Re: GS/OS-friendly ProDOS 8 quit code?

[pckulup@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu (Peter C. Kulupka)]

Dan Crutcher (dcrutch@iglou.iglou.com) wrote:
: >available that is GS/OS friendly?  By that I mean can you quit out of
: >the quit code and go back to GS/OS without having to restart the system?
: >I use a lot of ProDOS 8 applications and going back and forth between
: >GS/OS and ProDOS 8 gets tiresome.

: I think you need to explain this. Why do you have to restart your system
: to go back to GS/OS? If you boot into GS/OS and then run a ProDOS-8
: program, you should automatically be returned to GS/OS when you quit your
: P8 program. If that's not the way your system works, something is wrong
: with your system.

: --Dan

I think he wants to know if there's a way to quit a Prodos 8 app without having
to reload GS/OS into memory.  I'm sure there is but the reason GS/OS doesn't
stay in memory is because it would soak up memory when it's not in use.
There's really no point when all you'd be doing would be wasting RAM.

Pete

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Pete Kulupka                                   pckulup@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu
Criminal Justice Sciences
Illinois State University                      kulupka@suntan.vid.ilstu.edu