Re: 80 Columns under cc65?

Dave Althoff, Jr. wrote:

If I remember correctly, BASIC.SYSTEM parses lines that are printed from running BASIC programs, but NOT characters that are passed through COUT. Sending the DOS command via COUT worked beautifully in DOS 3.3, but in ProDOS you have to send the command to ProDOS directly. The problem with THAT is that there is no equivalent for PR# in the ProDOS MLI. It looks like there is a method where you can put the command string into the input buffer:

$200:D0 D2 A3 B3 8D

....then JSR to DOSCMD at $BE03. The reference I am looking at, though, cautions that this only works in deferred mode...that is, while a BASIC program is running. I wonder how you can simulate that...Wasn't this covered in one of the last issues of Softalk....?

It's always worth trying. I've found that the cases of several commands
I wanted to use but were "not supported" through DOSCMD worked fine.

-michael

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