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From: Frank da Cruz <fdc@panix.com>
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.kermit.misc
Subject: Re: Help with CPVGEN sources for TurboDOS system?
Date: Wed, 2 Apr 2008 17:43:20 +0000 (UTC)
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On 2008-04-02, PC Pete <PCPete@audiography.com.au> wrote:
: G'day all,
:
: I'm trying desperately to rescue a terminally ill TurboDOS system. It
: has no working floppy controller, and the hard drive is spinning down
: for the last time! TurboDOS is an "extension" of CP/M 2.2 - it has most
: of the same BDOS calls, but also an extra set of T-calls for better I/O
: and so on. Most "standard" CP/M 2.2 applications (like KERMIT, XMODEM,
: etc) work perfectly, if inefficiently without modification.
: ....
:
: I'm running out of options, and after 2 days spent trolling mail and
: news archives, I know the CPVGEN source used to be available, and I know
: that at least one person successfully compiled and ran Kermit 3.x on a
: TurboDOS system - so it's been done, but I can't for the life of me find
: any other reference to the asm sources.
:
There is no CKVGEN.ASM. I apologize for the inadequate or misleading
documentation, but I believe the thing to do is to edit CPXTYP.ASM
and change the definition for one and only one of the system types
(in this case "gener") from FALSE to TRUE. Or if TurboDOS is more like
CP/M 3 than CP/M 2.2, do this for "cpm3" rather than "gener".
And as Marc Sapiro noted (and I forgot until just now) there is also a
binary for TurboDOS, available in both straight hex (not Intel hex)
format and UUencoded. The hex is about 52K, so it should be "just" a
question of getting it into your box in one piece somehow and
dehexifying it.
- Frank