Re: A86: string inputting

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Subject: Re: A86: string inputting
From: "Kirk Meyer" <kirkmeyer@bigfoot.com>
Date: Tue, 23 Nov 1999 19:08:54 -0700
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Heh it's not B.S... if you don't cleantemp, sometimes the input string will
say something weird... I always had that problem with zreduce, it would
display 5 random characters as the prompt, and it even seemed to have
problems with locking up =/

----- Original Message -----
From: <Jeanne9005@aol.com>
To: <assembly-86@lists.ticalc.org>
Sent: Tuesday, November 23, 1999 7:06 PM
Subject: Re: A86: string inputting


>
> Jonah, sorry this is a little late, but if you are using numbers to input,
> that cleantemp B.S. is necessary...
>
> Glen
> tutorial1.cjb.net
>
> In a message dated 11/16/99 9:30:36 PM Eastern Standard Time,
> ComAsYuAre@aol.com writes:
>
> >
> >  In a message dated 11/16/99 20:23:01 Eastern Standard Time,
> MikeT843@aol.com
> >
> >  writes:
> >
> >  > If this is the code to input, where does it store the string that the
> user
> >
> >  >  inputs?
> >  >
> >  >
> >  >  call    _clrScrn         ;
> >  >  call    _homeup          ; cursor to top left
> >  >  ld      de,_ioprompt
> >  >  ld      hl,str_prmpt
> >  >  call    _mov10b          ;
> >
> >  The CLEANTMP junk isn't really necessary as far as I can tell....
> >
> >  cut out from here
> >  >  LD      HL,(_CLEANTMP)
> >  >  PUSH    HL
> >  >  LD      HL,(_PTempCnt)
> >  >  LD      (_CLEANTMP),HL    ;
> >  to here
> >
> >
> >  >  ld      a,0Ch
> >  >  ld      (_asap_ind),a    ; set for 'inputstring'
> >  >  call    _exec_pg3        ;
> >
>

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Re: A86: string inputting

From: Jeanne9005@aol.com