Re: ORCA/Shell Byteworks Quetions

["geoff" <geoff@a2central.com.remove-zpd-this>]

  To: dicen
I'm not Mike, but these aren't hard questions :)

1) The Orca shell supports OA-. to pause stdout.  If you do "type prog.cc", 
then press OA-. to pause and press any key to unpause.  On fast emulators, the 
screen scrolls too fast for this to be useful.  more has been ported to Orca 
--look for an exe on Apple II FTP sites.  You can't use the GNO version--you 
have to use the Orca version.

2)  I click on the Orca icon from the Finder and then rely on the command line 
to run PRIZM.  Once you are at the command line, "prefix" (I added an alias so 
cd and prefix are equivalent since I find it more natural to cd) to the 
directory and then "prizm prog.ext" to edit it.

There is a small app that can be found on FTP sites (haven't used it in years 
so I don't recall what it is named) that allows EXE files to be run from the 
Finder (it treats the EXE as a document file and passes it to a small GS app 
which then run the EXE program).  It can't be used to pass a source code 
filename to Prizm since the EXE filename is the document which is being passed 
from the Finder.

Geoff

 > I am now giving up and asking for help here. Hopefully Mike W. you can help 
 > me here as you appear to visit these newsgroups. Oh, and I just bought Opus 
 > II (even though I already have ORCA/M, ORCA/Pascal, ORCA/
 > C, Designer, and Talking Toos), so you got a sale! The latest versions
 > are very nice. The included manuals (PDF, Text, and Word docs) are
 > really, really nice. I might even buy the source code. Oh, and I would 
 > think the two Johns did their coding in ORCA/M for Softdisk. I saw
 > them hacking the IIgs monitor once but hopefully they actually bought
 > your tools. Your work on the IIgs made a big difference to a lot of people, 
 > including me.

 > 1. Is there any kind of scroll buffer or more command in the Orca/
 > Shell in text mode? Let's say I run "cat", I can't read everything in
 > a large directory. I want to do "cat | more" but there is no "more".
 > There really makes the text shell unusable for me. I can't find
 > anywhere how to do something like a scroll buffer or a pager (more) 
 > command. Oh, and I really don't want to just run Prizm to get a scroll 
 > buffer.

 > 2. How does one click on a source code file (CC, Pascal, etc...) and
 > have Prizm open it? Prizm is launched (or rather the Text shell is launched 
 > and it launches Prizm) but it never opens the file. The same could be said 
 > of EXE files if you associate them when the Finder asks.
 > Now that I have a nice MBP and a fast emulator I could actually use
 > the Finder to organize my source files. But, without them opening when
 > I click on them the Finder is useless. Anyway to do this?