-feed. On the other hand, if you write formated data to a disk file and then try to type or edit the result, it's one long line since no line-feeds got inserted after each carriage return. My final solution to the disk I/O problem was to modify the disk I/O driver provided in source by Microsoft. My change was simply to insert linefeeds along with the carriage return at end-of-record during formated disk writes, and to skip linefeeds during formated disk reads. Not perfect, but the behavior is much more reasonable now. 15-Oct-86 20:58:46-MDT,1516;000000000000 Return-Path: Received: from AMSAA by SIMTEL20.ARPA with TCP; Wed 15 Oct 86 20:58:26-MDT Received: from ucb-vax.arpa by AMSAA.ARPA id a013836; 15 Oct 86 19:49 EDT Received: by ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU (5.53/1.17) id AA03656; Wed, 15 Oct 86 16:52:00 PDT Received: by ucdavis.UCDAVIS.EDU (4.12/4.7) id AA06932; Wed, 15 Oct 86 16:18:24 pdt Received: by clover.ucdavis.edu (4.12/4.7) id AA08254; Wed, 15 Oct 86 16:16:15 pdt Date: Wed, 15 Oct 86 16:16:15 pdt From: Eric Hildum Message-Id: <8610152316.AA08254@clover.ucdavis.edu> To: ucdavis!info-cpm@AMSAA.ARPA, ucdavis!nadc.ARPA!prindle@ucb-vax.ARPA Subject: re: UUDECODING and UNARCing under VMS >.Reply to binder@asd.DEC@dec.arpa > >Good grief, why not just download the encoded file directly to your CP/M >machine (or copy it to a CP/M diskette, or whatever you intended to do with >the UUDECODED and UNARCed file) and UUDECODE it and UNARC it there? The whole >purpose of ARC is to make files smaller and therefore faster to download (or >mail across the net), so why defeat it? >Sincerely, >Frank Prindle >Prindle@NADC.arpa > However, I suspect there are a fair number of us who use an intermediate host system between the source and the micro. I, for example, am using a UNIX VAX as a staging area for software that I am interested in. Becuase of the small size of the disks on my micro, I cannot download everything and review it there convienently... Eric 15-Oct-86 21:54:38-MDT,1095;000000000000 Return-Path: Received: from AMSAA by SIMTEL20.ARPA with TCP; Wed 15 Oct 86 21:54:24-MDT Received: from simtel20.arpa by AMSAA.ARPA id a015032; 15 Oct 86 23:23 EDT Date: Wednesday, 15 October 1986 13:42-MDT Message-ID: Sender: EOLSON%HMCVAX.BITNET@wiscvm.ARPA From: EOLSON%HMCVAX.BITNET@wiscvm.ARPA To: W8SDZ@SIMTEL20.ARPA Subject: Corrected version of vms uudecode I sent last week. Sorry... ReSent-From: KPETERSEN@SIMTEL20.ARPA ReSent-To: Info-Cpm@AMSAA.ARPA ReSent-Date: Wed 15 Oct 1986 21:06-MDT Now available from SIMTEL20... Filename Type Bytes CRC Directory PD: UUDECODE.VMS.2 ASCII 5003 2302H A corrected version of UUDECODE for VAX-VMS. Original source pilfered from the MS-DOS turbo version on SIMTEL20. Converted from Turbo to Vax-Pascal by Erik Olson, Harvey Mudd College (EOLSON@HMCVAX.BITNET) (eolson@muddcs.UUCP) (Corrected small bug for End of file - 10/15/86 eol) 16-Oct-86 00:21:43-MDT,149885;000000000000 Return-Path: Received: from AMSAA by SIMTEL20.ARPA with TCP; Thu 16 Oct 86 00:16:54-MDT Received: from xerox.arpa by AMSAA.ARPA id a012087; 15 Oct 86 16:35 EDT Received: from Riesling.ms by ArpaGateway.ms ; 15 OCT 86 13:32:10 PDT Sender: "Michael_H._Maroney:WBST207:Xerox.ns"@xerox.ARPA Date: 15 Oct 86 13:18:14 PDT (Wednesday) Subject: Re: NOTE from UZ32112 From: edelheit@MITRE.ARPA To: "c_maro:wbst207:xerox.ns"@xerox.ARPA cc: info-cpm@AMSAA.ARPA In-Reply-to: Your message of Tue, 07 Oct 86 17:21:38 ULG. <8610080447.AA05966@mitre.ARPA> Message-ID: <861015-133210-3856@Xerox> Return-Path: Redistributed: XeroxInfo-CPM^.x@xerox.ARPA Received: from AMSAA (AMSAA.ARPA) by Xerox.COM ; 14 OCT 86 20:03:15 PDT Received: from xerox.arpa by AMSAA.ARPA id a013881; 14 Oct 86 14:39 EDT Received: from Riesling.ms by ArpaGateway.ms ; 14 OCT 86 11:15:11 PDT Original-Date: 14 Oct 86 11:05:12 PDT (Tuesday) Message-ID: <861014-111511-2477@Xerox> Return-Path: Redistributed: XeroxInfo-CPM^.x@xerox.ARPA Received: from AMSAA (AMSAA.ARPA) by Xerox.COM ; 08 OCT 86 19:02:05 PDT Received: from mitre.arpa by AMSAA.ARPA id a008953; 8 Oct 86 13:31 EDT Full-Name: Jeff Edelheit Organization: The MITRE Corp., Washington, D.C. Return-Path: Received: from localhost by ernie.mitre.org (2.2/SMI-2.2) id AA09208; Wed, 8 Oct 86 08:26:49 edt Message-Id: <8610081226.AA09208@ernie.mitre.org> Original-Date: Wed, 08 Oct 86 08:26:19 -0500 Andre - Here is a 144kb listing of all the interest groups. Your guess about isib and b.isi is correct. The new domain naming convention is the b.isi. The difference between info-ibmpc and info-ibmpc-request is that request is the address used to get on the list. Your return address of UZ32112%BLIULG12.BITNET@WISCVM.WISC.EDU is correct. All I can suggest is that you can try sending a request to the request address and ask for confirmation of your request to be added to the list. I'll send the two most recent info-ibmpc digests as separate notes. 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Coordinator: Ken Van Camp INFO-FUTURES%BU-CS@CSNet-Relay.ARPA INFO-FUTURES@BU-CS (CSNET) ...harvard!bu-cs!info-futures (UUCP) Digest to provide a speculative forum for analyzing current and likely events in technology as they will affect our near future in computing and related areas. In broad terms, topics of interest include developments in both computing research and industry which are likely to affect our decision making, particularly decisions we are probably grappling with right this minute. Technologies can change so rapidly that simply forecasting for needs within any organization one or two years in advance can be extremely difficult, frequently we are forced to provide foundations that effectively lock us into a technology for longer periods of time. It is hoped the information this list provides can help both the practitioner and researcher determine where best to expend resources. 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Older digests are archived by quarter in the following files: Q1-DIGESTS-85 ; V4 # 1-40 [too big for mm, use hermes] Q4-DIGESTS-84 ; V3 # 91-119 Q3-DIGESTS-84 ; V3 # 70-90 Q2-DIGESTS-84 ; V3 # 36-69 Q1-DIGESTS-84 ; V3 # 1-35 Q4-DIGESTS-83 ; V2 # 71-104 Q3-DIGESTS-83 ; V2 # 40-70 Q2-DIGESTS-83 ; V2 # 20-39 Q1-DIGESTS-83 ; V2 # 1-19 Q34-DIGESTS-82 ; V1 # 1-34 These files can be read by MM, HERMES, and other TOPS20 mail systems. KWIC-INDEX.TXT contains a key-word-in-context index to digest articles. TOC.???85 contains a table of contents for the month ???. These files may be FTP'ed to any Arpanet/Milnet host from [USC-ISIB] by logging in within FTP using username ANONYMOUS, password GUEST. If you're not directly on the Arpanet the files can be mailed to you, although there is a limit to the length of a message. A library of free software is maintained in [USC-ISIB]. The list of available programs is in PROGRAM-LIBRARY.LIST. 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Its purpose is to stimulate communication and sharing between computer science research groups that are using or are interested in these machines. An archive of messages is kept on SUMEX-AIM in the file: INFO-IRIS.TXT Requests to be added to or deleted from these lists, problems, questions, etc. should be sent to Info-Iris-Request@SUMEX-AIM.STANFORD.EDU. Coordinator: John Brugge INFO-JAPAN@MC.LCS.MIT.EDU Intended for discussion of everything Japanese, EXCEPT the Japanese language (see the entry for the NIHONGO mailing list), including gossip about Japanese technology, cultural events, politics, cuisine, anecdotes, movie announcements, etc. The complete archives are publicly accessible by FTP from host MIT-MC, which uses the ITS operating system. Case is not significant, but the space after "INFO" is. The archives are in: COMAIL;INFO JAPAN All requests to be added to or deleted from this list, problems, questions, etc., should be sent to INFO-JAPAN-REQUEST@MC.LCS.MIT.EDU. Coordinator: Steve Strassmann INFO-KERMIT@CU20B Kermit is a file transfer protocol for use primarily between micros and mainframes over TTY lines, and is implemented on a wide variety of both. The Info-Kermit mailing list is a digest intended for people who maintain or install Kermit at their sites, or who are (thinking about) working on a new implementation, or who have bugs and/or fixes to report, or who are interested in discussing the protocol; it is available on Internet, CSnet, Mailnet, BITnet, Usenet, CCnet, and any other network gatewayed to the Internet. All the Kermit files are on CU20B in the area "KER:" or "K2:". The file KER:AAAREAD.ME contains information on what files are in the Kermit distribution area and how to find them. One file worth checking from time to time is KER:AAVNEW.HLP, a brief tabular listing of each existing version of Kermit, showing the version number and date of the latest release of each version. 