power.com

[cris eby]

I just downloaded ( from retroarchive) a little cpm program called power.com
that is a collection of utilities, but there is absolutely no documentation.
Some of the commands are straightforward but most of them need some kind of
documentation. Is anyone familiar with program and its use or have
documentation??

Thanks

Chris Eby

[en...@erehwon.com]

Power! was bundled with many CP/M systems from smaller manufacturers
and was also available directly from from Computing! in San Francisco.
Written by Pavel Breeder it was the earliest attempt at making CP/M
easier to use. It was not quite a shell or a menuing system, but
allowed you to do many common operations "by the numbers" - i.e., to
copy files from A; to B: you could call up all the files on A: but
they would be pre-fixed with numbers, so you could just enter multiple
numbers instead of multiple PIP's.

Email Clyde Steiner at cl...@movedoc.com - he distributed the program
and might be willing to make a copy of the documentation available (if
he has still it!) Tell him Bob Stek sent you!

Bob Stek
Saver of Lost Sols

[Jim Bianchi]

As I recall, POWER.COM was an incredibly useful (and powerful) tool.
It was, I believe, originally the creation of Peter Norton (of Norton Utils
fame). As far as I know, he stopped supporting CP/M in the early-mid 1980s.
I had a copy of it then and tried to get some documentation but was unable
to -- you may have better luck contacting the guy in the next post..

--
ji...@sonic.net
Eclectic Garbanzo BBS, (707) 539-1279

Linux: gawk, date, finger, wait, unzip, touch, nice, suck, strip, mount,
fsck, umount, make clean, sleep. (Who needs porn when you have /usr/bin?)

[Jörg Emmerich]

Hi,

I think, there should be a short doc-file in the older section of my
software archiv.
If you give me some time to search? ;-)

Jörg Emmerich

[Fritz Chwolka]

will a scanned DOC ( say JPG images ok ?)

Greetings from

Fritz Chwolka / collecting old computers just for fun\