Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!steinmetz!glacier!elliott
From: elliott@glacier.steinmetz
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: davex problems and some system program questions
Message-ID: <10747@steinmetz.ge.com>
Date: 8 May 88 01:20:30 GMT
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Reply-To: elliott@crd.ge.com (Jim Elliott)
Organization: General Electric CRD, Schenectady, NY
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Keywords: munged help file, startup buffers, quit code

Oops.. I just noticed that a few items in my previous posting were not
very clear. First of all, the davex posting I got was missing the
actual external commands vstore and vrestore and possibly others, as
well as having problems in the help file (some entries printing
garbage, others giving "Prodos Error: Bad file pos").

Also, in my inquiry about quit routines, I'm asking: What does a
normal ProDos system program do when quitting that lets it realize
that it should go back to davex rather than prompting for a path and
application?

And one thing that I forgot entirely to mention: In the file
Davex.Doc, David Lyons says "an appendix describes how assembly
language programmers can write more external commands", but this
appendix never materializes. I'm >very< eager to learn how to do this;
where is the documentation actually to be found?

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