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Operating System
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Manual
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Copyright (c) 1982
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Digital Research
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Pacific Grove, CA 93950
(408) 649-3896
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All Rights Reserved
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COPYRIGHT
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Copyright (c) 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979, 1982, 1983, and 1984 by
Digital Research Inc. All rights reserved. No part of this
publication may be reproduced, transmitted, transcribed, stored
in a retrieval system, or translated into any language or
computer language, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical,
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written permission of Digital Research Inc., Post Office Box 579,
Pacific Grove, California, 93950.
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Thus, readers are granted permission to include the example
programs, either in whole or in part, in their own programs.
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DISCLAIMER
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Digital Research Inc. makes no representations or warranties with
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TRADEMARKS
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CP/M, CP/NET, and Digital Research and its logo are registered
trademarks of Digital Research. ASM, DESPOOL, DDT, LINK-80, MAC,
MP/M, PL/I-80 and SID are trademarks of Digital Research. IBM is
a registered trademark of International Business Machines. Intel
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a trademark of Texas Instruments Incorporated. Zilog and Z80 are
registered trademarks of Zilog, Inc.
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* First Edition: 1976 *
* Second Edition: July 1982 *
* Third Edition: March 1983 *
* Fourth Edition: March 1984 *
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Table of Contents
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1 CP/M Features and Facilities
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1.1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-1
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1.2 Functional Description . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-3
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1.2.1 General Command Structure . . . . . . . . . 1-3
1.2.2 File References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-3
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1.3 Switching Disks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-5
1.4 Built-in Commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-6
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1.4.1 ERA Command . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-6
1.4.2 DIR Command . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-7
1.4.3 REN Command . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-8
1.4.4 SAVE Command . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-8
1.4.5 TYPE Command . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-9
1.4.6 USER Command . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-9
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1.5 Line Editing and Output Control . . . . . . . . . . 1-10
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1.6 Transient Commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-11
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1.6.1 STAT Command . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-12
1.6.2 ASM Command . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-18
1.6.3 LOAD Command . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-19
1.6.4 PIP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-20
1.6.5 ED Command . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-29
1.6.6 SYSGEN Command . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-31
1.6.7 SUBMIT Command . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-33
1.6.8 DUMP Command . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-35
1.6.9 MOVCPM Command . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-35
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1.7 BDOS Error Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-37
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1.8 CP/M Operation on the Model 800 . . . . . . . . . . 1-38
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2 The CP/M Editor
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2.1 Introduction to ED . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-1
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2.1.1 ED Operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-1
2.1.2 Text Transfer Functions . . . . . . . . . . 2-3
2.1.3 Memory Buffer Organization . . . . . . . . . 2-4
2.1.4 Line Numbers and ED Start-up . . . . . . . . 2-5
2.1.5 Memory Buffer Operation . . . . . . . . . . 2-6
2.1.6 Command Strings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-7
2.1.7 Text Search and Alteration . . . . . . . . . 2-10
2.1.8 Source Libraries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-13
2.1.9 Repetitive Command Execution . . . . . . . . 2-14
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2.2 ED Error Conditions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-14
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2.3 Control Characters and Commands . . . . . . . . . . 2-16
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3 CP/M Assembler
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3.1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-1
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3.2 Program Format . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-3
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3.3 Forming the Operand . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-4
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3.3.1 Labels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-4
3.3.2 Numeric Constants . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-5
3.3.3 Reserved Words . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-5
3.3.4 String Constants . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-6
3.3.5 Arithmetic and Logical Operators . . . . . . 3-7
3.3.6 Precedence of Operators . . . . . . . . . . 3-8
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3.4 Assembler Directives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-9
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3.4.1 The ORG Directive . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-10
3.4.2 The END Directive . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-10
3.4.3 The EQU Directive . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-11
3.4.4 The SET Directive . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-11
3.4.5 The IF and ENDIF Directives . . . . . . . . 3-12
3.4.6 The DB Directive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-13
3.4.7 The DW Directive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-14
3.4.8 The DS Directive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-14
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3.5 Operation Codes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-15
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3.5.1 Jumps, Calls, and Returns . . . . . . . . . 3-15
3.5.2 Immediate Operand Instructions . . . . . . . 3-17
3.5.3 Increment and Decrement Instructions . . . . 3-17
3.5.4 Data Movement Instructions . . . . . . . . . 3-18
3.5.5 Arithmetic Logic Unit Operations . . . . . . 3-19
3.5.6 Control Instructions . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-21
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3.6 Error Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-21
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3.7 A Sample Session . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-23
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4 CP/M Dynamic Debugging Tool
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4.1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-1
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4.2 DDT Commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-3
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4.2.1 The A (Assembly) Command . . . . . . . . . . 4-3
