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- MESSAGE.COM - Message typing program for CP/M
-
- This program is intended to make it easier to create message files
- for RCPM and other CP/M systems.
-
- For instance, if you upgrade a utility on your system, you would want
- to tell the users to use the new file instead of the old one,
- for instance:
- TYPESQ no longer needed - use TYPE instead.
-
- You can copy MESSAGE.COM with your text editor, (renaming it
- appropriately), insert your text (terminated with a $), and rename
- it to what you want. It can then be run DIRECTLY without assembly
- or loading!!
-
- The trick is that the program was written so that the machine instructions
- would all be ASCII characters. This means that when you edit the
- MESSAGE.COM file, the first line of 'funny' characters that you see
- are actually the program to type the message!
-
- When you edit this file, make SURE you use 'NON-DOCUMENT' mode, or
- the machine code on the first line of the file could get destroyed.
- Do not alter the characters in the first line - they MUST be left
- as they are. Start your message on the SECOND line of the screen, and
- be sure to end it with a dollar-sign ($).
-
- Other uses: RCPM Wallchart, system information files, etc.....
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