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

["John B. Matthews" <nospam@nospam.invalid>]

In article <lyricalnanoha-1287762199@macgui.com>,
 lyricalnanoha@dosius.ath.cx (Steve Nickolas) 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.

FWIW, the Kyan Pascal shell, KIX.SYSTEM, installs its command line 
handler in a similar manner. It can launch cc65 executables, and 
pressing reset prompts the use to reboot or return to the command prompt.

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John B. Matthews
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