Msg: 6996 *Conference*
03-22-97 14:09:10
From: COMET _
To : RICHARD HANSON
Subj: REPLY TO MSG #168 (NO ROOM!)
You can create a directory entry to point at the resident ml program, and this will automatically execute the program at the starting address when you select it from the menu. However, you cannot save a COPY of the program in the usual .CO place. To distribute this large file online, the loader doesn't have to be larger than the RAM. Look at how the in-memory tokenizer for large BA programs (DO2BA) does its work--a similar program could be written that would translate the incoming ASCII program into 8-bit ml for the Model T. Alternatively, I suppose you can distribute the binary, and people can work directly with that. I imagine this shouldn't provide too much trouble with people with desktop machines and good Model T connectivity.