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From: GUBBINS@RADC-TOPS20.ARPA (Gern)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.zenith.z100
Subject: Re: CED100 hacks
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Date: 16 Mar 89 18:24:57 GMT
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Russ,

First, I was not informed that anyone other than Rob worked on the code,
since generally neither of you or the rest of the Great Clarkson Z-100
Hackers EVER puts your names on trivial hacks.

It is exactly those macros making-it-into-an-almost-high-level-language
that makes it unreadable  (-: .    What ever happened to straight MASM
code with a little macro here or there for convenience?

I mean:

	%out stack underflow
	.$top = .$top-1
	.$get	x,%.$top
	@j&type	lab
	jmp	d@&label
	.$br	z,%.lnum,p3
	.if dl a line_length
	.dowhl al ne ' '
	.while al ne HT
	.while al ne CR
	.enddo
	.do
	.or <al e ' '> <al e HT>
	inc	si
	mov	al,[si]
	.enddo


does not look like the 8086 assembly that I know a little about (except
for 2.5 lines of the above).

Since you also worked on it, any hints on how to add pathname completion
to the filename completion?   That is:  Give part of a path, hit the
completion key, it finshes what it can (BEEPs), and waits for further
input.

Or is the HISTORY program what should replace CED100?

Cheers,
Gern
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