Re: A86: programs running programs


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Re: A86: programs running programs




Go through the 86's rom and find the _exec_assmebly rom call and see what it
does.
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From: <ComAsYuAre@aol.com>
To: <assembly-86@lists.ticalc.org>
Sent: Saturday, December 18, 1999 6:45 PM
Subject: Re: A86: programs running programs


>
> In a message dated 12/18/99 19:42:58 Eastern Standard Time,
> croop@oregontrail.net writes:
>
> > Let's say program A runs program B.  How can program B find out what the
> >  name of program A is, or whether it was even run by program A in the
> >  first place or from TI-OS?  Is this even possible?  I did a memory
> >  search for the name in VTI, but couldn't find it anywhere.  But that
> >  doesn't make sense, because programs can return to the programs that
> >  call them; thus the calc must remember it somehow...  I think.
> >
>
> Hehe in _exec_assembly's documentation they say it's stored "somewhere
> secret".
>
> Btw, maybe try searching for the name reversed or something?  They may
> purposely mess it up for some reason, though I'm totally guessing.
>
>
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> Jonah Cohen
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> http://linux.hypnotic.org/~jonah/
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