Re: memory use

[cld@xxxxxxxx (Carl Distefano)]

Reply to note from "Robert Holmgren"  Mon, 30
Jun 2003 16:04:13 -0400

> The basic functionality persists in Xy4DOS: command on CMline:
>
> CMALPHEMB ?H
>  or
> CMALPHCOM ?H
>  or
> IDXHLP ?H

Ha! So any loaded Help frame, any flavor, can be executed as though
it were a "native" command. !N ?M displays the top-level menu
(runs frame !N in XY4.MNU); PRINT ?D calls up the Print dialog
(runs frame PRINT in XY4.DLG); RECA ?2 reCAlls the current file
(runs frame RECAll in XYWWWEB.U2) -- assuming, of course, that each
of these Help files has been LOADed into memory. Sorta neat, if a
bit unintuitive. You'd think the syntax would be ?D PRINT, not the
other way around. Unfortunately, no way to pass an argument from
the CMline to a frame (PrsCMline lives!). And there's weird
behavior with BX. If you put "FUNCTABLE" on the CMline, then run
BX reca ?2Q2 , frame FUNCTABLE is launched, not RECA! In fact,
Editor is indifferent to the framename in the BX statement, even if
it's a non-existent frame. Execute BX NoSuchFramename ?2Q2 , and it
still runs FUNCTABLE.

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Carl Distefano
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