Date   : Tue, 06 Aug 1985 06:46:54-MDT
From   : Rick Conn <RCONN@SIMTEL20.ARPA>
Subject: ZCPR3: The Manual

       The book on ZCPR3, namely ZCPR3: The Manual, is out now, and
it is available from the Library of Computer and Information Science and
the Small Computer Book clubs.  It is also available from Echelon.
       The book is divided into three sections: Using ZCPR3 (detailing
all the commands with chapters devoted to the online documentation system,
menus, VFILER, DU3, and general concepts), ZCPR3 Internals (how the
system works), and ZCPR3 Installation.  The book is 350 pages.  
       If you have questions on ZCPR3 (and all of the softwre in the
the <CPM.ZCPR3> archive on SIMTEL20), the book is a good source.  I wrote
ZCPR3 and the book, so you know where I'm coming from, but I really feel
that the book meets a need.
       The next few issues of Byte (starting in Sept) contain Steve
Ciarcia's column on the SB180 single-board computer, and there is a lot
of ink on ZCPR3 here as well.
       Echelon has just received (from me) a new document on IOPs
(the Input/Output Package concept of ZCPR3), and this adds
another 60+ pages of reading.  You can get a hardcopy from Echelon or
download the document from a Z-Node (see the list on SIMTEL20).
       Finally, the Echelon newsletters (there are over 25 now) provide
lots of information on the evolution of ZCPR3 and changes/bug fixes/new
activities.
       I have written an article for Micro Cornucopia on the operational
concept behind the ZCPR3 Environment Descriptor (which should appear in the
next issue).
       Hopefully, this is enough reading to really start to get the
ZCPR3 concepts across.  The source code to the entire system is on SIMTEL20,
and I will be sending an update soon which will bring the files on
SIMTEL20 up with the latest versions of the software.

               Rick