acmfiu@serss0.fiu.edu (ACMFIU) (01/29/91)
There are supposedly two prodos 8 quit calls. one just lets you quit back to whatever and the other lets you quit and then specify a pathname of the next application to run. how to i do the latter quit call? alberT
dlyons@Apple.COM (David A. Lyons) (02/05/91)
In article <2070@kluge.fiu.edu> acmfiu@serss0.fiu.edu (ACMFIU) writes: >There are supposedly two prodos 8 quit calls. one just lets you quit back to >whatever and the other lets you quit and then specify a pathname of the next >application to run. > >how to i do the latter quit call? > >alberT We *think* this is available from the "ProDOS 8 Update" at APDA; it will also be in the next version of DTS's Q&A stack, and it's on page 60 of the old ProDOS 16 Reference. Any way, the parameter count = 4, next byte = $EE, next word points to the pathname of the application to launch next. The high bits are actually used in this path, so don't have them on by accident. The last 3 bytes in the parameter list should be zero. -- David A. Lyons, Apple Computer, Inc. | DAL Systems Apple II System Software Engineer | P.O. Box 875 America Online: Dave Lyons | Cupertino, CA 95015-0875 GEnie: D.LYONS2 or DAVE.LYONS CompuServe: 72177,3233 Internet/BITNET: dlyons@apple.com UUCP: ...!ames!apple!dlyons My opinions are my own, not Apple's.
THROOP@GRIN1.BITNET ("Throop,Henry B") (02/05/91)
[ACMFIU asks about P8 quit call to launch next application, rather than going to standard quit code] Dave Lyons writes: >Any way, the parameter count =4, next byte = $EE, next word points to the > pathname of the application to launch. [...] Is the enhanced quit now actually a part of ProDOS 8? I may be wrong, but I thought that at least in previous versions it only worked from P8 if launched from P16 or GS/OS. If you just booted P8, you had to do all the loading of next application and all that manually. Henry -- Henry Throop THROOP@GRIN1.BITNET throoph@jacobs.cs.orst.edu