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- 300,02,08/18/91,GENE PIZZETTA,HOWARD GOLDSTEIN
- ZSDOS HELP,
- Yep, I definitely want to know about such things. I will see to it the
- correct is made. Thanks very much.
- 301,16,08/18/91,GENE PIZZETTA,JAY SAGE
- VARIOUS,
- I got your package and will be working on -- although this is far from
- a "one-evening project".
- .
- Apparently you and Bruce were unable to talk me out of modifying
- MDINIT. I disassembled it and modified it. That WAS a one-evening
- project. The new version now has a convenient use that I had never
- thought of before: it can be used to quickly clear a RAM disk, writing
- a new T&D file in the process. I discovered this while working on the
- new ZSLIB release. My scratch RAM disk partition several times ended
- up with 300-400 files on it. It would have taken quite a while to
- erase them with ERASE.COM, but MDINIT11 wiped the partition clean in
- about two seconds! I can't release this version because it's part
- of a commercial package, but I'm uploading it privately so you can
- look at it if you're interested.
- .
- Sometimes I'm a little stubborn! :-)
- 302,03,08/18/91,GENE PIZZETTA,JAY SAGE
- LGET13,
- BTW, Who uploaded LGET13.LBR? I can't find it in the NEW file.
- LGET is a standard ZCPR3 utility, but there's no source code included
- and I don't know who to upbraid.
- 303,03,08/18/91,GENE PIZZETTA,JAY SAGE
- ZSLIB,
- P.S. -- You can remove ZSLIB30 and ZSL30SRC from BETA. I will upload
- the general release source code ZSL31SRC as soon as disk space is
- available...
- 304,12,08/18/91,JAY SAGE,GENE PIZZETTA
- LGET AND MDINIT,
- First, I must have picked up LGET13 somewhere else and put it up here.
- That's why it is not in the NEW file (and also why I tell everyone to read
- FOR and not just NEW). If my memory serves, Bruce Morgen was the author,
- so you can try upbraiding him (yeah, just try!).
-
- I'll take a look at your MDINIT. Doing that work was a TOTAL WASTE OF
- TIME, but now that you've done it, you stubborn guy, we might as well take
- advantage of it :-) Seriously, though, I don't see why we can't release
- at least the COM file. Does it work on any RAM disk or only the one on
- the SB180? If it is completely general, then we might want to try to get
- permission. If it's for the SB180 only, then everyone who can use it
- has a right to it already, I believe.
- 305,09,08/18/91,JAY SAGE,BRUCE MORGEN
- LDIR MATTER,
- One more suggestion for LDIR. I just ran into a problem with some junk
- in the comment field of a compressed file. It seems to have sent control
- characters to my screen and done some weird things. Someone nasty could
- blow away a terminal configuration that way. I think it would be best to
- apply a pretty strong filter to the comment field before sending it to the
- terminal.
-
- The other problem I was having (going off into never-never land) has not
- reappeared with 190.
- 307,04,08/18/91,GENE PIZZETTA,JAY SAGE
- MDINIT,
- MDINIT is completely XBIOS dependant. It determines if XBIOS is running
- and determines if the drive is a RAM disk before it does anything (which
- makes it a nearly completely safe utility). It's not of interest to
- anyone not running XBIOS.
- 308,13,08/18/91,GENE PIZZETTA,HOWARD GOLDSTEIN
- ZTIME 1.1,
- Well, you're right! It doesn't work. First, it requires ZSLIB
- 3.1 and that wasn't available until today. Then I mistakenly
- uploaded a version of ZTIME that I had libraried a week ago,
- before I had experimented with a custom time-setting module. I
- have now gathered together the correct version, changed it to
- version 1.1, and uploaded it. This one has been tested with a
- custom module. I had planned to upload ZSLIB31 at the same time
- as ZTIME10, but Rob Friefeld's bug report delayed the ZSLIB
- release by a day. It didn't matter, though, because the CUSTOM
- equate was not available in the source code for ZTIME10.
- .
- It's too late to give you a call, but you have my most sincere
- thanks for the prompt bug report.
- 309,03,08/19/91,BEN GREY,HOWARD GOLDSTEIN
- 22NCE126,
- Hello Howard... Thank you for the info. Sydex is now located 102 miles
- from Portland and so I can contact them or check on one of a few other
- boards for the latest release. Ben.