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From: crimmins@csli.STANFORD.EDU (Mark Crimmins)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: ProDOS 8 help
Message-ID: <3838@csli.STANFORD.EDU>
Date: 10 May 88 22:57:25 GMT
References: <2364@polyslo.UUCP>
Reply-To: crimmins@csli.UUCP (Mark Crimmins)
Organization: Center for the Study of Language and Information, Stanford U.
Lines: 22
Keywords: ProDOS, system, mousetext

In article <2364@polyslo.UUCP> pbanchie@polyslo.UUCP (Peter L Banchieri) writes:
>
>	I've begun to explore unix and UUCP from the comfort
>of my own home. I was wondering if there is a way to convert 
>a binary file to a executable .system file. Specifically, I'm
>running kermit and I'm tired of typing brun kermit from basic.

Kermit (all the versions I know about) is written so that you need to
use basic.system in PRODOS.  What you CAN do is have a STARTUP basic
program that has only the line "10 print chr$(4)"-kermit".

>	While I'm at it, is there a way of disabling mousetext?
>Sometimes when I run vi in vt100 emulation, I get mousetext
>rather than inverse characters.

I spoke to Ted Medin (who maintains the ProDOS Kermit) about this a
while ago, and he said that the bug comes up rarely enough so that
it's not worth tracking down.  I encountered it a lot when I first
started using KERMIT, but rarely see it now.  I have a feeling that
the program doesn't filter out the character that turns on mousetext
when it is printed to the video firmware.

Mark Crimmins (crimmins@csli.stanford.edu)