Date   : Sat, 24 Jan 1981009:57:00-MST
From   : Frank J. Wancho <FJW@MIT-MC>
Subject: Some more files

The Remote CP/M list just sent by Keith Petersen (W8SDZ) is now also
on MC:CPM;RCP/M NOS just in case you wish to delete that message and
FTP it later.  That file will be kept up-to-date periodically with the
latest information available.

Also, courtesy of Keith, Volume 1, No. 1 issue of the CP/M-Net
Newsletter (stripped of the trailing advertising) is now in
MC:CPM;CPMNET JAN81.  It contains a detailed description of the MODEM2
protocol (in English), a very interesting section on 8080/Z80 coding
tricks and techniques, and a CP/M Tip-of-the-Month on using DDT and
SID to examine a file on a disk other than the current default drive.

MC:CPM;BBSNOS BYAREA and MC:CPM;BBSNOS BYNAME now exist.  The first is
the second sorted by area code and phone number and both will be
periodically updated as needed.

There are, or shortly will be, some new files in MC:CPM; with
announcements forthcoming as soon as I figure out where I left off.

Other developments: Gail Zacharias (GZ@MC) has made some more
improvements to MC:CPM;UP LOAD and MC:CPM;DOWN LOAD.  See
MC:CPM;UPDOWN DOC for how to use those MacLisp programs.  Sometime
soon, TWENEX MacLisp will have enhancements so that you can import and
run those programs for up and downloading ASCII text files cleanly.

Gail is also working on a MacLisp version of MODEM2 which will handle
that protocol and store text files as text files and 8-bit files will
be stored in a special format files which will have two parts: a
documentation preamble section and a binary section.  Files uploaded
in HEX format will be automatically converted and stored in this
format to conserve disk space.  Files currently in HEX format on
MC:CPM; will also be converted to this format.  Of course, you can
still use the text option to prevent conversion and upload HEX files
or download HEX files using the MODEM2 protocol.

Another MacLisp program from Gail is CRCK, which operates in a similar
fashion to the micro version.  You can use this program to compute the
CRC of a file and compare it to the copy you up or downloaded.  This
program has an option to assume either ^Z or 0 padding for the last
sector since that padding is usually not stored in the files on MC.

Finally, in response to CLEMENTS@BBNA collection of 8-bit CPMUG files,
Elliot Moss (EBM@XX) has written a C program (MC:MT;DOWNLOD >, invoked
as :MT;DOWNLOD) to read these files and either display the file for
downloading in a similar fashion to MC:CPM;DOWN LOAD or to create a
7-bit file of those which were originally text files.

It is possible to also have a C version of MODEM2 for ITS/TWENEX use.
Comments from those wishing this utility are solicited.  (Ideally, I
suppose, such a program should be written in MIDAS for portability...)

--Frank