egapmh@ecsvax.UUCP (11/29/84)
I find it amazing how many people jump to the conclusion of assumed
piracy as the result of a simple request. There are *several* flavors of
Apple CPM. Microsoft is only one of them. Yes, many of them probably do
come with an Apple DOS-to-CPM conversion utility. My Z-80 card, made by
PCPI, marketed by MICROPRO, CPM by Digital Research, also includes such a
utility. I would imagine that this is not universally the case. I seem
to recall that some 3rd party Z-80 cards come pretty bare-bones. I do not
think that DR makes a CPM-DOS utility a standard part of the CPM OS it sells
. This would leave it up to the 3rd party licensee to provide such
utilities. Not all do. Didn't DEC fail to provide a disk formatting
utility when the Rainbow first came out? Besides, why would a "pirate" copy
only part on the CPM system disk when other utilities are sitting there
waiting to be "plundered"?
As to the requestor, I believe that InCider magazine published the
listing of such a utility sometime in 1983. I'm sure there are other
public domain sources as well.
Paul M. Hudy <egapmh@ecsvax>