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- CPM3.DOC - Installing ConIX V22.12 under CP/M 3.0
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- The ConIX Operating System provided on the distribution diskette
- was designed to function optimally under the CP/M version 2.2
- operating system. If you are installing ConIX under CP/M Plus
- version 3.0, there are a few general steps you should follow.
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- INSTALL.COM - This program will install ConIX on your system.
- CP/M 3 users will probably have to disable at least BDOS error
- vector patching in order to get ConIX to work at all. You may
- also have to disable the ExpanDisk feature or BIOS patching
- entirely. What must be disabled varies from system to system.
- There is no real scientific way of knowing what can be left
- enabled and what should be disabled. Only trial and error will
- tell for sure.
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- CPM3CCPR.COM - This program generates a replacement CCP.COM which
- you can install into your system. This file is not ConIX itself,
- but simply a loader which will insure that ConIX is automatically
- loaded each time you cold boot your system. We felt it necessary
- to provide this program since the prescribed auto-boot patches
- often will not work under CP/M 3.
-
- When you run CPM3CCPR, a new file CPM3CCP.COM will be
- automatically generated. This new file is pre-relocated to load
- at the top of TPA memory. Therefore, before running CPM3CCPR,
- make sure that system memory is organized as it will appear when
- ConIX itself is running (namely, all TPA region patches
- installed, if any).
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- To install the new CCP, copy your current CCP to OLDCCP.COM,
- erase CCP.COM, and then copy CPM3CCP.COM to CCP.COM. Reboot your
- system to have the new CCP load.
-
- CPM3CCP has a few nice features. Firstly, when CPM3CCP is
- invoked, it will look for the presence of a file A:NOBOOTCX.SYS.
- If found, OLDCCP.COM will be loaded and executed instead of
- CONIX.COM. If ConIX is to be loaded, a message will be displayed
- while it is being read off disk. You may abort to OLDCCP.COM by
- simply hitting CTRL-X. Remember, if you BYE out of ConIX, you
- will get CPM3CCP.COM which will then throw you right back where
- you came from. If you need the CP/M 3 CCP, be ready on the CTRL-
- X key after running BYE.
-
- CPM3FIX.XCC/COM - Some implementations of CP/M 3 might cause
- trouble as far as BDOS error messages are concerned. The symptom
- is flakey operation or a downright crash after a CP/M BDOS disk
- error message is printed. If this happens, you'll have to run
- CPM3FIX each time ConIX is cold loaded into your system.
-
- The best way to do this is to use MENU to set a program to
- execute automatically when PROFILE finishes setting the system
- configurations. The command [J] CPM3FIX should do fine. If you
- are already executing another Command Language program, execute
- CPM3FIX from within it.
-
- CP/M 3 RSX FEATURE - Since ConIX was written for CP/M 2.2, there
- is currently no support for Resident System Extension invocations
- from under ConIX. Any RSX's which are to stay permanently in
- memory should be loaded before ConIX is cold started.
- ll then throw you right back where
- you came from. If you need the CP/M 3 CCP,