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TMODEM is a new TOPS-20 implementation of the Christensen Protocol, with all the latest features, such as: o wildcard file transfers in the style of MODEM7 (YMODEM batch is coming) o the YMODEM implementation of the K option with a new algorithm to return to K mode after falling back to "normal" mode o extensive built-in HELP for all commands and options. TMODEM is an amalgamation of the old TOPS-20 MODEM program, originally written by Bill Westfield while he was at SRI and now at Stanford, major pieces of the TOPS-20 TELNET program, currently maintained by Mark Crispin, and some pieces of code stolen from TTLINK and KERMIT-20 by Frank da Cruz at Columbia University. The archives for replaced mailing list INFO-MODEMXX are frozen in on SIMTEL20. A new set of archives for INFO-TMODEM is on SIMTEL20 in TMODEM-ARCHIV.TXT. The source for TMODEM is in TOPS-20:TMODEM.MAC, and must be compiled for each individual TOPS-20 system environment. 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IRList vtisr1!irlistrq@SEISMO.CSS.GOV seismo!vtisr1!irlistrq (UUCP) fox@vpi (CSNET) foxea@vtvax3 or fox@vtcs1 (BITNET) IRList is open to discussion of any topic related to information retrieval. Certainly, any material relating to ACM SIGIR is of interest. The IR field has close ties to artificial intelligence, database management, information and library science, linguistics,... 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MH runs on a number of versions of UNIX (4.xBSD, v7, xenix) on top of a number of mail transport systems (MMDF-{I,II}, SendMail, stand-alone (with UUCP support)); for information on getting an MH distribution, contact Bug-MH@UCI. Appropriate topics are: - questions about how to use MH - tips on MH usage - exchange of MH shell scripts As a general rule, messages submitted to MH-Users should *NOT* be submitted to MH-Workers (a list with a different charter). All requests to be added to or deleted from this list, along with problems, questions and suggestions, should be sent to MH-Users-Request@UCI. Coordinator: Marshall T. Rose (MTR) John L. Romine (JLR3) MH-WORKERS@UCI MH-Workers is a discussion group which focuses on the UCI version of the Rand Message Handling (MH) system; it is a list is for MH maintainers and experts. 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Coordinator: Jim Gettys End of Interest-Groups List, Part 2 of 2 **************************************** 16-Oct-86 04:57:56-MDT,1023;000000000000 Return-Path: Received: from AMSAA by SIMTEL20.ARPA with TCP; Thu 16 Oct 86 04:57:48-MDT Received: from wiscvm.arpa by AMSAA.ARPA id a017102; 16 Oct 86 6:12 EDT Received: from (PFENNIGE)CGEUGE51.BITNET by WISCVM.WISC.EDU on 10/16/86 at 05:15:09 CDT Date: 16 OCT 86 10:12-N From: PFENNIGER%CGEUGE51.BITNET@wiscvm.ARPA To: INFO-CPM@AMSAA.ARPA Subj: Re. Why do UUDECODE etc on VAX and not on CPM system. In regard to the question: why not deARC and uudecode on your CP/M system instead of on the VAX with the new version of UUDECODE etc? For my system, we have a VAX 780 from which I download the files to an XT compatable using UNIFORM on the compatable to write on the disk in a format that I can read on my computer at home. The process of uudecoding etc happens to be a couple of hundred times faster on the VAX than my PC!!! So doing it here saves me a lot of time, not to mention all the extra ware and tare on my disk drive at home. It works for me!!!! Brian. 16-Oct-86 12:31:35-MDT,1077;000000000000 Return-Path: Received: from AMSAA by SIMTEL20.ARPA with TCP; Thu 16 Oct 86 12:31:26-MDT Date: Thu, 16 Oct 86 13:37:52 EDT From: Dave Towson (info-cpm-request) To: info-cpm@AMSAA.ARPA Subject: Recurring HUGE message: Resent-Date: Thu, 16 Oct 86 13:40:15 EDT Resent-From: info-cpm@AMSAA.ARPA Resent-To: info-cpm-relay@AMSAA.ARPA Fellow CP/Mers - By error, one of our readers posted to the whole list a message of over 145 thousand characters. This message has caused rather extraordinary results: reject messages are pouring in from all over. One particularly strange result is that, for some reason, the message seems to be relentlessly looping between AMSAA and XEROX. I have written to the XEROX Postmaster about it, and I have also set up an intercept mailbox for all incoming info-cpm mail. If that bugger comes around again, I'll zap it! Sorry for the inconvenience. Please endure. I'll get it killed. Dave Towson info-cpm list maintainer 17-Oct-86 04:39:48-MDT,861;000000000000 Return-Path: Received: from AMSAA by SIMTEL20.ARPA with TCP; Fri 17 Oct 86 04:39:39-MDT Received: from brl-smoke.arpa by AMSAA.ARPA id a009101; 17 Oct 86 5:36 EDT Received: from USENET by SMOKE.BRL.ARPA id a029118; 17 Oct 86 5:32 EDT From: "Rick N. Fincher" Newsgroups: net.micro.cpm,net.micro.apple Subject: Re: Query: Z-system availability on Kache Systems' HD64180 board Message-ID: <2137@ecsvax.UUCP> Date: 15 Oct 86 12:47:02 GMT To: info-cpm@AMSAA.ARPA > Seems like it would be well-matched to the //GS, if multitasking under the > Z-system will really be supported. (Apple doesn't seem anxious to support > it on any of their machines.) > -- > - Ralph W. Hyre, Jr. > What is the Z-System? Can you give us more details? Thanks. Rick Fincher ranger@ecsvax 17-Oct-86 06:19:08-MDT,777;000000000000 Return-Path: Received: from AMSAA by SIMTEL20.ARPA with TCP; Fri 17 Oct 86 06:18:47-MDT Received: from brl-smoke.arpa by AMSAA.ARPA id a010299; 17 Oct 86 7:35 EDT Received: from USENET by SMOKE.BRL.ARPA id a000301; 17 Oct 86 7:31 EDT From: Richard Foulk Newsgroups: net.micro.cpm Subject: S-100 Ethernet board? Message-ID: <2866@islenet.UUCP> Date: 15 Oct 86 05:08:49 GMT To: info-cpm@AMSAA.ARPA I'm looking for pointers to Ethernet boards for the S-100 bus. I'd also like to find a good S-100 bus definition, I'm thinking about connecting two 20-slot mother boards together. thanks Richard Foulk ...{dual,vortex,ihnp4}!islenet!richard Honolulu, Hawaii or ...!islenet!bigtuna!richard 17-Oct-86 07:26:02-MDT,870;000000000000 Return-Path: Received: from AMSAA by SIMTEL20.ARPA with TCP; Fri 17 Oct 86 07:25:53-MDT Received: from simtel20.arpa by AMSAA.ARPA id a009682; 17 Oct 86 7:12 EDT Date: Fri 17 Oct 86 05:14:51-MDT From: Rick Conn Subject: Re: Query: Z-system availability on Kache Systems' HD64180 board To: ranger%ecsvax.uucp@BRL.ARPA cc: info-cpm@AMSAA.ARPA In-Reply-To: <2137@ecsvax.UUCP> Message-ID: <12247490532.26.RCONN@SIMTEL20.ARPA> Resent-Date: Fri, 17 Oct 86 8:37:55 EDT Resent-From: info-cpm@AMSAA.ARPA Resent-To: info-cpm-relay@SIMTEL20.ARPA An intro to the Z-System, comparing it to CP/M, is in the file ZWORD3.TXT in PD:. PD: contains ZCPR3, its utilities, etc, in both source and object. It is on SIMTEL20, so Archive Server is available if you cannot FTP. Rick Conn ------- 17-Oct-86 07:27:59-MDT,688;000000000000 Return-Path: Received: from AMSAA by SIMTEL20.ARPA with TCP; Fri 17 Oct 86 07:27:51-MDT Received: from mitre.arpa by AMSAA.ARPA id a007698; 16 Oct 86 18:17 EDT Date: Thu, 16 Oct 86 18:19:30 edt From: Thomas Reid Full-Name: Thomas Reid Message-Id: <8610162219.AA21502@mitre.ARPA> Organization: The MITRE Corp., Washington, D.C. To: cpmlist@AMSAA.ARPA, info-cpm@AMSAA.ARPA Subject: Re: Recurring HUGE message: Resent-Date: Fri, 17 Oct 86 8:37:38 EDT Resent-From: info-cpm@AMSAA.ARPA Resent-To: info-cpm-relay@MITRE.ARPA Dave - Thanks