[comp.os.cpm] Question

DHAESE@BANUIA51.BITNET (01/04/88)

        I'm a Apple CP/M 2.2 user, my configuration consists of a 64K
Apple ][+ with a Z80 softcard. I can run Apple CP/M 56K and Apple CP/M 60K
without difficulties.
        I would like to install ZCPR2 on my Apple but therefor I need a
SYSGEN program, which I don't have. On my CP/M system disk I have two
programs called CPM56.COM and CPM60.COM which write the CP/M image to
the system tracks of a disk. The problem is, I think, that those programs
don't take the memory image, but a disk base image ?
        Who has already installed ZCPR2 on an Apple and how did he/she
solved the SYSGEN problem ? All kind of information is welcome, my
electronic mail address is DHAESE@BANUIA51.BITNET
        Kindly regards from D'haese Gratien.

DHAESE@BANUIA51.BITNET (01/04/88)

        I'm a Apple CP/M 2.2 user, my configuration consists of an
Apple ][+ with a Z80 Softcard, and I'm a fan of Turbo Pascal 2.0 .
        My problem is how eliminating the "include error message (Y/N)"
when Turbo Pascal is being executed and second how preventing Turbo
Pascal making a BAK (backup) file ? Can this be done with some patches
with DDT ?
        I've got the same problem with Wordstar 3.01P (eliminating BAK).
Electronic mail address is DHAESE@BANUIA51.BITNET
Kindly regards from D'haese Gratien.

binder@fizbin.DEC.COM (That's not just *any* racket, it's Brahms' Third Racket.) (01/06/88)

From: D'haese Gratien (DHAESE%BANUIA51.BITNET@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU).

>         My problem is how eliminating the "include error message (Y/N)"
> when Turbo Pascal is being executed and second how preventing Turbo
> Pascal making a BAK (backup) file ? Can this be done with some patches
> with DDT ?
>         I've got the same problem with Wordstar 3.01P (eliminating BAK).

There was a patch sent around years ago to eliminate the "Include error
messages" prompt.  Sorry, I didn't save it.

Turbo and WordStar do not create .BAK files, so it's *really* tough to get
them not to do so.  In both of these products, the .BAK file is the
previous version of the file you're working on.  When you edit a file with
Turbo, the entire file is pulled into memory.  When you write it out Turbo
renames the old .PAS file to be .BAK.  WordStar does things a little
differently:  As you edit a file, pieces of it are shuffled between the
workspace in memory and a temporary file named <filename>.$$$.  When you
finishe editing, WordStar writes everything out to a new file, deletes the
temporary file, and renames the old file to be .BAK.

I'd guess that you must never have had a system crash while editing with
either Turbo or WordStar, or made a really *bad* mistake in editing that
you wish you could fix back easily.  If you had, you'd be *glad* to have
the backup files around!  I had an Apple ][+ with a SoftCard for a couple
of years, and I have an Apple //e with a PCPI Applicard now; and even with
the tiny 128Kbyte capacity of Apple floppies, it's worth the safety.

Cheers,
Dick Binder   (The Stainless Steel Rat)

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