tilmann@cosmo.UUCP (Tilmann Reh) (06/30/90)
This is about several themes of the last ~50 messages. 1. WordStar with HP-LJ I think it's not that hard installing the HPLJ to WordStar 3.3. However, you can use only about 5% of the printer's features. Ever thought of WS 4.0? With that, HPLJ is fully supported (including proportional spacing, various fonts and so on), and many new functions are added. WS 4.0 for CP/M behaves exactly like WS 4.0 for MSDOS, if you know. I'm using WS 4.0 myself, and I wouldn't miss it anymore. 2. CP/M to DOS conversion Seems to me that there was someone who wanted to *run* DOS programs (or even DOS O.S.) under CP/M. That is *impossible* anyway 'cause of different object codes. The only thing you can do is *transfer* any kind of data (usually source code) between the two. For that, there are some transfer programs available. 22DISK was mentioned; I prefer using my own program (published in c't mag in 1987). These programs just copy files from CP/M to a DOS disk with respect to the different disk format and organization. 3. CP/M 3.0 Tools and Utilities Every program written for CP/M 2.2 will also run with CP/M 3.0, as long as it doesn't use direct BIOS calls (which are handled very different). For those applications where this is impossible (i.e. Disk Utilities), there are CP/M 3 versions (or universal versions) available everywhere (or no need for!). Concerning data file transfer between CP/M and MSDOS versions of the same program, there are slight differences. For example, with WS-CP/M special characters are stored directly, while with DOS-WS they are embedded in 1Bh and 1Ch (or 9B/1C when soft-formatted). So you need an additional format translator for transferring WS documents between CP/M and DOS. Don't know if there are this kind of differences in file format of the other programs that were mentioned. 4. Printing with PIP Susie Keim was writing that the machine messages 'not enough memory' when trying to copy a file to the printer with PIP. I never knew that PIP contained such a message, so I guess the system was outputting it. That could be the result of a damaged (or just too large) PIP.COM file. It should be about 8k. Please check out *who* is messaging there (system or PIP), which should be distinguishable by 'before/during/after' loading PIP. 5. WordStar to ASCII There is a point in the 'printing menu' at which you can choose 'print to disk'. That's exactly what you are looking for. This relates to WS 3.x. When using WS 4.0, there's a special printer driver named 'ASCII' which does the same. 6. WordStar Menu delays There are three delay times in the patch area of WS (all versions). One of them is that for the menues to remain onscreen. At least you could minimize this value, which would result in the signons beeing displayed one after another. BTW ever thought of WS 3.0, 3.1 or 4.0 ? Version 3.3 is the only one with that screen-filling signon... Tilmann +------------------------------------------------------------------------+ ! tilmann@cosmo.uucp ! Seven eights of EVERYTHING can't be seen. ! ! Tilmann Reh, D-5900 Siegen ! (Marshals generalized Iceberg Theorem) ! +------------------------------------------------------------------------+