GETTINÇ STARTED. The natural human inclination is to start using products before wading through the instructions. We understand that and have developed some rather simple steps to provide initial ZSDOS capabilities rather painlessly. This will provide the inducement to read the appropriate sections of the manual for a complete customized installation. Merely follow the steps listed here, then read the manual at your liesure to learn how to tailor the ZSDOS system to you particular needs and desires. These instruc tions cite the relevant paragraphs in the manual in case a more detailed description is desired. 1® LOADINÇ THÅ DOS These steps are written around the full- featured ZSDOS version of the Operating System to demonstrate all of the power, and provide procedures for systems already using either type of Time Stamping supported by ZSDOS. It is recom mended that these steps be followed initially, followed by a later installation with ZDDOS if either a minimal memory configu ration is desired, or only DateStamper-type File Stamping is desired. The differences between ZSDOS and ZDDOS are briefly described in Section 1 of the manual. A. DO YOU OPERATE UNDER NZ-COM? (3.1.2) If No, Go To Step B. If Yes, Rename ZSDOS.ZRL to NZDOS.ZRL and replace your existing NZDOS.ZRL with this new file. Reinstall NZCOM and load the system. Go to Step 2. B. DO YOU HAVE Plu*Perfect Systems' JETLDR? (3.1.3) If No, Go To Step C. If Yes, Type: JETLDR ZSDOS.ZRL Go to Step 2. C. ARE YOU USING AN SB-180/FX-180 with XBIOS? (3.1.4) If No, Go To Step D. If Yes, Enter SYSBLD with your current system model. Select Menu 1.1, and change the DOS name to ZSDOS.ZRL. Exit SYSBLD, and "XBOOT" the new image. Go to Step 2. D. YOU ARE INSTALLING TO A BOOTABLE SYSTEM IMAGE. (3.1.1) (1) Create a system image file with MOVCPM, MOVZSYS or whatever facility you computer uses (ONEAC ON! image is already in this form). Save the moved system image to a disk file remembering the name. (2) Call the ZSDOS Installation tool in absolute mode (3.1.1.1) with: INSTALOS /A Read in the image created above, and select option 2 to replace the DOS. Load the ZSDOS.ZRL file and answer 'N' (No) to the prompt asking whether to configure default options. Select menu option 4 to exit the program and save the new image. (3) Install the new image on your system boot tracks with the SYSGEN utility provided with your computer. WARNING: PERFORM THIS STEP ON A WORKING DISK, NOT A MASTER DISK. Reboot your system from this disk and you will be operating under ZSDOS. 2. You should have completed installation of one of the forms in step 1 at this point, and have ZSDOS up and running. To see what Time Stamps can do for your system, two files have been pre- configured on the distribution disk. LDTIMD.COM is an RSX form of DateStamper with the Relative clock. LDTIMP.COM is an RSX form of P2DOS stamping also with the Relative clock. If you are unfamiliar with the two methods, a brief comparison is: Stamp Method Advantages Disadvantages ------------ ---------- ------------- DateStamper(tm) Wide acceptance Slight Time penalty Uses Only 1 Dir Stamp file can be entry erased Offers Last Access stamp P2DOS (CP/M Plus) Fast Uses 1/4 of Dir Entries If you do NOT want Date/Time Stamp or clock support, go to Step 3, otherwise activate one of the two programs by entering either LDTIMD or LDTIMP (see LDTIM, 3.2.3). Then Set the clock using TD.COM (4.6). To see the effect of stamping, prepare a disk for stamping with PUTDS.COM (3.2.4) if you selected LDTIMD, or INITDIR.COM (3.2.5) if you selected LDTIMP. Copy or edit some files and note the effect with ZXD (4.11). You will probably want to tailor the stamping to your system clock or other parameters now, so please read Section 3 of the manual for details. 3. FINAL TOUCHES. After you have completed whichever of the above steps you elected, we recommend highly that you read at least Sections 1 and 2 of the manual to learn the power that ZSDOS can bring to 8-bit computers. Learn to use the tools provided with the ZSDOS distribution package to customize the Operating System to your own requirements and desires. All tools listed below operate equally well under ZSDOS and ZDDOS unless specifically noted. Briefly, the tools are: COPY - Copy single or groups of files between disk drives and/or user areas preserving date/time stamps (Modification of ZCPR tool MCOPY). (4.1) DATSWEEP (ZDDOS or ZSDOS with DateStamper only) - Plu*Perfect's full-featured screen-oriented disk and file utility (4.2). FILEATTR - Display/Set attributes of individual or groups of files. (4.3) FILEDATE (ZDDOS or ZSDOS with DateStamper only) - Full fea tured Disk directory lister that permits elaborate selective listing based on DateStamper-style Date/Time files. (4.4) INITDIR - Initialize a disk directory for P2DOS (CP/M Plus) type Date/Time Stamping. (3.2.5) PUTDS - Initialize a disk for DateStamper type Date/Time Stamping (licensed Plu*Perfect utility). (3.2.4) RELOG - Resets Hard Disk Login vectors. Primarily for use in more elaborate Hard Disk systems which swap logical Hard Drives, or use removeable-media, but are defined as Fixed Drives. (4.5) TD - Display/Set an installed clock via ZSDOS/ZDDOS. (4.6) ZCAL - Display a brief calendar of current or any desired month. (4.7) ZCNFG - Configuration utility to set defaults, such as US or European date displays, in COPY, FILEATTR, FILEDATE, TD, and ZXD. ZPATH (ZSDOS only) - Permits setting the Internal DOS path as well as a ZCPR3 path (Modification of ZCPR tool PATH). (4.9) ZSCONFIG - Basic configuration program for both ZSDOS and ZDDOS. Operates in both interactive and command-line driven modes wih the latter being ideal for customizing the System from a STARTUP file under ZCPR3 environments. Options vary between ZSDOS and ZDDOS. (4.10) ZXD - Directory lister for DateStamper and/or P2DOS (CP/M Plus) Date/Time stamping methods (Extensive modification of ZCPR tool XD III). (4.11)