lyricalnanoha wrote:
> On Sat, 10 Jan 2009, David Schmenk wrote:
> 
>> Why not save the global page in the high part of LC2, above the quit 
>> code? You should have enough space for that plus a little extra.  You 
>> shouldn't have to alter DOS 3.3 at all, but you could add to DOS a BYE 
>> command that restored the global page and returned to ProDOS.
> 
> Is that still true for e.g., ProDOS 8 v1.9 and later, or GS/OS?  (One of 
> my tests is running The DOS Escape from GS/OS, and returning to the 
> Finder.)
> 

For vm02, I completely destroy LC2 and ProDOS continues to work (even 
with the appletalk network card).  Of course it kills the quit code so I 
have to reboot, but it appears that LC2 is mostly available.  Oliver has 
done a lot of investigation into using LC2 as well.

> Also, this would have other uses: you can still access the MLI because 
> the system page is intact.  Not really valuable, but it could have its 
> uses.
> 
> Perhaps what I'll try to do is replace the INIT command altogether.
> 
> What I *really* want to do is rewrite the File Manager to just issue MLI 
> calls.  With this, stuff could get pretty low-level into DOS 3.3 and 
> still work on ProDOS.  (And I want to try something with The Prisoner on 
> it >:P)
>

I think you'll run into problems with prefixes and other ProDOS only 
features.  I believe it also needs bigger buffers than DOS requires.

> -uso.

Dave...
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