for the help. People like you and Keith make staying with CP/M a pleasure. Tom. 17-Oct-86 08:02:00-MDT,1330;000000000000 Return-Path: Received: from AMSAA by SIMTEL20.ARPA with TCP; Fri 17 Oct 86 08:01:39-MDT Received: from decwrl.arpa by AMSAA.ARPA id a008375; 16 Oct 86 23:02 EDT Received: by decwrl.dec.com (5.54.2/4.7.34) id AA01701; Thu, 16 Oct 86 20:05:39 PDT Message-Id: <8610170305.AA01701@decwrl.dec.com> Date: 16-Oct-1986 2301 From: "Exit, pursued by a bear" To: info-cpm@AMSAA.ARPA, infocpm%asd.DEC@dec.ARPA, infoapple%asd.DEC@dec.ARPA Subject: Funny behaviour with Apple //e and StarCard Resent-Date: Fri, 17 Oct 86 8:37:44 EDT Resent-From: info-cpm@AMSAA.ARPA Resent-To: info-cpm-relay@dec.ARPA I've just added a StarCard to my //e, and it's causing the //e to go bonkers when CTRL-openapple-RESET is pressed to reboot, regardless of whether CP/M or Apple activity was in progress. The machine starts writing garbage all through the hi-res screen, and it begins a high-pitched whistle through the speaker, like a TV horizontal oscillator gone bananas. If I then press CTRL-RESET, the machine will reboot. The SoftCard I took out did not cause this anomaly. Any ideas? Cheers, Dick Binder (The Stainless Steel Rat) DEC Enet: ASD::BINDER UUCP: { decvax, allegra, ucbvax... }!decwrl!asd.dec.com!binder ARPA: binder%asd.DEC@decwrl.ARPA 17-Oct-86 08:02:12-MDT,1154;000000000000 Return-Path: Received: from AMSAA by SIMTEL20.ARPA with TCP; Fri 17 Oct 86 08:01:39-MDT Received: from decwrl.arpa by AMSAA.ARPA id a011842; 17 Oct 86 8:26 EDT Received: by decwrl.dec.com (5.54.2/4.7.34) id AA11284; Fri, 17 Oct 86 05:29:14 PDT Message-Id: <8610171229.AA11284@decwrl.dec.com> Date: 17-Oct-1986 0824 From: "Exit, pursued by a bear" To: info-cpm@AMSAA.ARPA, infocpm%asd.DEC@dec.ARPA, infoapple%asd.DEC@dec.ARPA Subject: Re: StarCard problem with Apple //e Resent-Date: Fri, 17 Oct 86 8:38:00 EDT Resent-From: info-cpm@AMSAA.ARPA Resent-To: info-cpm-relay@dec.ARPA Please forget you ever read my previous message about trouble with a StarCard in my Apple //e. I took the card out and the machine still failed - I took the time to reseat all the chips and cables, and the problem went away - it was apparently a poor connection in the keyboard cable. Sorry to have awakened you, my dear, Dick Binder (The Stainless Steel Rat) DEC Enet: ASD::BINDER UUCP: { decvax, allegra, ucbvax... }!decwrl!asd.dec.com!binder ARPA: binder%asd.DEC@decwrl.ARPA 17-Oct-86 09:00:58-MDT,1497;000000000000 Return-Path: Received: from AMSAA by SIMTEL20.ARPA with TCP; Fri 17 Oct 86 09:00:42-MDT Received: from 128.32.136.22 by AMSAA.ARPA id a008486; 17 Oct 86 0:31 EDT Received: from jade.berkeley.edu by violet.berkeley.edu (5.54 (CFC 4.22.2)/1.16.1) id AA15780; Thu, 16 Oct 86 21:29:55 PDT Received: by jade.Berkeley.Edu (5.31 (CFC 4.21)/5.6.4) id AA17749; Thu, 16 Oct 86 21:29:36 PDT Received: by amber.Berkeley.Edu (4.20/5.7) id AA02943; Thu, 16 Oct 86 21:29:35 pdt Date: Thu, 16 Oct 86 21:29:35 pdt From: swillett%amber.Berkeley.EDU@ucb-vax.ARPA Message-Id: <8610170429.AA02943@amber.Berkeley.Edu> To: LIN@mit-xx.ARPA, info-cpm@AMSAA.ARPA Subject: Re: merging two text files Resent-Date: Fri, 17 Oct 86 8:37:51 EDT Resent-From: info-cpm@AMSAA.ARPA Resent-To: info-cpm-relay@ucb-vax.ARPA There is a program called ZIP which concatenates up to seven input files on a line-by-line basis. I have not used it personally, but it is in the library of BAKUP (Bay Area Kaypro Users and Programmers) who got it from ONKUG, the Kaypro Corp. user's group disk newsletter some time ago. If you are interested in more info you can send me a message or write to me at BAKUP Library, 412 61st St., Oakland, CA 94609. Disks from our library are only available to members ($10 per year, mail order disks $7.50 each), but if you send me a disk in a reusable mailer I will copy thaT LBR file and return it to you. Steve Willett, BAKUP Librarian 17-Oct-86 09:15:31-MDT,738;000000000000 Return-Path: Received: from AMSAA by SIMTEL20.ARPA with TCP; Fri 17 Oct 86 09:14:50-MDT Received: from brl-smoke.arpa by AMSAA.ARPA id a014714; 17 Oct 86 9:45 EDT Received: from USENET by SMOKE.BRL.ARPA id a004964; 17 Oct 86 9:42 EDT From: rra202@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu Newsgroups: net.micro.cpm Subject: HELP HELP HELP Message-ID: <10100003@uiucuxa> Date: 15 Oct 86 16:49:00 GMT Nf-ID: #N:uiucuxa:10100003:000:186 Nf-From: uiucuxa.CSO.UIUC.EDU!rra202 Oct 15 11:49:00 1986 To: info-cpm@AMSAA.ARPA HELP HELP HELP HELP How do I access the SIMTEL20 archives. I'm a mere student, and could really use some software. Anyhow, ... THANKS RANDY 17-Oct-86 14:15:42-MDT,3202;000000000000 Return-Path: Received: from AMSAA by SIMTEL20.ARPA with TCP; Fri 17 Oct 86 14:15:00-MDT Received: from bbnccq.arpa by AMSAA.ARPA id a023009; 17 Oct 86 14:59 EDT Date: Fri, 17 Oct 86 14:56:41 EDT From: Bob Clements Subject: 8 inch disk followup To: info-ibmpc@usc-isib.ARPA, info-cpm@AMSAA.ARPA Cc: clements@bbnccq.ARPA Resent-Date: Fri, 17 Oct 86 15:11:02 EDT Resent-From: info-cpm@AMSAA.ARPA Resent-To: info-cpm-relay@bbnccq.ARPA Hi, fellow CP/Mers and IBM PCers. This is a followup to a request I made a couple weeks ago. I had asked for help in getting 8-inch CP/M format disks working on my IBM PC. Since I got a number of requests for copies of whatever I learned, here's my summary. To review, what I had was an IBM PC, a Maynard floppy disk controller card which supports both 8" and 5.25" drives, and some low level driver software. I needed the software that knows about CP/M file structure and that would play with the above pieces. I received one message that suggested I could do it the other way around, namely write 8" MS-DOS files and then use one of the variants of SWEEP that could read the MS-DOS disk on my CP/M machine. This wasn't what I wanted, and I didn't pursue that path. It might work - I don't know. Bill Wells at opal.berkeley.edu gave me a pointer to Xenocopy-PC, by Fred Cisim at Xenosoft in Berkeley, CA. I called Fred and he said he hoped to get that format done soon but didn't have it yet. But he told me that he had a couple competitors who had done it, and gave me their phone numbers! Now THAT's being HELPFUL!!! So Thanks, Fred! I wound up getting Uniform-PC from Micro Solutions, Inc. in DeKalb Illinois. (There are two companies by that name.) Uniform-PC did the trick and is actually pretty neat. It isn't just the usual "copy from here to there" conversion program. It integrates the foreign (CP/M) disk into the MS-DOS environment. You can run a compilation on the IBM PC under MS-DOS with the listing output pointed at the CP/M disk and it will write it as a CP/M file. You don't have to write it as a MS-DOS file and then perform a separate conversion step to get it into CP/M format. There would be cases where this would be a real neat feature, on 5" CP/M disks as well as 8". Uniform-PC does all the low level stuff too, formating, setting disk parameters, etc. The driver I bought from Floppy Disk Services was a waste of $50. It was written by Flagstaff Engineering. It came with totally inadequate documentation, had no parameter setting program for step rate, for example, and was basically useless. When I called Flagstaff to ask a couple questions I was told very bluntly that I would have to ask my questions through my dealer. So in summary, I have a good working solution with my 8" drive and controller (Siemens or Shugart drive, Maynard controller) from FDSI and Uniform-PC from Micro Solutions. Uniform-PC costs $70. Standard disclaimers. Everything is copyrighted/trademarked. I have no financial interest in any of the above. Bob Clements {ihnp4, decvax, linus}!bbnccv!clements clements@bbn.com 19-Oct-86 20:52:37-MDT,1026;000000000000 Return-Path: Received: from AMSAA by SIMTEL20.ARPA with TCP; Sun 19 Oct 86 20:52:28-MDT Received: from brl-smoke.arpa by AMSAA.ARPA id a013063; 19 Oct 86 21:41 EDT Received: from USENET by SMOKE.BRL.ARPA id a011202; 19 Oct 86 21:32 EDT From: "Willie Smith, LTN Components Eng." Newsgroups: net.micro.cpm Subject: S-100 definition Message-ID: <6020@decwrl.DEC.COM> Date: 