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From: donm@pnet07.cts.com (Don Maslin)
Newsgroups: comp.os.cpm
Subject: Re: Small C
Date: 21 Jul 92 05:05:22 GMT
Organization: People-Net [pnet07], San Diego, CA

sands@spuddy.uucp (PA Deacon) writes:
>
>I'm looking for small C for CPM, preferably PD.
>Can someone point me in the right direction please ???
>
SIMTEL20 has a small-C interpreter in pd2:<cpm.c>sci-12.ark

Look, also, at SIGM Vol 224 which is a small-C compiler, etc.
From: booloo@framsparc.ocf.llnl.gov (Mark Boolootian)
Newsgroups: comp.os.cpm
Subject: How can I read floppies written by Morrow running CP/M?
Date: 29 Jul 92 18:27:09 GMT
Organization: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Greetings,

I am posting this for another chap here at the lab.  Hope I've found the 
proper forum for this post.

Said chap apparently had a Morrow running CP/M 2.2 and created some files with
a program written in Pearl (his spelling - I assume he doesn't mean Perl).
The Morrow has since died, and he now has several double-sided (360K) floppies
with files which he needs to move over to his Mac.  Is there any way of
capturing these files using another system (perhaps an IBM PC running some
appropriate software can read them)?.  

Any help would be greatly appreciated.  Please email responses as I don't
normally read comp.os.cpm.

Thanks and best regards,
mb
-- 
Mark Boolootian		booloo@llnl.gov		+1 510-423-1948
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From: jon@amc.com (Jon Mandrell)
Subject: Epson px-8 ROMs
Organization: Applied Microsystems, Redmond, WA
Distribution: usa
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 05:06:25 GMT

I am playing around with an Epson px-8, and came across an ad for extra
program ROMs, such as a mini version of dbase-2. Does anyone have any of
the px-8 program ROMs that they would like to get rid of? I might be
interested in spare parts also.

-- 
Jon Mandrell, Applied Microsystems Corp., (jon@amc.com or ..!uunet!amc-gw!jon)
Newsgroups: comp.os.cpm
From: jeffj@panix.com (Jeff Jonas)
Subject: need ANSI terminal sequences for Wordstar 3.0
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 03:12:49 GMT
Organization: Jeff's House of Electronic Parts

I've set up my old California Systems S100 Z80 CP/M system
as a word processor for a friend.
I want to upgrade the terminal from the ADM3A to a Data General
that seems to have an ANSI mode.

Wordstar version 3.0 doesn't have any ANSI terminal in the install menu.
Does anybody have the patches for an ANSI terminal?
Only as a last resort would I pull out the manuals and
look up the terminal patch points and piece together the
corresponding ANSI sequences.  Since my friend's so far away,
I really wnat it to work on the first shot.

Thanks in advance:

Jeffrey Jonas
jeffj@synsys.uucp
synsys!jeffj@uunet.uu.net
From: spt@acsu.buffalo.edu (Scott P. Toenniessen)
Newsgroups: comp.os.cpm
Subject: Re: Undocumented Z80 Opcodes
Date: 29 Jul 92 19:27:41 GMT
Organization: UB

In article <9207271025.AA20373@LL.MIT.EDU> sage@LL.MIT.EDU (Jay Sage) writes:
>
>   I completely agree with Joe's implication that unsupported opcodes and
>unsupported programming language features simply should NOT be used.  As far

I would agree with that too.  Pretty funny that Tandy (king of telling
owners, "Don't use undocumented ROM/Op system calls!") used undocumented
codes in Model III TRSDOS.  When the Z180 speed up board came out for the
Mod. 4, this became readily apparant.

                                   Scott
From: diegel@mcshh.Hanse.DE (Jan Diegelmann)
Newsgroups: comp.os.cpm
Subject: CP/M for a Sharp MZ 3500 ?
Date: 25 Jul 92 17:14:13 GMT
Organization: Point of Presence Hamburg


I'm looking for a CP/M system disk for the Sharp MZ 3500 series.
I still got the EOS and FDOS operating system, but I know that there
is a CP/M 2.2 and a Turbe DOS as well. Probably anyone has such a
system.

Thank you

Jan D.

