Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!steinmetz!yosemite!elliott From: elliott@yosemite.steinmetz Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple Subject: Re: perfect telcom prog/Quit to DOS Message-ID: <11798@steinmetz.ge.com> Date: 9 Aug 88 19:32:36 GMT References: <8808071755.aa04852@SMOKE.BRL.MIL> <609@n8emr.UUCP> Sender: news@steinmetz.ge.com Reply-To: elliott@yosemite.steinmetz.ge.com (Jim Elliott) Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy NY Lines: 35 Summary: In article <609@n8emr.UUCP> lwv@n8emr.UUCP (Larry W. Virden) writes: >Another things about ATP that bugs me - it's quit code. So many pgms return >to the command interpreter that I use (ECP8) but ATP forces me into a cute >little menu pgm (is that Byrd's better bye?). I would prefer to use whatever >is already selected. I think CIS Vidtex (prodos version) is the same way. Actually, this is not true; you can always do a standard ProDOS quit by hitting OA-Ctl-Q. This is documented, but I guess it is one of those things you mentioned that are difficult to find. (Similarly, once you are in the Quit segment, you can do the same by hitting Ctl-Q). I don't know what you mean by "Byrd's better bye", but the quit code you ran into is an ATP segment which I wrote. (Note the way it interacts correctly with the window manager.) When I wrote it, I had never seen a command shell, and I thought the "Enter Prefix" garbage was part of a SYS application, not ProDOS (the QUIT call was implemented AFTER my copy of the ProDOS technical reference manual). The code is a vast improvement over the standard Quit. But now that I have Davex I realized that I might WANT to just do a ProDOS Quit. Hence the OA-Ctl-Q command. (Thanks to Dave Lyons for explaining how to make it work.) >Larry W. Virden 75046,606 (CIS) >674 Falls Place, Reynoldsburg, OH 43068 (614) 864-8817 >osu-cis!n8emr!lwv (UUCP) osu-cis!n8emr!lwv@TUT.CIS.OHIO-STATE.EDU (INTERNET) >We haven't inherited the world from our parents, but borrowed it from our children. . . . . . . ... . . . . . . . . . . ... . . Jim Elliott / ...!seismo!uunet!steinmetz!crd!elliott / userE2U7@rpitsmts.BITNET "Don't look, son, it's / Jim_Elliott%mts@itsgw.rpi.edu [school] a secular humanist!" / (or) elliott@ge-crd.arpa [work] . . . . . . ... . . . . . . . . . . ... . .