18 Oct 86 14:08:22 GMT Sender: daemon@dec.ARPA To: info-cpm@AMSAA.ARPA _THE_ S-100 bus definition is the ANSI/IEEE Std 696-1983, write to IEEE Inc., 345 East 47th Street, NY, NY 10017. I think it cost about $10 or so, depends if you are an IEEE or not. Definately worthwhile, some of the terminology is a bit unusual and hard to follow, but read it a few times and you will get the idea. This is the spec for the S-100 bus, so it's _all_ here. Willie Smith UUCP: decwrl!wookie.dec.com!smith Internet: smith@wookie.dec.com or smith%wookie.dec.com@decwrl.dec.com 20-Oct-86 06:50:20-MDT,799;000000000000 Return-Path: Received: from AMSAA by SIMTEL20.ARPA with TCP; Mon 20 Oct 86 06:50:13-MDT Received: from usc-eclc.arpa by AMSAA.ARPA id a004003; 18 Oct 86 15:48 EDT Date: 18 Oct 1986 12:51 PDT (Sat) Message-ID: Sender: TLI@USC-ECLC.ARPA From: Tony Li To: Info-Cpm@AMSAA.ARPA Subject: ZCPR on a DEC VT180 Reply-to: Tli@USC-ECLC.ARPA Home: 1115 E. Cordova St. Apt. 110, Pasadena CA., 91106 (818) 793-3342 Resent-Date: Mon, 20 Oct 86 8:04:19 EDT Resent-From: info-cpm@AMSAA.ARPA Resent-To: info-cpm-relay@USC-ECLC.ARPA Has anyone gotten any version of ZCPR working on a DEC VT180 (Robin)? I know about EZCPR, and I'd like to upgrade to the *REAL THING*. Thanks in advance, Tony ;-) 20-Oct-86 08:47:20-MDT,1258;000000000000 Return-Path: Received: from AMSAA by SIMTEL20.ARPA with TCP; Mon 20 Oct 86 08:47:09-MDT Received: from simtel20.arpa by AMSAA.ARPA id a003712; 18 Oct 86 14:45 EDT Date: Sat, 18 Oct 1986 12:48 MDT Message-ID: Sender: KPETERSEN@SIMTEL20.ARPA From: Keith Petersen To: Info-Cpm@AMSAA.ARPA, Info-Micro@BRL.ARPA Cc: Anderson@DOCKMASTER.ARPA, INFO-HZ100@RADC-TOPS20.ARPA, INFO-IBMPC@usc-isib.ARPA Subject: FTP file transfers from SIMTEL20 to MULTICS hosts Resent-Date: Mon, 20 Oct 86 8:04:09 EDT Resent-From: info-cpm@AMSAA.ARPA Resent-To: info-cpm-relay@SIMTEL20.ARPA When retrieving files from SIMTEL20 to your MULTICS host you must tell FTP the following: quote "type L 8" before starting the transfer. All files are then stored in MULTICS 9-bit "bytes", whether they are binary or ascii on SIMTEL20. After you have them on your host, you should have Kermit treat them as ASCII files in order to get them over to your micro correctly. You should make sure that MULTICS Kermit defaults to ASCII and your Kermit-PC does the same. If not, give them the appropriate commands before initiating the transfer. --Keith 20-Oct-86 08:49:12-MDT,538;000000000000 Return-Path: Received: from AMSAA by SIMTEL20.ARPA with TCP; Mon 20 Oct 86 08:49:03-MDT Received: from mit-xx.arpa by AMSAA.ARPA id a003994; 18 Oct 86 15:47 EDT Date: Sat, 18 Oct 1986 15:51 EDT Message-ID: From: LIN@mit-xx.ARPA To: info-cpm@AMSAA.ARPA Subject: SCAN12 Resent-Date: Mon, 20 Oct 86 8:04:14 EDT Resent-From: info-cpm@AMSAA.ARPA Resent-To: info-cpm-relay@mit-xx.ARPA Does anyone have the source code to SCAN 1.2 anywhere? Thanks. 20-Oct-86 08:51:31-MDT,2668;000000000000 Return-Path: Received: from AMSAA by SIMTEL20.ARPA with TCP; Mon 20 Oct 86 08:51:09-MDT Received: from simtel20.arpa by AMSAA.ARPA id a014284; 20 Oct 86 1:00 EDT Date: Sun, 19 Oct 1986 23:03 MDT Message-ID: Sender: KPETERSEN@SIMTEL20.ARPA From: Keith Petersen To: Info-Cpm@AMSAA.ARPA Subject: Quick reference list of SIMTEL20 CP/M directories Resent-Date: Mon, 20 Oct 86 8:04:22 EDT Resent-From: info-cpm@AMSAA.ARPA Resent-To: info-cpm-relay@SIMTEL20.ARPA Some directory reorganization is in progress at SIMTEL20. This list differs significantly from the previous one I posted. The file PD:CPM.CRCLST which lists all the files has been updated as of today. Quick reference list to SIMTEL20's PD: directories as of October 19, 1987 (where 'x' is one of the names below): 22RSX COBOL FILUTL MISC SPELL 6502 COMND FINANCE MODEM SPREADSHEET AMETHYST CPM3 FORTH-83 MODEM2 SQUSQ APPLE CPM68K FORTRAN MODEM7 STARTER-KIT ASMUTL CPM86 GENASM MSOFT SUBMIT ATARI CPMINFO GENCOM NEWS SYSUTL AZTEC-C CPMLIB GENDOC NSTAR TERM BASIC CPR86 GENIE NUBYE TRS-80 BBS CUG GRAPHICS OSBORN TURBODOS BBSLISTS DATABASE HAMMING PACKET TURBODOS-SIGI BDOS DBASEII HAMRADIO PARASOL TURBOPAS BDSC-1 DEBUG HDUTL PASCAL TXTUTL BDSC-2 DIRUTL HEATH PBBS VDOEDIT BDSC-3 DISASM HELP PILOT80 VOICE BDSC-4 DISKPLOT HEX PLOT33 WSTAR BSTAM DSKBUF IMP PPSPEL XCCP BYE3 DSKUTL INSIDCPM PUBKEY XLISP BYE5 EDITC80 KAYPRO PUBPATCH Z8EDEBUG C128 EDITOR LIST RBBS ZCPR C64 EDUCATION MACLIB RBBS4 ZCPR2 C80 EMX MATH RCPM ZCPR3 CATLOG EPSON MBBS ROS CB80 FAST2 MEMTEST SCREENGEN CBIOS FILCPY MEX SMALLC21 CCP FILE-DOCS MICNET SORT --Keith Petersen Arpa: W8SDZ@SIMTEL20.ARPA Uucp: {bellcore,decwrl,harvard,lll-crg,ucbvax,uw-beaver}!simtel20.arpa!w8sdz GEnie Mail: W8SDZ RCP/M Royal Oak: 313-759-6569 (300, 1200, 2400 bps) 20-Oct-86 12:58:55-MDT,1573;000000000000 Return-Path: Received: from AMSAA by SIMTEL20.ARPA with TCP; Mon 20 Oct 86 12:58:46-MDT Received: from decwrl.arpa by AMSAA.ARPA id a000172; 20 Oct 86 14:03 EDT Received: by decwrl.dec.com (5.54.2/4.7.34) id AA15656; Mon, 20 Oct 86 11:06:42 PDT Message-Id: <8610201806.AA15656@decwrl.dec.com> Date: 20-Oct-1986 1252 From: "Exit, pursued by a bear" To: info-cpm@AMSAA.ARPA, infocpm%asd.DEC@dec.ARPA Subject: Applicard/StarCard RAMDISK driver Resent-Date: Mon, 20 Oct 86 14:05:15 EDT Resent-From: info-cpm@AMSAA.ARPA Resent-To: info-cpm-relay@dec.ARPA I just bought a StarCard. I love it, and WordStar really zips with it, but maybe I can make it do even better. The CP/M disk that comes with the card includes drivers for the screen, Apple RAM printer buffer, floppy, etc. There is also a file called RAMDISK.DVR. This file isn't the code that allows Apple DOS to use the StarCard's RAM as a RAMdisk, because that file is called DOSRDISK (I think - I don't have the manual here at work). Other than including RAMDISK.DVR in the list of files on the disk, the StarCard manual makes no mention whatever of it. Is RAMDISK.DVR a real CP/M RAMdisk driver, and if so, will it work with the Apple //e extended 80-column card, or does it require the RamFactor? Thanks for any light you can shed on this. Cheers, Dick Binder (The Stainless Steel Rat) DEC Enet: ASD::BINDER UUCP: { decvax, allegra, ucbvax... }!decwrl!asd.dec.com!binder ARPA: binder%asd.DEC@decwrl.ARPA 20-Oct-86 16:00:42-MDT,780;000000000000 Return-Path: Received: from AMSAA by SIMTEL20.ARPA with TCP; Mon 20 Oct 86 16:00:30-MDT Received: from nadc.arpa by AMSAA.ARPA id a006280; 20 Oct 86 16:35 EDT Date: 20 Oct 1986 16:35:22-EDT From: prindle@nadc.ARPA To: info-cpm@AMSAA.ARPA Subject: .LLB vs .LBR ??? Resent-Date: Mon, 20 Oct 86 17:17:04 EDT Resent-From: info-cpm@AMSAA.ARPA Resent-To: info-cpm-relay@nadc.ARPA Can someone explain the practice of giving "LU" type library files the extension .LLB instead of the default .LBR? This seems to be happening with some regularity in the more recent SIG/M volumes - the "-CATALOG" file will say .LBR, but on SIMTEL20, the actual file will say .LLB! This seems a bit strange. Sincerely, Frank Prindle Prindle@NADC.arpa 21-Oct-86 04:22:26-MDT,717;000000000000 Return-Path: Received: from AMSAA by SIMTEL20.ARPA with TCP; Tue 21 Oct 86 04:22:21-MDT Received: from brl-smoke.arpa by AMSAA.ARPA id a009220; 21 Oct 86 5:51 EDT Received: from USENET by SMOKE.BRL.ARPA id a007448; 21 Oct 86 5:44 EDT From: Joe Public Newsgroups: net.micro.cpm Subject: Re: merging two text files Message-ID: <203@wheaton> Date: 20 Oct 86 23:17:06 GMT Posted: Mon Oct 20 18:17:06 1986 To: info-cpm@AMSAA.ARPA In article <4630@brl-smoke.ARPA> LIN@mit-xx.ARPA writes: >I'm looking for a program similar to PASTE that will take two text >files and turn them into one file of two column. Me too! Me too! --calvin culver-- 21-Oct-86 21:23:10-MDT,777;000000000000 Return-Path: Received: from AMSAA by SIMTEL20.ARPA with TCP; Tue 21 Oct 86 21:23:02-MDT Received: from simtel20.arpa by AMSAA.ARPA id a008176; 20 Oct 86 22:17 EDT Date: Mon, 20 Oct 1986 20:13 MDT Message-ID: From: WANCHO@SIMTEL20.ARPA To: prindle@NADC.ARPA Cc: WANCHO@SIMTEL20.ARPA, INFO-CPM@AMSAA.ARPA Subject: .LLB vs .LBR ??? In-reply-to: Msg of 20 Oct 1986 14:35-MDT from prindle at nadc.ARPA Resent-Date: Tue, 21 