Re: LZ:83 ASM
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> > > A shell will make it transparent to the user. They can just run
> > > the program and not have to think about compressing and decompressing.
> > > Also, I think there'll be some other advantages to a shell. While
> > > playing around with the little program I'm working on I thought of
> > > a couple of things. I haven't had a chance to touch it for a couple
> > > of weeks so I don't remember what they are now.
> >
> > problem with a shell.. you'd have exacly the same problems as zshell
> > as for _where_you run teh programs from... (as far as i know, theres
> > no way fro an assembelr program to call anotehr assembelr program,
> > and you can't copy to the start of memory for thousands of obvios
> > reasons..
>
> Not at all. The shell can be a valid 83 assembly program, which
> can reserve space for work area, up to available memory. That work
> area will always be contiguous and will start at the end of the 83
> asm program so the program always knows where it is. That can be
> the starting point for the program it loads.
hows it going to know, before it's run(!), hwo many bytes to
reserve???
>
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