Date   : Thu, 24 Oct 1985 00:32:44 GMT
From   : "Curtis C. Generous" <generous%styx.uucp@BRL.ARPA>
Subject: Compupro 10+ Documentation

To anyone who has/is using a Compupro 10+ micro with CCPM/8-16:

  I have been using a 10+ for several weeks now, and have become
exasperated with the Compupro documentation (or lack of). 
If there is anyone out there who has done system level programming
on this machine, I would like to talk to you concerning some very basic yet 
undocumented features/commands.  For example:

       - How does one reset the real time clock.  The documentation
         mentions the following: 
                  A>  DATE SET
         But that does not seem to work.

       - The 10+ supports several printers, yet it is not documented
         anywhere how to access them and switch printers from within
         a program (assembly language, Pascal, C, etc..)

       - The operating system seems to have a bug concerning the 
         release of the printers.  When more than one user tries to 
         print a document to a common printer from within a program 
         (i.e. Wordstar, Dbase), the second user's program seems to 
         hang until the first users exits his program (back to the
         system prompt).

       - Is it possible to detach the console as in MP/M, to run
         a background task with CCP/M 8-16?

Also, if anyone has any hardware reference manuals for the machine, 
I would also like to find out how the communications are done between
the Z80`s and the 8088 CPU/Disk Drives.

I have made several attempts to contact D.R.I., the dealer where I
bought the system, and even Compupro to get some of these answers
but all in vain.  Any help in an of the above topics is appreciated.


Curtis C. Generous
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