dg@lakart.UUCP (David Goodenough) (06/28/89)
OK, I'm looking for ideas: I just finished seriously hacking Z80CCP from the SIMTEL20 archives to do what _I_ think a CCP should do. Given that it has: Automatic Submit operation: if a program is not found either where said, or on A0: it throws it at SUBMIT.COM; Paging TYPE; LIST (TYPE to LST: w/o pages); ERA tells you what it's going to erase, and asks about all wildcards, not just *.*; Civilised USER number handling: I can say B3:PROGRAM, and it does the sensible thing, also B3: does the same as B: / USER 3; _AND_: about 256 bytes of space left over; we come to $64,000 question. What do I put in the 256 bytes left? Basically I'm looking for some small, neat, _USEFUL_ idea to use that last bit of space. (If this was for the Voyager probe, I'd try to tuck a pattern matching algorithm in, but I doubt this will ever make outer space :-) ). It is worth noting that the USER command has been ditched (it's now redundant), as was the CLS, which I did not consider useful. Suggestions by E-mail to the address below, or post if you think everyone wants some neat ideas. If I get enough response, I'll summarise. -- dg@pallio.UUCP - David Goodenough +---+ IHS | +-+-+ ....... !harvard!xait!lakart!pallio!dg +-+-+ | AKA: dg%pallio.uucp@cfisun.cfi.com +---+
andrew@frip.WV.TEK.COM (Andrew Klossner) (07/01/89)
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"Civilised USER number handling: I can say B3:PROGRAM, and it
does the sensible thing, also B3: does the same as B: / USER
3; ...
"the USER command has been ditched (it's now redundant)"
The USER command should not be ditched, for lots of reasons: --
-- Losing it invalidates some shell scripts;
-- Novices using (old!) "how to use CP/M" books will become confused;
-- And sometimes you want to change the user number, but don't know
(or care) what disk you're on. (This happens mostly in shell scripts.)
-=- Andrew Klossner (uunet!tektronix!frip.WV.TEK!andrew) [UUCP]
(andrew%frip.wv.tek.com@relay.cs.net) [ARPA]