On Mon, 14 Sep 1998, Doug Yowza wrote:
> A friend of mine created a product called LowerEase that added lowercase
> to the Apple ][. In addition to the character gen ROM and a shift key
> mod, I thought the package also included a patch to the command-line
> interpreter for Apple DOS. IIRC, DOS intercepted the command-line input
> routine for AppleSoft, so this would have worked for BASIC as well. (I
> never used his product, so I may be making this all up.)
You're making some of it up. DOS intercepted the command line input and
only parsed out DOS commands. If it didn't recognize a DOS command it
passed the line off to BASIC. His DOS enhancement COULD have converted
any lowercase command line to uppercase before passing it on to BASIC so
it wouldn't puke. That's entirely doable and would be rather elegant.
Sam Alternate e-mail: dastar_at_siconic.com
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