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    23-May-90  22:37:53
Sb: #Silly questions
Fm: GLEN HATHAWAY 71446,166
To: All

 Hi all... Is it possible to use attribute bytes (as when programming in RSDOS
assembler) to control the look of text in an OS-9 assembly program? Are the
attribute bytes part of the hardware? Are they still there (accessed by display
codes) or is text handled in a completely different way? Would sure be handy -
in my program I have text already printed that I want to highlight selected
sections of, but I'm not sure how, other than rewriting it. I guess using attr
bytes would mean cheating, unless someone wrote some kind of program to access
them so one wouldn't have to write directly to screen (though the access
program would write directly...). Hmmm...
 Is there an easy way to set up a text screen, VDG style, so that the process
can write directly to it and do it 'legally'? Albert Marsh 76234,2740 uploaded
a set of Basic09 procedures that I think do something very similar, but I've
had trouble making it work. I think he uploaded it as fastes.ar. The B09 file
is called LoadSave.B09. Any ideas? Would definitely make things move MUCH
faster - I know, cause I'm porting my RSDOS assembler program to OS-9 and
finding OS-9 unacceptably slow, even using all the tricks I can find to make it
faster (buffering large amounts of screen data before writing it). The program,
under RSDOS, was great. In OS-9, it falls a bit short... So far anyway...

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