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From: gdtltr@vax1.acs.udel.EDU (Gary D Duzan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.8bit
Subject: Re: Help
Keywords: mouse,bload
Message-ID: <2095@udccvax1.acs.udel.EDU>
Date: 13 Oct 88 18:45:31 GMT
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References: <4304@bsu-cs.UUCP>
Reply-To: gdtltr@vax1.acs.udel.EDU (Gary D Duzan)
Organization: University of Delaware
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In article <4304@bsu-cs.UUCP> merlin@bsu-cs.UUCP (Scott McPheeters) writes:
>
>	Does anyone know an answer to these to questions?
>
   I'll se what I can do.

>1. Can a ST mouse be used through the joystick port on a 8bit? And be controled
>   by normal joystick comands or paddle comands?
>
   I can be hooked in, but I don't think it has a standard input format. In
other words, you would probably have to write your own handler to read it.

>2. Is there a way to binary load a file from basic using like an XIO comand?
>
   In MyDOS and SparaDOS (these are the ones I know about) there is an XIO
command to binary load a file. Check your manual. As far as Atari DOS's, it
would be tricky. You would have to read the header data and do a block load.
You probably would have to write at least enough ML code to set up and exec
a CIO call.

>3. Is there an XIO comand for the regular load and list comands?
>
   No, these are basic functions. You might try printing the command to the
screen and going into screen input mode (Poke 832,13;Poke 832,12 to return
to keyboard mode.) You will need to experiment with it for a bit to get it
to do what you want, so practice with a disposable program.

>		Thank you for any help with these questions..You can E-mail
>an answer or post it if you like....
>
   No sweat.

					Gary Duzan
					Time  Lord
				    Third Regeneration
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