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- #0010#title CP/M SECRTARY ADDENDUM
- /1000<CP/M SECRTARY WORD PROCESSOR DIFFERENCES
- 1020
- H1040[The following differences occur between the North Star version of
- J1060SECRTARY and the CP/M version of SECRTARY. CP/M is the trademark of
- E1080Digital Research. SECRTARY is not a Digital Research product.]
- 1100
- K11201) To execute under CP/M, enter SECRTARY, not GO SECRTARY as required
- 1140 for North Star DOS.
- 1160
- E11802) The CONFIGURE question about disk density will not be asked.
- 1200
- I12203) The amount of memory will be determined by CP/M so that question
- 0 will not be asked.
- 1260
- M12804) CP/M SECRTARY does not have automatic self-saving capability. After
- K1300 you have run the CONFIGURE command or respond "Y" to the configure
- L1320 question, SECRTARY will not save a copy of itself on disk. To save
- L1340 a copy with all the specific options determined in CONFIGURE, enter
- <1360 QUIT to return to CP/M, then enter the CP/M command
- #1380 SAVE 40 SECRTARY.COM
- 1400
- L14205) The CALL and EXPAND commands have not been implemented. EXPAND was
- ;1440 not needed since the CP/M version is much smaller.
- 1460
- 1480
- L1500 Because CP/M users may be familiar with terms that North Star users
- K1520 would not be familiar with, and some common North Star terms would
- F1540 be unfamiliar to CP/M users, a few commands have been changed
- 1560 slightly.
- 1580
- 1600
- G16206) The UNIT command has been changed to DEVICE. The parameter is
- B1640 either L for the list device or C for the console device.
- 0 EXAMPLE: DEVICE L
- 0 DEVICE C
- 1700
- A17207) To delete a file from the disk, you can enter DESTROY as
- 11740 documented, or ERA as you do under CP/M.
- 1760
- C17808) To list the disk directory, enter only the three character
- H1800 DIR as you do under CP/M. With no parameters, it will list the
- ?1820 default disk device. Otherwise enter the disk letter.
- 1840 EXAMPLE: DIR B:
- 1860
- J18809) To allow the use of ERA and DIR, all of the commands require only
- H1900 three characters instead of the four as documented earlier. To
- I1920 avoid confusion between CHAin and CHAll (change all), the change
- .1940 all command has been changed to CHLL.
- 1960\
- C198010) The file naming conventions are same as used with CP/M ie
- 12000 disk letter : 8 char name . file type
- ;2020 The file type will default to TXT if not entered.
- !2040 EXAMPLE: LOAD B:DEMOFILE
- #2060 SAVE SAMPLTTR.TXT
- &2080 BSAVE C:BASICPGM.BAS
- 2100
- I212011) The NSAVE and SAVE commands do the exact same function. If the
- G2140 file already exists, it will be renamed with the file type BAK
- J2160 for backup. If a backup file already exists, this earlier backup
- I2180 will be deleted. Then the file will be copied to disk under the
- 52200 name entered. The default type will be TXT.
- #2220 EXAMPLE: SAVE B:SAMPLE.TXT
- 2240
- G226012) BLOAD takes a file in CP/M standard format and converts it it
- G2280 SECRTARY format; (optional line number) text, carriage return,
- H2300 line feed to character count, four character ASCII line number,
- E2320 text, carriage return. The program will ask if the optional
- F2340 line number already exists in the source program. If it does
- @2360 exist, enter "Y" so SECRTARY will not generate new line
- E2380 numbers, otherwise enter "N". The line numbers must be four
- *2400 characters between 0000 and 9999.
- 2420
- F244013) BSAVE converts a SECRTARY file to standard CP/M format. The
- G2460 program will ask if you want the line numbers retained. Enter
- G2480 "Y" if you want them retained or "N" if you want them stripped
- -2500 off the record before it is written.
- 2520
- I254014) If you exit to CP/M and want to return to SECRTARY and continue
- D2560 working with the existing file in memory, use the following
- G2580 restart procedure. Theis may happen if you wanted to rename a
- H2600 file, for instance. Enter QUIT to leave SECRTARY and return to
- C2620 CP/M, enter REN or any other command, then enter the dummy
- E2640 command RESTART. This will return you to SECRTARY, but will
- G2660 initialize the data area. To restore the data area, enter the
- I2680 command RECOVER. If you use a command that destroys part of the
- I2700 TPA such as STAT, this may not work. If only part of the TPA is
- F2720 destroyed, enter SECRTARY to CP/M to bring in a fresh copy of
- J2740 SECRTARY, then try entering RECOVER to salvage the file in memory
- (2760 if it has not been overwritten.
- 2780
- M280015) SECRTARY does not use the CP/M read buffer routine, but does direct
- H2820 I/O from the console to properly implement EDIT, control-C etc.
- K2840 Consequently, the backspace character must be defined to SECRTARY,
- M2860 control-C returns to SECRTARY not CP/M, and other control characters
- A2880 such as control-P do not function as they do under CP/M.
- 2900
- M292016) The MERGE command is under development and has not been implemented
- D2940 with release 9.4. It will be available in the near future.
- 3000\
- 3010<NEW ERROR MESSAGES
- &3020FOR CP/M VERSION, USE DEVICE L/C
- H3030 Do not use the UNIT command with the CP/M version of SECRTARY.
- I3040 Use the DEVICE command with L for the list device and C for the
- 3050 console device.
- 3060BAD CLOSE -- NOT SAVED
- /3070 The disk directory was probably full.
- 3080DISK FULL -- NOT SAVED
- H3090 There was not enough room on the disk to hold the entire file.
- 3100CANNOT RENAME BACKUP
- G3110 An invalid return code was received from CP/M while trying to
- 73120 rename the destination file to a backup name.
- 3130EXPECTED LINE FEED MISSING
- D3140 the line feed character at the end of input lines during a
- F3150 BLOAD command was missing. Make sure the file being BLOADed
- 33160 has the standard CP/M ED (editor) format.
- one rerequested. The program will
- N2180
