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From: greg@hoss.unl.edu (Lig Lury Jr.)
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Subject: Re: ACOS/GBBS (was:Re: MD-BASIC (was:Re: Apple ][ BBS Software))
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cchen@xcluud.sccsi.com (Conway Chen) writes:
>unknown@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (The Unknown User) writes:

>>	But I know that ACOS doesn't have arrays (or at least didn't when
>>I looked at it last summer to write a full screen editor in).. No arrays
>>makes a hell of a lot of stuff a pain to write.

>No, ACOS may not have arrays, but MACOS does.  Most people prefer to use 
>MACOS over ACOS, as it does have arrays, both one and two dimensional.

However if Lancey discovers you are running MACOS instead of ACOS, you can
kiss all rights to upgrades and support away.

Anyway, a full screen editor does exist, using ProTERM Special Emulation.
It is an external USEfile.

>Conway Chen
>cchen@xcluud.sccsi.com
>uunet!nuchat!xcluud!cchen

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