



			    The SYS-STUFF Diskette

				Originated by

				 R.S. Hafner

				Livermore, CA

			       September, 1985





The following is a breakdown of what is contained on this diskette. Included 

are verbose listings of the various .ARC files and comments on the sub-files 

themselves.  



Executable images---files with a .EXE or .COM extension---will run on the 

Rainbow under MS-DOS, version 2.11.  The .ARC files were produced using the ARC 

utility, version 4.10, which is contained on the UTILS-1 diskette. 



Comments are those of the originator of this diskette and do not necessarily 

reflect the comments, or opinions, of DECUS.  





			      **** BOOT.ARC ****

				 Version  2.4



Name          Length    Stowage    SF   Size now  Date       Time    CRC

============  ========  ========  ====  ========  =========  ======  ====

AUTO.CMD          8192  Crunched   23%      6359  28 Jul 85  10:21p  ADA5

BOOT.CMD         10752  Crunched   53%      5120  27 Jul 85   2:17p  7746

BOOT.DOC          6400  Crunched   40%      3852  27 Jul 85   2:15p  3EC9

BOOT.EXE         10752  Crunched   52%      5205  27 Jul 85   2:15p  D149

TOE.CMD            512   Packed    93%        38  28 Jul 85  10:21p  C933

TOE.DOC           1439  Crunched   29%      1028  28 Jul 85  10:42p  9E0E



These files are a MUST for the Rainbow 100A, or for users with a hard disk 

which has CP/M and MS-DOS partitions.  AUTO, running TOE, allows 100A CP/M 

users to boot directly to the hard drive.  (AUTO, by itself, can be used as a 

CP/M AUTOEXEC.BAT file.  See "Simplify Your Life with `Autoload,'" by J. 

Vanderwilt, pp. 7--9, in the +PLUS+ section of The DEC^* Professional, April, 

1985.)  The BOOT executables, BOOT.CMD and BOOT.EXE, allow users to boot back 

and forth between CP/M and MS-DOS partitions, without having to resort to the 

earlier `Set-Up/Control/Set-Up', and reboot sequences.  



The documentation, particularly when supplemented with the aforementioned 

article, is more than adequate.  



NOTE:  Caution will have to be be exercised when using these programs with the 

ENVBOOT package described below.  The filenames in one package, or the other, 

will have to be renamed.  For a variety of reasons, this user found it easier 

to rename these BOOT commands (i.e., BOOTDOS.CMD and BOOTCPM.EXE).





			    **** ENVBOOT.ARC ****

			       Version Unknown



Name          Length    Stowage    SF   Size now  Date       Time    CRC

============  ========  ========  ====  ========  =========  ======  ====

AUTOEXEC.BAT       128  Crunched   37%        81  27 Jul 85   1:38p  95D3

BOOT.DOC          4864  Crunched   36%      3116  27 Jul 85   1:38p  DADA

BOOT.EXE          1152   Packed    61%       458  27 Jul 85   1:38p  BA68

CONFIG.SYS         128   Packed    85%        20  27 Jul 85   1:38p  8FD6

ENV                896   Packed    80%       180  27 Jul 85   1:38p  E38B



A MUST installation for users with complex MS-DOS systems.  This BOOT package 

changes the allowable MS-DOS environment space from a paltry 128 bytes to a 

much more acceptable 32,000 bytes.  



The documentation is more than adequate.  Users are cautioned, however, that 

the AUTOEXEC.BAT and CONFIG.SYS files contained herein should be used as 

examples only.  As such, ENVBOOT.ARC should NOT be un-ARC-ed in the user's BOOT 

directory: ENVBOOT.ARC should be un-ARC-ed in an unused directory; the 

CONFIG.SYS, ENV and AUTOEXEC.BAT can then be edited, and copied (in that 

order), to the user's BOOT directory.  





			    **** LOGIT110.ARC ****

				 Version 1.10



Name          Length    Stowage    SF   Size now  Date       Time    CRC

============  ========  ========  ====  ========  =========  ======  ====

LOGIT.COM         2248   Packed    14%      1935  27 Jul 85   1:47p  37C1

LOGIT.DOC        49280  Crunched   54%     23022  27 Jul 85   1:47p  F00D

LOGITDMP.EXE     12886  Crunched   25%      9717  27 Jul 85   1:46p  9D69

READ.ME            896  Crunched   20%       720  27 Jul 85   1:46p  2D83

READ.ME2           384   Packed    16%       325  27 Jul 85   1:46p  3904



A set of programs, for management and tax purposes, to keep track of your 

Rainbow's usage.  Equally adept with single or multi-users, LOGIT records 

virtually ALL keyboard entries which were made at the system level.  Easy 

to use; documentation more than adequate.  