4.2.2 The D (Display) Command . . . . . . . . . . 4-4
4.2.3 The F (Fill) Command . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-5
4.2.4 The G (Go) Command . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-5
4.2.5 The I (Input) Command . . . . . . . . . . . 4-6
4.2.6 The L (List) Command . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-6
4.2.7 The M (Move) Command . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-7
4.2.8 The R (Read) Command . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-7
4.2.9 The S (Set) Command . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-8
4.2.1- The T (Trace) Command . . . . . . . . . . . 4-8
4.2.11 The U (Untrace) Command . . . . . . . . . . 4-9
4.2.12 The X (Examine) Command . . . . . . . . . . 4-9
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4.3 Implementation Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-10
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4.4 A Sample Program . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-11
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5 CP/M 2 System Interface
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5.1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-1
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5.2 Operating System Call Conventions . . . . . . . . . 5-3
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5.3 A Sample File-to-File Copy Program . . . . . . . . 5-35
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5.4 A Sample File Dump Utility . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-38
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5.5 A Sample Random Access Program . . . . . . . . . . 5-42
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5.6 System Function Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-50
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6 CP/M 2 Alteration
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6.1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-1
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6.2 First-level System Regeneration . . . . . . . . . . 6-2
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6.3 Second-level System Generation . . . . . . . . . . 6-5
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6.4 Sample GETSYS and PUTSYS Programs . . . . . . . . . 6-9
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6.5 Disk Organization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-11
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6.6 The BIOS Entry Points . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-13
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6.7 A Sample BIOS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-21
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6.8 A Sample Cold Start Loader . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-21
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6.9 Reserved Locations in Page Zero . . . . . . . . . . 6-22
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6.10 Disk Parameter Tables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-23
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6.11 The DISKDEF Macro Library . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-28
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6.12 Sector Blocking and Deblocking . . . . . . . . . . 6-32
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Appendixes
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Basic Input/Output System (BIOS) . . . . . . . . . . . A-1
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A Skeletal CBIOS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B-1
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A Skeletal GETSYS/PUTSYS Program . . . . . . . . . . . C-1
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The Model 800 Cold Start Loader for CP/M 2 . . . . . . D-1
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A Skeletal Cold Start Loader . . . . . . . . . . . . . E-1
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CP/M Disk Definition Library . . . . . . . . . . . . . F-1
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Blocking and Deblocking Algorithms . . . . . . . . . . G-1
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Glossary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . H-1
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CP/M Error Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . I-1
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1-1. Line-editing Control Characters . . . . . . . . 1-10
1-2. CP/M Transient Commands . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-11
1-3. Physical Devices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-14
1-4. PIP Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-24
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2-1. ED Text Transfer Commands . . . . . . . . . . . 2-3
2-2. Editing Commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-6
2-3. Line-editing Controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-7
2-4. Error Message Symbols . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-13
2-5. ED Control Characters . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-14
2-6. ED Commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-15
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3-1. Reserved Characters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-6
3-2. Arithmetic and Logical Operators . . . . . . . 3-7
3-3. Assembler Directives . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-9
3-4. Jumps, Calls, and Returns . . . . . . . . . . . 3-15
3-5. Immediate Operand Instructions . . . . . . . . 3-16
3-6. Increment and Decrement Instructions . . . . . 3-17
3-7. Data Movement Instructions . . . . . . . . . . 3-17
3-8. Arithmetic Logic Unit Operations . . . . . . . 3-18
3-9. Error Codes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-20
3-10. Error Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-21
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4-1. Line-editing Controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-2
4-2. DDT Commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-2
4-3. CPU Registers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-9
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5-1. CP/M Filetypes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-6
5-2. File Control Block Fields . . . . . . . . . . . 5-7
5-3. Edit Control Characters . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-20
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6-1. Standard Memory Size Values . . . . . . . . . . 6-2
6-2. Common Values for CP/M Systems . . . . . . . . 6-7
6-3. CP/M Disk Sector Allocation . . . . . . . . . . 6-11
6-4. IOBYTE Field Values . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-15
6-5. BIOS Entry Points . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-16
6-6. Reserved Locations in Page Zero . . . . . . . . 6-21
6-7. Disk Parameter Headers . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-23
6-8. BSH and BLM Values . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-25
6-9. EXM Values . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-25
6-10. BLS Tabluation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-26
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I-1. CP/M Error Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . I-1
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2-1. Overall ED Operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-2
2-2. Memory Buffer Organization . . . . . . . . . . 2-2
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2-3. Logical Organization of Memory Buffer . . . . . 2-4
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5-1. CP/M Memory Organization . . . . . . . . . . . 5-1
5-2. File Control Block Format . . . . . . . . . . . 5-7
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6-1. IOBYTE Fields . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-15
6-2. Disk Parameter Header Format . . . . . . . . . 6-22
6-3. Disk Parameter Header Table . . . . . . . . . . 6-23
6-4. Disk Parameter Block Format . . . . . . . . . . 6-24
6-5. AL0 and AL1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-25
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6-1. GETSYS Program . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-9
6-2. BIOS Entry Points . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-13
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