Date   : Wed, 08 Aug 1990 17:30:56 edt
From   : <DAN@BSN.MCEO.DG.COM>
Subject: Thanks and FAST ERA/REN/PROT continued

CEO summary:
Thanks to everyone who has given me more information about ZCPR 3.4.  
I now have it up an running (although I have not used NZCOM, just 
what comes from simtel20).  The funny thing, is that now that I read 
some of The Computer Journal articles, I find that I had pretty much 
reinvented NZCOM on my system (mine doesn't do automatic relocation, 
but everything is almost the same, although mine is a little better 
for QX-10s).
  I finally looked back at the named directories, and making them pad 
out to sector sizes worked fine.  As for the environment, I already 
had the new environment, its just that the code was wrong.  Could 
someone give me a summary of the environment types and what they 
mean?? 
  As for the FAST ERA/REN/PROT, the point that other things such as 
DosDisk would have problems is a good point (lbrdisk is another one). 
As far as other things go--I am fully aware about extents and the 
such (I have been hacking around CP/M since ZCPR 1.0!).  A "general 
purpose" utility could be written that either does things 
conventionally or using this fast mode by making a check on the 
drive.  Are there any suggestions on making this check (other than an 
environment byte)?  Thanks.