Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!menudo.uh.edu!nuchat!xcluud!cchen From: cchen@xcluud.sccsi.com (Conway Chen) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2 Subject: Re: ACOS/GBBS (was:Re: MD-BASIC (was:Re: Apple ][ BBS Software)) Message-ID: Date: 6 Jun 91 14:01:13 GMT References: <1991Jun3.180606.29748@unlinfo.unl.edu> Organization: Montrose UFO Appreciation Society & Data Haven Lines: 37 greg@hoss.unl.edu (Lig Lury Jr.) writes: > 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 > > -- > /// ____ \\\ "The major problem--one of the major problems, for there are > | |/ / \ \| | several--one of the many major problems with governing > \\_|\____/|_// people is of whom you get to do it, or more to the > greg \_\\\/ hoss.unl.edu point, who gets people to let them do it to them. Maybe, but to some, the risk is worth it. Personally, I don't see how I would be losing my rights to upgrading and support, since I still haven't paid for the $20 fee for tranferring ownership. Maybe I will and go to ACOS when I do run a BBS, but for now, MACOS is wonderful for me to program in. -- Conway Chen cchen@xcluud.sccsi.com uunet!nuchat!xcluud!cchen