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From: SAC.CCSO-OLA@E.ISI.EDU
Newsgroups: comp.os.cpm
Subject: North Star Woes
Message-ID: <[E.ISI.EDU]19-Nov-88.10:44:09.SAC.CCSO-OLA>
Date: 19 Nov 88 16:44:00 GMT
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I'm the lucky owner of a really nifty-swifty 64K 2-floppy North
Star Horizon, acquired second-hand with virtually no
documentation.  It runs North Star CP.M 2.2.  Anyways, I've been
downloading lots of CP/M PD stuff from SIMTEL20 and local BBSes,
but recently much of it doesn't work.  I use a strange setup to
acquire the programs, so that may be at fault...  I use my Amiga
1000 as my download and BBS-hopping computer (among other things)
and then upload from the Amiga to the North Star using a 9600BPS
null-modem hookup.  I use a good, reliable comm program on the
Amiga, and MEX v 114 on the North Star.  The XMODEM transfers
from Amiga to NS all work just fine.  (XMODEM CRC, of course)
Anyways, when I go to use the un-LBR'd COM files, the North Star
just gronks the primary (logged-in) drive for a few seconds and
then reports             NO SPACE 
    Neat, eh?  I thought the problem was some BIOS modifications
I made, but the problem persists even when I boot from a nearly-
virgin system disk (free of my hacking).

So, I'm open to suggestions.  Should I try re-shipping the files
to the NS?  Look at possible hardware problems?  Pray to whatever
formless demons control CP/M bugs?

                                        >JS<
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John L. Schuncke, JR.  MILNET: SAC.CCSO-OLA@E.ISIE.EDU
Disclaimer: The above opinions do not IN ANY WAY reflect the
opinions of my employer.  My employer thinks I don't even HAVE
opinions. 
      A> PIP NUL:=Flames
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