Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!lll-winken!lll-lcc!ames!pasteur!ucbvax!decwrl!labrea!csli!crimmins 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)