generous@styx.UUCP (Curtis C. Generous) (10/24/85)
To anyone who has/is using a Compupro 10+ micro with CCPM/8-16:
I have been using a 10+ for several weeks now, and have become
exasperated with the Compupro documentation (or lack of).
If there is anyone out there who has done system level programming
on this machine, I would like to talk to you concerning some very basic yet
undocumented features/commands. For example:
- How does one reset the real time clock. The documentation
mentions the following:
A> DATE SET
But that does not seem to work.
- The 10+ supports several printers, yet it is not documented
anywhere how to access them and switch printers from within
a program (assembly language, Pascal, C, etc..)
- The operating system seems to have a bug concerning the
release of the printers. When more than one user tries to
print a document to a common printer from within a program
(i.e. Wordstar, Dbase), the second user's program seems to
hang until the first users exits his program (back to the
system prompt).
- Is it possible to detach the console as in MP/M, to run
a background task with CCP/M 8-16?
Also, if anyone has any hardware reference manuals for the machine,
I would also like to find out how the communications are done between
the Z80`s and the 8088 CPU/Disk Drives.
I have made several attempts to contact D.R.I., the dealer where I
bought the system, and even Compupro to get some of these answers
but all in vain. Any help in an of the above topics is appreciated.
Curtis C. Generous
generous@lll-tis-b.ARPA
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