Re: FOLLOWUP - installing CP/M 86 on a 486 laptop

Randy McLaughlin <randy@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
: "John Elliott" <jce@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
: news:eatoad.ph4.ln@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
:> Randy McLaughlin <randy@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
:> : While there was a patch to make user 0 as common it was not that way out
: of
:> : the box.
:>
:> It is on CP/M 3.

: No, on CP/M 3 you CAN mark a file to be "global" I will have to try it but I
: think you can use any user not just user 0.

Here we go...

A>;
A>; Start by putting the same COM file in user 0 and user 1 of my RAMdisc.
A>;
A>PIP M:SET0.COM=SET.COM

A>PIP M:SET1.COM[G1]=SET.COM

A>;
A>; Now set the SYStem attribute on both copies.
A>;
A>M:
M>SET0 SET0.COM[SYS]

M:SET0 .COM set to system (SYS), Read Write (RW)

M>USER 1
1M>SET1 SET1.COM[SYS]

M:SET0 .COM set to system (SYS), Read Write (RW)

1M>;
1M>; And now change to user 2 and see which one can be run.
1M>;
1M>USER 2
2M>SET0

ERROR: No options specified.


2M>SET1
SET1?
2M>;
2M>; So system files in user 0 can be run from other user areas, but
2M>; system files in users 1-15 can't.
2M>

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