29 Aug
2002
29 Aug
'02
1:19 p.m.
On Thu, 29 Aug 2002, Mike Davis wrote:
Not sure if I asked this to the list but I have a
version (1.35) of
CP/M. On that floppy there is a version of PIP that does not act
like the manual. Of course I'm using a 2.2 manual, which is a newer
version.
1.3x is before my time. Hopefully, one of the old-timers will step in.
I tried: PIP B:=A:*.* per the instructions and get a
filename error.
It's real tedious copying each file, one-by-one.
Try ????????.??? instead of *.* '?' is used for single characters, and
groups of them is what '*' gets resolved into. CP/M uses 8.3 filenames.
The other thing that I wonder about is that there does
not seem to be
any allownace for file types on the version that I'm using. I tried
some of the text vs binary options and it won't accept them. Anyone
know if these are necessary when doing disk copys? The files seem to
run ok when copied.
The only issue with file "type" for a CP/M type system (such as MS-DOS) is
going to be whether the system will misunderstand the presence of
character #26 as being EOF. If it copied the full length of the file,
then it worked.
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Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin(a)xenosoft.com