Hi Jim, On 10/29/20 2:09 AM, Jim Anderson wrote: >> -----Original Message----- >> Hi Jim, >> >> I do not recall CP/M ever dumping me back into user area 0 whenever I >> run a program. On the Kaypro and the M-100 I stay in my current user >> area, unless I change it with another USER command. The documentation >> states that behavior as well. > > Maybe this was something specific to the Kaypro distribution of CP/M?
This is certainly possible, but I did not have much need to switch user areas on a 390KB floppy diskette or image, so I cannot say for certain. > In my experience with using it on the M100, I end up back in USER 0 after > executing any .COM program *except* for STAT.COM for some reason. Anything > else I have tried, whether it's 3rd party of part of CP/M (MBASIC.COM, > PIP.COM, etc.) all land me back in USER 0 after execution. But you can run other programs and the user area does not change. Weird. > Needless to say, this makes loading a software package with multiple files a > tedious process: > > A>USER 4 > A>IMPORT SIXCHR.NM EIGHTCHR.NAM > .... > A>USER 4 > A>IMPORT NEXTFI.LE NEXTFILE.TXT > > ...repeat times 40 files for WordStar 4.0 (including all the sample > documents) which is something I was just working on tonight. > > This may be a quirk with IMPORT, since we know it is in very early development right now. Cheers, Bert
