SYSGEN

Most  CP/M vendors provide a program by this name,  to deal  with
the  business  of  storing  CP/M in the system	tracks	of  newly
formatted disks.  It is essential if you are into modifying  CP/M
itself.

Unfortunately,	Kaypro	doesn't  normally provide  this  program,
preferring  to	lump  SOME  of its  features  (but  not  all  the
essential ones) into their menu-driven DUTIL type program.

To  tell the truth,  the origin of the version of SYSGEN that I'm
using  is lost in antiquity.  It carries a dual copyright by  DRI
and NLS Inc. (the grandaddy of Kaypro). All of these programs are
due originally to DRI.	Each vendor must modify the  track-sector
addressing  and  total	sector count to fit their  specific  disk
format.  No  doubt that's what Kaypro did.  I suspect  that  they
provided it with my old 4-83 system.

The   point   is  that	if  you  are  going  to  make	extensive
modifications to CP/M, you _NEED_ the features of SYSGEN that let
you  read the system into RAM,	modify it,  and write it back  to
disk.  DUTIL  doesn't  do this.  Shame on Kaypro  for  no  longer
distributing  this  essential program.	But then they  no  longer
provide MOVCOM, either!

I  won't  describe how to use SYSGEN ...  that's covered  in  the
documentation on CP/M. I will just suggest that you find some way
to get a (legal) copy.

Jack W. Crenshaw
P.O. Box 15888
Tampa, Fla. 33684
CIS 72325,1327