Commo
Commo is a
optimized assembly language and distributed as shareware
, was small and fast.
The macro
curly braces. It offered the ability to control most aspects of the terminal. For instance, the following macro would reconfigure the Alt-X key to display a dialog box
, allowing the user to confirm before exiting the program:
{:alx} {info-qs0 Really exit?}
{ifco ,alxn} {exit} {:alxn} {}
The program's macro and configuration files were free-form text which could be edited with any text editor. This led to popularity among those who wanted to be able to configure the program.
Fred Brucker actively provided support for
Trade Wars 2002 'helper' programs. MacroBBS was a Bulletin board system
written entirely out of COMMO macros.
Mr. Brucker released the last version of COMMO on 25 December 1998.
See also
- Telix
- Qmodem
- Terminate (software)
- Kermit
- Minicom
- ProComm Plus
External links
- commo75.zip Archived 2011-07-23 at the Wayback Machine — {COMMO} 7.5 shareware archive (1997)
- commo77.zip — (COMMO) 7.7, final version (1998)