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From: "ray whidden" <ray.whidden@canrem.com>
Subject: wordstar 4.0
Reply-To: "ray whidden" <ray.whidden@canrem.com>
Organization: Canada Remote Systems
Distribution: comp
Date: 5 Oct 92 10:16:26 EST

In an article from Joe Wright:

JW>MicroPro is still in business, somewhere in Northern California.
JW>Try to call them.  Wordstar 4.0 for CP/M is my choice for 'best'
JW>cp/m editor because it integrates lots of esoteric table-of-contents
JW>and index stuff along with speller and other stuff.  I dunno who can
JW>sell it to you if Micropro won't.  Good luck.

A year or more ago, Micropro officially changed their name to WORDSTAR, 
INC.  I doubt you'd be able to find them by the old name now.

Regards, Ray

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From: sage@LL.MIT.EDU (Jay Sage)
Newsgroups: comp.os.cpm
Subject: WordStar 4
Date: 5 Oct 92 13:17:26 GMT
Organization: The Internet


   Uwe Nass asked about a source for WordStar 4 and Joe Wright replied:

>> MicroPro is still in business, somewhere in Northern California...
>> sell it to you if Micropro won't.

MicroPro is still in business, now under the name WordStar Corporation. 
However, they no long sell WordStar for CP/M.  They sold the rights to the
following company:

                Trio Company
                P.O. Box 594
                3290 Genesee Street
                Cheektowaga, NY  14225-0594
                716-892-9630

For Uwe, I have even better news.  You can probably get a copy from a local
dealer in Germany.  Contact Helmut Jungkunz at the following Internet
address: "jungkunz@doitcr.doit.sub.org".  I recommend that anyone in Europe
looking for software -- commercial or public domain -- or any other
assistance with CP/M talk to Helmut.

-- Jay Sage
From: jfoy@glia.biostr.washington.edu (Jeff Foy)
Newsgroups: comp.os.cpm
Subject: Re: WordStar 4.0 for CP/M
Date: 28 Sep 92 19:27:43 GMT
Article-I.D.: glia.jfoy.717708463
Organization: University of Washington

In <1a6p2uINN16o@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> ac959@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Ed Grey) writes:

>I am trying to install WS4.0, on a TeleVideo 803H, using the
>printer driver for the Epson FX-85.  When I try to print, I keep
>getting an error message saying that I don't have enough memory
>or it cannot find the printer driver.  Qustions:

Ed, is WordStar talking directly to the printer or is it going through
the BIOS (or BDOS)? I remember having this same problem when I was
using 4.0 on CP/M. Removing all the other drivers (ASCII, DRAFT, blah,
blah) helped me.
 
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Newsgroups: comp.os.cpm
From: messmer@mamba.cc.lut.fi (Willi Messmer)
Subject: Adding 5"1/4 to Xerox820II ????
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 1992 15:52:28 GMT
Organization: Lappeenranta University of Technology, Finland

I have a Xerox 820-II with the 8" drive package. I would like to add 5"1/4
drives to it. There excists a 5"1/4 package without any extra offboard
controller, is this correct ? The thing I would have to do, make a cable, 
right ?

If it is so, please mail me the pin-out of the diskconnector.

Willi
messmer@lut.fi
From: GIORGOS@GREARN.BITNET (Giorgos Kavallieratos)
Newsgroups: comp.os.cpm
Subject: Urgent - Info about communications abilities of a CPC6128
Date: 26 Sep 92 00:08:40 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: The Internet

Hello,

I have an Amstrad CPC 6128 computer, running CP/M plus. I want to access
my computer account in the university so since I already have this computer
I was wondering if I could use it as a remote terminal.

So:

1) I know there is a 'general expansion slot' where I could connect an
   RS 232 port. So i can connect it to a modem. But, someone told me that
   regular modems arent 'proper' for Amstrad. I know it sounds silly, because
   the RS232 port is a standard and modems just 'talk' to it, but before
   I give all those money for a modem, I wanna be 100% sure that it will work.
   So, will I have any H/W problems or I will just need regular modem?

2) S/W question:  What communications program will I need in order to
   establish the connection? I am wondering if there is something similar
   to the PROCOMM thing. Does anyone know any program that could turn
   my CPC6128 to a network terminal?   Can I find anything in some anonymous
   FTP site?    if not, is there anything in the market? does it provide
   vt100 emulation?

