Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!ria!braille!bill From: bill@braille.uwo.ca (Bill Carss) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2 Subject: Re: two questions... Message-ID: <85@braille.uwo.ca> Date: 7 Nov 90 05:19:15 GMT References: <8530@darkstar.ucsc.edu> <1990Nov5.112859.7962@nntp-server.caltech.edu> <1990Nov5.141216.28524@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu> Reply-To: bill@braille.uwo.ca (Bill Carss) Organization: The Computer Braille Facility University of Western Ontario. Lines: 52 In article <1990Nov5.141216.28524@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu> dcw@lcs.mit.edu (David C. Whitney) writes: >In article <1990Nov5.112859.7962@nntp-server.caltech.edu> toddpw@nntp-server.caltech.edu (Todd P. Whitesel) writes: >>unknown@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (The Unknown User) writes: >> >>>I doubt Pascal makes a "SYSTEM"-ish file though) Jeez, that seems to be >> >>It doesn't. Apple Pascal has no knowledge of Prodos. It might be possible >>to write a prodos application that acted as a front end to pascal created >>code. To my knowledge, no one has attempted this yet. > >EEAACK! There's good reason. Apple Pascal compiled to P-Code (which, >by the way, will run on any machine running a P-interpreter). It did >not compile to 6502 assembly. Part of the P-system is the >P-interpreter. In order to get an Apple Pascal program to run under >ProDOS, you'll need to write a P-interpreter running under ProDOS. >Oog. Too much work for any one sane mind. I don't know how this discussion got started, but it might be a good place to ask a few Pascal - ProDOS related questions and a good forum for displaying my ignorance at the same time!!! I thought or think, that such disks as Apple Presents AppleWorks are Pascal disks. Further, I think that AppleWorks was originally written in Pascal. Considering that there are obviously .system files on the AppleWorks disk it would seem, assuming that my contention that AppleWorks is Pascal, that much of the previous discussion is a bunch of hooey!! Now that I have your attention via raising your dander, I would like to ask a question or two: 1. I have some software called Pascal ProFile Manager (which as of yet I have never used). Can I "mix" Pascal and ProDOS files on my hard drive via this software? 2. The program has a file selection facility and assuming number 1 is true, could I use this selector for activating ProDOS applications? Thanks very much for waht ever help you can offer. Bill Carss bill@braille.uwo.ca (please note the lower case) A - mazing // // ___ P - rovocative // // // \\ P - enetrating // // // \\ L - imitless // // |||||||||| E - ducational // // \\ // // \\ __ // -- Bill Carss bill@braille.uwo.ca (Please Note the Lower case!!)