RCONN@Simtel20.ARPA (07/07/84)
From: Richard Conn <RCONN@Simtel20.ARPA> I received a phone call from Steve Leon at SIG/M this morning, and SIG/M has now received ZCPR3 Phase 1. It will be released starting at Volume 184. All CRCs of all files check out. Frank Wancho at White Sands has also received the Phase 1 distribution, and Frank plans to upload it to SIMTEL20 soon. Will let you know when it is available. I have been receiving several reports from Silicon Valley on ZCPR3 progress, and all have been favorable. People are getting the system up without too much difficulty (especially if they have ZCPR2 knowledge already), and absolutely no bugs have been reported. The beta testing seems to have been quite successful. The ZCPR3 Phase 2 effort is coming along quite nicely, with everything coming up. DU3, with its new screen-oriented editor, and VFILER are complete now. I am working on VMENU, which is a cross between VFILER and MENU, allowing the user to point to a file in the file display and invoke a menu command on that file. All of these utilities are screen-oriented, using highlighting, clear screen, cursor addressing, etc, and they port very easily between ZCPR3 systems, with a simple installation via the Z3INS routine being all that is necessary to do the port. To say the least, with ZCPR3 now we have the CP/M transportability concept extended to include screen-oriented utilities. Will keep you posted. Rick