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Re: Ciderpress for OS/X?

David Wilson wrote:

On Aug 15, 4:29 pm, "Michael J. Mahon" <mjma...@aol.com> wrote:

datajerk wrote:

On Aug 13, 10:49 pm, mdj <mdj....@gmail.com> wrote:

On Aug 14, 2:19 pm, datajerk <dataj...@gmail.com> wrote:

Thanks.  Identical results as before.

If you're running under BASIC.SYSTEM you should be able to do a:
printf("\x04pr#3\n");
Which would be the equivalent of
PRINT CHR$(4) ; "PR#3"

ProDOS likes the ctl-D to be the first character on a line,
that is, the first character after a CR.  Try printing:
"\x0d\x04pr#3\n"


Isn't the CR EOT (ctrl-D) sequence the way Apple DOS recognises
commands while ProDOS detects the PRINT Applesoft token execution and
then looks for a control-D?


I couldn't remember for sure, so before posting, I ran a simple test
program:

100 PRINT " " CHR$(4)"CATALOG"

and it just printed " CATALOG".  When I removed the " " from the
PRINT statement, it generated a catalog.

I then drew the incorrect inference that ctl-D had to be the first
character on a line to be effective.

So it seems that the rule is that ctl-D must be "the first character
output by a PRINT statement" for ProDOS to see it as a command.

-michael

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