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From: dvljrt@cs.umu.se (Joakim Rosqvist)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
Subject: Hardware-POKEr wants to write systemfriendly code!
Message-ID: <1991Mar23.142053.12955@cs.umu.se>
Date: 23 Mar 91 14:20:53 GMT
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Organization: Dep. of Info.Proc, Umea Univ., Sweden
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Can someone tell me how to do these things in a system-friendly way:

1. A program that starts from the CLI and exits when you press a certain
   key. The character is not supposed to be echoed to the screen, and I
   do not want to open another window.
2. The same thing as 1, but with a raw key-code instead of an ASCII-code.
3. Is there a way to make the system forget there was ever a mouse?
   that is, don't care if a press a button or move the mouse, but still
   run multitasking and validate disks etc.
4. How to switch disk-validation off, so you could make a program that
   would format a disk without it being validated.
5. How to find the Output-handler to the active CLI-window. The program
   that wants it is started from an interrupt and not from the CLI, so
   I cant just call OUTPUT()
6. The system checks for new disks about every 2.5 seconds. could this be
   changed?
7. If i type "path" at the CLI-prompt i get something like:

<current directory>
C:

How can this be changed to:

<current directory>
df0:c
C:

I tried "path df0:c" but that results in

<current directory>
NameOfMyDisk:c
C:

I want to specify the drive rather than the disk!
Does this need a special program?

Thanks for any help / $DR.HEX$