Re: Booting problem (Prodos)

[neiderma@er3.rutgers.edu (Kid)]

>>most of the slot stuff and all the video stuff.  I was thinking
>>that it would be nice if I could make the ProDOS file maybe 2/3 or
>>1/2 of what it is now, but be able to boot it and run ShrinkIt and
>>ZLink.
>
>Yipes, ten years and some people still don't understand ProDOS. The
>only stuff in the PRODOS file is the code for the kernel, code to
>relocate the kernel and set up the machine, and device drivers for 5.25
>drives and clocks. LOCK, UNLOCK, VERIFY, and whatnot do not exist in
>the kernel. They are in ProDOS BASIC, incorrectly called BASIC.SYSTEM
>by many people.

Yipes is right.  I was under the impression that when ShrinkIt tried
to create a new directory, it had to call ProDOS for the instruction
sequence to do that.  I thought that by removing that create directory
code and some other stuff I could shave some blocks.  

What book do you recommend I check out to see how programs like
ProTERM, ShrinkIt, AppleWorks, etc use ProDOS BASIC?

Thanks for the correction.

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