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1. Otherwise select PPSTD or PPSTDR if the printer has a reverse line feed capability and read the first note under FINE TUNING THE SYSTEM below Sixth Sereen 7 If you wish to utilize the AUTOKEY programmable key KEYXLATE key translate SCRNDUMP screen print and or ADM3A ADM 3A screen emulation modules you must select them Move the cursor to each one you wish to select and press the lt HOLD gt key Note the ADM3A module should NOT be selected unless you are using a program that requires it Seventh Screen 8 After you have made all of your selections you are asked to confirm that they are correct Press Y lt enter gt and the new selections are stored in BIOSMODS PNT Press N lt enter gt and you return to the beginning of SM or MODSEL Note STDCOREL is automatically selected PLEASE REMEMBER YOU MUST RESET YOUR COMPUTER AFTER YOU EXIT SM OR MODSEL TO LOAD THE NEW SYSTEM INTO MEMORY FINE TUNING THE SYSTEM Although your operating system will now perform most of the functions you require of it some users will find that there are a few features that are not working in quite the way they want or need Most of the utilities that they will require to fine tune their system are part of the SC secondary menu so type SC lt enter gt at the P amp T MENU prompt and examine this menu in more detail What follows are references to a few of the more commonly used options on the SC menu Some programs or peripherals may r
2. bad sector just note on which drive the problem occurred Then write down the code R40 in this case and when you are at an A gt prompt simply type ERROR R40 lt enter gt ERROR will then explain the message to you Be sure to mention this code if you call Pickles amp Trout for assistance 4 There is a small undocumented program called PAGE COM on your system diskette If you execute this program by typing PAGE lt enter gt it will send a page feed command to your printer CP M is a registered trademark of Digital Research Inc TRSDOS is a trademark of Tandy Corp XENIX is a registered trademark of Microsoft C What s New and Pickles amp Trout are trademarks of Pickles amp Trout
3. GS option of MENU and store it with your P amp T Master Diskette You should also store these Introductory Notes with your other documentation The documentation that comes with P amp T CP M 2 2m was written to satisfy the needs of all of our users and is therefore very comprehensive A new user can quickly learn to use the system if he she reads the following parts of the P amp T CP M 2 User s Manual A Chapter 4 on MENU Scan the full list of MENU options and then read the _ descriptions of those options you are likely to use Pp 511 18 on the internal CP M commands paying special attention to the DIR ERA REN and TYPE commands and the discussion on pp 5 19 20 oe on how to use the utility modules if you selected one or more of them Chapter 8 on the CP M utilities Scan the list of utilities on pp 82 3 in 25a order to get an idea of what facilities are available to you Note that while most of the operations can be performed from the P amp T MENU there are a few that cannot eg PIP STAT ERROR and VERIFY New users should carefully read the chapters on PIP concentrating on disk to disk copying and STAT concentrating on pp 8 130 133 since these are the two most commonly used utilities that require you to type in command lines 3 If you receive a disk error message it will generally take this form Read error code R40 BDOS ERROR ON B BAD SECTOR Since the problem is often NOT caused by a
4. P5 Py AUSTIN TEXAS 78722 TROU1 RSI nN RE ERNE SY SM Ok ES ARE AE BEAN TET NS AO LILO I NOLEN NOEL OIE ACIS OEE TOS AENEID A DONNY 14 ROH TE OA INTRODUCTORY NOTES amp HELPFUL HINTS P amp T CP M 2 2m Floppy June 1985 IGNORING THESE NOTES MAY BE HAZARDOUS TO YOUR SENSE OF HUMOR If you read them as you install your P amp T CP M 2 2m system the job will get done quickly and easily and your computer system will work well when you are finished If you don t read them you will at a minimum take longer to install the system correctly In general they are all that you have to read to get the system up and running When this is not the case we shall cite the pages in the manual which we feel you should read WARNING YOU SHOULD NEVER COVER THE WRITE PROTECT NOTCH ON THE MASTER DISK FROM PICKLES amp TROUT MAKING A SYSTEM DISKETTE Your P amp T CP M 2 2m master diskette was designed to make it as easy as possible to create a primary working system diskette Each step can be briefly described First take a new diskette and cover the write protect notch on the bottom left hand side of the diskette with one of the tabs that comes with the diskettes Your P amp T CP M 2 system will be copied to this diskette Second mount the P amp T master diskette in drive A i e the built in drive on a single drive Mod II 12 16 6000 the left hand drive on a dual drive Mod 12 16 6000 or drive 0 in TRSDOS and RESET the computer T