Please, if anyone wishes to answer I would appreciate if it will be
sent to me by private e-mail because I am not reading the mails of this
discussion group.

Thanks in advance

                                                Giorgos Kavallieratos
                                               Univ. of Crete - Greece
Newsgroups: comp.os.cpm
From: haworth@cwis.unomaha.edu (Dwight A. Haworth)
Subject: Re: access with Kaypro IV
Organization: University of Nebraska at Omaha
Date: Sun, 4 Oct 1992 20:25:38 GMT

The best of the games for the II would be the original Adventure game.
It should be available the bbs that still serve the CPM community.
There are other text based adventures and games like STRTRK that use
character graphics.  Some of these require BASIC to run, but that should
 be no problem if you had all of the original Kaypro software.  The
Compuserve Computer Club forum would be a good place to look.
From: sage@LL.MIT.EDU (Jay Sage)
Newsgroups: comp.os.cpm
Subject: z80 assembler suggestions desired
Date: 30 Sep 92 15:52:44 GMT
Organization: The Internet

Curt Schroeder wrote:

>> Does anyone know of a good freeware/shareware z80 assembler that can
>> produce Microsoft compatible .rel (relocatable) object code?

   I can't speak for freeware/shareware, but Al Hawley's ZMAC package, at
$50, is priced close to a shareware level and is an awfully good deal. 
Except for speed, where the SLR tools reign supreme, ZMAC is probably the
highest quality assembler/linker/librarian package available for CP/M.  It
has a number of features available only in the $195 professional SLR tools
(e.g., automatic grouping by the linker of data-segment items at the end of
all code-segment items) and some features found nowhere else (e.g.,
automatic RSX and type-4 Z-System program generation).  And Al Hawley
continues to make improvements.  All other CP/M assemblers are, as far as I
know, unsupported.

-- Jay Sage

Newsgroups: comp.os.cpm
From: sl313028@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (O.K. I'm Jon)
Subject: Re: access with Kaypro IV
Organization: Indiana University
Date: Sun, 4 Oct 1992 00:17:52 GMT

hey, i just gave away my old kaypro II computer to a kid
friend of mine.  he doesn't know too much about computers,
and i guess i'm too lazy to go searching throught the
wuarchives, so i wanted to know if anyone knew of the names
of any good games (text-based or otherwise) and educational
stuff.  the kid is about 14.  


thanx in advance...

jon madison
sl313028@silver.ucs.indiana.edu
(jmmadiso@indyvax.iupui.edu)


Newsgroups: comp.os.cpm
From: alpha@waggen.twuug.com (Joe Wright)
Subject: Re: WordStar 4.0 for CP/M
Organization: ALPHA, Box 68621, Va. Beach, VA 23455
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1992 16:00:45 GMT

Ed Grey (ac959@cleveland.Freenet.Edu) wrote:
: 
: I am trying to install WS4.0, on a TeleVideo 803H, using the
: printer driver for the Epson FX-85.  When I try to print, I keep
: getting an error message saying that I don't have enough memory
: or it cannot find the printer driver.  Qustions:
:  
: 1.  How much memory is needed?  I've tried with as much as 59K.
: 2.  Is this a normal problem when trying to install a driver for
:     a full featured printer?  
: 3. Is there a way around this problem?
:    
: Thanks, any help, information and/or suggestions regarding WS4.0
: will be greatly appreciated.  I've been happy with WS3.3 and only
: now am I considering switching because I wanted to use additional
: features of my printer.  Take care.
:    
:     
: NOTE: I've tried using CP/M 2.2, CP/M 3.0 and Z-system.  The symtoms
: don't change.
:    
Use wschange to create a smaller WSPRINT.OVR containing only the
drivers you need.

-- 
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Newsgroups: comp.os.cpm
From: alpha@waggen.twuug.com (Joe Wright)
Subject: Re: WordStar 4.0
Organization: ALPHA, Box 68621, Va. Beach, VA 23455
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1992 21:31:44 GMT

Uwe Nass (UNF315@IBM.RHRZ.UNI-BONN.DE) wrote:
: 
: Hi all,
: 
: I have just read an old release announcement for WordStar 4.0 by
: MicroPro. Up to now, I use version 3.0 (!!) for editing letters
: on my old CP/M computer at home. Since I saw that some nice new
: features are added in version 4.0, I think I should give this
: product a chance, if
: 
:      - somebody can sell me this product with the manuals
: 
:      - the price is okay
: 
: Any hints?
: 
:                                              Thanks in advance
:                                                            Uwe Nass
MicroPro is still in business, somewhere in Northern California. 
Try to call them.  Wordstar 4.0 for CP/M is my choice for 'best'
cp/m editor because it integrates lots of esoteric table-of-contents
and index stuff along with speller and other stuff.  I dunno who can
sell it to you if Micropro won't.  Good luck.


