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Some definitions of communication protocol characters....

listen-up  byte sent before any command
go-ahead   byte returned in response to "listen-up"
hi-there   byte sent to see if target is listening
I'm-here   byte returned in response to "hi-there"


tdbg-hello ( -- ) This defines the startup message that gets displayed
                  initially if there is nothing on the DOS command line

purge ( -- )  clear out the buffer and any pending communications

go-wait  ( -- )   used after sending a "listen-up" before sending a command

command  ( command-to-do  -- )
    send the command along with the necessary prior handshaking

getbyte ( -- b ) get a byte value from the comm port
        This is used a lot by higher level TDBG words

getword ( -- w ) get a word value from the comm port
        This is used a lot by higher level TDBG words

sendword ( -- w ) send a word value to the comm port

.ns ( n -- ) display a number without a space following
        This is useful for formatting dates and times

jumpto ( addr -- )  make target jump to addr
        Normally the target code can execute a RET and return to the
        way it was running before this command.