5. en your system diskette has been made the operating system will include the floppy drive module that will support your multi drive configuration Note that the system always uses drive B i e the primary expansion drive on a Mod Il the right hand drive on a computer with two built in drives or drive 1 in TRSDOS for making your working system diskette IN CASE OF TROUBLE Most users experience little if any trouble making a primary working system diskette Inevitably however a few do If you have problems please do the following L If you have a multi drive computer and the system reports soft read errors when formatting the new disk tell the system when prompted that you have only one drive Then follow the instructions for a SINGLE DRIVE SYSTEM In general this problem only occurs on a small percentage of usually older Model II s whose expansion drives either cannot run at a 10ms head step rate or need to be re aligned 2 If your computer cannot make a system diskette on the built in or left hand drive or if CP M 2 2m reports other errors eg a load error try making a system diskette on different Mod II 12 16 6000 before phoning Pickles amp Trout If this also fails phone us for assistance WHEN YOU HAVE SUCCESSFULLY MADE A PRIMARY WORKING SYSTEM DISKETTE STORE YOUR P amp T MASTER DISKETTE IN A SAFE PLACE SETTING UP YOUR SYSTEM Do you have to change your new operating system P amp T CP M 2 includes two
6. equire the use of others Note Since MENU must know which system file to change it will ask you to specify where it should find BIOSPARM PNT either before or after the first operation Press lt enter gt to accept the default drive A 1 Owners of the older Radio Shack printers such as the Daisy wheel II and Line Printer 3 and 5 and some of the newer ones as well such as the DMP 120 and DWP 210 and 410 should use the PP option of MENU to stop their printer from double spacing Do this by enabling the first option suppress extra line feed of PP Owners of the newer Radio Shack printers such as the DMP 400 and 2100 may do the same if they are using TRSDOS regularly Owners of the newer printers who are not using TRSDOS should set the switches on these machines so that only a carriage return occurs when a CR code is received 5 6 T Owners of non Radio Shack printers who have set up their machines to work with TRSDOS may also find it necessary to use this first option p 432 Owners of the older Radio Shack printers such as the Daisy wheel II and Line Printer 3 4 5 6 and 8 should also the PP option to enable emulate form feed Owners of the Models 12 16 6000 will probably want to use the DP option of MENU to increase the speed of their floppy disk read write heads to 3 ms Owners of some Model II s may have to slow the speed of the heads on their expansion drives to 15ms Note if you have not RESET your com
7. hird when prompted to do so tell the operating system that you do or do not have more than one floppy drive Y lt enter gt or N lt enter gt Your response starts a nearly automatic process during which the operating system first formats the diskette you are preparing and then copies everything from the P amp T master diskette to it The exact procedure followed varies with the number of drives you have SINGLE DRIVE SYSTEM If you have a single drive system you will have to do considerable disk swapping see pp 36 7 in the P amp T CP M 2 User s Manual Although this process is generally more tedious than difficult please note the following points 1 The operating system calls the P amp T master disk both disk A and the source disk similarly it calls the diskette you are making both disk B and the destination disk 2 The system s programs duplicate a request to mount disk B at two points just before and just after the formatting routine When this happens just press the lt enter gt key at as each prompt requests And 3 if you should make a mistake such as mounting disk A when disk B is requested the system cannot overcome the error and you will have to start the whole process over again by RESETting the computer MULTI DRIVE SYSTEM If you have more than one floppy drive there are two results First you are asked how many drives your system has Second your answer starts a process which insures that wh
8. nstallation instructions for details Fourth Screen 3 The SIO module should be de selected if you are NOT using a modem serial port printer or other serial port device To do this just press the lt ES key Fifth Screen 4 If you are not using a Radio Shack or other parallel port printer you should de select the Centronics Port Driver Module shown in reverse video To do this move your cursor to this module s name and press lt ESO 5 Radio Shack printer owners may wish to select a Centronics port driver module that is more perfectly suited to their printer The following are possible alternatives to the module now selected 3 Daisy wheel II and Line Printer 3 4 5 6 and 8 select PPSTD Daisy wheel II with reverse line feed capability select PPSTDR The DWP DMP series of printers with reverse line feed capability select PPDSTDR The DWP DMP series of printers with the paper feed CR NL switch set so PRES that a CR code only causes a carriage return operation select PPDNORS or PPDMIN these being the best modules for those who do NOT use TRSDOS Note if you own both an older and a newer Radio Shack printer eg a Daisy wheel II and a DMP 500 select the module that is appropriate for the newer printer 6 Owners of non Radio Shack parallel port printers who have NOT set up their printers to work with TRSDOS i e who have not set it up to do auto line feed select either the PPNORS or PPMIN option
