The SYS-STUFF Diskette Originated by R.S. Hafner Livermore, CA September, 1985 The following is a breakdown of what is contained on this diskette. Included are verbose listings of the various .ARC files and comments on the sub-files themselves. Executable images---files with a .EXE or .COM extension---will run on the Rainbow under MS-DOS, version 2.11. The .ARC files were produced using the ARC utility, version 4.10, which is contained on the UTILS-1 diskette. Comments are those of the originator of this diskette and do not necessarily reflect the comments, or opinions, of DECUS. **** BOOT.ARC **** Version 2.4 Name Length Stowage SF Size now Date Time CRC ============ ======== ======== ==== ======== ========= ====== ==== AUTO.CMD 8192 Crunched 23% 6359 28 Jul 85 10:21p ADA5 BOOT.CMD 10752 Crunched 53% 5120 27 Jul 85 2:17p 7746 BOOT.DOC 6400 Crunched 40% 3852 27 Jul 85 2:15p 3EC9 BOOT.EXE 10752 Crunched 52% 5205 27 Jul 85 2:15p D149 TOE.CMD 512 Packed 93% 38 28 Jul 85 10:21p C933 TOE.DOC 1439 Crunched 29% 1028 28 Jul 85 10:42p 9E0E These files are a MUST for the Rainbow 100A, or for users with a hard disk which has CP/M and MS-DOS partitions. AUTO, running TOE, allows 100A CP/M users to boot directly to the hard drive. (AUTO, by itself, can be used as a CP/M AUTOEXEC.BAT file. See "Simplify Your Life with `Autoload,'" by J. Vanderwilt, pp. 7--9, in the +PLUS+ section of The DEC^* Professional, April, 1985.) The BOOT executables, BOOT.CMD and BOOT.EXE, allow users to boot back and forth between CP/M and MS-DOS partitions, without having to resort to the earlier `Set-Up/Control/Set-Up', and reboot sequences. The documentation, particularly when supplemented with the aforementioned article, is more than adequate. NOTE: Caution will have to be be exercised when using these programs with the ENVBOOT package described below. The filenames in one package, or the other, will have to be renamed. For a variety of reasons, this user found it easier to rename these BOOT commands (i.e., BOOTDOS.CMD and BOOTCPM.EXE). **** ENVBOOT.ARC **** Version Unknown Name Length Stowage SF Size now Date Time CRC ============ ======== ======== ==== ======== ========= ====== ==== AUTOEXEC.BAT 128 Crunched 37% 81 27 Jul 85 1:38p 95D3 BOOT.DOC 4864 Crunched 36% 3116 27 Jul 85 1:38p DADA BOOT.EXE 1152 Packed 61% 458 27 Jul 85 1:38p BA68 CONFIG.SYS 128 Packed 85% 20 27 Jul 85 1:38p 8FD6 ENV 896 Packed 80% 180 27 Jul 85 1:38p E38B A MUST installation for users with complex MS-DOS systems. This BOOT package changes the allowable MS-DOS environment space from a paltry 128 bytes to a much more acceptable 32,000 bytes. The documentation is more than adequate. Users are cautioned, however, that the AUTOEXEC.BAT and CONFIG.SYS files contained herein should be used as examples only. As such, ENVBOOT.ARC should NOT be un-ARC-ed in the user's BOOT directory: ENVBOOT.ARC should be un-ARC-ed in an unused directory; the CONFIG.SYS, ENV and AUTOEXEC.BAT can then be edited, and copied (in that order), to the user's BOOT directory. **** LOGIT110.ARC **** Version 1.10 Name Length Stowage SF Size now Date Time CRC ============ ======== ======== ==== ======== ========= ====== ==== LOGIT.COM 2248 Packed 14% 1935 27 Jul 85 1:47p 37C1 LOGIT.DOC 49280 Crunched 54% 23022 27 Jul 85 1:47p F00D LOGITDMP.EXE 12886 Crunched 25% 9717 27 Jul 85 1:46p 9D69 READ.ME 896 Crunched 20% 720 27 Jul 85 1:46p 2D83 READ.ME2 384 Packed 16% 325 27 Jul 85 1:46p 3904 A set of programs, for management and tax purposes, to keep track of your Rainbow's usage. Equally adept with single or multi-users, LOGIT records virtually ALL keyboard entries which