-- RELEASE.NOT -- November 20, 1988 This file contains last-minute information about NZ-COM. ---------- EASE DISCREPANCY WITH MANUAL Afteò alì theså months¬ iô waó jusô broughô tï ouò attentioî thaô therå waó á  mixuð  iî thå versioî oæ EASÅ supplieä sï thaô iô  doeó  noô  corresponä correctlù  tï thå descriptioî iî thå manual® Thå onå supplieä oî thå  disë ió  seô  uð tï uså WordStaò-likå controì keyó foò scrollinç  anä  searchinç througè  thå  historù  (^E¬ ^X¬ anä ^Ì insteaä oæ ^B¬ ^N¬  anä  ^O©  ®   Wå recommenä thaô yoõ ruî thå commanä "EASECMÄ EASE.COM¢ tï generatå thå  texô filå  EASE.CMD¬  whicè  wilì  contaiî á completå  listinç  oæ  thå  editinç commandó aó configureä iî EASE.COM. ---------- NZ-COM RELEASE 1.2 NZ-COM version 1.2 includes two changes of significance. First, due to an oversight, when version 1.0 was told to load a new ZCM or ENV file for which no new modules had to be loaded, it also failed to update data in the environment, such as printer characteristics, maximum drives and users, and so on. It will now do so. The second change was in the safety checking performed by NZCOM.COM to make sure that it was being requested to load a version that was consistent with the underlying CP/M system. This check turned out to be stricter than necessary and was preventing NZ-COM from running on some systems (e.g., Lobo Max) that, in fact, could support it quite nicely. ---------- NEW FILES: NZCPR.LBR, NZFCP.LBR, NZRCP.LBR The main NZCOM.LBR now contains only the standard configurations of the CPR, FCP, and RCP modules to minimize disk space requirements. Alternative versions of these modules are now supplied in separate libraries. Modules can be loaded directly from these libraries, or individual files can be extracted and put into NZCOM.LBR to replace the default files. Each library has a brief DOC file describing the modules (one of which is the default version included in NZCOM.LBR). ---------- NEW PROGRAM: ZEX TYPE 4 Named ZEX4.COM in this release, this is a new version of ZEX with many features not seen before (See ZEX4.DOC). This program is brand new and may well exhibit one or two un-planned 'features'. Please report any problems. ---------- TCSELECT PROBLEM ŠA problem has been discovered with the operation of TCSELECT as described in the manual. TCSELECT is a Z-System program and does not function reliably under CP/M (on some systems it causes a crash). Fortunately there is a simple fix: reverse the order of the instructions in the manual. Boot up NZ-COM before attempting to create MYTERM.Z3T, and run TCSELECT only after NZ-COM is running. ---------- ERA.COM, REN.COM, SAVE.COM, ETC. The standard configuration of Z-System does not include resident commands for REN, DIR, or SAVE. These are provided instead as transient programs (COM files), and you should copy any that you need to your working disk. Several other functions that are often resident (but not always) are also provided as COM files. Many of these are type-4 programs (see the manual). We recommend using SDZ.COM as your standard directory display utility. It is far more functional than the resident DIR commands in either Z-System or CP/M, and it is designed to work properly under both. ---------- EASE PROBLEMS There are unfortunately serious defects in the coding of EASE. On many computers EASE appears to work without problems, on some it crashes completely, and on others it works but causes other strange behavior to occur. We tried using it on a Kaypro with the K-ROM (?), and as soon as we loaded ease we started to get BIOS errors on disk reads. We hope that the author of EASE (or someone else) will discover and correct these problems. The program is so nice conceptually. Use it with caution. ---------- VLU VERSIONS We forgot when writing the manual that VLU, like ZFILER, has two quite different versions depending on whether your terminal uses reverse or dim video for highlighting. Therefore, you will find on the release disk VLU- REV.COM and VLU-DIM.COM. Copy the appropriate one to your working disk under the name VLU.COM. - End of RELEASE.NOT -