Re: 80 Columns under cc65?

["Michael J. Mahon" <mjmahon@aol.com>]

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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