techtinkering.com has some good comparative reviews and advice on various classes of CP/M utilities.
Very informative. Choose your own favorites.
E.g.:
There are lots of great alternatives to the standard CP/M DIR command, which add extra functionality and combine features that normally have to be accessed throu
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CP/M is by default a text-only affair. However, many of the machines that can run CP/M have hardware that would allow them to display graphics. As BBSing start
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CP/M has a number of interactive file managers that can be used to make it easier to handle common file operations rather than using the command line driven comm
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CP/M has the ability to handle lots of different compression and archive formats which was important due to the limited capacity of floppy disks and the cost of
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The .LBR (Library) file format was the most common form of multi-file archive on personal computers at one time. It was created by Gary P. Novosielski in 1982 f
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Lots of utilities make use of .LBR (Library) files to provide extra facilities such as the ability to run commands from archives or mount them as if they were dr
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To do any serious programming under CP/M, the first thing you need is a good programmers editor. There aren't many in the archives, but I have tried most of the
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-- Tom S