were made at the system level. Easy to use; documentation more than adequate. **** SYSLOG.ARC **** Version Unknown Name Length Stowage SF Size now Date Time CRC ============ ======== ======== ==== ======== ========= ====== ==== SYSLOG.DOC 19072 Squeezed 43% 10872 31 Oct 84 10:39p 66EB SYSLOG.EXE 29824 Squeezed 26% 22340 31 Oct 84 10:46p 4B14 Another management/tax purpose, Rainbow usage program. SYSLOG may work quite well on the Rainbow, but, as of this writing, this user has not tried it. **** SYS2SYS.ARC **** The following is an individualized breakdown of the files contained in SYS2SYS.ARC. Included are verbose listings of the sub- .ARC files, as well as comments on the individual files, themselves. AME86.ARC Version 0.7-1 Name Length Stowage SF Size now Date Time CRC ============ ======== ======== ==== ======== ========= ====== ==== AME86.DOC 38658 Crunched 51% 19224 12 Jun 85 7:08p 5D3C AME86.EXE 10530 Crunched 27% 7715 12 Jun 85 7:08p 3208 AMEND.ASM 284 Crunched 3% 278 24 May 85 3:53p 2740 EXCON.ASM 61171 Crunched 46% 33293 24 May 85 3:50p A881 AME86.EXE allows level-1 CP/M files to be run under MS-DOS. It's supposed to work great on things like M-BASIC programs, compiled CP/M FORTRAN-77 programs, and less complex CP/M commands like HELP, but it does NOT, as of yet, work on programs that depend heavily on the internal structure of CP/M (i.e., communications programs, such as Poly-XFR and -HST, debuggers, such as DDT86, device maintence programs, such as STAT, MAINT, or FORMAT, or file intensive programs, such as MULTIPLAN-86). The documentation, at first glance, appears to be sub-standard. It was, however, written by Jean-Marc Lugrin, who was trying to write in, what is to him, a foreign language. Deficiencies in the documentation, therefore, must be attributed to Jean-Marc's Swiss/French background, and not to the performance of his program. EXCON.ASM, a CP/M86, assembly language source code for EXtended CONsole users, and AMEND.ASM, a CP/M86, assembly language end-of-file code, have been included for Do-It-Yourselfers. AMEBAT.ARC Version Unknown Name Length Stowage SF Size now Date Time CRC ============ ======== ======== ==== ======== ========= ====== ==== AMEBAT.ASM 2688 Crunched 25% 2016 18 May 85 4:42p 74A7 AMEBAT.DOC 6144 Crunched 43% 3521 18 May 85 4:44p 9CA1 AMEBAT allows the user to create CP/M86 `batch' files that will run under MS-DOS. As its documentation suggests, however, AMEBAT can create ``...all kinds of little .COM files...'' which run under MS-DOS programs, ``...and pass (all kinds of) fixed command lines.'' Potentially very powerful, AMEBAT should be great with AME86 (see above); it should be equally as great, however, with DOSFLX.CMD (see below). DOSFLX.ARC Version 1.00.15 Name Length Stowage SF Size now Date Time CRC ============ ======== ======== ==== ======== ========= ====== ==== DOSFLX.CMD 32768 Squeezed 15% 28016 25 Jun 85 11:09p E7D8 DOSFLX allows users to run MS-DOS programs under CP/M. Written by the Digital Equipment Rainbow Engineering Group (see "Ways and Means," by A. J. Novachy, pp. 10--16, in the +PLUS+ Section of The DEC^* Professional, June, 1985), DOSFLX is an extremely powerful CP/M program that provides built-in documentation, and built-in help. Note: Using this version of DOSFLX to copy files from MS-DOS to CP/M leaves a binary trailer at the end of standard text files. Sometimes the trailer can be edited out; sometimes it cannot, causing a system crash. Copying from CP/M to MS-DOS, however, does not leave such a statement; text files and executables, going this way, seem to work just fine. ***** End of SYS-STUF.TXT *****