Re: GS/OS-friendly ProDOS 8 quit code?

[gberigan@cse.unl.edu (Greg Berigan)]

jeff.brielmaier@yob.com (Jeff Brielmaier) writes:
>gberigan@cse.unl.edu (Greg Berigan) writes:

>>Is there a ProDOS 8 quit code replacement (like A.h.h.h.System)
>>available that is GS/OS friendly?  By that I mean can you quit out of
>>the quit code and go back to GS/OS without having to restart the system?
>>I use a lot of ProDOS 8 applications and going back and forth between
>>GS/OS and ProDOS 8 gets tiresome.

>What do you mean by 'restart the system' ?  If you mean "reboot", you 
>shouldn't have to do that unless the P8 application does not support the 
>ProDOS quit function.

Most P8 BYE replacements don't have a quit function, since they don't
expect to be run by the Finder.  If you do, other programs you run with
it will quit back to the BYE replacement, not the Finder, and you can't
get back to the Finder without restarting the system.

The practical purpose of doing that is that, if you plan to use a lot of
8-bit applications, but will want to go back to the Finder eventually,
you won't reload the Finder each time you quit a ProDOS 8 application
just to run another ProDOS 8 program.

Now using the EXTQUIT.SYSTEM program posted I can run it to quit back to
the Finder when I want to use some GS/OS program (THANKS!).  I'm thinking
of merging it with my bye replacement so that I don't even have to worry
about finding and launching the separate program.

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