Dan_Zehme@DGC.MCEO.DG.COM (08/09/90)
CEO summary: Thanks to everyone who has given me more information about ZCPR 3.4. I now have it up an running (although I have not used NZCOM, just what comes from simtel20). The funny thing, is that now that I read some of The Computer Journal articles, I find that I had pretty much reinvented NZCOM on my system (mine doesn't do automatic relocation, but everything is almost the same, although mine is a little better for QX-10s). I finally looked back at the named directories, and making them pad out to sector sizes worked fine. As for the environment, I already had the new environment, its just that the code was wrong. Could someone give me a summary of the environment types and what they mean?? As for the FAST ERA/REN/PROT, the point that other things such as DosDisk would have problems is a good point (lbrdisk is another one). As far as other things go--I am fully aware about extents and the such (I have been hacking around CP/M since ZCPR 1.0!). A "general purpose" utility could be written that either does things conventionally or using this fast mode by making a check on the drive. Are there any suggestions on making this check (other than an environment byte)? Thanks.