Re: SWI equivalent of *Status

From	druck <news@druck.org.uk>
Newsgroups	comp.sys.acorn.programmer
Subject	Re: SWI equivalent of *Status
Date	2025-01-08 20:35 +0000
Organization	A noiseless patient Spider
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On 07/01/2025 21:27, phorefaux wrote:
> On Sat, 4 Jan 2025 12:56:13 +0000, Matthew Phillips wrote:
> 
>> In message <d0fc817d24e05ac86d7b06cf1982c754@www.novabbs.org>
>>  on 3 Jan 2025 phorefaux wrote:
>>
>>> Is there an SWI equivalent to *status ?
>>
>> Perhaps what you are looking for are OS_Byte 161 (&A1) and 162 (&A2)
>> which
>> allow you to read and write the non-volatile CMOS memory.  This is where
>> the settings shown by *Status are stored.
> 
> Thanks.  This looks to be what I'm looking for.

Note that the interpretation of the CMOS bytes does vary with each 
version of the OS.

---druck

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SWI equivalent of *Status phorefaux@gmail.com (phorefaux) - 2025-01-03 22:02 +0000
  Re: SWI equivalent of *Status Jean-Michel <jmc.bruck@orange.fr> - 2025-01-04 11:26 +0100
  Re: SWI equivalent of *Status Matthew Phillips <spam2011m@yahoo.co.uk> - 2025-01-04 12:56 +0000
    Re: SWI equivalent of *Status phorefaux@gmail.com (phorefaux) - 2025-01-07 21:27 +0000
      Re: SWI equivalent of *Status druck <news@druck.org.uk> - 2025-01-08 20:35 +0000

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