RSMAGRUD@WEIZMANN.BITNET (Randy Magruder) (01/08/86)
Hi again, when I wrote about the Action cartridge being put onto a diskette I was more or less thinking of a one time use of Action simply to compile some sort of Kermit self-booting alreaydy-compiled thing, not for Action itself. You all have helped changed my mind so I'll still use the cartridge for Kermit, but It sounds like a good language to learn. I have a few questions about dialing into mainframes. In logging onto the 3081 mainframe here (cp/cms) everything I type is in uppercase until I hit the caps key (800XL) and then everything is in lower case. The only way to type words in uppercase is to hold down the shift key, because the caps key no longer sets it into capital letters. Does anyone know how to do this? Also, when logging into a VAX/UNIX system here, MODEMLINK is interpreting something as slashes. For instance, /T/h/i/s/ w/o/r/d/ . How can I prevent this? Also, I haven't found a way to work mixed case from home, just upper case, though of course on the terminals here at weizmann I can. That's all for this time... Randy
Fleysher.wbst@XEROX.ARPA (Dan Fleysher) (01/08/86)
Hope this is not the 1000th response on this topic. The Atari caps key does not work like a typewriter shiftlock key. Hold down the shift key and hit the caps key. That locks you into uppercase. Hit the caps key without holding down shift and you are back to lower case again. I believe the T/h/i/s /w/o/r/l/d is an attempt to show that you are logged in in all upper-case mode and are typing lower case. Next time log in in lower case and the /'s will disappear. Dan -----------------------------------
Felton.PA@XEROX.ARPA (01/08/86)
I would like to clear up a common misconception about ACTION!. You don't need the ACTION! cartrige in order to run programs written in ACTION!. If you have the ACTION! runtime package (about $30 from O.S.S.) then you can compile ACTION! programs into binary files which can be run directly from DOS. However, if you do not have the run time package then you will need the cartrige to run the programs. John