			     **** SYSLOG.ARC ****

			       Version  Unknown



Name          Length    Stowage    SF   Size now  Date       Time    CRC

============  ========  ========  ====  ========  =========  ======  ====

SYSLOG.DOC       19072  Squeezed   43%     10872  31 Oct 84  10:39p  66EB

SYSLOG.EXE       29824  Squeezed   26%     22340  31 Oct 84  10:46p  4B14



Another management/tax purpose, Rainbow usage program.  SYSLOG may work quite 

well on the Rainbow, but, as of this writing, this user has not tried it.  





			    **** SYS2SYS.ARC ****



The following is an individualized breakdown of the files contained in 

SYS2SYS.ARC.  Included are verbose listings of the sub- .ARC files, as well as 

comments on the individual files, themselves.





				  AME86.ARC

				Version 0.7-1



Name          Length    Stowage    SF   Size now  Date       Time    CRC

============  ========  ========  ====  ========  =========  ======  ====

AME86.DOC        38658  Crunched   51%     19224  12 Jun 85   7:08p  5D3C

AME86.EXE        10530  Crunched   27%      7715  12 Jun 85   7:08p  3208

AMEND.ASM          284  Crunched    3%       278  24 May 85   3:53p  2740

EXCON.ASM        61171  Crunched   46%     33293  24 May 85   3:50p  A881



AME86.EXE allows level-1 CP/M files to be run under MS-DOS.  It's supposed to 

work great on things like M-BASIC programs, compiled CP/M FORTRAN-77 programs, 

and less complex CP/M commands like HELP, but it does NOT, as of yet, work on 

programs that depend heavily on the internal structure of CP/M (i.e., 

communications programs, such as Poly-XFR and -HST, debuggers, such as DDT86, 

device maintence programs, such as STAT, MAINT, or FORMAT, or file intensive 

programs, such as MULTIPLAN-86).  



The documentation, at first glance, appears to be sub-standard.  It was, 

however, written by Jean-Marc Lugrin, who was trying to write in, what is to 

him, a foreign language.  Deficiencies in the documentation, therefore, must be 

attributed to Jean-Marc's Swiss/French background, and not to the performance 

of his program.  



EXCON.ASM, a CP/M86, assembly language source code for EXtended CONsole users, 

and AMEND.ASM, a CP/M86, assembly language end-of-file code, have been included 

for Do-It-Yourselfers.  





				  AMEBAT.ARC

			       Version  Unknown



Name          Length    Stowage    SF   Size now  Date       Time    CRC

============  ========  ========  ====  ========  =========  ======  ====

AMEBAT.ASM        2688  Crunched   25%      2016  18 May 85   4:42p  74A7

AMEBAT.DOC        6144  Crunched   43%      3521  18 May 85   4:44p  9CA1



AMEBAT allows the user to create CP/M86 `batch' files that will run under 

MS-DOS.  As its documentation suggests, however, AMEBAT can create ``...all 

kinds of little .COM files...'' which run under MS-DOS programs, ``...and pass 

(all kinds of) fixed command lines.''  Potentially very powerful, AMEBAT should 

be great with AME86 (see above); it should be equally as great, however, with 

DOSFLX.CMD (see below).  





				  DOSFLX.ARC

			       Version  1.00.15



Name          Length    Stowage    SF   Size now  Date       Time    CRC

============  ========  ========  ====  ========  =========  ======  ====

DOSFLX.CMD       32768  Squeezed   15%     28016  25 Jun 85  11:09p  E7D8



DOSFLX allows users to run MS-DOS programs under CP/M.  Written by the Digital 

Equipment Rainbow Engineering Group (see "Ways and Means," by A. J. Novachy, 

pp. 10--16, in the +PLUS+ Section of The DEC^* Professional, June, 1985), 

DOSFLX is an extremely powerful CP/M program that provides built-in 

documentation, and built-in help.  



Note: Using this version of DOSFLX to copy files from MS-DOS to CP/M leaves a 

binary trailer at the end of standard text files.  Sometimes the trailer can be 

edited out; sometimes it cannot, causing a system crash.  Copying from CP/M to 

MS-DOS, however, does not leave such a statement; text files and executables, 

going this way, seem to work just fine.  





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