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From: dlyons@Apple.COM (David Lyons)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: Problems for a new IIGS user
Message-ID: <36353@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 10 Nov 89 04:39:51 GMT
References: <1134@godot.radonc.unc.edu>
Organization: Apple Computer Inc, Cupertino, CA
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In article <1134@godot.radonc.unc.edu> rosenman@godot.UUCP (Julian Rosenman) writes:
>[...]
>1) If you boot up GS/OS and click on BASIC.SYSTEM you then go into
>the AppleSoft environment. How do you get back to the OS without
>rebooting the system? (I've tried "brunning" all the system files with
>no luck. The documentation is silent on this issue).

Type BYE (and hit return).  This is sort of documented, but it's in the
book about BASIC.SYSTEM (_BASIC Programming with ProDOS_, I think).

>2) Why can't GS/OS read DOS 3.3 files and just display them like
>ProDos files? Is there a utility that does this, or do I have to
>convert them all to ProDos 16 to view them on the desk top?

GS/OS is designed to allow capabilities like working with DOS 3.3 disks
to be added.  If there were a DOS 3.3 File System Translator for you
to put in your System:FSTs folder, it could.

Currently, you have to convert your DOS 3.3 files to ProDOS files to
work with them from GS/OS programs.  The System Utilities program on
Apple II System Disk 3.1 is one that will do the job.

[I'll let other people answer the languages question--I'm not taking
sides.]

>4) Can the perimeter of the color monitor be altered (other than
>background color)?

No, although there are some programs that (just for a keen effect) change
the border color at carefully timed intervals to get strange and generally
"stripey" effects in the border.  But you can't draw there, and it's
limited to one of 16 colors.
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