RCONN@Simtel20.ARPA (07/05/84)
From: Richard Conn <RCONN@Simtel20.ARPA> Date: Thursday, 28 June 1984 23:05-MDT From: Richard Conn <RCONN> To: <hplabs!intelca!cem at Berkeley> cc: cem at Berkeley, Rconn Re: Zcpr Hooks Yes, there is one "big" hook you can look forward to in ZCPR3 which is necessary to give you perhaps 80% of the new features. A 1K (my recommendation) buffer area is needed to contain the ZCPR3 Environment Descriptor (which includes TCAP - Terminal Capabilities Entry), named directory buffer, shell stack, messages, external FCB, external stack, and (perhaps) path. This is detailed to the nth degree in the installation manual, which is included in the distribution. If you have ZCPR2 up, you should have no problem getting ZCPR3 up. It involves just more of the same types of BIOS initializations. Also, if you remember the old GENINS procedure for ZCPR2, the ZCPR3 generalized installation program involves issued one simple command and watching Z3INS step thru all the programs in the INS file, installing everything it finds. The 58 utilities in Phase 1 release took me about 4 minutes to install. Rick