-- 
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Newsgroups: comp.os.cpm
From: burt@binah.cc.brandeis.edu
Subject: Re: CP/M data transfer to DOS
Reply-To: burt@binah.cc.brandeis.edu
Organization: Brandeis University
Distribution: usa
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1992 21:11:57 GMT

If you have xmodem on both machines, and a null modem cable to connect 
them, xmodem will work nicely. There are also programs which enable 
IBM machines to read CP/M disk formats.
John Burt
From: malits@sw.stratus.com (George Malits)
Newsgroups: comp.os.aos
Subject: Re: Old MVs still have their uses.
Date: 29 Sep 92 17:37:32 GMT
Organization: Stratus Computer, Inc.

> >|> 
> >|> Also, a termcap or terminfo file for the Unix boxes which could 
> >|> emulate Data General terminals (D200 up (D470 anyone?))  or similar 
> >|> files for the DG side which could emulate vt series would be greatly appreciated.
> 
> >	AOS/VS II supports VT100 translations for control codes and cursor 
> >	positioning.  There's a file in :UTIL called DGXTERM_DEFAULTS that 
> >	can be used to get xterm to generate DG codes for function keys.
> >	I believe that AOS/VS can also do VT100 translations, but only if
> >	you've connected via a termserver/termcontroller.
> 
> Hmmm...  Under AOS/VS 7.69 I get VT100 translations through a plain old
> LAC-12 (IAC-12) board in an MV2000/DC.  That only thru a termserver stuff
> may be valid for TELNET sessions though. 


I had followed up on this via e-mail but I guess it's time to shoot my mouth off
to a larger audience. Adding  Vt-100 support required some substantial changes 
to the IAC firmware.  However, some of the older IAC's did not have enough memory 
available to load the additional code and support the new features.  As a result,
I believe that VT-100 suport is only available on the various "new generation" 
IAC cards (the ones based on the 68k not the uEclipse).  This would be the 
IAC 24, the newest IAC 8 (I bielieve there are three kinds), the term server 
cards and the LAC12
Newsgroups: comp.os.aos
From: eas@planets.risc.rockwell.com (Emilio A. Sovero)
Subject: tape archive format on DG MV4000
Organization: Rockwell International Science Center
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 92 01:15:30 GMT

Sirs:
	We have an oldie but goodie MV4000 which we use as data acquisition
computer. It works very well, but the only archive we have is a quarter inch
tape cartridge drive. We are running AOS/VS 6.04 and we use the dump cli
command to store our data. Due to the number of years we have been saving 
data I feel uneasy that the only machine that can read those tapes is the
MV4000.

	Here is the question:

Could somebody direct me to a program and or method to read those tapes
on a different computer (a SUN SparcStation would be ideal)?
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Newsgroups: comp.os.aos
From: jorge@tfs.com (I shall return)
Subject: Re: Boot floppies for AOS on an RT?
Keywords: AOS, IBM RT, booting, floppy
Organization: TRW Financial Systems
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1992 17:03:26 GMT

I have seen this happen before but I am sorry to inform you that this 
newsgroup applies only to the Data General proprietory operating system(s)
called AOS, AOS/VS and AOS/VS II.  Sometime ago, someone posted similar
IBM oriented questions and there were some discussion as to how this 
problem is to be addressed.  I think another newsgroup exists for the
IBM environment.

Jorge V.
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Newsgroups: comp.os.aos
From: raj@ics.uci.edu (Richard A. Johnson)
Subject: Boot floppies for AOS on an RT?
Summary: How do you produce boot floppies from the /usr/sys sources?
Keywords: AOS, IBM RT, booting, floppy
Organization: UC Irvine Department of ICS
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1992 15:47:50 GMT

I hope this is the correct newsgroup for this!