Oct 86 22:39:52 EDT Resent-From: info-cpm@AMSAA.ARPA Resent-To: info-cpm-relay@SIMTEL20.ARPA Frank, I believe the reason for the .LLB designation was to circumvent LU's restriction on including .LBR files, which was designed to avoid recursion. --Frank 21-Oct-86 21:33:05-MDT,1086;000000000000 Return-Path: Received: from AMSAA by SIMTEL20.ARPA with TCP; Tue 21 Oct 86 21:32:49-MDT Received: from wiscvm.arpa by AMSAA.ARPA id a011010; 21 Oct 86 7:51 EDT Received: from (UZ32112)BLIULG12.BITNET by WISCVM.WISC.EDU on 10/21/86 at 06:53:33 CDT Date: Tue, 21 Oct 86 12:29:03 ULG To: INFO-CPM@AMSAA.ARPA From: UZ32112%BLIULG12.BITNET@wiscvm.ARPA Subject: NOTE from UZ32112 Resent-Date: Tue, 21 Oct 86 22:39:55 EDT Resent-From: info-cpm@AMSAA.ARPA Resent-To: info-cpm-relay@wiscvm.ARPA Date: 21 October 1986, 12:24:47 ULG From: Andre PIRARD +32 (41) 520180(449) UZ32112 at BLIULG12 SEGI - Universite de Liege 15, av. des Tilleuls B4000 LIEGE (Belgique) UZ32112%BLIULG12.BITNET@WISCVM.WISC.EDU To: INFO-CPM at AMSAA Subject: Re: merging two text files In article <4630@brl-smoke.ARPA> LIN@mit-xx.ARPA writes: >I'm looking for a program similar to PASTE that will take two text >files and turn them into one file of two column. Wordstar DOES that when you use it in column mode! 21-Oct-86 21:55:39-MDT,1979;000000000000 Return-Path: Received: from AMSAA by SIMTEL20.ARPA with TCP; Tue 21 Oct 86 21:55:25-MDT Received: from eglin-vax.arpa by AMSAA.ARPA id a012383; 21 Oct 86 8:35 EDT Date: 21 Oct 86 07:36:00 CDT From: ferrill@eglin-vax.ARPA MMDF-Warning: Parse error in preceding line at AMSAA.ARPA Subject: RE: Applicard/Starcard RAM DISK driver To: info-cpm Reply-To: ferrill@eglin-vax.ARPA MMDF-Warning: Parse error in preceding line at AMSAA.ARPA Resent-Date: Tue, 21 Oct 86 22:39:58 EDT Resent-From: info-cpm@AMSAA.ARPA Resent-To: info-cpm-relay@AMSAA.ARPA >I just bought a StarCard. I love it, and WordStar really zips with it, but >maybe I can make it do even better. The CP/M disk that comes with the card >includes drivers for the screen, Apple RAM printer buffer, floppy, etc. There >is also a file called RAMDISK.DVR. This file isn't the code that allows Apple >DOS to use the StarCard's RAM as a RAMdisk, because that file is called >DOSRDISK (I think - I don't have the manual here at work). > >Other than including RAMDISK.DVR in the list of files on the disk, the >StarCard manual makes no mention whatever of it. Is RAMDISK.DVR a real CP/M >RAMdisk driver, and if so, will it work with the Apple //e extended 80-column >card, or does it require the RamFactor? > >Thanks for any light you can shed on this. > >Cheers, >Dick Binder (The Stainless Steel Rat) > >DEC Enet: ASD::BINDER >UUCP: { decvax, allegra, ucbvax... }!decwrl!asd.dec.com!binder >ARPA: binder%asd.DEC@decwrl.ARPA The RAMDISK.DVR program was written specifically for the add-on piggy-back ram board for the starcard. With this card you can have a 256K ram disk in CP/M. I beleive the source is available from PCPI in their toolkit package. It is possible that this could be modified to use the other Ram cards but that exercise is left to the student. Paul Ferrill ferrill@eglin-vax.arpa ------ 21-Oct-86 22:12:21-MDT,972;000000000000 Return-Path: Received: from AMSAA by SIMTEL20.ARPA with TCP; Tue 21 Oct 86 22:12:14-MDT Received: from lanl.arpa by AMSAA.ARPA id a014606; 21 Oct 86 9:52 EDT Received: by LANL.ARPA (5.51/5.17) id AA04186; Tue, 21 Oct 86 07:52:49 MDT Received: by a.ARPA (4.12/5.17) id AA20929; Tue, 21 Oct 86 07:56:24 mdt Date: Tue, 21 Oct 86 07:56:24 mdt From: Richard Thomsen Message-Id: <8610211356.AA20929@a.ARPA> To: info-cpm@AMSAA.ARPA Subject: Request for DEC Rainbow hard disk controller info Cc: info-micro@BRL.ARPA Resent-Date: Tue, 21 Oct 86 22:40:01 EDT Resent-From: info-cpm@AMSAA.ARPA Resent-To: info-cpm-relay@LANL.ARPA I saw an anvertisement for Rainbow Hard Disk Controller boards last June. These boards were supposed to be able to control two hard disks at one time, instead of the one that DEC sells. Does anyone have any information on these? Richard Thomsen rgt@lanl 21-Oct-86 22:18:21-MDT,996;000000000000 Return-Path: Received: from AMSAA by SIMTEL20.ARPA with TCP; Tue 21 Oct 86 22:18:08-MDT Received: from nosc.arpa by AMSAA.ARPA id a016723; 21 Oct 86 10:55 EDT Received: by bass.ARPA (5.31/4.7) id AA11855; Tue, 21 Oct 86 07:56:44 PDT Message-Id: <8610211456.AA11855@bass.ARPA> Date: Tue, 21 Oct 86 06:44:15 PDT From: Irwin Hom To: binder%asd.DEC@DEC.ARPA Subject: Re: Applicard/StarCard RAMDISK driver Cc: info-cpm@AMSAA.ARPA Resent-Date: Tue, 21 Oct 86 22:40:03 EDT Resent-From: info-cpm@AMSAA.ARPA Resent-To: info-cpm-relay@NOSC.ARPA No, the RAMDISK.DVR file is not a driver to a ramdisk using the Apple's RAM. Notice the 50-pin connector on your Appli-Card? This connector allows you to interface with PCPI's RAM modules. The RAM modules are 128K each and allows only two to be piggy-backed on to the Appli-Card. With two modules, you have about 222K for a ramdisk. --Irwin Hom ...crash!ihom@nosc 21-Oct-86 22:38:41-MDT,1353;000000000000 Return-Path: Received: from AMSAA by SIMTEL20.ARPA with TCP; Tue 21 Oct 86 22:38:30-MDT Received: from ll.arpa by AMSAA.ARPA id a023985; 21 Oct 86 14:13 EDT Date: Tue 21 Oct 1986 14:12:52 EDT From: SAGE@LL.ARPA MMDF-Warning: Parse error in preceding line at AMSAA.ARPA Subject: ZCPR3 under MP/M To: info-cpm@AMSAA.ARPA Cc: abc@BRL Message-ID: Resent-Date: Tue, 21 Oct 86 22:40:09 EDT Resent-From: info-cpm@AMSAA.ARPA Resent-To: info-cpm-relay@AMSAA.ARPA Will a Z-System run under MP/M? I don't know enough about MP/M to answer this question, and I had been hoping that in the past few days since this question was posed to me someone who knows something about MP/M would jump in and answer it. If MP/M uses individual command processors that run just under the BDOS, then there is a chance that they can be replaced by a ZCPR3 command processor. If the MP/M command processor has extra functions related to the multitasking, then the answer is likely to be no. I am quite sure that ZRDOS cannot be substituted for the MP/M BDOS, since the latter supports functions not found in the standard BDOS. My completely uneducated answer is 'no,' but I hope someone will prove me wrong! Jay Sage 21-Oct-86 22:43:22-MDT,4567;000000000000 Return-Path: Received: from AMSAA by SIMTEL20.ARPA with TCP; Tue 21 Oct 86 22:43:08-MDT Received: from ll.arpa by AMSAA.ARPA id a023659; 21 Oct 86 14:07 EDT Date: Tue 21 Oct 1986 14:07:57 EDT From: SAGE@LL.ARPA MMDF-Warning: Parse error in preceding line at AMSAA.ARPA Subject: ZCPR3/Z-System Autoinstall Versions To: info-cpm@AMSAA.ARPA Message-ID: Resent-Date: Tue, 21 Oct 86 22:40:06 EDT Resent-From: info-cpm@AMSAA.ARPA Resent-To: info-cpm-relay@AMSAA.ARPA A number of people have inquired about the various autoinstall versions of ZCPR3 and Z-System. Here is a matrix of the four products available from Echelon: version basic package complete package ---------- ------------- ---------------- Z3-DOT-COM 49.95 99.00 Z-COM 69.95 119.00 What are the differences? Let's start with the two package types, since that is the easier question. The basic packages have only the autoinstall material. With the complete packages you are paying Echelon an extra fee to put nearly a hundred Z-System utility programs on diskette for you. If you have access to a Z-Node or SIMTEL20, you can get all those utilities at no cost, but you may prefer to save the time and trouble and Echelon do it for you. Now for the differences between the versions. Z3-DOT-COM is an autoinstall version of ZCPR3 only. It does not include the ZRDOS replacement for the disk operating system (BDOS). Also, the implementation of ZCPR3 in this version does not include the IOP (I/O Package). All other ZCPR3 facilities are implemented. Z-COM is an autoinstall version of the complete Z-System. It included ZRDOS, which gives you many nice features including: (1) automatic disk login after changing floppies; (2) support for the archive file attribute so that automatic backups are facilitated; and (3) support for I/O package operations. Z-COM includes an IOP