michaelk@copper.UUCP (Michael Kersenbrock) (10/27/86)
Subject:
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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:<CPM.CPM3>
CCP105P.ARC.1 BINARY 126592 3993H
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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