delaney@wnre.aecl.CDN (Grant Delaney) (07/31/87)
Don you mention ECP8 and I have seen ECP16 on Compu-serve If you are using a IIgs is it necessary to have ECP8 to Launch applications if I were to purchase ECP16. Or is there an advantage to having both. A brief explanation of what ECP8 and ECP16 are might be in order for those on the net who are not familiar with them.
delaney@wnre.aecl.CDN (Grant Delaney) (08/01/87)
Date: 31 Jul 87 21:16 +0600 From: delton@pro-carolina.UCSD.edu To: delaney@wnre.aecl.cdn Reply-To: delton%pro-carolina%pro-sol%pnet01@LOCAL.UCSD.edu Message-ID: <8707311838.AA01600@crash.CTS.COM> Subject: Re: ECP8 ECP16 ECP8 can launch SYS, BAS, BIN, BATch, and S16 files. ECP16 can launch SYS, S16, BATch, and EXE files. ECP8 has a built-in semi-smart/semi-dumb terminal program while ECP16 adds a history buffer, nicer command-line editor, nicer function keys (and more of them), and all of the ProDOS 16 stuff. ECP8 is included with ECP16 and you can boot into either from P16. There are a few more ill-behaved P16 applications I've found and in some of these cases it works out better to launch them from ECP8 but the shell-idea works better in general under P16. i.e. ECP16 can launch a shell of itself or any other program and when you quit you return to the shell that did the launching using a stack to keep up with where you've been. UUCP: [ ihnp4 sdcsvax nosc ] !crash!pnet01!pro-sol!delton ARPA: crash!pnet01!pro-sol!delton@nosc.mil INET: delton@pro-sol.cts.com