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A83: Re: Re: Re: Shells...




Well that has absolutely nothing to do with the first message (which is what
I responded to)....
Besides, I don't even have an emulator on my computer.  I tried one once,
but I make good-sized programs intended for use with a shell (most useful
programs do) and I find it just as easy to use my calculator (which is the
best emulator you can get anyway!). If you're just playing around with rom
calls etc, then I could see how an unsquished program might be easier to use
if you use an emulator, but I think getting Send( from the custom menu is a
huge hemorhoid (S then down). Anyway, I like to use DevPac (it's a lot
easier to just press up then enter at the command prompt) and sending a
program to my calculator doesn't take very long at all (especially if it's
small). I don't usually have crash problems, so I don't have to send
anything other than the program (and possibly Install).

-----Original Message-----
From: James Matthews <matthews@tkb.att.ne.jp>
To: assembly-83@lists.ticalc.org <assembly-83@lists.ticalc.org>
Date: Monday, August 17, 1998 7:17 AM
Subject: A83: Re: Re: Shells...


>
>> What shell can't? Just put it into a BASIC program!
>> Anyway, why would you want to have an unsquished program? That makes no
>> sense to me...
>
>Unsquished programs are good when you don't wanna use an OS (which I don't,
>no offense :), and you don't want ZASMLOAD and all that crap.  The main
>reason I don't...is because I use CalcEm, and its a pain in the ass to load
>up all these files everytime you start up the program, or it crashes coz of
>your program.  But also, I like things small -- and having an unsquished
>program without an OS and without ZASMLOAD makes things easier, IMO.
>
>James.
>