Date   : Thu, 28 Jun 1984 23:31:00 MDT (Thu)
From   : Richard Conn <RCONN@Simtel20.ARPA>
Subject: [RCONN: Zcpr Hooks]

Date: Thursday, 28 June 1984  23:05-MDT
From: Richard Conn <RCONN>
To:   <hplabs!intelca!cem at Berkeley>
cc:   cem at Berkeley, Rconn
Re:   Zcpr Hooks

Yes, there is one "big" hook you can look forward to in ZCPR3 which is
necessary to give you perhaps 80% of the new features.  A 1K (my
recommendation) buffer area is needed to contain the ZCPR3 Environment
Descriptor (which includes TCAP - Terminal Capabilities Entry), named
directory buffer, shell stack, messages, external FCB, external stack,
and (perhaps) path.  This is detailed to the nth degree in the
installation manual, which is included in the distribution.  If you
have ZCPR2 up, you should have no problem getting ZCPR3 up.  It
involves just more of the same types of BIOS initializations.

Also, if you remember the old GENINS procedure for ZCPR2, the ZCPR3
generalized installation program involves issued one simple command
and watching Z3INS step thru all the programs in the INS file,
installing everything it finds. The 58 utilities in Phase 1 release
took me about 4 minutes to install.

       Rick