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ZCPR Version 1.0 Release Notice
Greetings, Everyone,
I am very pleased to announce (appropriately at Christmas
time, so Merry Christmas) the formal release of ZCPR -- a Z80-
based Command Processor Replacement. This program replaces the
CP/M CCP and greatly extends its capabilities.
Some of you may have heard of CCPZ and MCPZ during various
discussions. For those who have heard of these programs, ZCPR is
the Baseline System to be released into the public domain. It
was derived from CCPZ Version 4.0, and is an enhancement of this.
It contains many internal differences which are not readily
noticable to the CCPZ user, and some new key human engineering
design changes over CCPZ Version 4.0 (specifically in the SAVE
and REN commands). For those of you who have been considering
design changes, including the unsanctioned Version 4.1 and
numerous Version 4.2 implementations (these fell out of the
control of CCP-GROUP), ZCPR Version 1.0 is the released baseline
which CCP-GROUP has decided upon for public release. There are
several internal "problems" with CCPZ Version 4.0 which have been
resolved to the satisfaction of the recent working majority of
CCP-GROUP. Hence, I (and I believe the majority of the above-
named CCP-GROUP subset) strongly recommend backing up to ZCPR
Version 1.0 and implementing your modifications from that.
Now, getting back to everyone in general, ZCPR is the result
of a Group Effort by CCP-GROUP, a somewhat closely-nit group of
individuals. For the individual credits, they are listed in the
ASM and DOC files, and I sincerely apologize if I omitted anyone.
If I did, the corrections will be issued later.
ZCPR is the result of several months of rather diligent and
fascinating work. It completely replaces the Console Command
Processor of CP/M and will only run on Z80-based CP/M
microcomputer systems. CP/M is required in order to run it,
since a "heart" of CP/M, the BDOS, is NOT provided with ZCPR.
The MAC Assembler is required to assemble it. So far, based upon
both user feedback and our own experiences, we feel that ZCPR is
a significant contribution to the Public Domain, and everyone who
has used it greatly prefers it over standard CP/M.
ZCPR is being released for Public Distribution through the
SIG/M User's Group of the Amateur Computer Group of NJ. In the
spirit of Public Domain software, ZCPR is by no means a panacea,
but it IS a very nice stepping stone, and you are encouraged to
feel free to modify it to please yourselves. Future releases of
ZCPR are quite possible, but said releases from CCP-GROUP should
not happen for some time. ZCPR has been extensively tested, and,
although no software can be claimed to be perfect unless it is
absolutely trivial, CCP-GROUP knows of no functional errors in
ZCPR Version 1.0.
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ZCPR Version 1.0 Release Notice
For those interested in pursuing acquisition of ZCPR
further, I recommend reviewing the HELP File (ZCPR.HLP in the
SIG/M Release). The opening Information Section gives a fair
description of some, but not all, of the interesting features
supported by ZCPR and NOT found in the CP/M CCP. It is roughly
16K long and should not take too long to print out.
The next page of this message presents several displays and
some information on what files compose the ZCPR system.
CCP-GROUP hopes you enjoy using ZCPR.
Richard Conn
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ZCPR Version 1.0 Release Notice
XDIR2 Listing of All Relevant Files
ZCPR FILES ... ET AL
XDIR II Version 4.8, Vertical Listing by File Type
User Number: 0, File Attributes: Non-System
Filename.Typ Size K Filename.Typ Size K Filename.Typ Size K
-------- --- ------ -------- --- ------ -------- --- ------
<Disk Name > 0 MAC .COM 12 ZCPR .MSG 6
BDOSLOC .ASM 2 SYSGEN .COM 2 ZCPR .WS 40
ZCPR .ASM 52 ZCPR .DOC 46 ZCPRMSG .WS 6
CPM .BIN 12 ZCPR .HLP 16
B: 34 Entries & 14 Files - 172K Bytes Remaining
File Data: 11 Files - 194K Bytes Displayed
CRCK Values for Key Files
File: ZCPR .WS CRC = A2 C2
File: ZCPR .DOC CRC = 94 B7
File: ZCPR .HLP CRC = 26 9D
File: ZCPR .ASM CRC = 7A 46
File: BDOSLOC .ASM CRC = EB D4
Explanation of Files
ZCPR.ASM -- Source to ZCPR; must be assembled by MAC and
customized by user for his particular system
ZCPR.HLP -- HELP File for ZCPR; can be read by HELP Version 2.0
or simply TYPEd out; read this to see a fair
summary of what ZCPR can do
ZCPR.DOC -- Full Documentation on ZCPR; this includes
installation notes, customization notes, and
detail which expands upon the ZCPR.HLP File
ZCPR.WS -- WordStar File from which ZCPR.DOC was created
ZCPR.MSG -- Introductory message on ZCPR
ZCPRMSG.WS -- WordStar File from which ZCPR.MSG was created
BDOSLOC.ASM -- BDOS and CCP Locator; this program is handy during
initial installation of ZCPR and its use is
documented in ZCPR.DOC
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