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From: elliott@yosemite.steinmetz
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: perfect telcom prog/Quit to DOS
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Date: 9 Aug 88 19:32:36 GMT
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Reply-To: elliott@yosemite.steinmetz.ge.com (Jim Elliott)
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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.)

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