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From: mattd@Apple.COM (Matt Deatherage)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Does anyone really know what time it is?
Message-ID: <52102@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 27 Apr 91 18:52:00 GMT
References: <8870@crash.cts.com> <1991Apr27.121630.30121@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu>
Organization: Apple Computer Inc., Cupertino, CA
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In article <1991Apr27.121630.30121@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu> 2hnemarrow@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu writes:
>
>BTW, why don't you upload your little
>ProDOS MLI call somwhere; like maybe comp.binaries.apple2. (it doesn't have to
>be pretty.)
>-- 

I hope this doesn't ruin your day, but that MLI call is built into ProDOS and
always has been.  It's called GET_TIME, it's call number $82, has no parameter
list and can't generate an error.  It updates the time on the global page and
is documented on page 71 of the ProDOS 8 Technical Reference Manual (section
4.6.1).

I wonder if Glen Bredon ever figured this out?  Prosel 8 used to call CLOSE(0)
constantly just to update the time for his clock at the bottom of the screen.