VOLUME 36 Assemblers, editors, text processor related programs, memory bank boot and manager, misc. utilities, drivers for TDL software, etc. NUMBER SIZE NAME COMMENTS -CATALOG.036 CONTENTS OF CP/M VOL. 36 6K ABSTRACT.036 Abstract on some files 36.1 7K COMBINE.ASM Combine multiple .asm files.. 36.2 1K COMBINE.COM ..and delete comments 36.3 4K CPM-PEN.ASM Convert CP/M to electric.. 36.4 1K CPM-PEN.COM ..pencil files 36.5 8K FIND.ASM Find ASCII string in 1 or.. 36.6 1K FIND.COM ..more files 36.7 1K FIND.DOC DOC on above 36.8 11K L82.COM ML80 Component 36.9 1K LINES.COM Count lines in an ASCII file 36.10 1K LINES.DOC DOC of above 36.11 6K LINKASM.COM ASM.COM with feature to link.. 36.12 5K LINKASM.DOC ..files together at assembly 36.13 1K LIST.COM List files with starting.. 36.14 1K LIST.DOC ..line number 36.15 10K M81.COM ML80 Component 36.16 11K MAC6.AZM I/O drivers for TDL.. 36.17 2K MAC6.COM ..macro assembler 36.18 4K MAC6.DOC .. 36.19 8K MBMBOT.ASC Memory bank boot & mgmt 36.20 3K MFACCESS.LIB Subroutine to setup for.. ..multiple files (ex: *.ASM) 36.21 2K ML80.DOC DOC on ML80 components 36.22 9K ML80.REF Reference material on ML80 36.23 3K PEN-CPM.ASM Electric Pencil to CP/M file.. 36.24 1K PEN-CPM.COM ..conversion program 36.25 2K PEN-CPM.DOC .. 36.26 24K POW.ASM Source for text processor 36.27 5K POWCMDS.POW POW documentation 36.28 2K POWTEXT.POW More POW doc. 36.29 6K SCRAMBLE.ASM File encode/decode 36.30 2K SCRAMBLE.DOC Doc on above 36.31 17K TED.COM Nice CP/M text editor, with.. 36.32 23K TED.DOC ..built in help features. 36.33 10K TOP.AZM TDL Text output processor.. 36.34 5K TOP.PRN ..patches 36.35 3K TOP.TOP .. 36.36 22K XREF.ASM Cross references .ASM files -------------------- VOLUME 36 ABSTRACTS ---------------------- TITLE: ASSEMBLERS, EDITORS, AND TEXT PROCESSORS COMBINE.ASM and COMBINE.COM are source and object of a utility to concatenate assembler source files and remove comments. This becomes necessary when trying to assemble very large source files which have been broken down into modules for ease of editing. Could also be used to strip comments from a single file. Requires MAC for assembly. Command line format is: COMBINE dest.asm=source1,source2,...,sourceN Originaly written by Ward Christensen, revised by Steve Ness and Robert A. Van Valzah. PEN-CPM.ASM is the source code for a transient which will convert files in Electric Pencil format to normal CP/M ASCII file format. CPM-PEN.ASM is the inverse operation. Author written documentation is provided in PEN-CPM.DOC. The source code is well written and commented. Both files require MAC and SEQIO.LIB for assembly. These utilities would be useful to anyone owning the Electric Pencil or anyone wishing to exchange files with an Electric Pencil user. Reviewed by Robert A. Van Valzah. LINKASM.COM is an assembler which is upward compatible with ASM.COM supplied by Digital Research with CP/M. It has the additional feature that it can produce one object file from the sequential assembly of several 'linked' source files. This is most useful when maintaining very large application programs written in assembler. It is much easier to edit several 10K source files than a 100K one! LINKASM is a bit faster that the CP/M assembler too. It also has provision to write a symbol file compatible with SID. Several utilities are provided to facilitate the maintaince of linked source files. They are: LINES, LIST, and FIND. See appropriate docs for details. Source for LINKASM cannot be provided at this time. Reviewed by Robert A. Van Valzah. MAC6.AZM contains source for patches to the paper tape TDL Z-80 assembler to make it work from CP/M disk files. This is a revision of MAC4.ASM from volume 18. It is written in TDL mnemonics so MAC6.COM is included so that you can get around the chicken-egg problem. MAC6.DOC contains the installation instructions. TOP.AZM is a similar patch to CP/Mifiy a paper tape version TDL Text Output Processor. TOP.TOP is a sample input file to the processor and TOP.PRN is the resulting output. Reviewed by Robert A. Van Valzah. ML80 is structured assembler programming language for the 8080. It allows you to increment the accumulator by writing A=A+1. Control constructs are provide for conditional branching and iteration. A powerful macro pre-processor is provided to allow the equivalent of EQU's and other neat stuff. The original code appeared in volume 4 but was flawed by some nasty bugs. The files M81.COM and L82.COM are patched versions of those from volume 4. ML80.REF is a quick reference for ML80 syntax, semantics, and errors. ML80.DOC describes the changes made to the original .COM files. Reviewed by Robert A. Van Valzah. MFACCESS.LIB is an assembler subroutine. It provides routines to read multiple files with wildcard names. For instance, it would enable you to write a transient which would print all .ASM files on a disk simply by typing PRINT *.ASM. One restriction is that files can only be read, they cannot be renamed or erased using MFACCESS.LIB. This file would be most useful to those who know how to write transients and wish to allow them to work with wildcard filenames. Reviewed by Robert A. Van Valzah. POW.ASM is the source for a text processor (Processor Of Words) transient. The original source appeared in Dr. Dobbs Journal, number 29. It has been CP/Mified and had one minor bug fixed. It has ability to define margins, justify, center, space, paragraph and title a document. Requires an editor for preperation of the input text (ED will do) and a printer on your LST device for operation. The source is fairly well written and doucmented, making it fairly easy to modify. Some documentation is provided in POW.DOC and pieces of the DDJ article appear in POWCMDS.POW and POWTEXT.POW. Reviewed by Robert A. Van Valzah. SCRAMBLE.ASM is a utility to encode and decode the contents of a CP/M file. The primary use for it is to maintain data security. This is necessary if you want to leave protected information on a public access system (such as yours might be when running a remote console program). The author makes no guarantees of the throughness of this program, but he does not think that he could unscramble a file without knowing the password, even if given the first 256 byte of the plain text. Files are scrambled 'in place' (as opposed to reading a plain text file and writing a cypher text file) and as a consequence there is a chance that a disk error may destroy the file. Reviewed by Robert A. Van Valzah. TED.COM is a text editor transient. TED.DOC contains documentaion. This is a line oriented editor which should make a good alternative to ED.COM for those who prefer a line oriented editor over a character oriented editor. Commands are proviede to search for a string, substitute strings, type line, move and copy lines from place to place, delete lines, and give help on commands. This self help mode could be very useful to beginners or to those who have not used an editor before. TED seems to have farily good error detection and recovery facilities. The source code has not been provided. TED was written at the Naval Post-graduate School (which has brought us BASIC-E and ML80). TED requires at least a 24K CP/M system size in order to run. Reviewed by Robert A. Van Valzah. XREF.ASM is source for cross reference generator utility which accepts as input standard INTEL format assembler source code. Modified version of NYCPMUG 8.27. Now accepts lower case, ignores PAGE and ELSE psuedo-ops, has improved error messages, and has equates to changes things like lines per page and so on. Modified by Steve Ness of the Mark Williams Company. Reviewed by Robert A. Van Valzah.