Re: Creating a console app

You only use 'MAIN if you don't want or need a console. In order
to have the console created and active, you must use STARTER; just
make sure that your application does enough PAUSE equivalents to
keep the system happy.

Rick

On Sunday, October 12, 2003, at 04:02 PM, Jeff wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> I've got my first program just about done, and I'm ready to create the
> EXE. From the documentation this appears rather simple, but I'm
> running into a few hic-ups. I figured out using 'MAIN instead of
> STARTER to get the program up and running without SF.EXE.
>
> But I can't get anything to type to the console. Hopefully I'm just
> missing something simple to create a console application? Ideally, I'd
> just like ABORT" . ." etc to all output to the console.

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Received on Sun Oct 12 2003 - 16:12:34 PDT