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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