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e-mail: diegel@mcshh.hanse.de
From: hebo@hp850.mbari.org (Bob Herlien)
Newsgroups: comp.os.cpm
Subject: Re: CP/M operating sys for intel machines?
Date: 30 Jul 92 20:40:43 GMT
Organization: Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute

In article <ERU.92Jul27171440@tnso04.tele.nokia.fi> eru@tnso04.tele.nokia.fi (Erkki Ruohtula) writes:
>
>There was a system called CP/M-86, which in the beginning of PC:s
>looked like a viable competitor to MS-DOS, and was supplied with many

When the IBM PC first came out, CP/M-86 had, in theory, equal status with
PC-DOS.  It was licensed by IBM, and available on PC's as an IBM product.
However, Bill Gates managed to make a deal with IBM that resulted in the
retail price of DOS being about 1/4 of the retail price of CP/M-86.  As you
can imagine, very few copies of CP/M-86 were sold this way.  Digital Research
made an attempt to retail CP/M-86 through distribution channels at a competitive
price, but by then the market had decided that PC's were DOS machines.  The
rest is history.

>
>I presume CP/M-86 gradually evolved into the MS-DOS-compatible
>operating system DR-DOS that Digital Research sells these days

Well, yes and no.  In the beginning, there was CP/M.  CP/M begat CP/M-86
and MP/M.  MP/M and CP/M-86 begat MP/M-86.  MP/M-86 begat Concurrent CP/M-86.
Concurrent CP/M-86 begat Concurrent DOS.  All of this was done at the main
offices in Monterey.

Engineering of the Concurrent DOS product was then moved to the U.K. development
office outside London.  They enhanced this product for several years.
Eventually, they developed enough expertise in the internal workings of DOS
that they decided that they could successfully clone DOS.  This they did,
and called it DR-DOS.  It was not a deriviative of CDOS or CP/M-86, tho.

>successfully (I wonder whether DR-DOS can run any CP/M-86
>software?).

Concurrent CP/M-86 and some versions of Concurrent DOS could.  DR-DOS can't.

--------------------------------------------------------------
Bob Herlien
MBARI (Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute)
hebo@mbari.org
"Limit congressmen to two terms.  One in office.  One in jail."
From: ajv@xhost92.csd.mot.com
Newsgroups: comp.os.cpm
Subject: z800?
Date: 28 Jul 92 00:19:49 GMT

Did either the z800 ever see the light of day?  I stumbled across
some old BBS messages concerning the z800, and it sounded like
quite a neat little chip.  Did Zilog ever manufacture it?

It strikes me that a marriage of a z800 with the multiprocessor
support of S100 would make for a *very* interesting little
parallel computer....

				Andy Valencia
Newsgroups: comp.os.cpm,comp.sys.ibm.pc.games,comp.sys.tandy,alt.folklore.computers
From: u8705377@cs.uow.edu.au (Paul Anthony Wilkinson)
Subject: Re: TRS-80 Cosmic Fighter by Big Five - PLEASE HELP!
Keywords: TRS-80 COSMIC FIGHTER BIG FIVE FOLKLORE WANTED
Organization: Dept of Computer Science, Wollongong University, Australia
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 10:41:04 GMT

9125113g@lux.latrobe.edu.au (Mitch Davis) writes:

>Does any kind soul out there remember a game for the TRS-80 called
>"Cosmic Fighter" by Big Five Software?

>Please please write back to me if you can recall ANYTHING about this
>game.

>Mitch.

In theory I still have this game somewhere (If not on disk then at least on
tape).  

I seem to recall that it was a 'galaxian' type game with waves of ships which
you had to shoot from your ship which moved along the bottom of the screen.
As you progressed through the waves you get to shoot two (more?) bullets at
the same time.

At the end of each level a mother ship appears which you have to dock with
to refuel.

Apart from that the only thing I remember is the great sound (for the day)
and the great playability that was the hallmark of all Big Five games.  

Ahh! Memories!

