Date   : Mon, 07 Dec 1987 20:08:13 GMT
From   : ecsvax!tcamp@mcnc.org (Ted A. Campbell)
Subject: An Idea: An Omnibus Reference Work for CP/M

For those of us who still work with CP/M programming, something I've
always wished for would be a largish book giving terminal escape
sequences, disk formats, asynchronous communications info, and 
other related computer-specific info for the plethora of CP/M 
machines.  This would make it much easier for us to develop pro-
grams with a somewaht braoder market than heretofore possible.  
Judging from Micropro's sales of CP/M Wordstar 4.0, there's still
something of a market.

I wondered if this could be something we could undertake as an 
online project.  We could develop a template of requested info, 
allow places for further information, send the info to a central
gathering point, and gather it all into an ASCII text file (or 
files) that we could put out on various BBS's.  

Maybe while we're at it, we could include basic stuff like 8080
and Z80 mnemonics, CP/M and CP/M Plus BDOS and BIOS entry 
points and the like.  Maybe this would give us an opportunity
to develop something like an RSX that could deal with a standard
TERMCAP, allowing the development of near-universal screen-oriented
CP/M programs.  Any interest out there?
-- 
Ted A. Campbell       |
Duke Divinity School  |
Durham, NC  27706     |
email:  tcamp@ecsvax  |