A85: ha ha ha

To: <assembly-85@lists.ticalc.org>
Subject: A85: ha ha ha
From: "Michael Cook" <MBCook@concentric.net>
Date: Thu, 9 Oct 1997 21:01:34 -0400
Reply-To: assembly-85@lists.ticalc.org

flame
this is Mike Baker :-0



>Is anyone out there interested in a 390 byte shell, that is
ZShell 4.0
>compatible?  OS/7, the shell that WAS the smallest is 497
bytes.
>My new shell, Tiny MISh, is about 391 bytes! (can you
believe that?)  It
>is the smallest ZShell 4.0 compatible shell in existence,
unless someone
>wrote one even small and never announced it. It doesn't
have very many
>features, except a few extra ROM calls (which were
instrumental in
>shrinking the shell), and should be compatible with most
ZSHell programs,
>unlike OS/7, which had a bug where it didn't zero the text
memory like
>ZShell does.
>
>
>It lacks checksum recalculation though, because I don't
know which byte in
>the header is the checksum, and I don't know exactly know
how to
>calculate it.  It is still smaller though!  (If someone
could help, I
>could improve the shell a little)
>
>It loads the name of programs just like OS/7, with one
small change.  You
>have to give it the length of the name too.
>
>I am going to release the shell with full source code, as a
freeware shell.
>
>Any comments/suggestions would be helpful.  Please no
flames.
>
>Just in case anybody wants to know, MISh stands for Menu
Independent SHell.
>
>Note to Mike Baker: I did not use your source code as a
base, but I did get
>some good ideas from it.  I think I even made my ROM_CALL
routine a
>little faster, but I'm not sure.
>
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