interface so that Echelon's commercial IOPs can be run. These allow redirection of console or printer output to a disk file, keyboard macros, and print spooling. Which should you buy? With only a $20 difference between Z3-DOT-COM and Z-COM, the latter is the better deal. I can think of only two reasons why some people would prefer Z3-DOT-COM. First, the IOP support in Z-COM takes an additional 1.5K away from the TPA (use program memory). Second, you may prefer to use, for example, P2DOS instead of ZRDOS. On the other hand, for only $20 extra, why not give ZRDOS a try. Many people think that if they use one of the autoinstall versions of ZCPR3 they will lose the flexibility of tailoring the system to their own preferences. This is not true. I have made extensive customizations to both autoinstall versions, and I will be publishing an article on this subject in The Computer Journal in the issue after the next one. Anyone who would be able to assemble up a custom manual version of ZCPR3 can equally well modify Z-COM. With a little ingenuity there are no limits. I made modified versions of Z3-DOT-COM and Z-COM so that I could freely switch between them at any time. That way I can run Z3-DOT-COM with its larger TPA normally and switch to Z-COM only when I need IOP support. I even have aliases that will install Z-COM, load the IOP, turn on redirection, run a program, and finally reinstall Z3-DOT-COM!! I wish Echelon offered a combination package with both autoinstall versions together at perhaps $15 more than Z-COM alone. Let me add that the autoinstall versions offer one advantage over a manually installed Z-System. For people who occasionally need a larger TPA than is possible under ZCPR3, with a simple command you can return to your standard CP/M system. For reference, here again is the information on Echelon: Echelon, Inc. 885 N. San Antonio Road Los Altos, CA 94022 415-948-3820 Let me repeat my disclaimer. Although my wife is a dealer for Echelon, we have no financial interest in sales Echelon makes directly. The comments above are thus made without financial bias. I love the Z-System, and the autoinstall versions make it easy for (almost) anyone with a CP/M-2.2 system to have it running in a few minutes. 21-Oct-86 22:57:54-MDT,2158;000000000000 Return-Path: Received: from AMSAA by SIMTEL20.ARPA with TCP; Tue 21 Oct 86 22:57:45-MDT Received: from ll.arpa by AMSAA.ARPA id a024070; 21 Oct 86 14:15 EDT Date: Tue 21 Oct 1986 14:12:20 EDT From: SAGE@LL.ARPA MMDF-Warning: Parse error in preceding line at AMSAA.ARPA Subject: ZCPR3 on VT-180 To: info-cpm@AMSAA.ARPA Message-ID: Resent-Date: Tue, 21 Oct 86 22:40:12 EDT Resent-From: info-cpm@AMSAA.ARPA Resent-To: info-cpm-relay@AMSAA.ARPA Tony Li asked about a version of ZCPR3 for a VT-180. I have ZCPR3 running on a VT-180, but it is running in conjunction with Multisystem-180 (MS-180), a commercial product that allows the Robin to read, write, and format many foreign disk formats (it makes yours drives look like any combination that you want of drives from other machines). Therefore, I am not in a position to give you a copy of it unless you purchase MS-180. The difficulty in getting ZCPR3 to run on the VT-180 is the lack of the BIOS source code. With MS-180 one gets the source code to the enhanced BIOS. Then one can readily make the modifications required to get a custom version of ZCPR3 running. The cost of MS-180 is $80 in the version that supports standard 48-tpi drives or $100 in the version that includes support for 96-tpi drop-in-replacement drives. I repeat the recommendation I made in previous messages -- if you want to do things the simplest way, buy one of the autoinstall versions from Echelon. They cost little more than the cost of ZRDOS alone (which is worth having), and they run very nicely on the VT-180 (I have used them on the Robin myself along with Multisystem). Jay Sage Non-disclaimer: My wife's company sells MS-180, and thus I do have a financial interest in its sale. Nevertheless, unless you have use for the multiple formats capability, are troubled by some of the bugs in the original DEC BIOS, or just can't resist the idea of having a BIOS with source code, I recommend that you get one of the Echelon packages directly from them. 22-Oct-86 04:21:50-MDT,1063;000000000000 Return-Path: Received: from AMSAA by SIMTEL20.ARPA with TCP; Wed 22 Oct 86 04:21:40-MDT Received: from brl-smoke.arpa by AMSAA.ARPA id a002198; 22 Oct 86 5:43 EDT Received: from USENET by SMOKE.BRL.ARPA id aa02498; 22 Oct 86 5:37 EDT From: "Theo Pozzy/R. Green" Newsgroups: net.micro.cpm Subject: Need TRSDOS format/copy for CompuPro system Message-ID: <5286@dartvax.UUCP> Date: 21 Oct 86 19:44:41 GMT To: info-cpm@AMSAA.ARPA Is there anyone out there in net-land who has or knows of a format and or disk copy utility which will run on a CompuPro 8 bit system, and format Tandy TRS-DOS 8" floppies? Actually, I want to copy some Tandy Model 16 Xenix disks, but I was told the formats are the same. If you have any relevant information, please forward it to me. Thanks in advance. Theo Pozzy, Corporate Microsystems, Inc. ...!decvax!dartvax!cmi (UUCP) cmi@dartmouth (CSNET) cmi@dartmouth.edu (ARPA) Box A-58, Hanover, NH, 03755 (USPS) 22-Oct-86 10:31:18-MDT,2446;000000000000 Return-Path: Received: from AMSAA by SIMTEL20.ARPA with TCP; Wed 22 Oct 86 10:30:58-MDT Received: from ll.arpa by AMSAA.ARPA id a009558; 22 Oct 86 10:24 EDT Date: Wed 22 Oct 1986 10:24:18 EDT From: SAGE@LL.ARPA MMDF-Warning: Parse error in preceding line at AMSAA.ARPA Subject: The Computer Journal To: info-cpm@AMSAA.ARPA Message-ID: Resent-Date: Wed, 22 Oct 86 11:50:39 EDT Resent-From: info-cpm@AMSAA.ARPA Resent-To: info-cpm-relay@AMSAA.ARPA I would like to call to the attention of the CP/M community what may be the only computer magazine still in existence that has a primary focus on CP/M computers. It is called The Computer Journal (TCJ). Although not many have been aware of it before, it seems to have been around for quite a while. It comes out approximately every two months, and the latest issue is #25. TCJ has especially strong coverage in the area of ZCPR and Ampro computers. It will also be adopting the now orphaned Morrow machines. To me it is what Micro Cornucopia used to be before it virtually abandoned 8-bit systems. Here are the feature topics in issue #25: Repairing and Modifying Printed Circuits Z-Notes: Z-COM Versus the 'Hacker' Version of Z-System (regular column on ZCPR3/Z-System) The C Column Adding a Serial Port to the AMPRO Little Board The SCSI Interface: Building a SCSI Adapter (series by Rick Lehrbaum of AMPRO) NEW-DOS: Part 4 (TCJ project on designing a command processor) AMPRO 186 Column ZSIG (regular column by me on Z-Systems Interest Group) The Computer Corner There are six issues per year. The subscription rate for US delivery is $14 for one year or $24 for two years. Canada and Mexico are $22 per year; other foreign (surface mail) is $24. Back issues are also available. Send a check or money order on US bank and in US funds payable to The Computer Journal or give your Master-Card/VISA number with expiration date to The Computer Journal 190 Sullivan Crossroad Columbia Falls, MT 59912 Their phone number is 406-257-9119. Credit card orders can also be entered by modem by leaving a private message for SYSOP on the TCJ BBS at 406-752-1038. 22-Oct-86 10:48:46-MDT,756;000000000000 Return-Path: Received: from AMSAA by SIMTEL20.ARPA with TCP; Wed 22 Oct 86 10:48:15-MDT Received: from umd2.umd.edu by AMSAA.ARPA id a012452; 22 Oct 86 12:00 EDT Date: Wed, 22 Oct 86 11:50:31 EDT From: Manasseh Katz To: info-cpm@AMSAA.ARPA Subject: Re: .LLB vs .LBR ??? Message-ID: Resent-Date: Wed, 22 Oct 86 12:05:00 EDT Resent-From: info-cpm@AMSAA.ARPA Resent-To: info-cpm-relay@umd2.umd.edu I think you're right about the original LU program, but I am using LU86 - a CPM-86 version of LU by a different author, and the documentation says it will allow LBR files to be put into an LBR file, which gets rid of the need for .LLB files. 