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From: toth@tellab5.tellabs.CHI.IL.US (Joseph G. Toth Jr.)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: ProDOS v1.9
Summary: Launching a Applesoft Basic program..
	 also BASIC.SYSTEM based bin files (like Kermit)
Message-ID: <1572@tellab5.tellabs.CHI.IL.US>
Date: 8 Sep 89 12:39:25 GMT
References: <8909070837.AA12730@trout.nosc.mil>
Organization: Tellabs, Inc. Lisle, IL
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In article <8909070837.AA12730@trout.nosc.mil>, markl@pro-generic.cts.com (Mark Leumanne) writes:
> Network Comment: to #4363 by dlyons@apple.com
> 
> I think I confused alot of people, what  I was saying is, just to make it so
> that ProDOS's Bye, would be also be able to run Basic etc. files, you know,
> when you type 'BYE' all you can run from there is System files, which is not
> good, maybe I am mixing BASIC.SYSTEM with ProDOS, if so, whatever it is,
> doesn't anyone agree that All file types (that are 'Run-able') should be able
> to be accessed by the BYE?  
> 

When you are at the BYE prompt that asks for a filename (or in any, I think,
program selector), you can specify 'basic.system <filename>'.  BASIC.SYSTEM
will then perform a '-<filename>' operation to run whatever type of file it
is (Applesoft Basic, BIN file, EXEC text file).

This would almost be perfect except for the fact that when the <filename>
execution completes, you are left in BASIC.SYSTEM and must perform a BYE
command manually.  I guess it's just a personal preference, but it seems
to me that after I run Kermit (launching it as I described), I should
return immediately to the area from which BASIC.SYSTEM was launched. 
Maybe BASIC.SYSTEM could be modified to 'remember' whether it was launched
with a filename, and then perfome the BYE automatically when the executed
file terminates (any hackers out there have a patch to do this??).

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