Date   : Thu, 12 Apr 1990 14:54:44 GMT
From   : bbn.com!gonzalez@bbn.com (Jim Gonzalez)
Subject: More RED Woes

My thanks to Frank Wancho for pointing out the discrepancy in the link 
statistics.  The trick was to adjust the location of the start of the
externals area to free up more memory.  It bothers me that I had to 
recompile each C file to adjust this figure.  It took me close to an 
hour.

The editor now runs, sort of.  It clears the display, sets up the prompt
line and version message, and then sits there.  I get no response from
the keyboard, not even from ^C.  I have to reset the machine to recover.
Oh yeah, and it doesn't display the expected "end-of-file" marker or help 
instructions.

If I invoke it with a file specification, it does the same display set-up, 
then loads the specified file, displays the first page, and then sits there.  

So, it looks like the keyboard input code may be the problem.  I've seen
warnings in the BDS C manual about BIOS differences between real CP/M and
look-alikes, my CDOS being one of the latter.  The calling conventions
are the same, however, as are almost all of the call codes.  The fact
that it manages to do display set-up and file I/O seems to rule out
BIOS differences, but I can't be sure.  Can anyone tell me?

                               -Jim.