Paul
-- 
Paul Wilkinson         | "With OS/2's multi-tasking my 8Mb 486 can format two
u8705377@cs.uow.edu.au |  floppy disks and run WinWord at the same time!" 
                       |   Reviewer in Computerworld.  
                       |            Has he heard of the Amiga?
From: ianj@ijpc.UUCP (Ian Justman)
Newsgroups: comp.os.cpm
Subject: Re: need ANSI terminal sequences for Wordstar 3.0
Date: Sun, 26 Jul 92 19:46:44 PDT
Organization: Ian Justman's pitiful excuse for an AT clone

jeffj@panix.com (Jeff Jonas) writes:

> Wordstar version 3.0 doesn't have any ANSI terminal in the install menu.
> Does anybody have the patches for an ANSI terminal?
> Only as a last resort would I pull out the manuals and
> look up the terminal patch points and piece together the
> corresponding ANSI sequences.  Since my friend's so far away,
> I really wnat it to work on the first shot.

You might want to try "DEC VT100".
From: sage@LL.MIT.EDU (Jay Sage)
Newsgroups: comp.os.cpm
Subject: RE: Undocumented Z80 Opcodes
Date: 27 Jul 92 14:25:28 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: The Internet


   Willy recently added, "As things turn out, the Hitachi '180 traps all
unused opcodes."  This will not help, of course, if the undocumented Z80
opcodes are no longer "undefined" in the Z180 or Z280.  They will be
processed according to their new implementation.

   I got a kick out of Joe Wright's comment, "The Jay Sage I know has both
Z80 and Z180 machines at hand.  My Jay would be answering these questions
instead of posing them."  OK, I admit it.  I was being lazy; I could have
looked this stuff up myself.  But it appeared that there were others with a
much more burning interest in the subject.

   I completely agree with Joe's implication that unsupported opcodes and
unsupported programming language features simply should NOT be used.  As far
as my home controller is concerned, here's my excuse.  That machine was
built about 12 or 13 years ago, when 2K EPROMs cost $50 each (and 50 dollars
were a lot more money).  The whole unit only had 1K of EPROM (and 256 bytes
of RAM!).  The poor yield (by today's standards) on 2716 2K EPROMs provided
lots of chips with only 1K working, and Intel sold those as 2758s for much
less money (see footnote below).  So it seemed like a good idea at the time
to save a few bytes by using some of the 8085's undocumented opcodes. 
Actually, in retrospect, it think it was still a bad idea -- it's just not
good practice.  It rarely imposes a significant cost to do things right, but
the cost of doing things wrong can be horrendous.

   Joe added, "It is academically interesting I guess."  I think so, too. 
In particular, I was interested to know how the manufacturers felt about
their undocumented codes and, specifically, the extent to which they felt
that they should carry them over to the new chips, even though they never
officially supported them.

-- Jay Sage

P.S. Several years later I was building some computer hardware at work.  In
an attempt to save the company a little money, I specified 2758 EPROMS
instead of 2716s.  Unfortunately, by then the yield on 2716s was so high
that there were no longer any half-defective 1K units, and 2758s were being
specially made only for back-compatibility.  Being low-volume items, they
commanded a premium price, and the company paid $50 each for them (instead
of the $10 I had written on the purchase requisition) when they could have
gotten 2716s for only about $20.  You gotta watch out for progress!

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From: martens@python.cis.ohio-state.edu (Jeff Martens)
Subject: Re: converting files
Organization: Ohio State U. Dept. of Computer Science
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 09:50:23 GMT

As of about eight years ago, Uniform was sold by Microsolutions, 125
S.  Fourth St., DeKalb, IL 60115.  No phone number is listed in the
"Uniform User's Guide."

-- 
	"Bad nation!  Bad nation!  Shame on you for contaminating my
	Lake!" -- Mary Jacobs regarding L. Michigan.

-- Jeff (martens@cis.ohio-state.edu)
Newsgroups: comp.os.cpm
Subject: Re: CP/M operating sys for intel machine
From: Richard_Plinston@kcbbs.gen.nz (Richard Plinston)
Date: 31 Jul 92 12:02:34 GMT
Organization: Kappa Crucis Unix BBS, Auckland, New Zealand

   >>> I believe that CP/M-86 evolved into the MS-DOS compatible DR-DOS

   CP?M-86 went many ways.  CP/M-86 for IBM-PC (pre-XT) was released
   about March 82, it was upgraded mid-83 to support XT with hard
   discs.  Early MS-DOS also did not support hard drives.  It was
   replaced as a product by Concurrent-CP/M-86 in mid 83.  This allowed
   multi-tasking by having 4 'virtual screens' thus 4 tasks could run
   simultaneously.

