Re: ProDOS Madness!

[shack@onyx.southwind.net (Randy Shackelford)]

Dave Althoff (dalloff@freenet.columbus.oh.us) wrote:

: Q1:  Is there any way to get ProDOS to surrender six or so of its oversize
: (512-byte) file buffers to BASIC variable space?

BASIC has some system calls located in its global page, two of which are 
getbufr and free bufr. Since my assembly programming is at the system program
level and not under BASIC, I dunno how to use them. They're documented in
Beneath Apple ProDOS though, if you can find it.

: Q2:  Didn't I hear that ProDOS had an improved string garbage-collection
: routine written into it?  How can I force this instead of the *SLOW*
: Applesoft garbage collection?  Or am I hallucinating?

print chr$(4)"fre"
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