24-Oct-86 08:28:24-MDT,1782;000000000000 Return-Path: Received: from AMSAA by SIMTEL20.ARPA with TCP; Fri 24 Oct 86 08:27:56-MDT Received: from wiscvm.arpa by AMSAA.ARPA id a021585; 24 Oct 86 3:35 EDT Received: from (GA.OLS)ISUMVS.BITNET by WISCVM.WISC.EDU on 10/23/86 at 19:23:16 CDT Date: Thu, 23 Oct 86 19:23:51 CDT To: INFO-CPM@AMSAA.ARPA MMDF-Warning: Parse error in preceding line at AMSAA.ARPA From: Rob Olson Subject: Two 20 slot S-100 motherboards. Resent-Date: Fri, 24 Oct 86 9:43:52 EDT Resent-From: info-cpm@AMSAA.ARPA Resent-To: info-cpm-relay@wiscvm.ARPA In response to Richard Foulk's request for a source of a good S-100 bus definition, there is no place better than the experts. The IEEE Mirco said the following back in 1983 (I don't subscribe so I don't know if the information, such as price has changed.): The 40-page document, IEEE Std 696-1983 is available from the IEEE Computer Society Order Dept., PO Box 80452, Worldway Postal Center, Los Angeles, CA 90080. The price is $6.75 for IEEE memebers and $7.50 for nonmembers, plus $2.00 shipping and handling (California Residents add 6 percent sales tax). These are the people to contact for the real standard definition. It is well written and very readable. As for the project of connecting two 20 slot motherboards together, the standard says that a maximum of 22 devices may be connected to the bus and that the total signal path may not be more than 25 inches long. If you need that big a motherboard I'm sure you have done more S-100 work than I, but I think you may run into awful ringing problems with that size of motherboard. I hope one of the Gurus listening in will give some more usefull advice! Rob 26-Oct-86 21:03:08-MST,1016;000000000000 Return-Path: Received: from AMSAA by SIMTEL20.ARPA with TCP; Sun 26 Oct 86 21:02:49-MST Received: from umd2.umd.edu by AMSAA.ARPA id a019807; 26 Oct 86 21:57 EST Date: Sun, 26 Oct 86 21:33:28 EST From: Manasseh Katz To: info-cpm@AMSAA.ARPA Subject: XLISP for CPM-86 Message-ID: Resent-Date: Sun, 26 Oct 86 22:15:45 EST Resent-From: info-cpm@AMSAA.ARPA Resent-To: info-cpm-relay@umd2.umd.edu I posted a message about this several months ago, and I never got any help, but maybe I will now (I hope). I am looking for XLISP version 1.4 (or above) for CPM-86. The one in SIGM Vol 153 is version 1.1. If someone has it, and can send it to me in uuencode format (or even if you can't handle uuencode format) PLEASE let me know. Thank you. Manasseh Katz MKATZ@UMD2.ARPA (I think) KATZM@UMDD.BITNET 27-Oct-86 07:00:55-MST,3470;000000000000 Return-Path: Received: from AMSAA by SIMTEL20.ARPA with TCP; Mon 27 Oct 86 07:00:41-MST Received: from brl-aos.arpa by AMSAA.ARPA id a020028; 26 Oct 86 23:07 EST Received: from ucb-vax.arpa by AOS.BRL.ARPA id a013591; 26 Oct 86 23:12 EST Received: by ucbvax (5.53/1.18) id AA03436; Sun, 26 Oct 86 20:08:14 PST From: tektronix!copper.TEK.COM!michaelk@UCB-VAX.ARPA Received: by tektronix.TEK (5.31/6.16) id AA01110; Sun, 26 Oct 86 19:40:57 PST Received: by copper.TEK (4.12/6.16) id AA06975; Sun, 26 Oct 86 19:41:41 pst Message-Id: <8610270341.AA06975@copper.TEK> To: ucbvax!brl.arpa!info-cpm@UCB-VAX.ARPA Subject: New version of CP/M CCP with csh history available Date: 26 Oct 86 19:41:38 PST (Sun) Resent-Date: Mon, 27 Oct 86 8:09:20 EST Resent-From: info-cpm@AMSAA.ARPA Resent-To: info-cpm-relay@UCB-VAX.ARPA An update to "CCP104+.LBR" is now available from the simtel20 archive. Used is the name "CCP105P.ARC" instead of "CCP105+.ARC" because the "+" is a reserved character in Tops-20. Filename Type Bytes CRC Directory PD: CCP105P.ARC.1 BINARY 126592 3993H >-----------------------< Mike Kersenbrock Sept 1986 Aloha, Oregon USENET: tektronix!copper!michaelk Version 1.05 incorporates the following features (over and above 1.04): 1. Provides a built-in history mechanism similar to that in Berkeley-Unix's CSH ("sea-shell"). Included is a built-in command "h" that diplays the history. See beginning of package's file "history.doc" for more details. 2. Provides detached enhancement ability. An additional routine can be executed just before the history routine. If a file named "CCP.EXT" exists on the "temporary disk" (set by setdef), then for each command line processed by CCP, that routine is loaded to address 6000 (hex) and "called". The intended purpose of this "hook" is to allow a HLL or MLL routine to be written for easy enhancements. The language in mind is "C", and an example test case has been provided in the distribution. 3. Provides a fix to CP/M Plus's handling of lines that start with a colon. "With" the fix, the "return code" is NOT reset with every command line executed, but IS reset upon cold boot. The purpose of this is to allow this author's port of the "Aussie-Make" to properly terminate make-execution upon an step-wise error (I posted this "make" to net.micro.cpm). For this to work, one's compilers, linkers, assemblers, etc need to set the return-status upon error. I have included in my distribution, several RSX examples -- the ones I use on several of my software tools -- that cause my software to set the return-status. They should be easy to modify for "your" tools. 4. I reinstituted the conditional-assembly flag that when used, makes the user NOT be in the prompt when the user number is ZERO. This author doesn't use non-0 user spaces, and likes a "non-busy" prompt. Set the other way, the original code is reinstituted, so there shouldn't be a problem with other people's builds. 5. With these features, the CCP remains less than 4K (albeit, getting close). All added enhancements are conditionally assembled. 6. Quite a few auxillary files are included into the distribution for development use. Some may be useable "asis", and some should be useable as templates that can be modified for other systems. 27-Oct-86 09:27:21-MST,2290;000000000000 Return-Path: Received: from AMSAA by SIMTEL20.ARPA with TCP; Mon 27 Oct 86 09:25:20-MST Date: Mon, 27 Oct 86 10:28:04 EST From: David Towson (SECAD) To: info-cpm@AMSAA.ARPA Subject: Patching LU310.COM to run under later versions of TurboDOS: Resent-Date: Mon, 27 Oct 86 10:40:11 EST Resent-From: info-cpm@AMSAA.ARPA Resent-To: info-cpm-relay@AMSAA.ARPA Fellow CP/Mers - Directory on SIMTEL20 contains a file called LUFIX.TD, which describes why LU300.COM won't run correctly without modif- ication under later versions of TurboDOS. Patches are provided for LU300, but not for LU310. This message contains the patches for LU310. LUFIX.TD says in part: "... LU (BDS C actually) uses unpublished information to see if a console character has been typed. Using BDOS call 11, the accumulator will return 00 if there is no console input or FF if there is a character waiting. In CP/M, HL will contain 0000 if no character else 0001. BDS C uses the (UNPUBLISHED!) value in HL to check console status rather than A. TurboDOS (and it may or may not have a bug there, but I wouldn't argue because HL is not defined as return value) returns HL=undefined if there is no character, or 00FF if there is. The following patch will fix LU to work properly under TurboDOS. Please note that this patch utilizes string storage used to contain the error message, "EXECL: Command line overflow" and will shorten that message to just "EXECL". ..." Since there is enough space available for it, I have used the same technique as described above, but have provided a more meaningful error message, "Cmd line ovrflow". Fixes for LU.COM version 3.10: 1. At address 47FA, change CD 05 00 (CALL 0005) to CD A0 4E (CALL 4EA0). 2. At address 4E8D, modify the original code to the following: 4E8D 43 6D 64 20 6C 69 6E 65 20 6F 76 72 66 6C 6F 77 Cmd line ovrflow 4E9D 0D 0A 24 FE 0B C2 05 00 CD 05 00 26 00 6F C9 ..$~.B..M..