Why on earth would anyone in his right mind bother to write an
unadorned directory listing program when you can get a simple
directory list out of your CCP and when snazzy things like SD
are available?

Well the problem is that you can't ALWAYS get an unadorned directory
listing out of your CCP!  I implemented Jim Lopushinsky's ZCPR-style
CCP replacement, CCP103+ on Tesseract RCPM+  because it offers a
number of improvements over the standard CCP that comes with CP/M
Plus.  In the RCPM+ environment CCP103+ is a boon because it offers
enhanced security and flexibility and supports utilities such as
LD301 (which allows callers to log into .LBR files as sub-
directories).

So worthwhile is CCP103+ that I have for some time wanted to use it
on my other computer.  The only thing stopping me was that CCP103+
has NO internal commands and relies on external programs to do the
work of DIR, ERA, REN and TYPE.  The standard ERASE.COM and RENAME.COM
do well enough, and TYPE109a.COM is better than either the internal
TYPE command or the TYPE.COM provided by Digital Research.  SD makes
a worthy substitute for the DIR command in the RCPM+ environment but
for normal use I usually don't need or want all the extra information
provided by SD, and in particular, I usually don't want my directory
listing sorted.  I like to see the files in the order that they
appear in the directory.

Because hitherto it would have been quite silly to write a program
to do exactly what a standard internal DIR command does, there was no
such program in the public domain.  There is now.

While I was about it I allowed a little extra versatility without
going to extremes.  You can now include a user number alone or along
with a drive prefix.  See the comments at the head of the source file
for a short explanation.

I hope this little program proves of value to someone else.

	John Hastwell-Batten,
	Tesseract RCPM+,
	P.O. Box 242,
	Dural, NSW 2158,
	AUSTRALIA.

	20th May, 1986.