Re: Launching files from CFFA

["Payton Byrd" <plbyrd@bellsouth.no.spam.net>]

"William Garber" <willy46pa@garberstreet.com> wrote in message 0rSdncwlqsiUfHzYnZ2dnUVZ_u2mnZ2d@comcast.com">news:0rSdncwlqsiUfHzYnZ2dnUVZ_u2mnZ2d@comcast.com...
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> "Jeff Blakeney" <jeff.blakeney@a2central.com.remove-8pn-this> wrote in message tkl3u2t661pnf00qi02lmgc5s5sqe1gtsf@4ax.com">news:tkl3u2t661pnf00qi02lmgc5s5sqe1gtsf@4ax.com...
> :   To: Payton Byrd
> : On Fri, 23 Feb 2007 22:57:17 -0600, "Payton Byrd"
> : <plbyrd@bellsouth.no.spam.net> wrote:
> :
> : >Anyways, I've downloaded the big old arnold archive and have put
> : >dozens of programs on my CFFA, but running them is a real pain from
> : >the ProDOS boot disk.  Has anyone created a good menuing system
> : >launching applications from a ProDOS volume?  It would be really cool
> : >if there's a program out there that would scan the entire volume for
> : >apps and then present them in a list.  Select the app and it'll run.
> :
> : I wrote a program selector in Applesoft years ago called Selector
> : v1.0.  I think I only every uploaded it to Ground and possibly Delphi
> : but I don't think those archives aren't available anymore.  The
> : archive isn't currently on the disk images of my hard drive partitions
> : here on my PC so I imagine I copied it onto a floppy some time ago and
> : as my real IIgs is currently in pieces (looking for the best place to
> : set it back up at present) I can't go through my collection of archive
> : floppies to find it.
> :
> : If I get my IIgs set back up soon and find that archive I'll let you
> : know.  Oh, it requires an 80 column screen but should work on an
> : unenhanced IIe and possibly even a II+ but I've never tried it.
> :
> : This is the program launcher I wrote that would give me the option to
> : disable ProDOS' memory protection of the text screen so that programs
> : that tried to load into that area when I launched them wouldn't give
> : me a NO BUFFERS AVAILABLE error.  Has some sort options for the list
> : of files too.
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> Here's your 'Selector 1.0' program, Jeff.
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> http://www.garberstreet.com/Apple2/Zips/select10.gz
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Thanks, guys!  I'll give it a shot!