Re: EXIT command in BASIC...

[dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson)]

Stephen Shaw <stephen@apple2.org.invalid.za> wrote:

> On Tue, 4 Jun 2002 23:57:24 +1200, David Empson wrote:
> 
> > If you want to return to the ProDOS program selector (or whichever
> > third-party program selector you might have installed) then use the BYE
> > command:
> >
> > 10 PRINT CHR$(4);"BYE"
> >
> > (Note that this command isn't available in BASIC.SYSTEM version 1.0,
> > only in 1.1 and later.)
> 
> Did the 'BYE' command come from Beagle Bros.?

No, it was supplied by Apple, and is built into BASIC.SYSTEM 1.1 and
later.

> I seem to remember 'Bird's Better Bye' from Alan Bird?

That was an improved program selector which replaced the "quit" handler
in the ProDOS kernel (the "enter prefix" and "enter pathname" prompt).
One version of Birds Better Bye was distributed in the copy of ProDOS
included on the AppleWorks 3.0 disk (and presumably on later versions).

I made several improvements to Birds Better Bye (with help from a friend
and permission from Alan Bird), and I distributed it as a freeware
program called QUITTER.SYSTEM (or just QUITTER), which provides a front
end that lets you boot a disk, or install my improved Birds Better Bye
into the in-memory copy of ProDOS and activate it.

The main enhancements I made to BBB were displaying two columns of
filenames instead of one, and adding a key to rescan the current volume.

-- 
David Empson
dempson@actrix.gen.nz