dg@lakart.UUCP (David Goodenough) (10/15/89)
Quick request for help. I still live in the dark ages of CP/M 2.2, not having ever upgraded to a Z-system or CP/M 3.0 (don't ask - it's a long story). So I do batch operations with (effectively) SUBMIT.COM as delivered by DRI with CP/M 2.2. As any C128 guru's outthere will tell you, "it don't work like that under 3.0". So, how do it work? Any information should be mailed to me, unless it's of world shattering importance, in which case posting it is OK. -- dg@lakart.UUCP - David Goodenough +---+ IHS | +-+-+ ....... !harvard!xait!lakart!dg +-+-+ | AKA: dg%lakart.uucp@xait.xerox.com +---+
tilmann@cosmo.UUCP (Tilmann Reh) (10/22/89)
dear david, the usage of SUBMIT under CP/M-3 is as easy as if you started the programs directly. Under CP/M-3 it is possible to set the "Search Order" to contain .SUB files, that means, when you type a command and then hit "return", the system will search for files "command.COM" and "command.SUB", in the order you previously defined. If a SUB file is found, SUBMIT.COM is automatically loaded and the batchfile will be processed immediately. You have nothing to do except typing the command with its parameters, just as you would do with an executable COM file. Isn't that nice? If you are the lucky owner of something called RAM-Disk (perhaps non- volatile?), then you can increase system performance by having SUBMIT.COM and all often-used SUB files in it. Then you set the "Drive Search Chain" for the system to look at the ram-disk first before attempting to access the physical drives. After that, you just wonder how you could ever work without it. Tilmann Reh