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From: shawn@pnet51.cts.com (Shawn Stanley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: ProDOS Kermit Problems
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Date: 13 Feb 89 17:05:24 GMT
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Jerry.Kindall@f10.n226.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Jerry Kindall) writes:
>> Kermit uses Applesoft hooks to do file I/O
> 
>Applesoft doesn't have any "hooks" to do file I/O... that's all handled 
>by DOS 3.3 or BASIC.SYSTEM (ProDOS).

My apologies.  I thought I might get in trouble with that statement.  I should
have said, the DOS I/O hooks that Applesoft makes use of.

>It's possible that Kermit was designed to determine which OS was 
>installed and then run under either by having separate "drivers" for 
>the two OS's.  (I am using the term "drivers" here very loosely... I 
>mean routines that open, close, etc files under the two OS's.)  But it 
>wouldn't be done by calling Applesoft routines.

I thought that was likely, too.  However, I've been informed that it really
does use the same methods as Applesoft.  All you have to do is supply the
proper output for performing }ithe "OPEN", "WRITE", "READ", "CLOSE", etc.
commands, just as you would via Applesoft PRINT statements.

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