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Re: Very rusty programmer here

From Sebastian Barthel <naitsabes@freenet.de>
Newsgroups comp.sys.acorn.programmer
Subject Re: Very rusty programmer here
Date 2019-10-07 03:05 +0000
Organization solani.org
Message-ID <qnea24$e9j$1@solani.org> (permalink)
References <57feeb479bbrian.jordan9@btinternet.com>

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Am Sun, 06 Oct 2019 23:31:09 +0100 schrieb Brian Jordan:

> Same rusty programmer - new problem...
> 
> I /think I know/ that it is possible to read a system variable and to
> use the result within a BASIC program. After a fruitless evening with
> the PRM I wonder if someone could drop me a hint?

"OS_ReadVarVal" should do the trick ...


> For instance I know that, eg using *SHOW, I see that Alias$@RunType_B28
> returns information that shows NetSurf has 'claimed' this file type
> (URL). I am trying to find a way to get that information into a string
> in BASIC.

Probably there is another variant to do this by using the OSCLI command.
with
OSCLI "SHOW Alias$RunType_B28"
You can command BASIC to do the same thing as You did on the command line.

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Very rusty programmer here Brian Jordan <brian.jordan9@btinternet.com> - 2019-10-06 23:31 +0100
  Re: Very rusty programmer here Sebastian Barthel <naitsabes@freenet.de> - 2019-10-07 03:05 +0000
  Re: Very rusty programmer here News <chrisjohnson@spamcop.net> - 2019-10-07 10:52 +0100

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