I'm using AOS on an IBM RT (basically it's BSD 4.3 ported to an RT).  (I hope
this is the same AOS to which the name of this newsgroup refers!)  Anyway, we
have a serious problem with one of our disks and we need to boot from floppies,
however we don't have the boot floppies around anymore.  The saving grace to
this is that we still have ANOTHER RT which has AOS on it and has the sources
on it also!  Thus, I was able to cd to /usr/sys/standca and can produce all of
the programs I need.  That part works just fine.  However, now I need to put
this all onto a floppy in the correct format so tha I can boot from it.
(I also need to produce a miniroot filesystem for copying into the the swap
area so I can boot from that, but that's my NEXT problem!)  So...

How do I write all of this out to floppy such that I can boot from it?
and
How do I produce the miniroot filesystem I need?  (I've done it a long time
ago on a Vax so I know the basic method, I just don't know what files to
include.)

Maybe there's some place I can get a copy of the boot floppies and the miniroot?
(When I asked my IBM rep. about it all I got back, "We don't support that
OS anymore and we can't get hold of anything related to it."  Oh well...

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Newsgroups: comp.os.aos
From: jeffb@world.std.com (Jeffrey T Berntsen)
Subject: Re: Old MVs still have their uses.
Organization: The World @ Software Tool & Die
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1992 22:26:54 GMT

poag@blues.rtp.dg.com (Coleman Poag) writes:

>In article <2925840141.0.p00078@psilink.com>, "Andrew Luck" <p00078@psilink.com> writes:

>|> 
>|> Also, a termcap or terminfo file for the Unix boxes which could 
>|> emulate Data General terminals (D200 up (D470 anyone?))  or similar 
>|> files for the DG side which could emulate vt series would be greatly appreciated.

>	AOS/VS II supports VT100 translations for control codes and cursor 
>	positioning.  There's a file in :UTIL called DGXTERM_DEFAULTS that 
>	can be used to get xterm to generate DG codes for function keys.
>	I believe that AOS/VS can also do VT100 translations, but only if
>	you've connected via a termserver/termcontroller.

Hmmm...  Under AOS/VS 7.69 I get VT100 translations through a plain old
LAC-12 (IAC-12) board in an MV2000/DC.  That only thru a termserver stuff
may be valid for TELNET sessions though. 

>-- 

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>ECLIPSE Commercial Software      UUCP:     {world}!mcnc!rti!dg-rtp!poag
>Data General Corporation
>62 T.W. Alexander Drive
>RTP, NC. 27709                   Phone:    919-248-5974

Commercial Software?  Which products to you folks deal with?

Jeff Berntsen
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Newsgroups: comp.os.aos
From: poag@blues.rtp.dg.com (Coleman Poag)
Subject: Re: Old MVs still have their uses.
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 92 13:54:42 GMT
Organization: Data General, ECLIPSE Commercial Software

In article <2925840141.0.p00078@psilink.com>, "Andrew Luck" <p00078@psilink.com> writes:
|> I work for a company with a very mixed platform environment.  Some Suns, 
|> Intergraph, Tektronics terminals, PCs, and Data Gen MV series (2k to 20k).
|> 
|> While I am not in the Computer Sciences Group, I do have this connect to 
|> the outside world.  We are trying to establish better links between the 
|> other platforms and the DGs, which are still being used for 
|> administrative purposes.
|> 
|> Data General Series, running AOS/VS v7.65, Zodiac Network, (one with 
|> TCP/IP), using WPMail on the DGs.  
|> 
|> The surrounding environment is mostly TCP/IP, RFC 822 mail, ethernet.
|> 
|> Does anybody have suggestions regarding how to tie the DGs into the rest 
|> of the enviornment.  We have some connections, but not true interconnectivity.
|> PD, FW, SW would be preferred.

	If you go to AOS/VS II, then you can use TCP/IP II, which will give you
	full-screen telnet, and remote shell capability.  You'd also have the
	option of running ONC/NFS (export-only), which would allow you to mount 
	AOS/VS directories on your UNIX machines. 
|> 
|> Specifically, we are looking for a prototype sendmail.cf file for the DG 
|> side. Also, any hints about getting the WPMail to work with sendmail 
|> through a gateway DG between linked DGs and linked Unix boxes. 

	We use MAILI to get from CEO mail to UNIX mail, this is something I 
	just use, without knowing how or why it works, so I can't be much help. 
	I'm not even sure what the product name of MAILI is. 
|> 
|> Also, a termcap or terminfo file for the Unix boxes which could 
|> emulate Data General terminals (D200 up (D470 anyone?))  or similar 
|> files for the DG side which could emulate vt series would be greatly appreciated.

