On Thu, 17 Feb 2005, Dave Tweed wrote:

> Peter L. Peres <plp@actcom.co.il> wrote:
>> On Thu, 17 Feb 2005, Harold Hallikainen wrote:
>>> Didn't CP/M use PIP?
>>
>> I have used CP/M and there was no PIP.
>
> Then you weren't paying attention. PIP is one of the ten standard
> "transient" commands that comes in a stock distribution of CP/M 2.2.
>
> Bonus points: Who can name the other nine, as well as the five built-in
> CCP commands?

I won't compete, the book is open on my table now ;-).

>> CP/M is very much like DOS, with REN, DEL, COPY and a few others,
>> as well as familiar device names (CON: PRN: etc).
>
> I think most of us would prefer if you said that DOS is very much like
> CP/M :-).
>
> There is no DEL or COPY in CP/M, except as 3rd-party transient commands.

I think that the version I used was a 'hacked' distribution - probably 
rewritten by a genius from some of the local IT institutions (I was 
behind the iron curtain at the time). I understand that some places in 
the ex-USSR there still are CP/M machines in schools and such.

Peter
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