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Re: GNO...

dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) wrote in
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> Rob Greene <greener@charter.net> wrote:
> 
>> 1. Do the Merlin tools work from the command line?
> 
> I don't recall ever using Merlin-16+ from the command line. I think I
> stuck to the ORCA tools with GNO.

That's what I'm hearing...  I also see the NF assembler is not command-
line.  

>> How?  I see how to get MD Basic working.  Is there any way to run a
>> BASIC program from from GNO?
> 
> Applesoft BASIC under ProDOS-8? You would need something which can
> implement an "extended quit", able to pass a startup file to
> BASIC.SYSTEM.

That's an interesting idea, I may just pursue it!

>> 2. What are the real memory requirements?  I'm currently sitting at 
>> 1.25MB and I think I'm at the edge.
> 
> That is on the light side. I never used with less than 4 MB of RAM,
> but it might have managed on 2.

Kind of what I suspect... I think I have about 200K or so free.  Anything 
that chews up memory (ie, man) just doesn't have enough memory to do so.  
Working on resolving this.

>> 5. Anything interesting going on with GNO?  Or is it pretty much
>> dead? 
> 
> Pass.

Ok, I'm taking the hint.  :-)

Thanks (to all)!
-Rob