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From: AWCTTYPA@UIAMVS.BITNET ("David A. Lyons")
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: perfect telcom prog/Quit to DOS
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Date: 7 Aug 88 22:48:44 GMT
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>Date:         Thu, 4 Aug 88 23:51:00 EDT
>From:         Andy <A1T@ECL.PSU.EDU>
>Subject:      the perfect telecommunications program

>[...]
>-should quit to dos (kermit does this... i hate the 'enter prefix')
>[...]

The closest thing to "quit to DOS" under ProDOS is exactly what TIC
and Z-Link and zillions of other programs do:  a ProDOS "QUIT" call.
This does *not* necessarily result in the "enter prefix of next
application" and "enter pathname of next application" screen, which
I must agree is one of the most annoying things ever invented.

So what do you do?  Get a program launcher such as ProSEL, ECP8, or
Davex.  Then you will be automatically returned to your program
launcher when you quit from any well-behaved ProDOS application,
*instead* of seeing the enter prefix/enter pathname screen.

Kermit quits to DOS 3.3 or to BASIC.SYSTEM under ProDOS.  It seems
pretty clumsy to me to have ProDOS Kermit *not* be a SYS file and to
have it run under BASIC.SYSTEM.  I would rather have two separate
versions--one DOS 3.3 and one ProDOS.  The ProDOS version should be
a SYS file and would load faster because it wouldn't require
BASIC.SYSTEM or the extra code to support DOS 3.3 in the same file.

>Andy Tefft

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