CS.Temin@UTEXAS-20.ARPA (02/20/84)
From: Aaron Temin <CS.Temin@UTEXAS-20.ARPA> I recall there being a program in the CPM directories from Dysan that is reputed to aid in aligning disk drive heads. I FTP'ed to Simtel-20, but it was being very uncooperative about allowing me to peruse the directories. Could someone give me a full pathname to the file (I think its root name is DDD)? Also, has anyone actually used the program successfully? Thanks, -aaron -------
ABN.ISCAMS%usc-isid@sri-unix.UUCP (02/21/84)
Aaron (et al)
Pathname to the Dysan DDD program for disk drive head alignment:
(FTP from SIMTEL20, ANONYMOUS login, of course)
MICRO:<CPM.DSKUTL>DDD.ASM.1
DDD.DOC.1
DDD1.ASM.1
Nope, haven't used it myself (don't have the special Dysan disk).
Incidentally, if you want to see a directory (a SINGLE directory),
DIR MICRO:<CPM.directoryname><ESC><ESC> works pretty good -- IF you know
the directory name. Else...you gotta download (or set up the FTP transfer
to 7 bit ASCII so you can send it to TTY:) MICRO:<CPM>CPM.CRCLST.nn
You can get the latest CPM.CRCLST by DIR MICRO:<CPM><ESC><ESC>.
Regards,
David Kirschbaum
Toad Halltowson%amsaa@sri-unix.UUCP (02/21/84)
From: David Towson (CSD) <towson@amsaa>
David - A couple things in your note concerning the whereabouts of the Dysan
DDD program caught my eye: What are the escapes in the FTP sequences for ?
Our UNIX FTP doesn't use them. Our syntax is:
ftp "micro:<cpm.dirname>filename" local_filename
The quotes are there to keep UNIX happy, since the < and > characters are
special in UNIX. Second, I don't think you need to append the version number
to the filename (as in filename.nn). I have never been refused by a TOPS-20
system, and I have never used the version number. Have you had difficulties
if you didn't use it ?
DaveBILLW%sri-kl@sri-unix.UUCP (02/21/84)
Yes, it depends on the FTP user program. The TOPS20 ftp server defaults unspecified parts of the filename to *, so just a DIR FILENAME will actually find FILENAME.*. By the way, the tops20 filename format is <directory>filename.extension.version, its only a sometime used cpm convention that the extension contain the program version number. directory, filename, and extension can all be up to 39 characters long, and version is a number less than some large decimal number. The tops20 FTP code also contains a check so that an wildcard directorys cannot be used (presumably, this is to prevent people from using large amounts of CPU time doing a directory of the entire file system). Perhaps this restriction should be removed from the SIMTEL system ? BillW
w8sdz%brl@sri-unix.UUCP (02/21/84)
From: Keith Petersen <w8sdz@brl> Try MICRO:<CPM.DSKUTL> as the directory on SIMTEL20. You'll find the original generic DDD.ASM and a new one DDD1.ASM which I believe is for a CCS disk controller. You'll find DDDTAR.LBR on TCBBS Dearborn, MI (313) 846-6127, which is for the Tarbel controller.