Re: Comint II Modula-2?

["Michael J. Mahon" <mjmahon@aol.com>]

Ron Kneusel wrote:
> While perusing the resently posted archive of Apple II software here:
>
> http://www.apple2.org.za/mirrors/apple.cabi.net/
>
> in Languages.Programming / A2.Programmer's.Archive
>
> I came across two Shrinkit archives for a Modula-2 system.  It turns
> out that it is a DOS 3.3 based system which comes up with the title
> screen:
>
> Comint II0 11.1.84
>
> Modula-2 System
> Version 2.0
> (C) Copyright Modula Corporation 1984
>
> It seems to use single letter commands.  I figured out that "1" lists
> files on drive 1, "2" on drive 2, and "EDIT" will ask for a file and
> takes you to a line editor.  What I can't figure out is how to compile
> or otherwise run the program that I have entered.  For that matter, how
> to list it while it is in memory since "L" asks for a new filename to
> load.

I've never seen this system, but the single-letter commands make
exploration pretty straightforward.

I'd do all this with a copy of the disk, or at least write-protected,
but try all the keys to see what works.  T)ype, D)isplay, etc., are
all "meaningful" possibilities, but even "." could do it.

It's also likely that some of the commands (like the one for listing)
also require a sequence number range.

I hope you get more info on it--it sounds like a very interesting
piece of software.  ;-)

-michael

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