   CCP/M developed to include the ability to run MS-DOS programs as
   Concurrent-PC-DOS (3.2) in Sept 84.  This system was also multi-user
   (as well as multi-tasking) allowing terminals to be attached to a
   multi-port card.

   It has developed through CDOS, CDOS-386, to now being DR-MultiUser-DOS
   5.1.  DR-MDOS still retains CP/M-86 and MP/M-86 compatability in
   its 'native mode' API.

   DR-DOS was originally built from the CDOS source code by removing the
   multi-user, multi-tasking and CP/M-86 compatability parts to produce
   DR-DOS 3.41.  I understand that DR-DOS 6.0 and DR-MDOS 5.1 still have
   some common source code.

   There were other DR 'replacements' for CP/M-86.  DOS+ in the mid-80s
   was a MS-DOS 2.x clone that also ran CP/M-86 programs and had limited
   multi-tasking abilities.  It was bundled with Amstrad 1512 and 1640
   machines - though MS-DOS was also included.  It also came with the
   ACORN 80188 co-processor for the BBC Master 128/512 (for students of
   the esoteric the BBC Master 128 was a 6502 based 128Kbyte machine,
   the co-pro was just a 80188, 512Kb of memory, couple of ROMs that
   plugged into the 'tube' to give MS-DOS compatability - I still have
   one).
From: ianj@ijpc.UUCP (Ian Justman)
Newsgroups: comp.os.cpm
Subject: Help with CP/M requested
Date: 22 Jul 92 16:54:57 GMT
Organization: Ian Justman's pitiful excuse for an AT clone
X-Maildoor: WaflineMail v2.00b5

MK>- NEC D780C (P1Y416-147, D780C)
MK>            (?)

This is essentially a Z80 built by NEC.
---
 * SLMR 2.1a * Ian Justman (...!ames!pacbell!sactoh0!ijpc!ianj)
                                                                                             
Newsgroups: comp.os.cpm
From: pieterh@sci.kun.nl (Peter Herweijer)
Subject: Re: files ending .?z?
Summary: Use an emulator and the original software
Keywords: Crunch
Organization: University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 11:21:24 GMT

In article <1992Jul20.035233.25400@nuchat.sccsi.com> abbadon@nuchat.sccsi.com (David Neal) writes:
>Ok, so it's been a while since I've used CP/M. I have a program
>to extract .?q? files. What do you use to extract files with
>.?z? extensions? I need this program to run under MS/DOS.

Programs ending with .?Z? are compressed using Crunch, a
PD LZW-compressor for CP/M. I don't know of any MS-DOS software
that can handle this format --- it certainly isn't compatible
with any MS-DOS crunchers. There is also an LZH compressor
called CRLZH; files compressed by this program can be recognized
from their .?Y? extension. The best way I can think of to handle
this is to get LT29.COM --- a utility that can decompress
.?Q? .?Z? and .?Y? files and extract files from (NU)LU archives --
and a CP/M emulator for MS-DOS. Both should be available
from any good PD library that still carries CP/M software.

	- Peter Herweijer
--
neither do I                                       pieterh@sci.kun.nl
From: Bruce@skelly.UUCP (Bruce Skelly)
Newsgroups: comp.os.cpm
Subject: Re: need ANSI terminal sequences for Wordstar 3.0
Organization: If you could see me desk, you would say I didn't have one.
Date: Sat, 25 Jul 92 19:58:23 PDT

Jeffrey Jonas wrote: -----
:Wordstar version 3.0 doesn't have any ANSI terminal in the install menu.
:Does anybody have the patches for an ANSI terminal?
:
:Thanks in advance:
:
:Jeffrey Jonas
:jeffj@synsys.uucp
:synsys!jeffj@uunet.uu.net

Jeffrey,
	Try the Vt100 or vt102 terminal types, they should be very close to
an ANSI.  Actually, I think that the ANSI X3.64 (or whatever) definition was
built upon the DEC VT1XX series of control sequences.  Good luck!

