Date   : Wed, 30 Dec 1987 09:50:16 EDT
From   : <SAGE@LL.ARPA>
Subject: ZCPR3 Port to CP/M+

Ted A. Campbell commented and asked:
 
>> About a year ago I called Echelon to ask if they had ever ported ZCRP3 to
>> a CP/M Plus system.  They responded that CP/M Plus was a mistake from the
>> start and that they had no intention of porting ZCPR3 for CPM3.  So I'm
>> interested to learn that such a project is underway.
>>
>> Does anyone know (a) what advantages the CP/M Plus version of ZCPR3 would
>> have over CCP+;
 
   There was always an interest in porting ZCPR3 to CP/M-Plus systems.  We
just never before saw any way to do it in a universal way (i.e., not a
separate port for each type of CP/M+ system) and without an enormous amount
of work.  Once Bridger Mitchell conceived a way to achieve a universal port,
we became highly enthusiastic about the project.  There are a lot of CP/M+
machines out there, and many of their owners have been asking for ZCPR3 for
a long time.
 
   I have not looked at CCP+, which I believe is a limited implementation of
an earlier version of ZCPR.  I suspect that ZCPR3 is a far more powerful
command processor than CCP+.  If nothing else, there is a vast array of
ZCPR3 support programs (history shells, alias processors, file maintenance
shells, and many more), and the number is still growing at a significant
rate.  The Z community is large and enthusiastic, and if it can join forces
with the CP/M+ community, we will all win.