SAGE@LL.ARPA (02/11/88)
Local Cc: SAGE Message-ID: <SAGE.04151565@LL.ARPA> I saw the note from Keith about PPIP17 being available from SIMTEL20 and would like to offer a warning. That version of PPIP is seriously flawed. I used to have it on my Z Node, but many users complained that it did not work. When I tried it, I experienced serious problems as well. There would appear to be either a problem with the stack, careless use of page 0, or overflow of data onto code. The problems do not appear on all systems or at all times. They appear to be data dependent. These problems are unfortunate. The author of PPIP16 and PPIP17 added a desirable option, 'M' for 'move', to delete the source file after a successful copy. Perhaps an enterprising programmer will extract the code for this option and put it into PPIP15, which does work. Another feature that I have wanted to have in PPIP is a default to ignore SYS-type files and an option ('S') to include them. I use DateStamper, and PPIP always wants to copy the R/O-SYS file !!!TIME&.DAT file when I give a *.* file spec in user 0. It should be fairly straightforward to add such a feature.