14 Sep
1998
14 Sep
'98
12:27 p.m.
On Tue, 15 Sep 1998, Tony Duell wrote:
What does most Apple ][ software (e.g. Applesoft, the
p-system) do if you
enter commands in lower case?
On the ][ and ][+, AppleSoft and DOS 3.3 will puke. Don't know about
Pascal, although I would venture to guess it dones't mind lowercase
characters.
Now, on the //e, AppleSoft doesn't mind lowercase, but DOS 3.3 still pukes
as it was written in an era where lowercase simply was never considered,
even as a future enhancement.
In either case, ProDOS will accept either upper or lower case (ProDOS can
be run on a ][ (with the autostart ROMs) and ][+ with the "language
card" to provide the additional 16K required by ProDOS).
Sam Alternate e-mail: dastar(a)siconic.com
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