Re: LLUCE vs. METAL: A losing battle

[fnet@hoare.cba.csuohio.edu (Greg Boh)]

In article <9302080525.AA10755@chasm.scar.utoronto.ca> 90taobri@CHASM.SCAR.UTORONTO.CA (Brian Tao) writes:
>The following revelation escaped Greg Boehnlein's lips:
>> 
>> Actually, he was complaining about the abiliity to disable keywords.
>> Keywords aren't a part of METAL, they are a part of the FutureVision
>> software.
>
>    Ah, that's where I misread Greg Berigan's post...
>
>> Actually, it's really kick butt to work with, because you can have it
>> load in external programs.
>> 
>> Like, on my system, if I am coding some segment of METAL, and I need to
>> refer to the over 300K of METAL and FV docs, I have a menu driven METAL
>> program that I call via...
>> 
>> \DOCS
>
>    Can this be used to run othr GS/OS or P8 software?  i.e., boot up
>MicroEMACS or WriteAway and pass it some filenames to open?

Hehe...That WOULD be nice..Not directly, no. However, Brian, you COULD write a
program that will exit out of METAL and run a ProDos 8 program.

Example...

\MUGS    <- COULD conceivably exit ProDos 8 to DaveX then bridge to GNO to run
	    mugs.

The possibilies are endless really. What you might want to keep in mind is
that the GS version of METAL runs Shell Exe's, so MicroEmacs should be able to
run under that.