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Date: Thu, 29-Nov-84 09:09:50 EST
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Posted: Thu Nov 29 09:09:50 1984
Date-Received: Sat, 1-Dec-84 20:28:06 EST
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    I find it amazing how many people jump to the conclusion of assumed
piracy as the result of a simple request.  There are *several* flavors of
Apple CPM.  Microsoft is only one of them.  Yes, many of them probably do
come with an Apple DOS-to-CPM conversion utility.  My Z-80 card, made by
PCPI, marketed by MICROPRO, CPM by Digital Research, also includes such a
utility.  I would imagine that this is not universally the case.  I seem
to recall that some 3rd party Z-80 cards come pretty bare-bones.  I do not
think that DR makes a CPM-DOS utility a standard part of the CPM OS it sells
 .  This would leave it up to the 3rd party licensee to provide such
utilities.  Not all do.  Didn't DEC fail to provide a disk formatting
utility when the Rainbow first came out?  Besides, why would a "pirate" copy
only part on the CPM system disk when other utilities are sitting there
waiting to be "plundered"?
   As to the requestor, I believe that InCider magazine published the
listing of such a utility sometime in 1983.  I'm sure there are other
public domain sources as well.

                                         Paul M. Hudy