John,
 
Well, we're nearing parity in our adventure.  The questions you're 
asking are exactly the ones I've been experimenting with for the past
couple of months.  Each of the packages has features which make it 
desirable, but at a cost.  The RCP is one of those, in particular.  
It is nice to have when doing house-keeping chores so you don't have 
to wait on the transient program to load and execute each time you 
decide to delete, rename, move, etc., some file.  But with only 64K 
of real-estate, 2K could really help at times (Z80DIS for instance).
 
ZCPR3 can load any number of different RCP's, so you can have a 
different command mix with each.  The problem, though, is the space 
is allocated even if you aren't using it.  The decision must be made 
even before you modify the BIOS.  Leaving the RCP out completely is 
definitely a viable option, and then just using the transient 
counterpart for all of the commands at the cost of speed.
 
The other option, and the one I've opted for, is to upgrade to 
ZCPR3.4 which can dynamically allocate the packages as needed.	This 
will give me the best of both worlds;  an RCP when doing house 
keeping with the commands resident for quick execution and additional
memory when I need it.	I think I mentioned that I had ordered a hard
disk and along with that I have NZCOM (ZCPR3.4) and ZSDOS coming.  It
should be here early next week, so I'll have some update on this soon.
 
As for the wheel byte, I decided to put it in since it only takes one
byte of memory and then it is there if I need it.  Since I'm looking 
to set up one of the machines for Julia to use in a business, and 
since she knows little of computers, I will probably use the wheel 
byte to try to keep her out of trouble.  I will use this with VMENU 
to 'hide' the operating system from her while still giving her room 
to grow.  VMENU can be set up so she can still do everything that can
be done from the A> prompt but with more info and it is more of a 
point and shoot affair.  The wheel byte will allow me to turn off 
things like ERA, REN, etc.  They will still be there, but the wheel 
will have to be set prior to execution and can automatically reset 
when done.  This is not to exclude the functions from her, but to put
them away on a password protected screen to prevent inadvertent 
execution of these commands.
 
As for ZEX, I've downloaded the latest version, but have not used it 
for anything.  It is an area that I am looking to use in the system 
for the business.  It seems to me that the strength of the FCP hinges
on ZEX and conditional programming.  I'm hoping to explore using 
these with the alias feature to implement various procedures for the 
business, such as end of day reports and closing.  If you have some 
experience with EX.COM, I'm sure I can learn some from you on this.
 
Please don't label me a nag, but I cannot stress too much the need to
read the installation manuals.	While they don't spoon-feed you, I've
been able to find most of the answers I needed there.  I am NOT 
complaining about you asking questions!  I learn and grow, too, with 
this process.  The manuals can be a foundation on which to build our 
conversations.	I am really looking forward to what we're heading 
into.
 
Now, I think you said you are running a hard disk on your system.  
I'm curious how you have it set up in terms of partitions, number of 
user areas, their names, contents, etc.  Also, I'm interested in your
backup system and methodolgy.  This is a new arena for me, so I got 
to get my plan set.  Another area I'm curious about is the the new   
three and one half drives.  I wonder if we can modify the DISK	     
PARAMETER BLOCK for the H37 to run the 1.44 meg drives.  Sure would  
help the backup situation and, for the business, transporting data.
 
I've been a bit long winded tonight, so let me bid you ado. -- ken
up situation and, f