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APPENDIX D
Bird’s Better ‘Bye’
Several of the Applied Engineering distribution disks
contain a modified version of ProDOS 8. It incorporates a
program selector, Bird’s Better ‘Bye’ (created by Alan
Bird), that lets you exit one system file and easily run
another system file (e.g. APLWORKS.SYSTEM,
BASIC.SYSTEM, FILER) from a menu.
To use this ‘BYE’ command, boot your copy of the Æ disk
or copy the ‘PRODOS’ file from the Æ disk to your boot
disks. Then, anytime you quit a system program (such as
AppleWorks), a menu of all the executable System files on
that disk will be displayed on the screen. This menu can
also be called from the Applesoft BASIC prompt by
entering the ‘BYE’ command.
ESC: CHANGE VOLUME
RETURN: SELECT FILE
/AW2.EXP
PROD0S
AE.AW.SYSTEM
FILER
GSTEST.SYSTEM
RWTEST.SYSTEM
RFTEST.SYSTEM
AECACHE.SYSTEM
Sample screen display
The sample screen above shows the AW 2 Expander disk
on-line and lists its executable System files.
Use the up and down arrow keys to highlight the selection
you want to run. The ESC key will change the volume
(disk) selection to the next on-line volume. The Return
key selects the currently highlighted file or subdirectory
name.
Subdirectory names on the disk will be indicated by a ‘/’ as
the first character of the file name.
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