&.oI The above hex dump contains the following patch: 4EA0 CP A,0B 4EA2 JP NZ,0005 4EA5 CALL 0005 4EA8 LD H,00 4EAA LD L,A 4EAB RET Dave 27-Oct-86 10:31:29-MST,3224;000000000000 Return-Path: Received: from AMSAA by SIMTEL20.ARPA with TCP; Mon 27 Oct 86 10:30:53-MST Received: from brl-smoke.arpa by AMSAA.ARPA id a000729; 27 Oct 86 11:28 EST Received: from USENET by SMOKE.BRL.ARPA id a026688; 27 Oct 86 11:30 EST From: Michael Kersenbrock Newsgroups: net.micro.cpm Subject: New enhanced CP/M CCP including CSH-history available Message-ID: <684@copper.UUCP> Date: 27 Oct 86 03:47:02 GMT Subject: To: info-cpm@AMSAA.ARPA -------- An update to "CCP104+.LBR" is now available from the simtel20 archive. Used is the name "CCP105P.ARC" instead of "CCP105+.ARC" because the "+" is a reserved character in Tops-20. Filename Type Bytes CRC Directory PD: CCP105P.ARC.1 BINARY 126592 3993H >-----------------------< Mike Kersenbrock Sept 1986 Aloha, Oregon USENET: tektronix!copper!michaelk Version 1.05 incorporates the following features (over and above 1.04): 1. Provides a built-in history mechanism similar to that in Berkeley-Unix's CSH ("sea-shell"). Included is a built-in command "h" that diplays the history. See beginning of package's file "history.doc" for more details. 2. Provides detached enhancement ability. An additional routine can be executed just before the history routine. If a file named "CCP.EXT" exists on the "temporary disk" (set by setdef), then for each command line processed by CCP, that routine is loaded to address 6000 (hex) and "called". The intended purpose of this "hook" is to allow a HLL or MLL routine to be written for easy enhancements. The language in mind is "C", and an example test case has been provided in the distribution. 3. Provides a fix to CP/M Plus's handling of lines that start with a colon. "With" the fix, the "return code" is NOT reset with every command line executed, but IS reset upon cold boot. The purpose of this is to allow this author's port of the "Aussie-Make" to properly terminate make-execution upon an step-wise error (I posted this "make" to net.micro.cpm). For this to work, one's compilers, linkers, assemblers, etc need to set the return-status upon error. I have included in my distribution, several RSX examples -- the ones I use on several of my software tools -- that cause my software to set the return-status. They should be easy to modify for "your" tools. 4. I reinstituted the conditional-assembly flag that when used, makes the user NOT be in the prompt when the user number is ZERO. This author doesn't use non-0 user spaces, and likes a "non-busy" prompt. Set the other way, the original code is reinstituted, so there shouldn't be a problem with other people's builds. 5. With these features, the CCP remains less than 4K (albeit, getting close). All added enhancements are conditionally assembled. 6. Quite a few auxillary files are included into the distribution for development use. Some may be useable "asis", and some should be useable as templates that can be modified for other systems. -- Mike Kersenbrock Tektronix Computer Aided Software Engineering Aloha, Oregon 27-Oct-86 14:11:53-MST,1509;000000000000 Return-Path: Received: from AMSAA by SIMTEL20.ARPA with TCP; Mon 27 Oct 86 14:11:42-MST Received: from rand-unix.arpa by AMSAA.ARPA id a007848; 27 Oct 86 15:04 EST Received: by rand-unix.ARPA; Mon, 27 Oct 86 11:19:18 pst Message-Id: <8610271919.AA21905@rand-unix.ARPA> To: David Towson (SECAD) , info-cpm@AMSAA.ARPA Subj: turbodos/lu function 11 bug Date: Mon, 27 Oct 86 11:18:28 PST From: bridger@RAND-UNIX.ARPA Resent-Date: Mon, 27 Oct 86 15:16:23 EST Resent-From: info-cpm@AMSAA.ARPA Resent-To: info-cpm-relay@RAND-UNIX.ARPA I believe this is correctly classified as a Turbodos bug. For functions with a defined return value for A the CP/M 2.2 BDOS returns the A register value in L, and H = 0. This is documented, but some CP/M emulators don't copy the return value into L; it seems TurboDOS is one of those. CP/M 2.2, function 11 returns A=L= 01 if a character is waiting, A=L=0 if not. But there is actually a bug in the 2.2 BDOS related to console status. The BDOS maintains a 1-character type-ahead buffer (to check for ^S and ^C) that the BDOS fills when a character is typed during BDOS character output functions. The BDOS status functions (6 and 11) don't check to see if this buffer has been filled when reporting status. Result: if you type a character while the BDOS is printing a string and the program later checks to see if a key has been pressed, it won't see it on a bdos status call. --bridger 28-Oct-86 05:10:44-MST,1890;000000000000 Return-Path: Received: from AMSAA by SIMTEL20.ARPA with TCP; Tue 28 Oct 86 05:10:35-MST Received: from wiscvm.arpa by AMSAA.ARPA id a014671; 28 Oct 86 1:55 EST Received: from (CADS072)CALSTATE.BITNET by WISCVM.WISC.EDU on 10/27/86 at 17:48:12 CST Date: Sun, 26 Oct 1986 07:50 PDT From: "Mr. Bill" Subject: Apple CP/M and RAMdrives To: INFO-CPM@AMSAA.ARPA, INFO-APPLE@BRL.ARPA MMDF-Warning: Parse error in preceding line at AMSAA.ARPA Resent-Date: Tue, 28 Oct 86 6:31:06 EST Resent-From: info-cpm@AMSAA.ARPA Resent-To: info-cpm-relay@wiscvm.ARPA I was wondering if anyone out there can help me. I am using CP/M on my enhanced Apple //e. I now have the need for using files greater than the size of an Apple 5.25" disk. It must be one continuous file so I can't break it into multiple disks. I am now considering purchasing either a RAMcard (probably AE Ramfactor so it would be compatible with a //gs if/when I upgrade/purchase one.) or a 3.5" 800K drive (probably from Central Point). I would like to know if anyone has used either of these with Apple CP/M. I am using Microsoft CP/M ver 2.23. It's dated 1982, so I doubt it will recognize Apples new disk drive protocols. I need to know what, if anything, I would need to do to get CP/M do recognize these. Do I need to get a newer version of CP/M or will either of these come with the software. My setup is as follows: Slot Peripheral 1 Grappler parallel printer card 2 Apple SSC 6 Apple disk drive controller 7 ALS Z-card This only leaves either slot 4 or 5 for the new device. Any help would be appreciated. Bill Wood Bitnet: CADS072@CALSTATE 28-Oct-86 05:11:30-MST,1501;000000000000 Return-Path: Received: from AMSAA by SIMTEL20.ARPA with TCP; Tue 28 Oct 86 05:11:22-MST Received: from wiscvm.arpa by AMSAA.ARPA id a015289; 28 Oct 86 4:04 EST Received: from (MAILER)SCFVM.BITNET by WISCVM.WISC.EDU on 10/28/86 at 03:06:58 CST Received: by SCFVM (Mailer X1.23b) id 3712; Tue, 28 Oct 86 04:06:36 EST Date: Tue, 28 Oct 86 04:00 EST From: "Bruce H. McIntosh" Subject: Disctron drives on Adaptec? To: INFO-CPM@AMSAA.ARPA MMDF-Warning: Parse error in preceding line at AMSAA.ARPA Resent-Date: Tue, 28 Oct 86 6:31:12 EST Resent-From: info-cpm@AMSAA.ARPA Resent-To: info-cpm-relay@wiscvm.ARPA I have a pair of old Disctron hard disks, a DP400 (40mb fixed) and a DP100 (10mb removable) that I want to hook up to my CP/M machine (an H89 with a SCSI port added to it). These drives are real antiques: 8" platters, 28 hard sectors of 256 bytes each (if memory serves). Currently, they're controlled by an equally off-the-wall DTC controller board (built especially for these drives). I've talked to the supplier of my SCSI port, and he says that the software he's developed for it will only work properly with an Adaptec or Xebec or equivalent SCSI drive controller. My question: will the Adaptec or the Xebec control these mostrosities? Or am I faced with the task of developing my own code for the oddball DTC controller? Thanks in advance for any advice and info! 28-Oct-86 05:44:40-MST,999;000000000000 Return-Path: Received: from AMSAA by SIMTEL20.ARPA with TCP; Tue 28 Oct 86 05:44:29-MST Received: from wiscvm.arpa by AMSAA.ARPA id a016468; 28 Oct 86 6:24 EST Received: from (WILD)FREMBL51.BITNET by WISCVM.WISC.EDU on 10/28/86 at 05:26:26 CST Date: Tue, 28 Oct 86 12:04:49 n To: info-cpm@AMSAA.ARPA From: David Wild Organisation: European Molecular Biology Laboratory Postal-address: c/o ILL, BP 156X, 38042 Grenoble Cedex, France Phone: 76-48-71-11 [switchboard] 76-48-72-75 [direct] Subject: ZCPR3 command line recall Resent-Date: Tue, 28 Oct 86 6:31:15 EST Resent-From: info-cpm@AMSAA.ARPA Resent-To: info-cpm-relay@wiscvm.ARPA I am a new user of ZCPR3 (Z3.COM) and would like to be able to recall previous command lines for editing. Could anyone give me any ideas on how to do this? Is there a Z-system utility which will do it ? Many thanks, David