Re: 80-column mode with Aztec C SYS files?

[datajerk <datajerk@gmail.com>]

On Aug 12, 1:35 am, "Michael J. Mahon" <mjma...@aol.com> wrote:
> datajerk wrote:
> > On Aug 9, 1:56 pm, "John B. Matthews" <nos...@nospam.invalid> wrote:
> >> In article
> >> <e7f06024-737e-4dce-b59d-5f2757795...@j19g2000vbp.googlegroups.com>,
>
> >>  datajerk <dataj...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >>> I am using the MS-DOS Aztec cross-compilers to create PRODOS SYS
> >>> files for the //e.  My only problem so far is that I cannot figure
> >>> out how to get the program to run in 80-column mode.  PRODOS boots
> >>> into 80- column mode and presents me with a menu, but when I select
> >>> my program for execution it runs in 40-column mode.
> >> I didn't know that ProDOS could boot into 80-column mode; I always
> >> thought the startup program had to do that. Here's my take on how a
> >> system program might initialize 80-columns, as suggested in the ProDOS 8
> >> Technical Reference Manual:
>
> > PRODOS8 apparently does, at least the disk image I have does.  Thanks
> > for the TRM.
>
> Are you sure it isn't the STARTUP program setting 80 columns?
> PR#3 is a very common component of many STARTUP programs.
>
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Nope.  Just get a PRODOS8 diskette and remove all but PRODOS and it
will boot to a menu of SYS files in 80 columns.  If you have
BASIC.SYSTEM on there, then it start that at 40 columns.

If I just have PRODOS and other SYS files, then I get a menu and I can
select what I want to run.  The menu is 80 cols.