pugsly@isrnix.UUCP (David Roth) (09/30/85)
I have the CP/M option for my C64. I have used many CP/M systems in the past and
have been spoiled by the use of screen
editors. Does anyone know if any exists
for the C64's CP/M option? ED is about to
drive me up a wall. Anyone got WordStar working on it...like the WS for the
apple using the Z80 card?
Please reply by mail.
Thanks in advance.
David A. Roth
...decvax!pur-ee!isrnix!pugsly
Indinapolis,INKushall.henr@XEROX.ARPA (10/07/85)
This may sound silly, but TURBO PASCAL is available for the C64 CPM option. In fact TURBO-PASCAL is the only product ever offered for the C64 CPM option.(on the Commodore disk format) TURBO comes with a screen editor that mimics WS in the non-document mode. The editor works well and is fast. It is limited to files that can fit in memory. ED KUSHALL
pugsly@ucb-vax.ARPA (10/07/85)
No, I don't think that is silly at all. My main reason for wanting the editor is to avoid using ED to create and edit .ASM files. Does the editor with TURBO support .ASM and .TXT file type? I also got a copy of VDO.hex that Keith Petersen was nice enough to send me and I am going to try that out too. Have to dig out that program that lets you xfer files from C64 DOS<=>C64 CP/M. What does Turbo Pascal for the C64 CP/M cost? Thanks in advance. David A. Roth ...decvax!pur-ee!isrnix!pugsly Indianapolis,IN
Kushall.henr@XEROX.ARPA (10/07/85)
David: To the best of my knowledge there is nothing unique about .ASM and .TXT files, that is they are sequential ASCII text files. Using the TURBO-PASCAL etitor you can give a file any name and extension that is a legal CP/M file name. Thus you should be able te create and edit .ASM and .TXT files with out any problems. In fact the TURBO editor can make a file of the type NAME.COM but CP/M won't like it! The only restriction is the file size is <62K (the manual says 64K) and the file must fit in available memory, thus on CP/M 80 systems the file size will be much less than 62K by the size of TURBO and the resident CP/M RAM space. When you do a save from the TURBO editor the existing file NAME.EXT is renamed NAME.BAK and a new NAME.EXT file is created. Ed Kushall