Re: An idea that might go nowhere - ProDOS + CC65 = :>?

[AppleCPM <a2@wilserv.com>]

Hi!

On Oct 22, 11:43 am, Steve wrote:
> The main thing keeping me from trying to code this is that I'm not atm sure
> how I'd implement the shell.
> My idea is a slightly Bourne-ish shell for ProDOS, implemented in two
> pieces, which uses the D000-DFFF area where the Selector normally sits to
> hold resident state (D000-D2FF, as normally, holding code to run when a
> program exits; but instead of this being a Selector it would reload the
> shell and copy its state back down (this would include stuff like a search
> path for binaries).  There's prolly a special filetype I could use for
> commands where I could special-implement whatever argc/argv encoding scheme
> cc65 apps expect (and I don't know this atm).
> I got a bunch of sources of unixy utilities under BSD-ish licenses I could
> mash onto the system as well, at least in theory.

    Have you ever used the KIX shell, distributed as part of Kyan
Pascal?  If you haven't, you should...

Willi