So maybe it's impossible to access the paste buffer from inside a basic program after all, except trivially when the user presses <paste> during an input statement. Well, if I figure something out one day, I'll share it here.
On Thu, Jul 18, 2019 at 1:49 PM Gene Corrigan <[email protected]> wrote: > Ask the Russians: they've got all the codes in the world. > > epc > > > On Jul 18, 2019, at 11:00 AM, Dan Higdon <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Hey ModelT enthusiats! > > > > Has anyone cracked the code on how to access the paste buffer from > inside a BASIC program? I have some utilities I'm working on that would > benefit from using the pastebuffer as an IPC mechanism, since sometimes > they're just generating something I want to insert into a document. > > > > It feels like you should be able to open the paste buffer's file as an > input/output channel, since it looks like it's stored as an invisible file, > but I can't figure out how to do it. I have a Model102, so the hidden > filename of this buffer is semi-randomized. > > > > I imagine it would be possible with a small machine language routine to > open that file and bind it to an IO channel in BASIC. (Maybe passing the > channel number in A, and some option flags in HL), but I don't understand > the Model100's ROM routines well enough to pull that off, and I would be > shocked if I were the first person to think of doing this. > > > > Anyhow, thanks for any idea! > > Dan Higdon >
