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Creating a Turnkey CP/M disc
As well as the application program itself, it is often useful to have the utilities
SET KEY S • CO M and perhaps SUB M IT. CO M (with their associated instruction
files) on the Turnkey disc.
PIP can be used to transfer the . C 0 M files and also to make the instruction file for
SUB M IT. In this latter mode, PIP is effectively a simple one-line-at-a-time editor.
For example, the file LOG 03 . SUB on Side 3 could have been created with the
following commands:
(Insert System disc, Side 1 in Drive A : ). Type:
PIP
(Remove System disc, insert destination disc). Type:
LOG03.SUB=CON:
SETKEYS KEYS.DRL
[CONTROL]J LOG 0 3
[CONTROL]Z
Configuring a CP/M Program
The CPC6128 supports a wide range of control codes suitable for customising a
software package to run with CP/M. Most data-processing and many other packages
require to be able to print messages at any part ofthe screen, to accept input from any
part ofthe screen and to generally understand cursor controls.
If your package has already been customised for the AMSTRAD system, then you
need not concern yourself further.
Configuring the Output from the package
The installation procedure for a package will normally consist of running a special
program (often called INS TAL) which, ifit does not support either a Z19/Z29 type of
terminal or the CPC6128 specifically, will ask a number of questions about the
parameters of the 6128 screen. The answers should be derived from the table
over leaf, which is an extract from Chapter 7 part 15.
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