Re: 80-column mode with Aztec C SYS files?

[datajerk <datajerk@gmail.com>]

On Aug 9, 1:56 pm, "John B. Matthews" <nos...@nospam.invalid> wrote:
> In article
> <e7f06024-737e-4dce-b59d-5f2757795...@j19g2000vbp.googlegroups.com>,
>
>  datajerk <dataj...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I am using the MS-DOS Aztec cross-compilers to create PRODOS SYS
> > files for the //e.  My only problem so far is that I cannot figure
> > out how to get the program to run in 80-column mode.  PRODOS boots
> > into 80- column mode and presents me with a menu, but when I select
> > my program for execution it runs in 40-column mode.
>
> I didn't know that ProDOS could boot into 80-column mode; I always
> thought the startup program had to do that. Here's my take on how a
> system program might initialize 80-columns, as suggested in the ProDOS 8
> Technical Reference Manual:

PRODOS8 apparently does, at least the disk image I have does.  Thanks
for the TRM.