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From: generous@styx.UUCP (Curtis C. Generous)
Newsgroups: net.micro,net.micro.cpm
Subject: Compupro 10+ Documentation
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Date: Wed, 23-Oct-85 20:32:44 EDT
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Posted: Wed Oct 23 20:32:44 1985
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To anyone who has/is using a Compupro 10+ micro with CCPM/8-16:

  I have been using a 10+ for several weeks now, and have become
exasperated with the Compupro documentation (or lack of). 
If there is anyone out there who has done system level programming
on this machine, I would like to talk to you concerning some very basic yet 
undocumented features/commands.  For example:

	- How does one reset the real time clock.  The documentation
	  mentions the following: 
		   A>  DATE SET
	  But that does not seem to work.

	- The 10+ supports several printers, yet it is not documented
	  anywhere how to access them and switch printers from within
	  a program (assembly language, Pascal, C, etc..)

	- The operating system seems to have a bug concerning the 
	  release of the printers.  When more than one user tries to 
	  print a document to a common printer from within a program 
	  (i.e. Wordstar, Dbase), the second user's program seems to 
	  hang until the first users exits his program (back to the
	  system prompt).

	- Is it possible to detach the console as in MP/M, to run
	  a background task with CCP/M 8-16?

Also, if anyone has any hardware reference manuals for the machine, 
I would also like to find out how the communications are done between
the Z80`s and the 8088 CPU/Disk Drives.

I have made several attempts to contact D.R.I., the dealer where I
bought the system, and even Compupro to get some of these answers
but all in vain.  Any help in an of the above topics is appreciated.


Curtis C. Generous
generous@lll-tis-b.ARPA
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