CCI CDOS V3.10 Release 1 (xx/xx/xx)

This release contains the following enhancements and Software Problem Report (SPR) corrections:

1. The system now supports PCI COM and LPT boards.  This is done with the addition of a COM.EXE and an LPT.EXE driver, which must now be loaded in CCONFIG.SYS, for example: install-\cdos\lpt.exe. There is support for PCI COM boards that use non-IBM port parameters, and for multiple COM ports sharing a single interrupt (like the 2+port SIIG PCI COM boards).The complete list of supported COM and LPT boards follows:SIIG CyberParallel PCI (1 lpt).
• CyberParallel PCI (1 lpt).
• CyberParallel Dual (2 lpt).
• CyberParallel Dual PCI (2 lpt).
• Cyber I/O PCI  (1 lpt, 1 com).
• Cyber 2S1P PCI (1 lpt, 2 com).
• Cyber 1S1P PCI (1 lpt, 1 com).
• Cyber 2S1P PCI (1 lpt, 2 com).
• Cyber 2P1S PCI (2 lpt, 1 com).
• LAVA Lava Combo SP-PCI 1S1P (1 lpt).
• Lava Parallel PCI (1 lpt).
• Lava Dual Parallel PCI (2 lpt).
• Lava 2SP-PCI board (1 lpt, 2 com).
• LavaPort Plus PCI (1 lpt, 2 com).
• PCI Com boards supported are:
• SIIG CyberSerial PCI (1 com).
• Cyber 1S PCI (1 com).
• CyberSerial Dual PCI (2 com).
• Cyber 2S PCI   (2 com).
• Cyber I/O PCI  (1 com, 1 lpt).
• Cyber 1S1P PCI (1 com, 1 lpt).
• Cyber 2S1P PCI (2 com, 1 lpt).
• Cyber 2P1S PCI (2 lpt, 1 com).
• LAVA Lava Sserial PCI 1S (1 com).
• LavaPort 650 PCI 1S (1 com).
• Lava Dserial PCI (2 com).
• LavaPort 650 PCI 2S (2 com).
• Lava Combo SP-PCI 1S1P  (1 com, 1 lpt).
• Lava Combo 2SP-PCI 2S1P (2 com, 1 lpt).

2. The new LPT.EXE driver has a signon date of "08/15/04".  It must be loaded in CCONFIG.SYS in order for CDOS to use the printer ports.The CCONFIG.SYS syntax is "install=\cdos\lpt.exe".The LPT.EXE also has diagnostics and will load in a diagnostic mode when the statement "Set LptVerbose=AllPaged" is added to CCONFIG.SYS, before the  "install=\cdos\lpt.exe" line.Upon reboot, the LPT.EXE driver will describe what it is doing or not doing and what it detects for LPT ports in the system.

3. The new COM.EXE driver has a signon date of "08/15/04".  It must be loaded in CCONFIG.SYS in order for CDOS to use the COM1 and COM2 serial ports.The CCONFIG.SYS syntax is "install=\cdos\com.exe".The COM.EXE also has diagnostics and will load in a diagnostic mode when the statement "Set ComVerbose=AllPaged" is added to CCONFIG.SYS, before the  "install=\cdos\com.exe" line.Upon reboot, the COM.EXE driver will describe what it is doing or not doing and what it detects for COM ports in the system.

4. Support for headless" embedded systems (no video board or keyboard) was added.Background console output is thrown away. The system assumes that the BIOS handles foreground console output and either redirects INT10s to the COM port, or just ignores them.

5. New versions of the CCITERM,TRANSIT and LOADER utilities are included.

6. The new TRANSIT.EXE (signon date of 11/01.03) supports the new GET and PUT commands in conjunction with the new CCITERM.EXE. Valid entries are P or PUT to send a file from the local TRANSIT computer to a remote CCITERM computer (see EXAMPLE A below).And G or GET to receive a file from the remote computer and store it on the local computer (see EXAMPLE B following). Example A: If connected via CCITERM, receive the file update.xxx from the C:\updates\customer.001 subdirectory of the remote CCITERM computer and store it as file update.exe in the C:\temp\update subdirectory on the local TRANSIT computer. The correct syntax for this would be: C>TRANSIT GET c:\updates\customer.001\update.xxx c:\temp\update.exe.  Example B: If connected via CCITERM, send the file infobufr.bin from the C:\ subdirectory of the local TRANSIT computer and store it as file infobufr.bin on the E: drive in the remote CCITERM computer.The correct syntax for this would be: C>TRANSIT PUT c:\infobufr.bin e:  

7. A new version of LOADER.EXE (signon date of 08/04/04) is included.  This utility is will now run on an Intel 8086 machine, as required for some embedded systems. This version of LOADER is greatly improved from the last version (circa 1993) of the disk loader.  Use "Loader/h" syntax for all of the options.  Refer to the c:\loader.ini file for the loader script file installed on new CDOS v3.10 systems. Note that this loader is called Loader.EXE, the old one was a .COM file. Be sure to DELETE the old c:\cdos\loader.com file.

8. Command line options were added to specify the board's base port address and interrupt number, as required to support PCI NE2000-type LAN boards. For example: R5 P340, where:P# = Four digit I/O Port Address, 0200-FFF8, and R# = Two digit Interrupt Number (decimal), 02-15.