Hello,

I haven't done any exhaustive testing on the M100 CPM, but I started putting 
different programs into different user areas, and I found that stat.com keeps 
the user area you're in but pip.com throws you back to user 0.

Supercalc 2 also throws you back to user 0, as does wordstar 3.3 (the version 
on the cpm archive, which I have patched for the M100 cursor keys, and the 
behaviour I like for the bcksp/del key).  The version of adventure (the 
colossal cave) on the m100 site also returned me to user 0, as does DDT.COM.

Jonathan

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Ämne: Re: [M100] User number in CP/M for M-100?

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

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