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Re: Problem returning from WGET from within an assembler prog

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In message <59d6dc7625bob@sick-of-spam.invalid>
          Bob Latham <bob@sick-of-spam.invalid> wrote:

>In article <13d593d659.Kevin@Kevsoft>,
>   Kevin Wells <kev@kevsoft.co.uk> wrote:
>
>> >In article <mpro.ra2pxr01s2b8u07k5.news@stevefryatt.org.uk>,
>> >   Steve Fryatt <news@stevefryatt.org.uk> wrote:
>
>> >> Ah. Wimp_StartTask must be called from a Wimp application which
>> >> is already calling Wimp_Poll.
>
>> From BASIC wget is easy to fetch files from the internet I use the
>> followiong:
>
>> SYS "Wimp_StartTask", "wget ...
>
>> Whilst fetching the computer is single tasking,
>
>When you say "Basic", I'm starting to think you mean a full wimp
>application written in Basic?

Yes under DR Wimp

Another method I used in my QrCode application is to create an Obey file
with just wget ... in it file typed as FEB so that I can have more than
256 characters in it. If going down that route then anything with a % in
it will need %%
>
>Thanks.
>
>Bob.
>


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Problem returning from WGET from within an assembler prog Bob Latham <bob@sick-of-spam.invalid> - 2022-04-08 12:07 +0100
  Re:Problem returning from WGET from within an assembler prog Steve Drain <steve@kappa.me.uk> - 2022-04-08 13:08 +0100
    Re: Problem returning from WGET from within an assembler prog Bob Latham <bob@sick-of-spam.invalid> - 2022-04-08 17:33 +0100
      Re: Problem returning from WGET from within an assembler prog Harriet Bazley <harriet@bazleyfamily.co.uk> - 2022-04-08 18:07 +0100
        Re: Problem returning from WGET from within an assembler prog Bob Latham <bob@sick-of-spam.invalid> - 2022-04-08 20:05 +0100
        Re: Problem returning from WGET from within an assembler prog Bob Latham <bob@sick-of-spam.invalid> - 2022-04-09 12:15 +0100
          Re: Problem returning from WGET from within an assembler prog Steve Fryatt <news@stevefryatt.org.uk> - 2022-04-09 14:10 +0100
            Re: Problem returning from WGET from within an assembler prog Bob Latham <bob@sick-of-spam.invalid> - 2022-04-09 17:55 +0100
              Re: Problem returning from WGET from within an assembler prog Kevin Wells <kev@kevsoft.co.uk> - 2022-04-09 20:23 +0100
                Re: Problem returning from WGET from within an assembler prog David Higton <dave@davehigton.me.uk> - 2022-04-09 22:29 +0100
                Re: Problem returning from WGET from within an assembler prog Bob Latham <bob@sick-of-spam.invalid> - 2022-04-10 09:38 +0100
                Re: Problem returning from WGET from within an assembler prog Bob Latham <bob@sick-of-spam.invalid> - 2022-04-10 09:36 +0100
                Re: Problem returning from WGET from within an assembler prog Kevin Wells <kev@kevsoft.co.uk> - 2022-04-10 13:05 +0100
                Re: Problem returning from WGET from within an assembler prog Kevin Wells <kev@kevsoft.co.uk> - 2022-04-11 18:09 +0100
              Re: Problem returning from WGET from within an assembler prog Harriet Bazley <harriet@bazleyfamily.co.uk> - 2022-04-10 13:01 +0100
                Re: Problem returning from WGET from within an assembler prog Bob Latham <bob@sick-of-spam.invalid> - 2022-04-10 13:36 +0100
                Re: Problem returning from WGET from within an assembler prog druck <news@druck.org.uk> - 2022-04-11 13:59 +0100
          Re: Problem returning from WGET from within an assembler prog Theo <theom+news@chiark.greenend.org.uk> - 2022-04-09 14:15 +0100
            Re: Problem returning from WGET from within an assembler prog Bob Latham <bob@sick-of-spam.invalid> - 2022-04-09 17:56 +0100
      Re: Problem returning from WGET from within an assembler prog Steve Fryatt <news@stevefryatt.org.uk> - 2022-04-08 19:15 +0100
        Re: Problem returning from WGET from within an assembler prog Bob Latham <bob@sick-of-spam.invalid> - 2022-04-08 20:07 +0100

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