9. puter since using the SM option to select new modules you should do so before executing this option p 4 18 The system comes configured so that the P amp T MENU will execute every time that you RESET your computer To disable this simply execute the AE menu option and respond N lt enter gt when the system asks if you wish to change the command line Y lt enter gt when it asks if you wish to change when the command _ line executes and 1 lt enter gt for Never when it asks for your selection p 4 8 Owners of serial printers or other serial port devices will want to use the SP option of MENU to configure their serial port s Please refer to the P amp T CP M 2 User s Manual pp 428 8122 125 121 5 for details Owners of the P amp T Clock Calendar Bell board should use the CA option of a to set the port number used by the system to access the CCB board pe 411 Those users who selected the KEYXLATE module may wish to exit MENU and execute the KXEDIT utility so as to translate the keyboard to their own specifications See pp 878 81 in the User s Manual for instructions After testing the results re execute MENU and use the KT option to save the new key translation table p 428 FURTHER NOTES At this point your system is ready for most operations There are just six further points that we might profitably mention in these introductory notes l You should make a copy of your primary working system diskette using the
10. system files that determine how the operating system functions a table of contents file BIOSPARM PNT and module library file BIOSMODS PNT They are presently configured to load modules that can run an average Mod II 12 16 6000 with a printer modem ete It will not load the special Mod 12 16 6000 modules or any of the utility modules Chapter 7 and it is probably not as perfectly configured for your computer system as it can be Thus we suggest that you read the following paragraphs carefully The easiest way to change the system s configuration is to execute the SM option of MENU which is part of the SC secondary menu Do this by typing SC lt enter gt and then SM lt enter gt Alternatively you may use the MODSEL utility by typing MODSEL lt enter gt at the A gt prompt In either case the program starts by asking from which drive it should read BIOSMODS PNT Type A lt enter gt this time It will then read BIOSMODS and present you with the first of several screens a First Sereen The first screen presents the CRT Driver Modules STDCRT1 is now in reverse video i e black on white or green indicating that it is presently selected If you own a Mod 12 16B 6000 you should change this to select the M12CRT1 module Do this by moving the cursor to the module s name using the arrow keys and then pressing the lt HOLD gt key This highlights Ml2CRT1 indicating that it is now the module that will be loaded into memory
11. when you next RESET your microcomputer Now press the lt enter gt key to move to the next screen As you move from screen to screen examine each of the options described below and make your decisions accordingly It is easy so long as you remember the following instructions 1 If you wish a fuller description of a module move the cursor to its name and press the lt Fl gt key 2 If you wish to select a module simply move the cursor to its name and press the lt HOLD gt key 3 If you wish to de select a module move the cursor to its name and press the lt ES key And 4 when you wish to move to the next screen press the lt enter gt Key Second Screen 1l The second screen gives you the option of choosing a disk table module for a floppy only system The module whose name is already in reverse video should be correct for your system Third Sereen 2 The third sereen presents you with three sitSenative warm boot modules that work with floppy only systems Mod II with NO extra memory board warm boot from floppy disk select STDWB1 Mod II with extra memory board or Mod 12 warm boot from extra memory select MI2WB1 Mod I1 12 16 6000 with a 68000 microprocessor warm boot from 68000 memory select MI6WBL Third Sereen Note If you select MI6WB1 and you are using Trisoft CP M 68K you must insure that the CP M 68K system does not use the top 16 Kbytes of memory available to the 68000 microprocessor See Trisoft s i
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