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From: toddpw@nntp-server.caltech.edu (Todd P. Whitesel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: Exiting Basic.System
Message-ID: <1990Dec11.055358.9429@nntp-server.caltech.edu>
Date: 11 Dec 90 05:53:58 GMT
References: <9012072204.AA13488@apple.com> <90344.014821AABENSON@MTUS5.BITNET>
Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
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AABENSON@MTUS5.BITNET writes:

>There are several programs, however, which can be installed instead of that
>normal (ignorant) quit code which are much friendlier...  I seem to be
>drawing a blank, and can't think of any names right now.

Well, I wrote a replacement that I not-so-humbly feel has the most features in
the same space as Apple's guideline (3 pages). The latest release of prodos
(1.9) has a reasonable but not spectacular quit code that requires 128K because
it doesn't fit in the original 3 pages. MY code runs on a ][+ and it's faster
because I hard-coded the screen routines for 40 columns. Apple's code uses 80
columns -- but I haven't gone past a single screen with my 40 column code
(although I have come close now that I have a 105 meg HD) so what's the point?

Available for FTP on tybalt or via mail request.

Todd Whitesel
toddpw @ tybalt.caltech.edu