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

[platkus@falcon.ic.net (Shawn Platkus)]

Peter C. Kulupka (pckulup@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu) wrote:

> Dan Crutcher (dcrutch@iglou.iglou.com) wrote:
> : >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.

> : I think you need to explain this. Why do you have to restart your system
> : to go back to GS/OS? If you boot into GS/OS and then run a ProDOS-8
> : program, you should automatically be returned to GS/OS when you quit your
> : P8 program. If that's not the way your system works, something is wrong
> : with your system.

> : --Dan

> I think he wants to know if there's a way to quit a Prodos 8 app without having
> to reload GS/OS into memory.  I'm sure there is but the reason GS/OS doesn't
> stay in memory is because it would soak up memory when it's not in use.
> There's really no point when all you'd be doing would be wasting RAM.

> Pete


I think a lot of you are misunderstanding the question.  I'm not the one
who asked the question, but I believe they wanted to run a ProDOS 8
program launcher, run several P8 apps quitting back to the P8 
launcher and then finally somehow quitting the P8 launcher back
to GSOS.  They didn't want to have to quit back to GSOS to launch
another P8 app.  They wanted to do all the P8 apps without leaving
P8 then at the end go back to GSOS.

I think David Empson mentioned a QUITTER program that he helped
write that would do this.


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