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- SYSGEN
-
- Most CP/M vendors provide a program by this name, to deal with
- the business of storing CP/M in the system tracks of newly
- formatted disks. It is essential if you are into modifying CP/M
- itself.
-
- Unfortunately, Kaypro doesn't normally provide this program,
- preferring to lump SOME of its features (but not all the
- essential ones) into their menu-driven DUTIL type program.
-
- To tell the truth, the origin of the version of SYSGEN that I'm
- using is lost in antiquity. It carries a dual copyright by DRI
- and NLS Inc. (the grandaddy of Kaypro). All of these programs are
- due originally to DRI. Each vendor must modify the track-sector
- addressing and total sector count to fit their specific disk
- format. No doubt that's what Kaypro did. I suspect that they
- provided it with my old 4-83 system.
-
- The point is that if you are going to make extensive
- modifications to CP/M, you _NEED_ the features of SYSGEN that let
- you read the system into RAM, modify it, and write it back to
- disk. DUTIL doesn't do this. Shame on Kaypro for no longer
- distributing this essential program. But then they no longer
- provide MOVCOM, either!
-
- I won't describe how to use SYSGEN ... that's covered in the
- documentation on CP/M. I will just suggest that you find some way
- to get a (legal) copy.
-
- Jack W. Crenshaw
- P.O. Box 15888
- Tampa, Fla. 33684
- CIS 72325,1327