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From: sgstree@cad.Berkeley.EDU@polyslo.UUCP (Samuel Streeper)
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To the person who asked about how to save the cursor position:

The wrong way - if you output esc-j esc-k (save cursor immediately followed
by restore cursor), you will find that upon return d0 has cursor x 
coordinate, and d1 has cursor y coordinate.

A better way:
(pointed out to me by jwahar bammi)
After line-a initialization register a0 points to the line a variables.
Assuming that a0 has that pointer,

	move.w -28(a0),d0
	move.w -26(a0),d1

will leave x in d0, y in d1. I wish I could find documentation on the line
a variables. Can any one help out? For example, I have noticed that
the mouse coordinates may be found at -602(a0) and -600(a0).
Are these stable?
                             Samuel Streeper