Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!cmcl2!rutgers!mcnc!ecsvax!tcamp From: tcamp@ecsvax.UUCP (Ted A. Campbell) Newsgroups: comp.os.cpm Subject: An Idea: An Omnibus Reference Work for CP/M Message-ID: <4276@ecsvax.UUCP> Date: Mon, 7-Dec-87 15:08:13 EST Article-I.D.: ecsvax.4276 Posted: Mon Dec 7 15:08:13 1987 Date-Received: Sun, 13-Dec-87 00:39:20 EST Organization: UNC Educational Computing Service Lines: 27 For those of us who still work with CP/M programming, something I've always wished for would be a largish book giving terminal escape sequences, disk formats, asynchronous communications info, and other related computer-specific info for the plethora of CP/M machines. This would make it much easier for us to develop pro- grams with a somewaht braoder market than heretofore possible. Judging from Micropro's sales of CP/M Wordstar 4.0, there's still something of a market. I wondered if this could be something we could undertake as an online project. We could develop a template of requested info, allow places for further information, send the info to a central gathering point, and gather it all into an ASCII text file (or files) that we could put out on various BBS's. Maybe while we're at it, we could include basic stuff like 8080 and Z80 mnemonics, CP/M and CP/M Plus BDOS and BIOS entry points and the like. Maybe this would give us an opportunity to develop something like an RSX that could deal with a standard TERMCAP, allowing the development of near-universal screen-oriented CP/M programs. Any interest out there? -- Ted A. Campbell | Duke Divinity School | Durham, NC 27706 | email: tcamp@ecsvax |