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From: LIZAK98%SNYBUFVA.BITNET@cornellc.cit.cornell.edu (WE DISENGAGE--WE TURN THE PAGE)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Mixing C with AmigaBASIC
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Date: 21 Apr 89 13:01:05 GMT
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Hello Amigoids!

  Thanks for all the help that you all graciously gave with my
last C encounter.  This one is little more specific to Amiga.
My BBS program that I wrote within the last year is in 100% Amiga
BASIC.  I did rewrite the serial I/O into C, but an having a hell
of time getting it to load.  I know I have to load the ML code
into an array and go from there...  my loader looks something like
this, the code may be a little different (I'm not at my machine
right now.)

Load:
  OPEN "bbs.io" FOR INPUT AS #1
  LENML=LOF(1)
  FOR I=0 TO LENML/4+1:INPUT #1,A$
  CODE%=CVI(A$):NEXT I:CLOSE 1

DumpText:?
  CALL CODE%(SADD"This should print but wont")
  RETURN

The C code was compiled with Manx 3.6 and linked with the same
package.  Everytime I load it into the array and then call it, I
get a software error, task held requestor.  However this code
will work from CLI.  I can launch it from CLI like so:

1> BBS.IO "This should print but now does"
This should print but now does
1>

What is the problem?  Can BASIC handle the command line args
like I used (The CLI run of it shows that), or does BASIC
automatically pass parameters without the need for using command
line args?  This one is really puzzling me...

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