Bruce
Bruce@Skelly.UUCP
"Mom always said not to take more than one byte at a time."
Newsgroups: comp.os.cpm
From: jdb8042@blkbox (John D. Baker)
Subject: Re: Where you can put your CP/M cards in an Apple ][
Organization: The Black Box BBS (713) 480-2686 V32/V42bis/HST
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 02:33:39 GMT

secrist@kxovax.enet.dec.com (Strong datatypes for weak minds.) writes:
>	; for schriste@uceng.UC.EDU (Steven Christensen), etal.

>	CP/M follows the usual Apple card protocol, so you can stick it
>	anyplace but slot 3.  If you stick in #2, then you may not be able
>	to use modem, though, i.e. by "usual protocol" I meant:

>	Slot	0:	RAM/ROM card
>		1:	printer
>		2:	modem
>		3:	console/video
>		4:	disk controller #3
>		5:	disk controller #2
>		6:	disk controller #1	
>		7:	hard disk

I would like to note, that the above is generally true for SoftCards and
workalikes.

For PCPI AppliCard (aka StarCard, aka Franklin ACE80 CPU), the OS will
not find the card if it is placed any lower than slot 3.

If it is in a //e an you are using the AUX slot 80-column card then slot
3 is perfectly legal for the placement of the AppliCard.  I have been
using an AppliCard (and now CardZ180) in slot 3 of my //e for 4 years now.

The generally accepted location for CP/M cards is usually slot 4 unless
you ABSOLUTELY must have something else there.  Then you can generally
place it anywhere you wish, paying attention to the note I made above.

Keep on Apple CP/M-in' :-) .


John D. Baker  ->An Apple 3.5", 5.25", 8", HD5.25" CardZ180 Z-System nut//
Internet:  jdb8042@blkbox.com            jdbaker@taronga.com
UUCP:      nuchat!blkbox!jdb8042         ...!taronga!jdbaker
BBSs:  JOHN BAKER on Z-Node #45 [(713) 937-8886],
The Vector Board [(716) 544-1863], PIC of the Mid-Town [(713) 527-8939]
Karnage: "I am certainly very happy for you, but--WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT?!"

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From: jot@teak09.cray.com (Otto Tennant)
Subject: Re: converting files
Followup-To: comp.os.cpm
In-reply-to: martens@python.cis.ohio-state.edu's message of Wed, 29 Jul 1992 01:24:29 GMT
Organization: Cray Research, Inc.
	<1992Jul29.012429.23710@cis.ohio-state.edu>
Date: 29 Jul 92 10:40:45 CDT

In article <1992Jul29.012429.23710@cis.ohio-state.edu> martens@python.cis.ohio-state.edu (Jeff Martens) writes:

> From: martens@python.cis.ohio-state.edu (Jeff Martens)
> Followup-To: comp.os.cpm
> Organization: Ohio State U. Dept. of Computer Science
> References: <1992Jul16.140429.5643@iscsvax.uni.edu>
> Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 01:24:29 GMT
> Lines: 17
>
> In article <1992Jul16.140429.5643@iscsvax.uni.edu> williams9027@iscsvax.uni.edu writes:
> >We are in the process of attempting to convert some files from cpm to either
> >the mac or ibm.  does anyone have any suggestions.  i have know idea the
> >specifics - we will get the files in a week.  
>
> >are there any utility programs anywhere which could help?
>
> There is (was?) a utility that allowed Kaypro IIs and 4s to read and
> write various format disks, including MS-DOS.  The utility was called
> Uniform.  Does anyone know if there's anything comparable that allows
> IBM PCs to read Kaypro CP/M disks?  That'd be useful for my wife real
> soon now.

You want the shareware program 22DISK, which can be found at SIMTEL
mirrors as "msdos/dskutl/22dsk138.zip".  PC hardware cannot read old
single-density Osborne disks, but it can read double densities.
22DISK knows about an enormous number of diskette formats.

There are also several emulators, if you need to temporarily execute
Z80 programs on your PC.

