> -----Original Message----- > > Did you ever finish whatever it was you still needed to do for rexcpm? > > I don't remember what the problem was supposed to be by now, but I > remember to keep watching for some update to either cpmupd or to the > disk image every time I reload my rexcpm, and I only know that the files > haven't changed. > > I guess for that matter the question should be "What was that problem > supposed to be again?"
Another chime in from someone who is still around but lurking :) I didn't want to bring this up because I have my own unfinished project I feel guilty about, but I will answer the question. (My unfinished thing is that I started on a project to improve the font used on the MVT100 board, and I made a minor improvement to readability of a few characters (6, 9, and Q, I believe) which Stephen started distributing with new boards, and then I embarked on a project to dramatically improve the rendering of the 80x24 mode font and also reproduce the original DVI font, and then I got stalled out partway through the character set when Life Happened :( but I do mean to get back to it, I promise) The thing that I think you're remembering is that there isn't enough directory entries in the CP/M image for the 4MB REXCPM. I discovered this because I was filling mine up and I'm only able to use a little more than half the capacity IIRC (it might have been more approaching 2/3 capacity). Philip said he would need to re-make the image for 4MB with a greater number of directory entries, and that anyone who wanted to use it would of course have to export their files, load the new disk image, and re-import their files back. (A pain to be sure, if you've filled it up like I have, but a pain I'm quite willing to undergo.) Two other things I've been hoping for for quite some time, and I'm not sure how much of this was Philip's thing and how much was Stephen's thing and/or someone else's thing, but there was talk of new versions of import/export which would support 8.3 filenames instead of just 6.2 when used with a compatible TPDD emulator... The second thing was 76800bps support when used with a compatible TPDD emulator. I know there's a private version of this floating around somewhere because the REX backup/restore utility supports it, and I've been aching to make use of it. Maybe if I get my project moving and released? My internal guilt makes me not want to ask for these things because I have failed so far to deliver on my thing... :P jim