From: utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!C70:info-cpm Newsgroups: fa.info-cpm Title: Ideas for new ZCPR Article-I.D.: ucb.1681 Posted: Tue Aug 3 00:26:09 1982 Received: Wed Aug 4 01:05:18 1982 >From rconn@BRL Tue Aug 3 00:25:57 1982 CCP-GROUP is currently formulating plans for the next release of ZCPR, and if anyone wishes to see something changed about ZCPR or a significant and "reasonable" new feature added to it, please feel free to send your ideas to CCP-GROUP at BRL. CCP-GROUP is small by choice and necessity, and the membership is currently frozen. The chief reason for this is be- cause, thru experience, we have found that design by committee to be highly non-productive if the committee size exceeds 5 or so, and CCP-GROUP is now running at around 5 members, and we all- too-frequently find this to be too large of a group for effective design work. We feel that ZCPR came out originally in a good, workable, and extensible form due to the previous effort of the group, and, with several significant new ideas proposed, we are considering putting out a new "sanctioned" release of ZCPR. Anyway, getting on with the new ZCPR, some of the key enhancements currently under consideration include: 1. a non-echoed input for the pause in the TYPE command 2. an optional verification prompt for the ERA command; this will print the file names to be erased and then ask the user if he wishes to do so, as per Frank Wancho's mod transmitted ear- lier 3. a totally-new indirect command file facility (ZSUB instead of SUBMIT and XSUB) which optionally combines SUBMIT and XSUB capabilities into one command as well as providing command- file flow control and other nice JCL features 4. a new command called PATH, which allows the user to dynamically specify the command-search hierarchy; examples in- clude: PATH <-- display current path PATH $,a10,b11,a0 <-- search current, A10, B11, and A0 in that order If anyone has ideas of other facilities to add or change, feel free to submit a comment. Rick