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- EPEX v1.1
-
- So far I have been very impressed with James Whorton's new
- EPEX enhancement. I have found a couple of annoying bugs
- which Jim is going to fix in the next release version.
-
- Going from full-blown ZCPR3 to the EPEX system was easy,
- most everything is duplicated including named directories
- and du: prompts, etc.
-
-
- Problem #1:
-
- Anyone used to ZCPR3 will notice the first time they enter
- a user number and colon to change user areas -- you will
- get a BDOS SELECT ERROR.
-
- ex: A0:[ROOT]>1:
-
- you can however change drive/user areas with the familiar
- du: command or by using the directory name and a colon.
-
- ex: A0:[ROOT]>A1: or A0:[ROOT]>WORDPRO:
-
- The above example assumes that the A1: area has been assigned
- a name of WORDPRO with the MKDIR utility.
-
-
-
- Problem #2:
-
- The next problem I have encountered is that you can use lower
- case letters in your SYSTEM.DIR file for directory names and
- then you CANNOT change areas with the directory name and a colon.
-
- You edit a file called SYSTEM.DIR with any ASCII text editor,
- it is made up like so:
-
- A0:ROOT
- A1:WORDPRO
- C0:FLOPPY
-
- and then you use MKDIR to 'load' this description into memory
- like so:
-
- A0:[ROOT]>MKDIR SYSTEM.DIR
-
- This all works fine if the directory names were entered in UPPER
- case only, if you use lower case it will be displayed in the
- prompt in lower case like so:
-
- A0:[root]>
-
- but you cannot use the following command to return to the A0:
- file area with an '?' error message.
-
- C0:[floppy]>root:
-
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- Solution: Use only UPPER case letters in your dir names
- -------------------------------------------------------------
-
-
- I have EPEX running on my Kaypro 10 with Advent TurboROM and
- DATESTAMPER enhancements and it functions fine except for the
- pair of annoying bugs I just described. Look for fixes in
- the next version.
-
- Steve Sanders
- DataCOM Super Systems
- (813) 791-1454/55 300/1200/2400
-