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

[BLuRry <brendan.robert@gmail.com>]

On Oct 22, 12:03 pm, lyricalnan...@dosius.ath.cx (Steve Nickolas)
wrote:
> John B. Matthews wrote:
> > 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.
>
> ECP also uses that trick.  Dunno if it launch cc65 executables with full
> argv support though (prolly not), which was what I wanted to do, so that I
> could run commands like "cal 11 2010" or such which wouldn't really be
> supported all that well on a shell that didn't understand specifically how
> cc65 expected its command lines to be created (apparently it uses the
> fpbasic parser?).
>
> -uso.

Why not just interrogate the standard text entry buffer at
0x0200-0x02ff?  Might be able to use it as a dual-purpose command
buffer for manual or script entry that way.