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| Posted: 08:35am 23 Nov 2024 |
The command line is for a user to enter commands. It isn't designed to auto-run things unless it's a program that's been designated as auto run. It certainly isn't designed to run any other commands automatically as it should be impossible. You don't want to get locked out of the system because it keeps running FILES/n continuously.
If you set OPTION AUTORUN ON and OPTION BREAK 0 you are (more or less) in the wet and smelly over your wellies. :) It's a similar thing if you can auto run command line commands. It's commonly regarded to be a "bad thing". :)
There is no OS environment.
The command interpreter, editor and BASIC interpreter are all one and the same no matter how they appear. Get one stuck and the whole system crashes, it's completely irretrievable.
Giving BASIC control of the command interpreter is giving it control of the routine that passed control to it. You can't "call" it as you got into BASIC via a Jump command - there is no return mechanism. Peter's MM.END is probably the best you can do to keep the system stable.