Date   : Wed, 25 Jul 1984 06:16:00 MDT (Wed)
From   : Richard Conn <RCONN@Simtel20.ARPA>
Subject: [Penny.Anderson: LRUN as CMDRUN question]

FYI -- I thought you might like to know about this. -- Rick


Date: Wednesday, 25 July 1984  03:56-MDT
From: Penny Anderson <Penny.Anderson at CMU-CS-C.ARPA>
To:   RCONN at SIMTEL20.ARPA
cc:   APA at CMU-CS-C.ARPA
Re:   LRUN as CMDRUN question

Rick,
       First, kudos: Z3 came right up just like your doc said it would!
We ran Z2 for about 8 months and it was wonderful.  This is as much of an
improvement over Z2 as Z2 was over 8080 cp/m.  Thank you (if this was speech
instead of typing, that would be in the sincerest tone I could muster)!!

       Second, a question: is there going to be an LRUNZ for Z3?  I 
re-GENINSed my Z2 LRUNZ to use as my CMDRUN, however if LRUNZ doesn't
find the .COM file, Z3 doesn't know, so my ERRORn is avoided even though
it's a perfect job for it.

       A LRUN that can set the Message Buffer error flag (isn't that how
it works?) would allow the Error handler to catch it.

       Did I miss something?

       Another suggestion: I was surprised there was no SAK option in the
SYSRCP.LIB.  Even a stripped down version with no bells and such would
be nice.  I hate sacrificing the disk and directory space for such a simple
function.

       For your statistics:  We run a N* Horizon with 2 5in floppies and
LifeBoat CP/M, TeleVideo 950 (lucky for me when using your stuff), Centronics
739 printer on parallel, and USR Password with MEX and YAM.

       Congratulations on another wonderful (and large) piece of work and
thanks again for giving it away.  Looking forward to the books.

               Don Shields
       c/o Penny Anderson
       APA@CMU-CS-C.ARPA