(Is there a FAQ for this newsgroup?)
--
===============================================================================
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Cray Research, Inc.              Virgil                          (612) 683-5872
665 Lone Oak Drive                                                
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Newsgroups: comp.os.cpm
From: rfd@po.CWRU.Edu (Richard F. Drushel)
Subject: Looking for Z80ASM Plus
Reply-To: rfd@po.CWRU.Edu (Richard F. Drushel)
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 92 01:42:08 GMT


	The title says it all.  Not sure if it is + or Plus.  It was
recommended as a good Z80 assembler, but I'm told it is a commercial
product.  The address of any vendors for acquiring legal copies
of this program would be greatly appreciated.
-- 
Rich Drushel ** rfd@po.CWRU.edu *** Biology Ph.D. Student ** Cleveland FreeNet
Co-Sysop, Coleco ADAM Forum --- Assistant Sysop, Science Fiction & Fantasy SIG
"Solda pung apfashat ro des-marno, / Marn ladir o armag noth yeni arno. / Hell
miryat it, / Jambo iat it, / Os lasse wei ticip kati baldo." / Old Ennish poem
From: szurek@pitt.edu (Joe R Szurek)
Newsgroups: comp.os.cpm
Subject: Help with Amstrad 8256 (Interface?)
Summary: Need info. about connecting modem to 8256 - or other file transfer
Date: 23 Jul 92 16:40:31 GMT
Organization: University of Pittsburgh
Originator: szurek@unix.cis.pitt.edu

I have a friend who owns an Amstrad 8256 with quite a few text files created 
using LocoScript 2.  She needs to transport these to either a PC or Mac
environment.  I suggested a simple ASCII transfer via modem.  The questions
we need answers to are:

	Do you need a special interface to connect a modem to the 8256.

	If so, where do you get it and what price?

	If not, how is it connected?

There are enough important files involved to make some reasonable expense
justifiable, but we hesitate to start purchasing more hardware without some
reasonable guarantee of success.  Has anyone had any experience in this type
of transfer, either good or bad, and what are your recommendations?

Replies can be posted here or mailed directly to:  szurek@vms.cis.pitt.edu

Thanks for your time and trouble.




	P.S.  if you have an interface for sale, we'd like to hear from you.
From: sage@LL.MIT.EDU (Jay Sage)
Newsgroups: comp.os.cpm
Subject: Undocumented Z80 Opcodes
Date: 21 Jul 92 18:56:16 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: The Internet

Willy answered me with:

>> Both the '180 and '280 have expanded instruction sets that make use of
>> the so-called un-documented instructions, particularly in the ED-xx
>> group...

Thanks for the reply, but I did not completely understand it.  I knew, of
course, that the Z180 and Z280 had expanded instruction sets, and I would
have guessed that most if not all of the so-called undocumented Z80 opcodes
would have been used.  The question is, do none, some, or all of the
formerly undocumented codes work on the Z180 and Z280 chips as they do on
the Z80?  If some program authors made use of those undocumented opcodes,
will their programs no longer work properly?

-- Jay Sage
From: JOEH@DARTCMS1.DARTMOUTH.EDU (joe hill)
Newsgroups: comp.os.cpm
Subject: Re: INFO-CPM Digest V92 #64
Date: 23 Jul 92 15:30:18 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: The Internet

please remove me from the list
Newsgroups: comp.os.cpm,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,osu.ibmpc
From: martens@python.cis.ohio-state.edu (Jeff Martens)
Subject: Re: converting files
Followup-To: comp.os.cpm
Organization: Ohio State U. Dept. of Computer Science
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 01:24:29 GMT

In article <1992Jul16.140429.5643@iscsvax.uni.edu> williams9027@iscsvax.uni.edu writes:
>We are in the process of attempting to convert some files from cpm to either
>the mac or ibm.  does anyone have any suggestions.  i have know idea the
>specifics - we will get the files in a week.  

>are there any utility programs anywhere which could help?

There is (was?) a utility that allowed Kaypro IIs and 4s to read and
write various format disks, including MS-DOS.  The utility was called
Uniform.  Does anyone know if there's anything comparable that allows
IBM PCs to read Kaypro CP/M disks?  That'd be useful for my wife real
soon now.
-- 
	"Bad nation!  Bad nation!  Shame on you for contaminating my
	Lake!" -- Mary Jacobs regarding L. Michigan.

-- Jeff (martens@cis.ohio-state.edu)
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