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#0010#title CP/M SECRTARY ADDENDUM
/1000<CP/M SECRTARY WORD PROCESSOR DIFFERENCES
1020
H1040[The following differences occur between the North Star version of
J1060SECRTARY and the CP/M version of SECRTARY. CP/M is the trademark of
E1080Digital Research. SECRTARY is not a Digital Research product.]
1100
K11201) To execute under CP/M, enter SECRTARY, not GO SECRTARY as required
1140 for North Star DOS.
1160
E11802) The CONFIGURE question about disk density will not be asked.
1200
I12203) The amount of memory will be determined by CP/M so that question
0 will not be asked.
1260
M12804) CP/M SECRTARY does not have automatic self-saving capability. After
K1300 you have run the CONFIGURE command or respond "Y" to the configure
L1320 question, SECRTARY will not save a copy of itself on disk. To save
L1340 a copy with all the specific options determined in CONFIGURE, enter
<1360 QUIT to return to CP/M, then enter the CP/M command
#1380 SAVE 40 SECRTARY.COM
1400
L14205) The CALL and EXPAND commands have not been implemented. EXPAND was
;1440 not needed since the CP/M version is much smaller.
1460
1480
L1500 Because CP/M users may be familiar with terms that North Star users
K1520 would not be familiar with, and some common North Star terms would
F1540 be unfamiliar to CP/M users, a few commands have been changed
1560 slightly.
1580
1600
G16206) The UNIT command has been changed to DEVICE. The parameter is
B1640 either L for the list device or C for the console device.
0 EXAMPLE: DEVICE L
0 DEVICE C
1700
A17207) To delete a file from the disk, you can enter DESTROY as
11740 documented, or ERA as you do under CP/M.
1760
C17808) To list the disk directory, enter only the three character
H1800 DIR as you do under CP/M. With no parameters, it will list the
?1820 default disk device. Otherwise enter the disk letter.
1840 EXAMPLE: DIR B:
1860
J18809) To allow the use of ERA and DIR, all of the commands require only
H1900 three characters instead of the four as documented earlier. To
I1920 avoid confusion between CHAin and CHAll (change all), the change
.1940 all command has been changed to CHLL.
1960\
C198010) The file naming conventions are same as used with CP/M ie
12000 disk letter : 8 char name . file type
;2020 The file type will default to TXT if not entered.
!2040 EXAMPLE: LOAD B:DEMOFILE
#2060 SAVE SAMPLTTR.TXT
&2080 BSAVE C:BASICPGM.BAS
2100
I212011) The NSAVE and SAVE commands do the exact same function. If the
G2140 file already exists, it will be renamed with the file type BAK
J2160 for backup. If a backup file already exists, this earlier backup
I2180 will be deleted. Then the file will be copied to disk under the
52200 name entered. The default type will be TXT.
#2220 EXAMPLE: SAVE B:SAMPLE.TXT
2240
G226012) BLOAD takes a file in CP/M standard format and converts it it
G2280 SECRTARY format; (optional line number) text, carriage return,
H2300 line feed to character count, four character ASCII line number,
E2320 text, carriage return. The program will ask if the optional
F2340 line number already exists in the source program. If it does
@2360 exist, enter "Y" so SECRTARY will not generate new line
E2380 numbers, otherwise enter "N". The line numbers must be four
*2400 characters between 0000 and 9999.
2420
F244013) BSAVE converts a SECRTARY file to standard CP/M format. The
G2460 program will ask if you want the line numbers retained. Enter
G2480 "Y" if you want them retained or "N" if you want them stripped
-2500 off the record before it is written.
2520
I254014) If you exit to CP/M and want to return to SECRTARY and continue
D2560 working with the existing file in memory, use the following
G2580 restart procedure. Theis may happen if you wanted to rename a
H2600 file, for instance. Enter QUIT to leave SECRTARY and return to
C2620 CP/M, enter REN or any other command, then enter the dummy
E2640 command RESTART. This will return you to SECRTARY, but will
G2660 initialize the data area. To restore the data area, enter the
I2680 command RECOVER. If you use a command that destroys part of the
I2700 TPA such as STAT, this may not work. If only part of the TPA is
F2720 destroyed, enter SECRTARY to CP/M to bring in a fresh copy of
J2740 SECRTARY, then try entering RECOVER to salvage the file in memory
(2760 if it has not been overwritten.
2780
M280015) SECRTARY does not use the CP/M read buffer routine, but does direct
H2820 I/O from the console to properly implement EDIT, control-C etc.
K2840 Consequently, the backspace character must be defined to SECRTARY,
M2860 control-C returns to SECRTARY not CP/M, and other control characters
A2880 such as control-P do not function as they do under CP/M.
2900
M292016) The MERGE command is under development and has not been implemented
D2940 with release 9.4. It will be available in the near future.
3000\
3010<NEW ERROR MESSAGES
&3020FOR CP/M VERSION, USE DEVICE L/C
H3030 Do not use the UNIT command with the CP/M version of SECRTARY.
I3040 Use the DEVICE command with L for the list device and C for the
3050 console device.
3060BAD CLOSE -- NOT SAVED
/3070 The disk directory was probably full.
3080DISK FULL -- NOT SAVED
H3090 There was not enough room on the disk to hold the entire file.
3100CANNOT RENAME BACKUP
G3110 An invalid return code was received from CP/M while trying to
73120 rename the destination file to a backup name.
3130EXPECTED LINE FEED MISSING
D3140 the line feed character at the end of input lines during a
F3150 BLOAD command was missing. Make sure the file being BLOADed
33160 has the standard CP/M ED (editor) format.
one rerequested. The program will
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