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- CP/M KIT
- by Innovative Computer Accessories, INCA
- purchased thru Texex Computer Express
- Box 6578
- South Bend,IN 46660-6578
- cost- $22.95
-
- My CP/M Kit arrived with 2 double side disk and a 39 page instruction
- book. The disks are flippies, which mean that you must take the disk
- out of the drive and turn it over to use the programs on the other
- side. This equals 4 single sided disk.
-
- The instructions are very easy to read so if you are new to CP/M this
- will come as a relief. There are 31 ready to run programs on the
- disks along with many doc and help files. Besides the programs on the
- disk the book explains quite a few programs that are on the system
- disk when you purchased you C128.
-
- I had no trouble getting all the programs to run. All the programs
- are PD (public domain) so you are really paying for the book and the
- disk before they put the programs on them.
-
- Some of the programs are (some may be familiar to you):
- MEX128.COM a good terminal program with pleanty of docs.
- DE-LBR.COM - use to break down LBR files.
- DD.COM - a nice program that list the files of a disk in alpha order
- showing the size of each file and the amount of disk space
- left.
- SQ.COM - used to squeez files.
- USQ.COM - used to unsqueez files.
- NEWSWEEP - a file maintance program (copy,rename,delete, etc.).
- LTYPE - for listing doc files to screen or printer.
- ZCHESS - game for chess lovers.
-
-
- Also include was VDE13 a word processor which is good but I have
- downloaded VDE266 from GEnie which is the lastest version.
- The disk also contain NULU12 which is used to break .LBR files and a
- whole lot of other things, but I have downloaded NULU152 from GEnie
- which s the latest version of NULU.
-
- There are over 100 pages of docs to be printed out for the programs on
- the disks. I used VDE to print out the doc files but the docs for
- MEX128 are too long for VDE so it must be broken in two (with a
- program on GEnie 6421), or you can use LTYPE to print it out but it
- takes longer.
-
- LTYPE & DD are on each disk so you can catalog them and print them
- out with out switching disk.
-
- The instruction book is easy reading. I believe the CP/M KIT is a must
- for the begining CP/M user. There are nice appendixs to help you and
- the book takes you through each program in English and a step at a time.
- Also on the disk are places where you can purchase many CP/M programs
- and other info in a readme now file.
-
- CP/M KIT is a friendly way to be introduced to CP/M.
-
- Den Ferrara, MLCUG member.
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