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From: captkidd@athena.mit.edu (Ivan M Cavero)
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Subject: Re: shells (was Re: more perfect telecom program)
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Date: 10 Aug 88 18:44:28 GMT
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In article <8808090328.aa01328@SMOKE.BRL.MIL> A1T@ECL.PSU.EDU (Andy) writes:
>  [ much stuff deleted ]
>
>About quitting: No, I don't want to use a shell like ECP or davex. That's
> just as inconvenient as the 'enter prefix
> because I only have one drive here, the built-in, and i'd have to switch
> disks. I'm not a fan of switching disks (the main reason I want to use the
> /ram volume).

By what you say above, Andy, I assume you'd keep the shell in another disk
due to disk space limitations.  Have you tried, however, those modified
quit routines for ProDOS 8 lying around (NOT shells)?  I found a couple,
one in Applied Engineering's DataLinker disk (the term pgm that comes with
their modem), the other in Beagle's Timeout SuperFonts.  They replace
the normal ProDOS quit code ('enter prefix') with a menu of sys files and
subdirectories and allow you to navigate between directories and launch sys
files (basically all you need).

In my GS I use a pgm like P8CDA, which loads desk accessories, looks for a
sys file, and if it doesnt, quits to ProDOS.  This drops me into the menu
upon bootup.  In your case (I assume 'internal drive' means you have a
//c), I'd just put a basic.system with a startup program that simply does
a ?CHR$(4)"BYE".  That should work fine and doesn't take any additional
space, since you already must have basic.system to run kermit.  Of course,
Im sure a short sys pgm that all it did was a ProDOS MLI quit call would
do the trick too.

> Andy

Ivan Cavero                            |  My first posting.  Been listening
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