Date   : Mon, 09 Apr 1984 18:38:00-EST
From   : ABN.ISCAMS@Usc-Isid.ARPA
Subject: Re: CP/M 2.2 User 0 $SYS files

Kevin (et al)

ARCHIVE is available for CP/M 2.2 - just needs a little (but well documented)
patch in the BDOS.  See SIMTEL20 (I forget which directory).  I have it,
and it works installed on my Morrow Decision I w/CP/M 2.2 just fine.  Only
undesirable effect is that D.COM no longer works correctly with wild cards.

Another simple patch (some code in the BIOS, and change one JMP in the
BDOS) gives you default access from any disk, any user area, to default disk
same user area and then to default disk user area 0 for .COM, .TXT, .HLP,
and I think everything else.  See TOADBIOS.DOC in SIMTEL20's MICRO:
<CPM.GENDOC>; source code for the patch on one of the SIGM volumes - sorry,
forget which one, but all is in TOADBIOS.DOCw.  I have that installed also
(and I have a VERY stuffed CBIOS, what with hard disk, implemented IOBYTE,
A0> CP/M prompt patch, etc., and it works fine for all but overlays (like
W*Star), where the overlays MUST be in the user area you're working in.
(However DUPUSR.COM works fine there to put the name/access in any user
area, but NOT the actual space/storage requirements.)  No undesirable effects
at all from the USER patch.

Regards,
David Kirschbaum
Toad Hall
ABN.ISCAMS@USC-ISID