	AOS/VS II supports VT100 translations for control codes and cursor 
	positioning.  There's a file in :UTIL called DGXTERM_DEFAULTS that 
	can be used to get xterm to generate DG codes for function keys.
	I believe that AOS/VS can also do VT100 translations, but only if
	you've connected via a termserver/termcontroller.
|> 
|> I know this is probably a lot, but we will be with the DGs for quite a 
|> while longer, if not changing over to Avion eventually.  

	If you do use AViiONs, then DG/UX has an X11 client called mterm that
	can emulate a D216 or a D410, I use this all of the time now.
|> 
|> If files can be had through ANON_FTP, I can get those as well.  Even 
|> pointer in the right direction would be helpful.
|> 
|> Thanks in advance.

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RTP, NC. 27709                   Phone:    919-248-5974
From: MICHAEL.WILLETT@OFFICE.WANG.COM ("Michael Willett")
Newsgroups: comp.os.research
Subject: RAID embedded OS research reports?
Date: 7 Oct 1992 00:20:01 GMT
Organization: Mail to News Gateway at Wang Labs
NNTP-Posting-Host: ftp.cse.ucsc.edu
Originator: osr@ftp

Would anyone know where to find some good research reports on embedded
operating systems for RAID platforms? -- Michael.Willett@OFFICE.Wang.com

% How does this differ from a RAID 5?  --DL

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Regarding John Scoggin's request for information on RAID systems for
VINES, Storage Computer of Nashua, N.H. is currently showing its new high
performance RAID 7 disk array platforms at the September Banyan Users
Meeting.  They work equally well with NetWare, IBM systems, workstations,
the VAX, etc.

Standards-based, RAID 7 is designed for enterprise-wide computing and
overcomes performance limitations of earlier RAID architectures, providing
a  "real world sustained application performance improvement of 200% to
400%" and dropping the cost of storage to 16 cents/MB.  Their brochures
say they can "mix and match" up to 48 SCSI commodity (3.5 or 5.25 inch)
drives, up to 150 GB.  The RAID 7 disk array platforms come with an embedded
operating system and up to 12 SCSI-2 based host interfaces.  Besides servers,
Storage Computer's RAID 7 disk array platforms can connect to workstations
and midrange systems in addition to IBM's.  Multiple CPUs can be attached to
same disk array platform.

The RAID 7 platforms come with up to 256 MB of cache, eliminating any
reason for using performance-damaging CPU main memory disk RAM.

The drives are "hot plugable" for uninterrupted, transparent operation,
with a hot standby drive automatically replacing a failed drive.

There was a lot of activity yesterday at the Storage Computer RAID 7 booth
at the Banyan show as I walked by.  They were demoing what happens if a
drive goes down, showing the backup drive taking over.

For further information on Storage Computer's RAID 7 for the VAX, their
key contact is indicated to be John O'Brien, Director of Technical Services,
at Tel. 603-880-3005 or FAX 603-889-7232.

Michael.Willett@OFFICE.Wang.com
From: adobe!zstern@uunet.UU.NET (Zalman Stern)
Newsgroups: comp.os.research
Subject: Re: operating systems research hosed?? (Re: WINDOWS/NT)
Date: 1 Oct 92 05:01:58 GMT
Organization: Adobe Systems Incorporated
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Originator: osr@ftp

In article <1a9td2INN9rl@darkstar.UCSC.EDU> lm@slovax.Eng.Sun.COM (Larry  
McVoy) writes:
>[Text deleted.]
I've thought a bit about how to respond to Larry's post. There isn't really  
any need to point out the many valuable pieces of software that we all take  
for granted that either came from or owe debts to the research community  
(both academic and corporate). Sun is actually reasonably good at crediting  
the research that their products are based on. (I expect Larry might even be  
slightly thankful that Kirk McKusick et. al. wrote the Berkeley fast file  
system.)

> Research has its place.  Companies have their place.  Don't under value
> one and over value another.
Yes. The original message seemed to indicate that Windows/NT is going to  
upset this balance. I disagree. NT is an example of the above symbiosis  
whether Microsoft wants to admit it or not. Then again, maybe this lack of  
credit will hurt the OS research community.
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