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- To: ZCPR3 users with BackGrounder ii
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- From: Bridger Mitchell and Jay Sage
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- Subject: BGii customization scripts
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- Date: 4/17/87
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- Jay has contributed some excellent Z-system alias scripts for automating
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- the BGii startup and shutdown operations. In addition, he shows how
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- to change the names of BGii built-in commands. Useful in their own
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- right, these scripts are also a model of a well-designed system
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- environment.
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- You will need to modify the scripts to reflect your own system's
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- directory names and custom files. The FIXBG addresses will vary,
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- depending on BGii version and the disk parameters of your swap drive.
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- And BGHIST and BGERRH require BGHIST.OCP.
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- Here are the ARUNZ (renamed to CMDRUN.COM) scripts I use for
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- the various BG-related operations.
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- 1. script BG
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- This script is used to engage BGii. It goes to the required directory,
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- clears the shell stack if necessary because BGii will invoke BGHIST, and
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- then returns to the directory from which this alias was invoked. The
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- explicit directory references before some of the commands just speeds
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- things up a little.
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- SYS: ; Go to directory with LOADBG
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- IF SH ; If a shell is currently running
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- SYS:SHCTRL C ; Clear shell stack
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- FI
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- SYS:LOADBG ; Invoke BG (runs alias STARTBG)
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- $D0$U0: ; Return to original directory
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- 2. script STARTBG
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- This script is the BGii startup alias.
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- TIME ON ; Turn on time display in prompt
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- KEYS GLOBAL ; Load my global key definitions
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- OCP BGHIST ; Load OCP with BGHIST and BGERRH
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- FIXBG (leading space) ; Script to patch BG swap file
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- BGHIST ; Load BG history shell
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- BGERRH ; Engage BG error handler
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- CLS ; Clear the screen
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- 3. script FIXBG
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- This script makes the changes to the BG swap file to rename some of the
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- resident commands. It could be a part of the main STARTBG script, but I
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- prefer to keep this separate. I change the ECHO command to ECKO so that
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- my transient ECHO.COM, which runs at 8000H, will be used instead. I also
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- shorten PEEK to P and RESET to R.
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- SYS:DU GF,+9,CA53 K,W,+,CA5A ,CA7A ,W,X
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- Here are the operations performed by each of the disk utility commands:
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- GF ; Go to disk group 000F (the group
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- ; ..containing the command dispatch table)
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- +9 ; Advance 9 records to the one containing
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- ; ..the entry for the ECHO command
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- CA53 K ; Change-Ascii at byte 53H of the record,
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- ; ..putting in a 'K' in place of the 'H'
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- W ; Write the changed record out to the disk
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- + ; Advance to the next record on the disk
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- CA5A.... ; Another Change-Ascii (note four spaces,
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- ; ..one to separate command from argument
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- ; ..and three to replace 'EEK' in 'PEEK'
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- CA7A..... ; Another change in same record (five spaces
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- ; ..in all, four to replace 'ESET' in
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- ; ..'RESET')
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- W ; Write the changed record out to the disk
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- X ; Exit from DU3 disk utility
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- The actual records containg the command dispatch table varies with each
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- BGii release. What has confused me a bit lately is the appearance in the
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- swap file of two command lists that each look like a dispatch table. Only
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- one is, and the real table has to be determined by trial and error.
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- 4. script BGOFF=OFF (two alternative names for same alias)
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- This script exits from BGii and reestablishes the ZCPR system. Since
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- my configuration of BGii uses the RCP space, I have to restore the
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- environment descriptor and the RCP code.
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- IF BG ; If BG is currently running
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- BG OFF ; BGii command to exit
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- SYS:SHCTRL C ; Clear shell stack (of BGHIST)
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- SYS:LDR SYS.ENV,SYS.RCP ; Restore environment and RCP
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- SYS:ERRSET SYS:VERROR ; Set up ZCPR error handler
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- ELSE ; Else if BG not running
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- ECHO BG NOT RUNNING ; Tell user
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- FI
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