On Tue, Jan 09, 2007 at 11:07:35PM +1100, Adam Kennedy wrote: > Crap, there's a pip program on CPM? > > What does it do?
It is the Peripheral Interchange Program. The Unix equivalent would be cp, I suppose. > I did google around a bit, and I thought I'd gotten everything. > > And what is CPM? :) I should really have written CP/M (Control Program/Monitor), an operating system from which MS-DOS took many ideas, and one of the few operating systems to which perl hasn't been ported, as far as I know. Now someone will tell me perl has been ported to CP/M (I hope). But even if anyone is still using CP/M, I doubt they're going to be installing even six year old software. So I think you're probably safe in that regard anyway. For a bit of nostalgia, I remember writing a payroll system for my grandfather's business in VisiCalc on a NorthStar Horizon (with a real wooden top) running CP/M. -- Paul Johnson - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pjcj.net
